What have you done to your wagon lately? (Let's keep the thread going!)

$50 back then was quite a bit of money

 

About $430 now; enough to buy a junky, rusted 20 year old Honda.

 

Maybe in Pennsylvania, but definitely not here in Washington.

 

When I talk to old car guys here it amazes me what kinda car you could get in the late ‘50’s early ‘60’s for $50.00. Two Saturday’s and $10 bucks worth of parts they had a new car for the next couple of years. In New Mexico you can hardly get a scraped up used set of 22’s for $400. Country’s gone to hell in a handcart! There’s plenty of 20 year old cars here, but if you find the $500 Honda, it needs a new interior, and $2grand under the hood to get it out of the driveway.

 

Scrap price went down here in the last 6 years. We sold a 97 Voyager to the scrapyard for about $460 in 2012, by mid 2017 we sold a 2000 Grand Caravan (at about the same weight) to the same junkyard for about $210.

 

Yeah, same thing here. Sold two minivans, a Voyager and a Windstar, $375 and $300, back in '09 or '10. Fast forward to two years ago, sold an '87 Crown Vic, $75.

 

And we don't have nearly as many clapped-out rusters, so you'd think you'd get more.

 

I think the scrap prices are down everywhere. I took 2300lbs of scrap in about a month ago and got $63.00 for it.

As for old car prices, I have had similar experiences to what 60mercman is describing. Guys talking about buying late 30's cars with transplanted V8s for $25.00. Things that seem utterly inconceivable in today's world.
Heck, my Dad sold his 57 Chevy 210 Handyman 2 door wagon in the mid 70's for $25.00!

 

Hey Orthmann, I wish I’d known your dad in 1975! Ive got a friend here in particular that bought a 1940 Ford business coupe in 1968, from the original owner. They rebuilt the engine, as he said it was a 4 pack a day smoker, they still have the car. His $75 investment has done quite nicely.

 

No kidding. I just wish he would have kept it. But, he was a young single iron worker employed at Hanford, making lots of money and he had a new motorcycle and a new pickup. The 57 was just his old high school car and he had no need for it.
So he sold it to a local drag racer for $25.00

I think we have all heard stories like this at one point or another. Unfortunately I think the days of cheap cool cars are long, long gone.

 

Im thinking ahout doing the same for my wagon, 2 cars and bike but just hoping to get a warm week or two but with 8 inches of snow last nigbt I might be fooling myself. I hate this time of the year when the toys have to be put away. Winter SUCKS!!!

 

We have had nice days, some even reaching the low 50's the last week or so, but our nights are definitely getting cold dipping down into the 20's. I drove the F-100 on Saturday, but the heat doesn't work, so I think it's days of driving this year are numbered as well. I've already added the fuel stabilizer to it as well in anticipation of shutting it down until spring. It won't be long now.

 

Here, a tutorial video:

 

Mr. techy sounds like a heavy smoker or kinda Pervy. It’s amazing the materials these car companies put out for the mechanics and the sales people to win over the prospect, or give the fella in the service bay the latest dope.

 

Yeah, he's perved allright. He reminds me of a child eater, when he opens his pie hole. Sort of like Sergei Lavrov, when he speaks in that spooky voice:



Did you see the way those mechanics were looking at him? They looked like they'd like nothing better than to stuff him feet first into one of those hemi carburetors at full throttle. The garbage disposal wasn't yet invented. Therefore, they hadn't any other alternative, in dealing with him. Well, I guess, they could have tossed him into a wood chipper. But, that wouldn't have been half the fun