My Favorite Junkyard has Very Few Cars

[johnnymk]

It's a Pick and Pull yard, where you take the parts off yourself. It usually has about three hundred cars and trucks. The other day it had less than 100.

I asked the girl if they are going out of business and she said they are just cleaning up.

So as I was leaving, I asked one of the patrons what's up?

He said the price of scrap steel is way up and that's where the cars are going.

I guess I should have put this in the Suckage Forum :thumbdown

[DarkFury]

He said the price of scrap steel is way up and that's where the cars are going.

Well that would explain why there are some local idiots stealing manhole covers and street grates all of a sudden. :hmm:

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[Daedalus]

I cleaned up around the house last weekend and hauled an old dishwasher and stove to the recycler today. It cost me about $10 in gas round trip (well $20 cause I went last Saturday but their website was wrong and they had already closed). Scale showed 120 lbs (come on!). I looked down at the receipt--it said $4.02. I didn't even bother to cash it in. I know some poorer folks make their living off recycling scrap metal, but they must be breaking their backs doing so.

[Houdini]

Didn't realize scrap metal had any real value nowdays. During WWII, you were lucky if you 100 year old iron fence wasn't seized to make tank parts, etc.

I love "U-Pull-It" junkyards. If you can avoid the snakes and other vermin, you can usually get a good deal AND find a car that's pretty damn close to your own. Sometimes they are in rough neighborhoods or worse - the middle of nowhere, where you could disappear and never be found, so I usually take some precautions. Otherwise I'm nervous as hell if I'm there by myself. I need to find one around here and strip it for window regulators, water pumps, control arms, maybe upgraded lenses, angel eyes, CAIs or superchargers... :) etc., before my car runs out of warranty in a few thousand miles.

But yeah, I've had luck from finding everything from windows to T-tops to emblems at U-Pull-It places. Usually there are several hundred cars though. I haven't been to one in ages, so I don't know if they're having the same problem in the South. Then again, after Katrina, I'm sure some of those yards are full of flooded cars with good parts. Gotta look into that. Hadn't thought of it. Thanks johnnymk!

[cheapie]

steel has been up for a couple years. partially related to the surge in infrastructure growth in china and india.