A sad day: No more salvage yards!
I am on the road making sales calls and today I was driving from Salt Lake City to Reno on I-80. I counted 4 semis loaded with crushed cars.
How will our kids and grandkids have the fun of walking thru a yard full of cars!? Seeing old iron from the good old days, gets the heart beating! I know money talks. Maybe I just need to get over it! Bill
How will our kids and grandkids have the fun of walking thru a yard full of cars!? Seeing old iron from the good old days, gets the heart beating! I know money talks. Maybe I just need to get over it! Bill
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Yah... that steel is mostly headed overseas to return as coat hangers from China... too bad we can not find out how to make our resouces work for us.0
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Coat hangers, hell! Try AK-47s, naval warships, and army tanks for the ChiCom government...
They send us the tin in the form of cheap crappy tools, lead-painted toys, and poisoned pet food.
What a deal, huh?
At $200-$275/ton for scrap, who can blame the salvage yards? Are they going to hold onto that car for ten years, just hoping someone will call for that one part? Not any more. Business is business. These days, you have to find a parts car and BUY it, then either store it or strip it to the last bolt.0 -
Bill, take comfort in the fact that all those smashed cars are going to be your wife's and neighbors Saturn and Lexus and whatever else is the car du jour.
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maybe if America still manufactured something other than debt and credit this wouldn't have happened.0
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Aaron, It has always happened, just recycling old into new. We can't save them all. Even HET members part out old cars that can't be restored and send them to the crusher.
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You know Harry, you're right. I shouldn't be worrying about this. I really should be worried that my kids would want to restore a Saturn, Lexus or other rice grinder!! Since China is buying all this steel, it'll be only Chinese cars available for restoration!!Yikes!! Bill0
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At $200-$275/ton for scrap, who can blame the salvage yards? Are they going to hold onto that car for ten years, just hoping someone will call for that one part? Not any more. Business is business. These days, you have to find a parts car and BUY it, then either store it or strip it to the last bolt.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention the "Keep America Beautiful" people that campaign for an end to salvage yards because they are an unsightly blot on the landscape - and don't care if you have a 20 foot fence around the property.
Usually, ends up no more salvage yard - but we got a beautiful (???) housing developments for the yuppie's to live in.
Ah, America.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
HudsonTech
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The American landscape is becoming a plastic, pre-fab, made in China version of itself. But hey at least there's fewer junkyards to offend our delicate eyes... you can't leave that land "un-developed" we gotta get some Mc Mansions on the tax roles... politicians got kids of their own to send to college! OK I'm done, I yield my remaining time and my soap box to the distinguished HETer next to me. LOL0
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Aaron,
Considering the poison dog food ingredients, lead painted toys, weak steel, and tainted medicinces China has been sending us, I think they are their worst enemy. For decades after WWII, the Made in Japan lable was synonymous with junk. Chinese products have now achieved that status.
People have a choice. There is nothing made in China that is so exclusive that people can't find alternatives made elsewhere. Sure, the alternatives may cost more, but you do get what you pay for.
Since the housing market has taken a big hit, there's no worry about track mansions replacing junkyards any time soon. Maybe the tainted earth of former junk yards can be farmed so we can send China a taste of its own medicine.0 -
I Have to agree , We dont make anything but BS. What are the kids going to do for things after we have sent all the jobs overseas, NAFTA meens NOT ANY FACTORIES TAKING APPLICATONS. John drivergo20
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Just curious, how many of you actually look to see where things are made when you are shopping in a store? How many of you look on the internet to where a product is made or look specificly for a product made in America?0
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Guess we're lucky. We live in a log cabin/country home hand-built by my family and I, and much of our furniture was made by local Amish like Uri and Sam Byler. Many local craftsmen are thriving here in the woods.0
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JManOnTheHAMB wrote:Just curious, how many of you actually look to see where things are made when you are shopping in a store? How many of you look on the internet to where a product is made or look specificly for a product made in America?
I do. After my wife bought some Chinese made LED Chistmas lights from Costco this year, and I read the instructions, I said no more Chinese products for us. Not only were several sets duds, the instructions on the box warned the user to wash their hands after touching the product since it contained lead. So, not only is the quality of their products lacking, everything seems to be loaded with lead. I'm shocked that this stuff even makes it into our stores.0 -
Yeah, I can't control everything in my life and sometimes there are just no options but I always try to buy American and made in the USA, not just assembled here as most American car manufacturers are trying to get away with.
Harry0 -
Harry Hill wrote:Yeah, I can't control everything in my life and sometimes there are just no options but I always try to buy American and made in the USA, not just assembled here as most American car manufacturers are trying to get away with.
Harry
With GM(not sure about the others) They will list a % for the amount of parts from the USA and Canada, then they will list where the car was assembled. Tis will be on the window sticker. I will only by a car built in the USA or a unionized Canada plant.0 -
All of the manufacturers do that - list the percentage of US content and non-US content in that particular car, and have for over a dozen years, at least.
To me, if it's built in NORTH America, I'm happy. And I don't particularly care if it's a GM, Chrysler, Toyota, or Honda, either.0 -
402Bowtie wrote:I am on the road making sales calls and today I was driving from Salt Lake City to Reno on I-80. I counted 4 semis loaded with crushed cars.
How will our kids and grandkids have the fun of walking thru a yard full of cars!? Seeing old iron from the good old days, gets the heart beating! I know money talks. Maybe I just need to get over it! Bill
Theres a big car junkyard in Battle Mountain Nevada, just off highway 80.0
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