01-23-2024, 12:54 AM | #1 |
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I don't see any As but wouldn't you just love to get in there? How about an Auburn
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01-23-2024, 04:40 AM | #2 |
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All just old beaters then but people would be lining up to buy something out of that lot nowadays.
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01-23-2024, 09:00 AM | #3 |
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Likely they all ended up being turned into Sherman tanks or Navy ships.
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Hey! How did you get a picture of my backyard when I lived in Phoenix??? My neighbors just LOVED me and my "children" in the backyard!
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01-23-2024, 09:49 AM | #5 |
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Interesting the car-make signs. Certainly set up for easy shopping.
I can't say I've ever seen a junkyard like that in today's market. Of course most people don't "fix" cars anymore. If the part required isn't at the dealer then it is very likely the car will be "totaled" as the cost to repair will exceed the used value. A 2003 VW Golf Diesel that ate its own transmission comes to mind. ("Self-adjusting clutch" NOT one of VW's better ideas.) A replacement was $3800 - USED. Car value then about $2800. The VW dealer/repair shop ended up owning that one for the price of $1 - and forgiveness on their storage cost and "scoping out." Joe K
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01-23-2024, 01:09 PM | #7 |
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I can't say I've ever seen a junkyard like that in today's market.
Of course most people don't "fix" cars anymore. If the part required isn't at the dealer then it is very likely the car will be "totaled" as the cost to repair will exceed the used value. A 2003 VW Golf Diesel that ate its own transmission comes to mind. ("Self-adjusting clutch" NOT one of VW's better ideas.) A replacement was $3800 - USED. Car value then about $2800. The VW dealer/repair shop ended up owning that one for the price of $1 - and forgiveness on their storage cost and "scoping out." This is how they continue to sell cars now. Car breaks, and the typical auto repair now is at least $450. Then they say, but we can get you into a lease of a new car, or even a 1-year old lease turn-in for $XXX/mo. Leasing was their big trick to make payments affordable to continue sales. I think they are just about out of tricks. The price of cars is getting crazy. Can you imagine how much a Model-A truck would be today if it were the current model? You can spend $50,000 to $80,000 for a pickup now days. I used to buy parts from junk yards for my first few cars. I always thought they were great. |
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I would love to trade my 20-year old Tundra for a modern pickup with better safety features and better mileage, but it's just plain cost-prohibitive. Since I've been back in the Model A hobby I can't even use the "you got the last new car" argument on my bride.
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Some "old timers" said during the time before WWII, there would be scrap drives for steel and the US shipped it to Japan for refining. Then they shot it back at us.
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That's nothing. In 1938, our minister for trade (Robert Menzies) paraded himself in public as the best trade minister the country had ever had - look at how much pig iron we are selling to Japan. The Japanese openly scoffed at us saying that we shouldn't worry, we will get it all back soon. They used it to build their navy and look at the damage that did. You guys were the recipient of some of it and we got the rest. Robert Menzies is still laughingly referred to as "Pig Iron Bob" and he became the Prime Minister after the war for many years. The export of pig iron to Japan only ended when the unions refused to load it on ships. IMO, Sometimes these annoying strikes do some good.
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01-23-2024, 10:35 PM | #12 |
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Aren't we sending scrap metal, aluminum, paper, and more to China? HMMMMMM!
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Aren't we sending scrap metal, aluminum, paper, and more to China? HMMMMMM!
How much scrap metal is needed to make nuclear bombs??? Well, if they are like most stuff coming from China, they either won't work right off the bat or they won't fit. Marshall |
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Synchro, New Zealand is a tiny country getting even smaller day by day as we pump ironsand from our beaches into Japanese carrier ships moored off the coast.
At least Aussie mines are inland and just make giant holes. Maybe our outgoing Labour government stopped exporting our coast-line. Do you have any spare black ironsand we could swap for some spare rain water we seem to have now? SAJ in NZ |
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SAJ, some of those holes, I think, are so big that they are causing the earth to wobble on its axis, so much ore has been moved to other places on the planet. For the last few decades, that other place has been China. Anything bought anywhere in the world that was made in China and contains iron, you can bet that the iron came from Australia. In the north west of Western Australia, there are mountains so rich in iron ore that I have picked up stones with a magnet.
More rain in the right places at the right time would indeed be welcome but there is yet another cyclone due to land in northern Queensland later today. They are expecting up to a metre of rain over a couple of days out of this one. The previous one was less than 2 weeks ago. SOGGY! With a country as large as the US lower 48 and a population less than 26 million, there is plenty of room here if NZ gets too small.
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The Chinese are building huge iron ore mines in Africa. It will soon be worthless here. Our population just hit 27 million. We need to build a city the size of Canberra every year to house the migrants alone. We can give NZ Fraser Island as the dingos don't like all the tourists.
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01-25-2024, 12:51 AM | #17 |
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This yard was called "Spitz" 1941 in Irwin, Pa. outside of Pittsburgh. Still in business it said on another site
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01-25-2024, 03:51 AM | #18 |
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This yard was called "Spitz" 1941 in Irwin, Pa. outside of Pittsburgh. Thanks for posting Dave |
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