ALL CARS CRUSHED!!!

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Hello all, I got some disturbing news this afternoon, and here's a little background....

Last year I was driving from Tampa to Columbus OH. I decided to bypass Atlanta and go through Athens, GA instead. I had a friend in Athens. The next morning I was heading up 441 out of Athens, it's a nice road through a beautiful part of Georgia. About 20 miles north of Athens, I see this huge hillside totally covered in old cars. Hundreds of them. From what I could tell, they were lined up nicely, and included cars from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and they looked like salvageable cars to me, or at least a treasure-trove of parts cars. There were Mopars, GMs, and Fords, anything you could imagine.

I could tell that access to the place wasn't off 441, and I was in a hurry to get up to Columbus, so I figured I'd return via 441 and see if I could find the access to the place and maybe check it out. That was last year, and I did not end up back on 441 to try and find the place. But I did some internet searches, and found a place called Smith Auto Salvage, sure enough on 441 north of Athens. So I figured this glorious hillside filled with old cars was Smith's place.

Fast-forward to summer of 2019, and I'm up in Columbus again, getting ready to head back to Tampa soon. Up in Columbus I bought a '67 Chrysler Newport "street find" and got the old beauty running. But it needs a power steering pump, so I decide to call Smith's Auto Salvage, assuming they probably have dozens of pumps for old Mopars dotting that hillside. I was thinking I'd finally stop by the place and hike the hill in junkyard heaven.

The guys at Smith's were very nice, but no, that beautiful hillside of old cars was not their yard, it was "the guy down the road". And they were sorry to tell me that just about 6 months ago, all those cars were crushed. All those cars, all those parts, dear God it makes no sense.
 
Welcome to the world of the E.P.A. Although i am all for protecting the planet, the cost of running a wrecking yard by the proper rules are just to hard for some of the small outfits. I remember one yard I used to go to, about 20 acres of old cars, and they never crushed cars older than 25 years. They closed down about 5 years ago, and like your place, the state crushed everything.
 
That’s a shame. They could have made more $ parting them out. I think steel is around $4 or so per thousand.
 
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Hello all, I got some disturbing news this afternoon, and here's a little background....

Last year I was driving from Tampa to Columbus OH. I decided to bypass Atlanta and go through Athens, GA instead. I had a friend in Athens. The next morning I was heading up 441 out of Athens, it's a nice road through a beautiful part of Georgia. About 20 miles north of Athens, I see this huge hillside totally covered in old cars. Hundreds of them. From what I could tell, they were lined up nicely, and included cars from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and they looked like salvageable cars to me, or at least a treasure-trove of parts cars. There were Mopars, GMs, and Fords, anything you could imagine.

I could tell that access to the place wasn't off 441, and I was in a hurry to get up to Columbus, so I figured I'd return via 441 and see if I could find the access to the place and maybe check it out. That was last year, and I did not end up back on 441 to try and find the place. But I did some internet searches, and found a place called Smith Auto Salvage, sure enough on 441 north of Athens. So I figured this glorious hillside filled with old cars was Smith's place.

Fast-forward to summer of 2019, and I'm up in Columbus again, getting ready to head back to Tampa soon. Up in Columbus I bought a '67 Chrysler Newport "street find" and got the old beauty running. But it needs a power steering pump, so I decide to call Smith's Auto Salvage, assuming they probably have dozens of pumps for old Mopars dotting that hillside. I was thinking I'd finally stop by the place and hike the hill in junkyard heaven.

The guys at Smith's were very nice, but no, that beautiful hillside of old cars was not their yard, it was "the guy down the road". And they were sorry to tell me that just about 6 months ago, all those cars were crushed. All those cars, all those parts, dear God it makes no sense.
So sad...what were they thinking?
 
I saw 3 69 Charger R/Ts, all orange with black stripes crushed and neatly stacked so the stripes lined up. This was in Stockton,Ca. In the mid 80s
 
Sadly a sign of the times. If you have a favourite yard somewhere that you haven't been to in a while make the effort to get there before its too late. We lost a local yard the same way a few years back and the only other one I'm aware of I haven't visited in a long time so I will be taking my own advice this summer.
 
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old man died.. kids wanted the money now.. happens every week anymore..same story
 
There were quite a few great places up in the Scranton area back in the 80's, all are gone now. And can you guys imagine the rust free stuff that must have been crushed in Cali over the past 15-20 years? They made it near impossible to keep old cars sitting around with all these DMV fees. Meanwhile, the so-called environmental movement is being overweighted by the stuff spewing out of Chinese and Indian factories.
 
There were quite a few great places up in the Scranton area back in the 80's, all are gone now. And can you guys imagine the rust free stuff that must have been crushed in Cali over the past 15-20 years? They made it near impossible to keep old cars sitting around with all these DMV fees. Meanwhile, the so-called environmental movement is being overweighted by the stuff spewing out of Chinese and Indian factories.

Someone told me Cash for clunkers program resulted in a lot of old cars being crushed that would’ve been worth saving.
 
Crushing cars is nothing new. See any junk yards with 30s - 40s cars anymore?

One of the things leading to more cars getting scrapped and crushed is all
the reproduction parts that are available!!!

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Here, I see good back glass, spoiler and bumper cover. Too bad, it'll get crushed.
Yes, someplace someone needs the parts, but that's reality.


As stated above: if you need parts, go get them NOW, before it's too late. whatever car type you collect, store up all you can!!!
 
Someone told me Cash for clunkers program resulted in a lot of old cars being crushed that would’ve been worth saving.

Look up what cars were eligible. My 1997 minivan was too old at the time!
Tell "someone" to do their research first, next time! :thumbsup:
 
Look up what cars were eligible. My 1997 minivan was too old at the time!
Tell "someone" to do their research first, next time! :thumbsup:

We didn’t get in to a protracted discussion. He just said a lot of non running, older cars were dragged in. His take was a lot of people scammed the program.
 
We didn’t get in to a protracted discussion. He just said a lot of non running, older cars were dragged in. His take was a lot of people scammed the program.

I did some research just now and was enlightened.
The car or truck had to be a 1984 or newer to qualify.
They had to roll and been insured within the last year.
I agree, bet a LOT of scams were going on!!!!!
 
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