Save Them Trucks
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From: HANNIBAL MO.
Save Them Trucks
I was out looking for parts for my 48 f1 at local parts yards.Iwent to one about 8 miles from my house and talked to the yard manager.this guy tells me that they had crushed a 1952 3/4 ton truck.said it had a good body and was driveable.it was drove in.THEYCRUSHED IT! what is wrong with these guys?told me no one wanted that old truck.I sure would have put it in my drive.I can't belive what some guys do.just yesterday I saw a52 studebaker pickup with only the left door gone ready to be crushed.what a lose.hope someone saves a few for the guys like us that don't mind looking for the parts at a yard. well just had to share that. ART
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The environmentalists are making it nearly impossible for the traditional junkyard of days gone by to exist. Yard owners in most urban areas are hard pressed to meet the zoning restrictions forced on them. They no longer can just line up complete vehicles in a field and wait years for the right customer to come along. So now it's strip off any easily salable parts, warehouse them, and crush the rest for recycling. Only late model vehicles have enough valuable parts to the collision industry, the yard's primary customer, to warrant salvaging. This has made it more difficult to obtain hot rod parts or starting point vehicles at rock bottom prices, and has been the fertilizer to grow the reproduction parts industry, a good news/bad news situation.
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I know they have to crush some autos just to keep fresh autos for the most parts.but this truck run.they said it had a good body.just to crush a auto like that seemed a waist.I noticed as I walked thru the yards not many autos past 85.alot of the yards in my area seem to crush more than they keep.iron is up so they have to do what pays the bills . still seems a waist. ART
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I was out looking for parts for my 48 f1 at local parts yards.Iwent to one about 8 miles from my house and talked to the yard manager.this guy tells me that they had crushed a 1952 3/4 ton truck.said it had a good body and was driveable.it was drove in.THEYCRUSHED IT! what is wrong with these guys?told me no one wanted that old truck.I sure would have put it in my drive.I can't belive what some guys do.just yesterday I saw a52 studebaker pickup with only the left door gone ready to be crushed.what a lose.hope someone saves a few for the guys like us that don't mind looking for the parts at a yard. well just had to share that. ART
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Some (not all just some) of those guys are slimeballs with poor self esteem that will tell you stories like that make themselves feel important. I think they get off on some sort of power trip by telling you they destroyed something you wanted. If they had lick of sense they would have advertised it somewhere and sold it for a profit. If the truck ever existed (not doubting you, doubting them), you can bet they didn't pay anything for it.
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Some (not all just some) of those guys are slimeballs with poor self esteem that will tell you stories like that make themselves feel important. I think they get off on some sort of power trip by telling you they destroyed something you wanted. If they had lick of sense they would have advertised it somewhere and sold it for a profit. If the truck ever existed (not doubting you, doubting them), you can bet they didn't pay anything for it.
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It almost brings me to my knees as well to see a good vehicle crushed. The price of progress dosen`t have to be this steep! There are space problems for yards to save older vehicles and it is faster, easier profit to be made with the newer ones. Plus the price of scrape steel is very high, add the two up and it is not a good picture for us. Save what you can as it is disappearing quickly and may not be around for much longer.
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The treehuggers are so worried about fluids from the vehicles contaminating the ground water that it was proposed here that the yards should have to park each vehicle on a concrete pad with a drain sump that would be required to be pumped out regularly! In my younger days, the yard owners often lived on the property with a water well. I don't recall many dieing of water poisoning, but most were a bubble off tho. Maybe that's what made their dogs so vicious too? 
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Never thougt about the guy telling a line of bull.it don't look very good on there part.to lie about crushing a truck just to fill big is dumb.And if they did crush it they are even dumber.I know from looking for parts what they get out of them. ART
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I try to visit the local junkyards every so often, just to look for the old trucks and try to get the word out if I find anything of value. I see it as a duty almost.
It's worked twice so far.
It's worked twice so far.