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rust free k5 destroyed at junk yard

wazzabie

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I checked out this k5 in the junk yard. What looks like in the photo is a rust free and straight K5. I was looking for some patch panels. I found the K5 to be rust free. Outer and inner rockers were solid. To my disappointment it no longer looked like this in the photo. The junk yard had lifted the k5 on a fork lift destroying the rockers and rear quarter panels by bending them badly. :(

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I did cut out the lower B pillar just below from the floor. No one repos this part and it is a thicker metal then the panels. So all was not lost. I got the part for only $17. Something I no longer need to fabricate.
 
And your saviour too,when no new parts are available any more..

I saw more trucks much nicer than mine and most you see still on the roads here get crushed "whole" during the cash for clunkers years--also many junkyards here decided anything over 10-15 years old was "scrap" when metal was bringing $250 a ton or more..

I wanted to peuke when I'd see a decent square body get scrapped only because the owner "lost the title" and getting another one issued would require an act of congress..:mad:..one such truck I wanted to buy bad was an '87 C-10 an elderly friend owned--had a 350 with fuel injection,TH350,nice cab and bed,nose,no rot--his wife had his son "drive it to the junkyard"because she didn't know where the title was-..
I offered her $500 and she refused to sell it with no title--I said I could apply for another one in his name and she refused-the junkyard gave her $200 for it,and crushed it the next day--first thing they did was pick it up with a forkloader,then stoved the roof down into the seat...:(..
 
I went to another local yard the specializes in trucks and they wanted $80 bucks for the lower B pillar on the k5. I walked away.
 
kennyw said:
In Washington state you cannot scrap a vehicle without a title.
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Huh..then how do they dispose of the ones that have none ?..
Just let them sit and rot till nothing is left ?..

Up here I think its OK to scrap a vehicle with no title after a certain year,I'm not sure how far back you have to go,maybe 15 years ?..anything newer has to have one to scrap it..unless you chop it in pieces and sell it as "light iron"...many do just that..it's not a "vehicle" any more if its in 100 pieces ..:whistle:..
 
diesel4me said:
Huh..then how do they dispose of the ones that have none ?....
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You have to have a LEO inspect the vehicle and look up the VIN to verify it is not stolen. Then mail a certified letter with release of interest form to last registered owner. If they sign and notarize it, the paper is as good as a title. If no reply in certain period of time or if there is no record, you get to sell it for scrap with the form the police filled out.
 
Sadly, this is happeneing to often. If had a clue when i was younger. I would still have my 74 and 75 monte carlos. And my first car. A 65 chevy caprice.
Hind sight, right... so to all you young guys!! Hold onto stuff if you can.
 
Did that blazer come out of a pond? Its growing more than my garden.
 
Daryl,I could list 20 or more vehicles I had I wish I kept..

My first car --a 1963 VW Beetle..
Second vehicle was a 1963 VW "Khombi" factory camper my uncle sold me for $1..he drove that thing to CA,and Alaska twice!,,had the engine rebuilt in CA..thing would be worth 20+ grand now,even rotted some like it was..
Also had :
1956 Chevy 3100 series pickup (2wd)
1969 GTO
72 K5
71 K5 CST-4 spd,tach dash!..
71 GMC K1500
1967 Chevy Impala, 4dr.
1968 Chevy Caprice Estate Wagon (yep,had woodgrain trim too!)
1966 Buick Wildcat 4 dr,401 nailhead / TH400 switch pitch tranny
1966 Buick Electra 225 2 dr..401/TH400 switch pitch tranny
1959 VW Beetle
1980 El-Camino "Royal Knight",267 V8,TH350
1982 GMC Cabbalero 229 V6,TH350
1986 VW Jetta diesel
1972 Chevelle Nomad wagon ,on a 4x4 Suburban chassis
1977 GMC K2500
1974 C-10 ,454,Th400
1979 C-10 "Bonanza" 2wd

Those are just what I remember off the top of my head..:doah:.

I still have my '81 G-10 van I got in 1990..and the '82 K2500 thats my daily driver now,got that in 2003,and the '85 K-10 Suburban 6.2 I got in fall of 2009...I tend to keep vehicles a long time,but not long enough when it came to the most desirable ones..:(
 
Get used to this stuff getting crushed. If scrap values go higher, it's going to happen more often. Oh yeah, most yards use forklifts to move stuff. Stuff happens, but if it's already in the yard they really don't care since the ultimate end is getting shredded or muched into a cube.

As the saying goes, one man's trash is another man's treasure. I know when I was in college working at a VW/Audi shop we had a small yard of wrecked cars. One day the boss told me to cut a hole in a roof of the wrecked Karmann Ghia and fill it full of scrap so we could clean up the pile we had. I'm literally standing on the decklid, sawzall in hand ready to go when a customer walked up asking what I was going to do. I informed him of the plan and he freaked out. He started spouting stuff like how rare the car was. I knew this and also had remembered seeing this same clown in the yard at least 4 times in the 6 months the car sat here and he never popped off about wanting any of those times. But now that I'm ready to tear it up he's convinced he has to save it. I gave him 5 minutes to talk the boss out of the plan. He ended up buying it and I bet it's still sitting in his yard to this day.
 
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