Hot Rods Kansas City, you fail at hot rodding.

Wow, Can't believe that is there.

 

The stuff probaly end up on craigs list under rr stuff,happens here all the time with the old stuff in the upull it.Lame!

 

Further proof that not all car guys are smart. The dumb ones should build models instead.

 

All of us complain because wrecking yards are more and more becoming "you can't come in here, just tell us what you want and we will pull it for you." But this is the very reason that is happening. Some idiot will need a $ 2.00 piece and destroy a $ 200 door getting it off. These yards are like any other business, they want to make as much profit as possible and lose as little inventory as they can.

There is a pick and pull about 35 miles from me and the managers are constantly catching people either destroying stuff, or trying to steal it. I was there one day and some guys who looked to be illegals were tossing stuff over the fence to retrieve it later.

We are our own worst enemy sometimes.

Don

 

Fuckin' crackheads. At least they left me this stuff.


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And people wonder why some Auto Yards refuse to be pick and pulls, and pull the parts for the customer.

I've seen people cut/chisel a perfectly good door open from the outside just to get a window motor out. Also seen a nice dash pried apart for some small part.

Destroying a $300 dollar dash for a $15.00 defroster grille?

Boggles the mind.

 

yeah and it really burns me up when they do this to engine parts too >>>>.

 

that doesn't mean Kansas City "fails" at hot rodding.....
you guys still live there and have hot rods----

 

Yeah, a few idiots will always ruin a good thing for the rest of us.

"Kansas City, you fail at hot rodding."

Applies to the goof that sold that solid sedan to the wrecking yard or anyone that had a shot at buying it before the wrecking yard and didn't step up. Of course, it's not a super desireable car. Wonder what the story is? Maybe he couldn't get any local car guys to buy it whole and caved and called the yard to pick it up for scrap. He probably didn't get much for it from the pick n pull.

 

Wow and I thought it only happened here in this meth pit?

 

Nice codpiece! Ha!

 

If it wasn't for models, we wouldn't be into real cars..

 

Maybe someone cut the column off to get the steering wheel?


The U-Pull-It near me puts all the old stuff in a seperate area near the front. I pull through the lot every few weeks and look through the fence to see if they heve gotten any new old stuff (NOS!). Saves me the $2 gate fee.
It looks like a dozen car bombs went off in the onr I go to!
People will put a ton of effort into taking something off a car, only to break it in the process, or if they would have looked through the yard a little further, probably found the same thing laying loose on another car. Or could have bought it cheeper at Auto Zone to begin with!

 

it was a" wrecking yard " not a" saving the best just for you" yard ...


late to the party the pickens are slim ...
glad you picked up what you did ...


i wish all auto enthusiasts had the attitude we admire sadly it ain't so

 

You see similar stuff at a couple of yards around here all the time. Someone even smashed a bunch of taillights in cars to take the bulbs out once when I was there looking for a taillight for an ot rig I had at the time. Too lazy to carry a screwdriver along and take two screws out.

 

Mike and I ended up getting a lot of good stuff that was left, but I'm just baffled at what was done.[/QUOTE]

Well if that bothers you , you would have probably fallen on the ground crying at what took place here in Maine a year ago. A guy bought a bunch of 40's , 50's and a few 60's Army, Navy,and Air Force surplus vehicles . Apparently he never sold any parts and just let them sit. He died quite a while ago and his kids ( in their 70's ) decided to get rid of everything. 99 % of it went straight to the crusher. There had to be 150 to 200 vintage vehicles ( mostly Fords ) still in their military colors with markings and some from the 40's with black-out lights. Complete running gear , mostly flathead V8's , and complete right down to the air cleaner. A real shame. And this was only one of three yards their dad had around town. The other two had mostly 30's and 50's stuff.

 

Sucks. Yep. Been through that working on O/T stuff.

Around here there isn't any old tin to pick from. Hell, I seriously doubt I could find parts for my '68 Caddy in a yard. Might get lucky with my '98 Jeep.

 

And there you have the precise reason I find U-pick yards depressing commentary on the human condition.

Brian

 

amen !

 

+1 on this... its a no brainer to think that the fuckers would NEVER, EVER pull shit like this on a parts car sittin in their own yard at home... not in a million years.

and, no way in hell am i going to take that bet

 

Dealt with this at a great O/T Semi Truck yard. used to be U-Pull, now if you pull it you have to give a $200 cash deposit and don't get it back until after they inspect the truck(s) you were working on, or you pay a $25 dollar fee, tell them what you want and they bring you a couple examples. But really I don't blame them, they were loosing more then they were making.

 

Well I did my part, or at least I think I tried. I started the thread letting everyone know it was there and got virtually no response. It was mostly complete a week ago and the steering wheel is in the pics, but from my years of going there I've realized it's first come first served and if you see something you want you need to get it right then because it will be gone if you wait to come back to it later.

Check out the other pics I posted on this thread for more stuff that will probably suffer the same fate. Last posts in this thread. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=390611&page=66

 

Well, I guess Kevin needs to resign from the HAMB if Kansas City fails as Hot Rodders

 

FWIW, the steering wheel is still in the yard. when i saw it last, it was pretty far gone. im heading back up there this week, ill grab it if i see it again. this damage all happened in the last week. also, a mid fifties plymouth there. and a early fifties chevy at u pick it