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A Northwest scrapping project....Midwesterners get your tissues ready

pvfjr

pvfjr

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Well last weekend my buddy and his dad picked up an old 75 pickup for $100. Pulled everything out, and loaded it up for scrap the same day. I grabbed a couple interior odds and ends for my stepside. I was gonna grab both doors and do half doors for my truck, but we couldn't get the pass side open (without being destructive), so I gave up. Thought you guys might like to know what a hundred dollar truck looked like in these parts. Oh, did I mention, none of the body parts were spared? :eek1: Had pretty solid floorboards and cab corners too. Not worth much around here though. What would a body like this be worth farther east?

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around here pretty much anything that runs and is 4x4 is worth 500 minimum Ive seen some real wrecks 6 or 700 bucks cuz the four wheel drive worked and they had go tires.

Assuming that it was in running shape and had that body...you could prolly get 1500 pretty easy for it where Im at.
 
Drey said:
around here pretty much anything that runs and is 4x4 is worth 500 minimum Ive seen some real wrecks 6 or 700 bucks cuz the four wheel drive worked and they had go tires.

Assuming that it was in running shape and had that body...you could prolly get 1500 pretty easy for it where Im at.
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Picked up a running driving parts truck today, 3/4 ton, 4 wheel drive $200.:haha:
 
solidaxlesub said:
I've parted 3-4 trucks like that in the last 2 years, they are easy to find here, no rust either.:D
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For how long though ? When they are gone , they are gone :(

I should start collecting the AZ ones as an investment :D:wink1:
 
pauly383 said:
For how long though ? When they are gone , they are gone :(

I should start collecting the AZ ones as an investment :D:wink1:
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Yep, you guys just start stockpiling that sheet metal for us over here in the rust belt. I'm gona drive my crewcab till I"m dead and gone so I may need some pieces here and there along the way.
 
A 3/4 ton 4x4 will go for $1000 around here, regardless of the condition of the body, if it runs or not, or even has a transmission period...

That truck, with a bit of polish, would probally have gone for about 1800 - 2000 here
 
Yeah, I just think it's a shame that stuff like this gets thrown away around here, after some of the things I've seen you other guys driving around. Some of the pics of floorboard rust, people replacing panels, etc. All the work some have to go to just to piece it back together and keep their seats from falling through the floor. And here we are scrapping a solid rust and dent free body. Too bad shipping costs so much, we could just give it away to someone who could use it. :(​
 
Wish you would have given it to me I would eat off that thing, I need a rust free cab for my trazer project, I contacted a company that wanted 1000 bucks just for a rust free truck cab, they wanted 2000 for a rust free blazer body...:( You should find me one of those so I can take a trip to pick it up hah
 
Well it's just been sitting, as long as I can remember, slowly rotting away across the street from my dad's house. No one has ever worked on it, and the guy that owned it didn't really have that much room. No one we know has any use for it, so we gutted it and scrapped it. Axles and t-cases and things like that are easy to sell. The bodies aren't. Funny thing is, that cab was in a lot better shape than the one on my wheeler, but I wouldn't want to go through the work of swapping them. Also, scrap steel is getting a decent price these days.

If I see one that clean again, I'll see if he can hang on to it for a couple days, then ask around to see if anyone is interested.
 
pvfjr said:
Well last weekend my buddy and his dad picked up an old 75 pickup for $100. Pulled everything out, and loaded it up for scrap the same day.
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Sniff. :( Nobody around here I know would scrap a truck that solid.
 
Pvt. Maggot said:
Wish you would have given it to me I would eat off that thing, I need a rust free cab for my trazer project, I contacted a company that wanted 1000 bucks just for a rust free truck cab, they wanted 2000 for a rust free blazer body...:( You should find me one of those so I can take a trip to pick it up hah
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you need to get your butt to more swap meets. I couldn't give away a rust free cab with title this spring. I sent it to the crusher.


That truck in running and driving condition in my area is worth around $2000 if it has good inspection stickers. You could have sold that for $1100 and somebody out here would have gladly paid that and $600-700 to have it shipped east.

or cut it up and still make the money in the end. :rolleyes:
 
It makes me want to cry.
I bet you could have gotten $1k for that thing around here just for the body.

So glad I imported my '74 from the west coast!

-Ben
 
I couldn't give away my CUCV body. The cab and bed were perfect, it only had 30k miles on it and was emissions exempt in Atlanta. I finally traded the bed for a spare Blazer top, to park my lawn mower under, and left the cab and frame at a local junk yard. I told them they could have it.

I wish someone would have used it. A lot more stuff will probably get scrapped with fuel prices so high. No one wants to drive to get it.
 
cybrfire said:
Picked up a running driving parts truck today, 3/4 ton, 4 wheel drive $200.:haha:
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I swear to god you and Brett get all the good deals
 
bigjbear said:
I couldn't give away my CUCV body. The cab and bed were perfect, it only had 30k miles on it and was emissions exempt in Atlanta. I finally traded the bed for a spare Blazer top, to park my lawn mower under, and left the cab and frame at a local junk yard. I told them they could have it.

I wish someone would have used it. A lot more stuff will probably get scrapped with fuel prices so high. No one wants to drive to get it.
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Let me know I am nuts! Who else drives to Maryland for 1/4 panels?
 
I even tried to get my brother to come get it. He still lived in Cleveland then, and had someone's rusted out, POS, old plow truck he was trying to fix. I tried to get rid of it on here; that's how the bed-top swap happened. Tried at my 4x4 club's meetings; got rid of the rear springs there. But the rest of the sheetmetal got junked.

I grew up in Cleveland and broke my heart to send it to the crusher. My dad was down here and helped me load it onto the trailer. Living in Cleveland all his life, he couldn't believe it either.
 
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