depressing turn of events...

[Redneck Youth]

well... im kinda messed up in the fact that i care more about vehicles than people. in the sense that i dont like running motors at hi revs because i hear it as the motor saying please stop... and i dont like slamming the suspension... this has all come around as the 94 toyota that my dad built for my brother was scrapped today... we bought it some years back in pretty rough shape... ended up rebuilding the rear end, new fenders, new hood, all new weather stripping, windshield gasket... and the big one... a rebuilt motor... my dad footed the bill for all of this... well last saturday, my borther went mudding... and about 11:30 pm that night one of his dumbass friends towed him home... the truck wouldnt start. the truck not starting is usually in direct correlation with the mudding. my brother claims he was only in about a foot of water... which id hard to believe as there is about 4 inches of mud packed into the back of the radiator... my dad and i told him countless times, "youre gonna mess it up" but he didnt listen... we ended up diagnosing that the engine was hydrolocked.. so today as the truck was being hauled away... tears bult up in my eyes... and it wasnt even my truck!!! as of now im making an anti abuse tribute video to commemorate the trucks valiant service to an abusive driver.

 

[Insanejughead]

My dad was going to scrap our 1977 LTD.



I couldn't let him do it. I learned most of my road manners in that car.

So, now it's mine.

 

[87anger]

Grr I hate people that scrap vehicles! Im sorry but a car or truck has one problem like a blown engine or transmission and they haul it off for scrap metal. Youre only getting like $200-300 back when you could probably get more by selling it as a project to someone else, AND it saves another vehicle from being scrap metal! Everyone sees a car with problems and says scrap it. There should be a law on how shitty a vehicle has to be to scrap it.

I had a bad experiece with this kind of thing. My stepdad bought a 86 ranger reg cab 2.3, 5spd, 4x4 lifted 4" on 31s with a steering stabilizer,badass roll bar,push bar as well, all for $800. Good deal right, well we came to find out the wiring harness was burnt in multiple places. Ya it sucks but fixable for not too much money. Soon as my stepdad learned of the problem he said hes gonna scrap it.
I begged him to at LEAST let me take the lift, tires, roll bar and push bar for my truck and I would give him my parts and he would get the same weight all while I would get badass parts. But no he took it up and got less than $200 for it.

Rant over...

 

[shane96ranger]

I see it from the other side. I like taking parts off of a lower mileage vehicle. If someone is too dumb to fix something, I don't want a vehicle they've scabbed together on the roads with me anyway.

This Lincoln I saw in the pulling yard was loaded with great parts. The only thing I could see wrong with it was some idiot doesn't know how to tell if their brakes are shot. This car is an example of what gives us a chance to give our vehicles another lease on life.

 

[Mark_88]

When I walk through a scrap yard I often see vehicles that should not be there...and I wonder wtf the owner was going through that made them decide that the vehicle was not worth fixing...

Alas, sadly enough, I've been there myself and done it too...my 95 Zuki died a horrible death at my hands because of my financial situation and because I thought "hey, it's only a truck"...but it could have gone many more thousands of miles easily...I was just not in a position to stop the world and rebuild the engine...

It is a sad day for all when one of those we've lovingly restored, wept for, bled for, and nearly died for (gee, I'm almost as emotional about this as thinking about a war for naught) is lost...

 

[--weezl--]

I see it from the other side. I like taking parts off of a lower mileage vehicle. If someone is too dumb to fix something, I don't want a vehicle they've scabbed together on the roads with me anyway.

This Lincoln I saw in the pulling yard was loaded with great parts. The only thing I could see wrong with it was some idiot doesn't know how to tell if their brakes are shot. This car is an example of what gives us a chance to give our vehicles another lease on life.

this is pretty messed up...

though i will say, if that's how neglected the brakes are, i can only imagine what the internals of the motor look like...

 

[straycat]

well... im kinda messed up in the fact that i care more about vehicles than people. in the sense that i dont like running motors at hi revs because i hear it as the motor saying please stop... and i dont like slamming the suspension... this has all come around as the 94 toyota that my dad built for my brother was scrapped today... we bought it some years back in pretty rough shape... ended up rebuilding the rear end, new fenders, new hood, all new weather stripping, windshield gasket... and the big one... a rebuilt motor... my dad footed the bill for all of this... well last saturday, my borther went mudding... and about 11:30 pm that night one of his dumbass friends towed him home... the truck wouldnt start. the truck not starting is usually in direct correlation with the mudding. my brother claims he was only in about a foot of water... which id hard to believe as there is about 4 inches of mud packed into the back of the radiator... my dad and i told him countless times, "youre gonna mess it up" but he didnt listen... we ended up diagnosing that the engine was hydrolocked.. so today as the truck was being hauled away... tears bult up in my eyes... and it wasnt even my truck!!! as of now im making an anti abuse tribute video to commemorate the trucks valiant service to an abusive driver.

I just sold my last 22R motor last month from my 94 'Yota. It was a nice low milage motor I bought for a spare 10 years ago. It had only 33,000 miles on it. i bought it from a close friend who bought the truck new. I thought one day I would need a spre to have in case I found another project to tinker with. This year I wanted to put the 22R in my Sammi but found a nice almost new 1.6 litre motor (5,000 miles) that I am putting in it later this year. I sold the 22R motor and all the electrics for $900. If that truck only needed a motor (or just gone through it) why get rid of it? I have seen hydrolocked motors work again after a good cleaning out that lasted for a few more years.

 

[shane96ranger]

this is pretty messed up...

though i will say, if that's how neglected the brakes are, i can only imagine what the internals of the motor look like...

True on the motor. The interior was in really good shape, and it was leather. All the doors were straight, and lights were all there. Someone with a Town Car was happy as hell to find that. I wish I could find an 87-93 Fox with a decent interior that was gray.

 

[87anger]

I see it from the other side. I like taking parts off of a lower mileage vehicle. If someone is too dumb to fix something, I don't want a vehicle they've scabbed together on the roads with me anyway.

This Lincoln I saw in the pulling yard was loaded with great parts. The only thing I could see wrong with it was some idiot doesn't know how to tell if their brakes are shot. This car is an example of what gives us a chance to give our vehicles another lease on life.

Okay maybe you misunderstood me. I agree with you that if they are too dumb to fix it and they put it in a PARTS yard. Oh well more for us. But its when they take it to the SCRAP yard, where they crush, cut em up and sell em for metal that gets me ticked.

 

[det107]

Okay maybe you misunderstood me. I agree with you that if they are too dumb to fix it and they put it in a PARTS yard. Oh well more for us. But its when they take it to the SCRAP yard, where they crush, cut em up and sell em for metal that gets me ticked.

I bought 2 Toyota Tercels ((81 & 82) a while back from two yards. Those two yards does double duty at first as a part seller & then secondly, scrap vehicles after a certain time (whole or picked clean)-

 

[shane96ranger]

I bought 2 Toyota Tercels ((81 & 82) a while back from two yards. Those two yards does double duty at first as a part seller & then secondly, scrap vehicles after a certain time (whole or picked clean)-

Same here. That's why I was confused.

 

[Blitzp]

in the past couple of years so many good cars have gone for scrap here in the uk because of the 'scrappage scheme'. they give 2000 pounds for any car that you have owned for more than a year and is more than 10 years old. the number of great cars that have been lost because the government want newer, shinier, more efficient cars on the road.

it costs more to the environment to make one of these new cars than it does to run the old ones. and new cars today all look alike, run like crap, and have more problems because of all the un-needed gadgets in them.

so far all my cars have been more than 10 years old and been great. when my current ranger dies (touch wood it doesnt) ill fix it or buy another and turn this one into some frankenstein monster.

 

[wr250rdr]

Last time i was at the yard I nearly teared up there was a 71 914, a 72 240z, a 68 triumph gt6, an xr4ti (sadly motor was gone before I could get to it) a bunch of newer explorers, even a 61 ranchero that I pulled quite a bit off for my falcon project. Over all all of the cars could have been salvaged with little effort and a little bit of cash and sold for a lot more. Out here that z would have been worth 2500 if it ran even beat to hell and back

 

[87anger]

I bought 2 Toyota Tercels ((81 & 82) a while back from two yards. Those two yards does double duty at first as a part seller & then secondly, scrap vehicles after a certain time (whole or picked clean)-

Oh I see. wow that would be great. The place down here(which is closer than the actual parts yard) is actually in town. It is right across from the dump and cuts up and sells metal. Someone sells them a car, it gets cut up days later into short iron and sold as scrap. AND if they want to drive 50 miles out to the parts yard, they will get even less if anything and most of the vehicles there get crushed and sold to the scrap yard too! The parts yard is run by a bunch of illegals who dont speak english and dont care.

Wow thought it was like that everywhere... this is some frikin crap!