Saw this on Moparts

[polara71]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSxjRgjxAe8&feature=youtube_gdata_player


A little sad seeing all this old metal being destroyed

 

[commando1]

Sad? Yes.
But the other side of the coin:

This is Freman's Auto in Whitehall,Montana. He has been in business for a long time...used to deal mainly in letter cars, and expanded from there.


He told me once that he would rather cater to the overseas buyers as they would pay his price where the locals didn't want to pay his prices, which are normally high in my opinion.


As near as I can tell, this is just a clean up of a bunch of junk...sure, every car has usable parts, but realistically (from my own experience), you can't save a car for ever hoping that someone is going to buy a trinket. I would be very surprised if anything of any REAL value went to the crusher. Neil knows his Mopars and he isn't going to be crushing Hemi cuda's and Superbirds.


On another site it is mentioned that cars are for sale for $500-2500 each. He has several vehicles on the Butte Montana craigslist and prices seem on the high side for what you are getting. He has advertised in Hemmings and seems to always have cars on e bay. I wouldn't expect to drive all the way to Montana hoping for a bargain if I were you......pretty sure he isn't going to discount parts just because he is crushing.

That guy is a crook! Back in the early 90's I talked to him about a fender for my 70 'Cuda. He always "estimated" how many hours of work his panels required. When it showed up via truck freight, you could have multiplied his estimate by 4x or more! What a joke, he wouldn't take it back even if I paid the shipping. Never called that mental midget again................. :hammer:

 

[polara71]

:shruggy:......... still a damn shame!!

 

[440Sled]

Damn that sucks!..But it would be fun to pick through it all though.

 

[66Monacovert]

either way that still hurt to watch...:sad2:

 

[Stormer]

What a shame.

 

[commando1]

Have you become Dave's parrot?

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[polara71]

Dave's Parrot

 

[Stormer]

You mean Davie?

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

I wonder because there are a bunch of wagons with wagon specific parts. These should be saved at least

 

[1978 NYB]

I see it one of two ways.......

Go out to Montana and buy them and start your own junk yard.

I seen with my own eyeballs at Leon's Junkyard in Culpepper, Virginia...

Hundred's of old Mopars that have been sitting on Mother Earth for 30, 40, 50 years (no salt anywhere near these cars) and they deteriorated to the point of being reclaimed by the earth. Yeah, some look like the pictures in the first post but when you get up and personal with them......there is nothing reclaimable left on them.

 

[1978 NYB]

That last picture is a formal roof....doesn't look bad from 50 feet (2nd to last picture) but massive deterioration and reclaimed by wasps at 10 feet.

 

[polara71]

They tell me Bob the western yards hold up better than the eastern yards.... Glass and stainless is almost always needed

 

[detmatt]

That is sad, I blame the owner of the yard for not trying to market his inventory better or if the stuff was not selling, he needed to lower his prices. It's easy for me to say that from here though.

 

[67Monaco]

They tell me Bob the western yards hold up better than the eastern yards.... Glass and stainless is almost always needed

No humidity...... When a place gets on average yearly precip totals that rival monthly totals on the east coast, it's easy to see why.

 

[1978 NYB]

This yard has trees growing through and next to cars everywhere. I had to regroup when I was trying to get the wiper motor and linkage out that formal and was attacked by wasps living in between the sheet metal in the roof. Look close at that last picture of the roof on that formal. The wasps won that day......

All kinds of other dangers in that yard too. Numerous snakes, fox dens in and under cars, and billions of deer ticks. I had to go in to Combat Bob mode while in that yard. Hundred pounds of leaves, pine needles and dirt on EVERY hood and trunk had to be shoveled off before you could open the trunk or hood if it had one. Trees so big growing next to the doors that would need a chain saw to cut down and move out of the way. He had a front end loader but would charge you $100 and he would drive it and lift an engine out for you after you disconnected everything. I didn't see one engine that I would even bother pulling out of that yard. All the 440's and 413's were gone anyways.

 

[polara71]

No humidity...... When a place gets on average yearly precip totals that rival monthly totals on the east coast, it's easy to see why.

Thank you....... thats my point, sure there is rust there but nothing like Leons place

 

[commando1]

This yard has trees growing through and next to cars everywhere. I had to regroup when I was trying to get the wiper motor and linkage out that formal and was attacked by wasps living in between the sheet metal in the roof. Look close at that last picture of the roof on that formal. The wasps won that day......

All kinds of other dangers in that yard too. Numerous snakes, fox dens in and under cars, and billions of deer ticks. I had to go in to Combat Bob mode while in that yard. Hundred pounds of leaves, pine needles and dirt on EVERY hood and trunk had to be shoveled off before you could open the trunk or hood if it had one. Trees so big growing next to the doors that would need a chain saw to cut down and move out of the way. He had a front end loader but would charge you $100 and he would drive it and lift an engine out for you after you disconnected everything. I didn't see one engine that I would even bother pulling out of that yard. All the 440's and 413's were gone anyways.

And that's the real world. Thank you Bob.
3 minutes of youtube footage can twist a story anyway you want it depending on your agenda.

 

[polara71]

He was talking about Leons, you know that right?

 

[commando1]

So shoot me.