A little light yard cleaning.

T. Erdelyi

T. Erdelyi

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Scap prices are still high so I decided to do some yard clean up, make a few extra bucks for hospital bills and get rid of some eyesores. Just wanted to share some pics.

How do you clean your yard?:D

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About time you cleaned up the mess. That will go to China now and come back as a "knife" !!
 
They are decent vehicles. Our office Elantra 1.8l stationwagon has just clocked 300'000km with only clutch, cvs and rear bearings over normal consumables being done. That is just under 170'000miles. It has not been treated kindly driving 600mls with a ford v6 in the boot, 8 guys to Gaborone from J'burg. Bricks and tiles and worst of all the bosse's wife using it. A bit of panel after a carjacking.

As for our Excel 1.3l they were very poor.
 
This was a sin:mad: , found this in a 3 car garage under the barn while cleanin' up a couple days ago, an early 70's Chevy Impala and before anyone asks, it had a straight 6 in it.

This car's been under the barn for 20 years.:eek:

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Looks just like our neighborhood. I got a couple of 1965 4 door impalas with parts missing. I am using the 283 V8 in a 1968 GMC half ton and put well over 500,000 miles on it and keeps on going.

The people across the street are moving to town next year and the scrap yard guy has been hauling away vehicles for the past year inorder to make the property sell. He must have had over 70 vehicles packed in there. I only have just maybe a dozen or so, and that is pale compared to my other neighbor, heck I can see his piles of heaps while viewing on Googel Earth.
 
SO forgive me for asking, but why would one even want to keep an old non running cars?

Is like being a packrat?
 
How do you clean your yard?
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For starters, I don't fill my yard with junk cars in the first place.

Did the blue Chevy pickup get hauled off too? It'd be a classic, if you're rich and can afford to restore it. Are those large red areas in the photo rust?!? If so, it'd be cheaper to buy another truck in better condition than to fix that one.

Antique cars and trucks are cool, if in good condition. But I lack the talent, tools, space, money, time, and interest to restore one myself.

Parts of course!
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So, over the years just how many parts did you actually need from that 1970s plymouth(?) in that last picture?

-Bob
 
Bob W said:
For starters, I don't fill my yard with junk cars in the first place.
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How big's your yard?

Bob W said:
Did the blue Chevy pickup get hauled off too? It'd be a classic, if you're rich and can afford to restore it. Are those large red areas in the photo rust?!? If so, it'd be cheaper to buy another truck in better condition than to fix that one.
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The Chevy pickup was my Brother in laws he gave it to me in the mid 80s right before he died, it still runs, it was parked down the trail behind my barn for the last 15 years, still started last year when I drove it out, can't kill them old Chevy 350's, oh and BTW not for junk or sale just for restoration, I just finished rebuilding a '71 Chevy with a friend of mine, here's a shot of that one.

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Also a better shot of the '68

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Bob W said:
Antique cars and trucks are cool, if in good condition. But I lack the talent, tools, space, money, time, and interest to restore one myself.
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I don't lack any of those.


Bob W said:
So, over the years just how many parts did you actually need from that 1970s plymouth(?) in that last picture?
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I'm not sure what Plymouth you mean, but over the years I've kept everything runnin' and have only needed to buy consumables, like brakes and filters and a few odd pieces I didn't have, in the last 25 years I've saved nearly 10 grand in motor and chassis parts.

I grew up in a Salvage yard, so cars in the yard were the norm for me.

Up until my mother sold the yard 5 years ago I had nearly every car I ever owned or drove stored there, last count that was about 40 cars, I'm 46 now.:D
 
If you do not mind me asking, how much are junk cars going for? I know some one with several in there yard and I keep telling them to call the scrap yard. I am having a hard time convincing them that they could put quite a bit of cash in there pocket and make there yard look better at the same time.

-DD
 
How big's your yard?
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The deed says 60' x 120', or something like that. But it wouldn't matter anyway - I've lived on a 240 acre farm and a 40-acre lot in the past.

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So it's not a Plymouth? :o My bad... I see the photo tag is "Impala".

Great work on that green '71 Chevy. I love trucks from that era, or from any era.

That is rust on the blue '68, too bad. Would be a nice daily-driver otherwise.

Is it hard to get parts, particularly body panels, hubcaps, and interior pieces for trucks of that vintage? I see some around here for sale occationally, super-cheap and running, but I have no idea what it would take to replace the missing parts. Maybe it's not as difficult or expensive as I imagine.

There was a similar vintage Chevy truck on a farm where I used to work. It was called a "Longhorn" and had a bed that was 6 inches longer than the standard. But the interior was trashed and the body needed work. I think the rarity of that model would make restoration especially worthwhile.

-Bob
 
DirkDiggler said:
If you do not mind me asking, how much are junk cars going for? I know some one with several in there yard and I keep telling them to call the scrap yard. I am having a hard time convincing them that they could put quite a bit of cash in there pocket and make there yard look better at the same time.

-DD
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Anywhere from $100-$200 depending on how heavy the car is.
 
Bob W said:
The deed says 60' x 120', or something like that. But it wouldn't matter anyway - I've lived on a 240 acre farm and a 40-acre lot in the past.

So it's not a Plymouth? :o My bad... I see the photo tag is "Impala".

Great work on that green '71 Chevy. I love trucks from that era, or from any era.

That is rust on the blue '68, too bad. Would be a nice daily-driver otherwise.

Is it hard to get parts, particularly body panels, hubcaps, and interior pieces for trucks of that vintage? I see some around here for sale occationally, super-cheap and running, but I have no idea what it would take to replace the missing parts. Maybe it's not as difficult or expensive as I imagine.

There was a similar vintage Chevy truck on a farm where I used to work. It was called a "Longhorn" and had a bed that was 6 inches longer than the standard. But the interior was trashed and the body needed work. I think the rarity of that model would make restoration especially worthwhile.

-Bob
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Try this link for parts, they have everything from the 50s on up for Chevys including trim parts.

LMC TRUCK PARTS
 
Now remember those are North Eastern PA,(Bethlehem Steel country) prices, your mileage may vary.:D
 
T. Erdelyi said:
Now remember those are North Eastern PA,(Bethlehem Steel country) prices, your mileage may vary.:D
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I THOUGHT that looks like Pa. territory! I'm originally from North, central (Mansfield) The hills, trees and road all said Keystone state.
 
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