I pulled into work today to see a Falcon station wagon sitting on a trailer waiting for the scrap yard to open. A couple of weeks ago there was a 63 Catalina with the wide 5 wheels and 389 motor. Before that there was a Stude Bullet nose on a trailer. I have talked to the owner a couple of times trying get get some of the better cars or even get some hard to find parts for other people. I will keep trying to wear him down.
My local yard pulls all the classics and resells them. They have a super clean 60-ish Tbird right now. No wheels, but the body is cherry.
I wish the scrap places around here would do that, I drive by one every morning about 7:45 am and I've seen stuff waiting to go through the gate that'd make you cry. The thing that gets me is 9 times out of 10 if you stop and try to buy something off a guy's trailer before he takes it in he won't bite even if you offer him twice scrap value for it . As for the yard itself they alwayse give you some lame line about they cant sell stuff because it's against the law, WTF?
The other yard I hit had 2, 1955 chevy 2 doors. Last week he got a 67 Mustang Fastback and of course he won't sell them because he is going to keep them for himself. Atleast they didn't get crushed.
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