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Vehicle Removal of dead cars

I see quite a few ads similar to this one in the local papers:

"VEHICLE REMOVAL!!! "FREE" I will remove your unwanted vehicles at no charge and even give $$$$ for the ones with titles that just need a little help. You have a choice with me... Cash or trade in on another vehicle, No Credit Needed..."

My question is, say I have them remove my car. What do they do with it? In my case I have a 1983 Mazda 626 that simply would require more money to get going than the car is worth. What will these people do with it?

There is not a lot of used-parts needs for such an old car (a local junk yard only takes '95 and newer cars), and it is not a collector's car by any means, so no one would restore it, and even if everything was fixed on it, it still wouldn't be worth more than around $500.

So why do they do this? Scrap metal?

Scott

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Sc0tt
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It depends on the car. Some will be parted and scrapped. Others will be repaired and put back on the road. Some of the cars being parted will be used to provide parts to repair the better ones.

And the self-serve salvage yards will buy older cars. They can make a good sum of money off them. The self serve yard I go to makes a point of leaving the 25+ year old cars out there longer than the newer stuff because they seem to know they'll end up stripped to the bone.

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Brent P

Ummm... One minor problem: The '83 626 is FWD. '82 was the last of the RWD 626 tribe.

It so happens I've got two of the '82 trannies sitting here ATM. Three, if you count the one I'm driving on.

Gearing on 'em is as follows:

1 = 3.214 2 = 1.818 3 = 1.269 4 = 1.000 5 = 0.860 R = 3.461

Had planned to look into rebuilding at least one to "like new" status. The other... Hadn't really decided. One of them is out of a car that was running just absolutely peachy-keen fine - until a PT Cruiser and a tree put a terminal wrinkle in the front end. The other is out of a junkyard car, condition unknown, but I think it very likely that it's runnable as it sits (Well, after topping it up with the slippery stuff, anyhow - I'm pretty sure I lost practically all of it in the removal and tranport process)

You wanna talk turkey? Hit my mailbox. It's in the clear. Just don't send HTML or it'll get flushed sight-unseen.

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Don Bruder

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