What to do with all those cars…

[chirParticipant]

Hurricane Harvey flooded a half million cars. What do you do with them? This is texas… You got space. Park em.
Scrap companies are gonna have a day recycling these..

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[GeraldParticipant 3620]

Wonder how many will be fixed and sold, bypassing the flooded car rules

No longer can we walk away, we must run. Remove the motive power.

[It’sallbsParticipant]

Break them down and start 2nd hand parts business.

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[Anonymous 42]

Gerald wrote:

Wonder how many will be fixed and sold, bypassing the flooded car rules

Not so, they are affixed with a title CLEARLY marked SALVAGE.

They get auctioned off to the highest bidder.

I wouldn’t touch a new flood car verses the old stuff without all the sensitive computers and monitoring units all over everything! The old cars all you need to do is drain all the fluids and dry out the points and drive away!

The destroyed electronics, modules, and sending units in new cars cost more to replace than the value of the car!

Got any 1966 Chevy Novas or Chevelles with a straight 6 cylinder and standard transmission? Those cars were easier to maintain than wiping your nose!

I miss my Chevelle and Nova from that era! I don’t want an SS 396, all I want is a simple driver that gets great mileage without all the s~~~ smothering the engine!

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

A lot of money can be made with all those car parts. Auto mechanics can strip those cars and make hundreds of dollars for 10 minutes spent replacing something.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[Anonymous 42]

The only way to make money is fast turnover and investing in one certain make and model and spanning only that bodies production years, that way you always have parts on hand, I was a Volkswagen and Subaru buyer at the auctions.

I applied the practice to my power equipment. Everything is driven by the same power plant being Onan and OMC engines and gravely tractors. I pay nothing in time and effort locating a part I have on hand, sometimes multiple parts and making parts hunting totally unnecessary.

My most resent parts tractor I purchased turned out to be in very good condition once I got it running with other parts I had on hand.

Another carcass Gravely tractor I payed $100 for has over $700 in obsolete parts if stripped and auctioned off online. Got my intake I needed that others want $400 clams! And a mint condition 4 speed hi-lo range with splits, hard to find even if you have all the money you need to buy parts.

I’d like to do a video of a Gravely literately tearing a craftsman A-PART! It took a football size granite rock to shatter the brush hog blade! No other damage, WHATSOEVER!

Same reason I buy Toyota!

Just my 2cents on salvage, parts, makes, models, and repairing salvage stuff…

[Anonymous 42]

Another f~~~witted thing Obamanation did with CASH FOR CLUNKERS was made it ILLEGAL for any of the PARTS to be RECYCLED!

That motherf~~~ing godamned idiot is to blame for allot of ECONOMICAL DESTRUCTION!

F~~~ing TODDLER when it COMES TO EVERYTHING! AND HIS RACIST HONKEY HATING F~~~HOLE WIFE!

[Anonymous 6]

Tower if you find a 69 Dodge Charger, send it to me!

[Anonymous 42]

Anonymous wrote:

Tower if you find a 69 Dodge Charger, send it to me!

I’m partial to the Challenger 440 magnum! My friend owned a Polaris police interceptor with HD suspension and 440 magnum automatic. THAT CAR COULD MOVE! at 120mph it still had allot more roar under the hood than it was using! Chrysler had the fasted highways speeds! Belvedere GTX was another highway flyer!

I still like my AMX because it’s the only car I ever drove that could do wheelies!

I like wheelies and Doughnuts! I road a unicycle when I was in my early teens! Nothing does a doughnut or a wheelie better! 2 in 1 lots of fun!

[Anonymous 42]

Recently I was stopped, I hadn’t had a ticket in Massachusetts since 1991, 26 years! The cop that stopped me tole me I had a HORRIBLE DRIVING RECORD! I remained silent and gave him the dude nod agreeing. He let me slide on a minor infraction for speeding after I explained to him I was flooring it to get my stuck turbo waste gate to close (other than that I never speed) had the turbo out the very next day!

[Anonymous 6]

This one!!

[Old BuckParticipant 3596]

Anonymous wrote:

still like my AMX because it’s the only car I ever drove that could do wheelies!

I used to have a ’69 amx, i regret selling it every day. Had 390 under the hood.

Thought the desert setting for the a/c was funny.

Don't chase tail. Turn yours around, walk away, and live free!

[Anonymous 42]

We have the same taste for styling and aerodynamics. The AMX, Corvette, and Charger had the classic coke bottle slipstream, same thing used on jumbo jets. With the whale tail the vacuum on the AMX robbed horse power and traded it for more traction on the rear end and underneath, the car squats the faster you go, they were drag runners not highway flyers like the Challenger.

I love the thin chrome bumpers from these years and the overall slipstream of these cars. Chrysler had the BEST HANDLING BY FAR with their tortion-bar front suspension! I had Chryslers too! They went the fastest and handled the best!

Now everything is a s~~~box unless you have a million bucks!

Can’t help it, gotta include grandpa!

Mustn’t leave out aviation.

Buildings too!

[Anonymous 42]

Old Buck wrote:

I used to have a ’69 amx, i regret selling it every day. Had 390 under the hood.

I still have mine! Last on the road 1982, stored indoors heated and totally restored (almost). It’s a 71 AMX Z code. 401, Rally pack with 4 speed T-10 and 12 bolt 4/11 posi! I played pin pong with my friend off the dashboard, he thought the car had no b~~~~ going by AMC’s reputation for grandma cars! He never bothered to buckle up in spite me buckling and telling him to do the same! He didn’t bother to buckle up! every time I shifted he hit the dashboard! Just like ping pong!

[Anonymous 54]

Bring them all to MGs place.
We will have the worlds biggest Demo Derby!

[AwakenedParticipant 35201]

Anonymous wrote:

Got any 1966 Chevy Novas or Chevelles with a straight 6 cylinder and standard transmission? Those cars were easier to maintain than wiping your nose!

I miss my Chevelle and Nova from that era!

I DON”T MISS: carburetors, Points, Manual steering, Manual Drum Brakes, and the complete over-steer and general LACK of handling. That being said, My 66 Chevelle was a Good Lookin Car !!

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