this will make you sick
#16
12-05-2008, 10:39 PM
#17
12-06-2008, 07:09 AM
#18
12-06-2008, 08:14 AM
bronco converted into a suburban looking type rig. !!!! Centurion Custom Ford Bronco 4 door 4x4 !!!!
As I remember, the yard had mostly trucks from the 70's and 80's. With a few of the older ones sprinkled in for good measure. Not many cars, but there probably was, as I had mentioned, I got there rather late. Drive by there today, and it's nothing but an open field of grass....never know what once was there.
Rare would have been a better word than original, my bad.
As I remember, the yard had mostly trucks from the 70's and 80's. With a few of the older ones sprinkled in for good measure. Not many cars, but there probably was, as I had mentioned, I got there rather late. Drive by there today, and it's nothing but an open field of grass....never know what once was there.
Rare would have been a better word than original, my bad.
#19
12-06-2008, 08:57 AM
Posting Guru
Hi Folks,
Back in October, when I was spending the month down near Atlanta while visiting my son, I posted a message, (See: https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/7...-the-yard.html ), we went to a plce called Old Car City. It was really a junkyard not unlike what I see here in this thread. They have a website, www.oldcarcity.com , that you can visit and take a virtural video tour of what they have.
My point in bringing this up is that it is possible to turn a major profit beyond crushing. That is especially the case now that scrap prices have fallen. In the case of Old Car City, the guy is in no hurry and therefore waits for and gets ridiculously high prices. In the case of the yard featured here, it seems to me, a well advertised liquidator could come in and sell off everything at reasonable prices in a hurry. that way the stuff would be saved from the crusher and there would be a lot of happy guys and money in the pocket of the owner. You can just about bet that if the government has anything to do with cleaning it up that the owner will get nothing and probably be lucky if they don't cook up some thieving scheme to fine him into bankruptcy in the process.
Later Folks...
Back in October, when I was spending the month down near Atlanta while visiting my son, I posted a message, (See: https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/7...-the-yard.html ), we went to a plce called Old Car City. It was really a junkyard not unlike what I see here in this thread. They have a website, www.oldcarcity.com , that you can visit and take a virtural video tour of what they have.
My point in bringing this up is that it is possible to turn a major profit beyond crushing. That is especially the case now that scrap prices have fallen. In the case of Old Car City, the guy is in no hurry and therefore waits for and gets ridiculously high prices. In the case of the yard featured here, it seems to me, a well advertised liquidator could come in and sell off everything at reasonable prices in a hurry. that way the stuff would be saved from the crusher and there would be a lot of happy guys and money in the pocket of the owner. You can just about bet that if the government has anything to do with cleaning it up that the owner will get nothing and probably be lucky if they don't cook up some thieving scheme to fine him into bankruptcy in the process.
Later Folks...
#21
12-06-2008, 11:46 AM
Man, I just don't understand the mentality that makes something like that OK. Just considering the money it took to get those cars and trucks to begin with and then the environmental impact of it all rusting and leaking away in the woods. The randomness of yards like that amaze me too. Not a good way to run a business, if that's what it is.
There's a much smaller junkyard off of Hwy 49 between Mariposa and Oakhurst here in California. Must be the brother of this guy cuz he's really old, drunk and cantankerous too. There are a few hundred 40s thru 80s there with even a late 30s COE something cab sitting in the poison oak. Ho-hum.
There's a much smaller junkyard off of Hwy 49 between Mariposa and Oakhurst here in California. Must be the brother of this guy cuz he's really old, drunk and cantankerous too. There are a few hundred 40s thru 80s there with even a late 30s COE something cab sitting in the poison oak. Ho-hum.
#22
12-06-2008, 12:23 PM
Fleet Owner
I can understand all the tears about the old stuff in this yard, but the EPA is dead on right about how most of these places are "run". Here in Albuq. there is major groundwater contamination from the south side junkyards, and they have spent tens of millions of dollars (of YOUR money) to try to remediate it. I don't want to drink water that has 90 wt and antifreeze in it, maybe I'm just funny that way?
#23
12-06-2008, 12:34 PM
What a total disregard for the respect this old iron deserves. There are likely hundreds of these jackpots out there that no one knows about. In most cases the owners don't even realize what a mint they are sitting on, or they are just too lazy or tech-tarded to list these items for sale. The bright metal alone would bring in a lot of cash to these guys, let alone help someone out that is desperately looking for that hard to find part.
In my mind the cars at this site should go to the crusher just to put them out of their misery.....
In my mind the cars at this site should go to the crusher just to put them out of their misery.....
#24
12-06-2008, 01:34 PM
I have a hard enough time in my own backyard. If they aren't in a logical order, like the lot at a car dealership, I get befuddled. Even a pile of parts has to look like it's in order. The wife may disagree, but I do take care of them, even though they aren't much to look at. So in regards to the photobucket pics, Kusto may be right, put them out of their misery. Right after I get the 80's Tbird, the 69 tbird, etc...
