Guys,

I've got my self in a bit of a bind. I had this notion that it might be fun to part out an 83 Camaro in my garage and sell the parts on eBay. So far its been going OK. I got it down to basically just the body.

I just bought a 65 El Camino that is coming home next week. But there is no room in the garage!

I called some junk yards, but nobody wants it. I put the whole car on eBay for a buck. No bids. I have heard that the scrap dealers are not taking steel right now.

What would you do with this car?

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Jameel Qazi
#'s 67 SS

I once dragged a 71 elky SS on its roof with a chain over to the junkyard, made a pretty shower of sparks at night and sounded like a train! Since your neighbors may not like that, get it on a trailer and bring it to the junkyard. I deliver all my boned out wrecks and they just take em off the trailer with a forklift...hate to say it but ya gotta think of these things before you start cutting up cars. Either that or you will have to pay a junkyard to pick it up if they will at all.

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Dave
70 chevelle ss396 conv
66 chevelle ss396 hdp/conv
72 chevelle
55/57/61 chevies
TC member #493
Never forget Earnhardt!

You may benefit from being a member of the "SAWZALL owners club". Cut the body into many small parts and get it into your weekly trash pickup. Yes, I know that the body would be worth a lot if it were about 1500-2000 miles east and north, but those guys will not pay much for a rust free body. So, put it into the trash.

You guys are great. Too funny about the Elky.

I have considered both options.

I have a trailer, do you think If I just broght it down to junk yard row, somebody would take it?

Hey Drop top, where do you live?



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Jameel Qazi
#'s 67 SS

You might post it in the for sale section on our sister site www.camaros.net (http://www.camaros.net) and see if someone wants it.

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Leo Paugh
Maryland Chevelle Club #017
A.C.E.S.#3731
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by drptop70ss:
I once dragged a 71 elky SS on its roof with a chain over to the junkyard<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

YOU DID WHAT??
MY GOD! If i would have seen something like that.. I would cry.

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Shai

1972 Chevelle Malibu custom 4dr (http://72-chevelle.cjb.net)
Restoration started: February 10th 2001
TC member #1278

Shai, you'd have cried a lot if you'd lived ove here for the past 20 years. I've seen lots of things like this.

I think I can speak for drptop70ss when I tell you that the car was not useful in any way before he did that. We call those sort of cars "trot-line sinkers" around here.

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Chad Landry
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'68 El Camino

http://www.chevelles.com/forum/smile.gif I live about 1/4 mile from the junkyard, and got home one night around 6pm (already dark, was sometime in the fall) and I had the elky stripped and upside down behind my house. I was in one of those moods and said "the hell with it, what could happen" and hooked up a chain to it. My brother in law was in the bed of my pickup. I dragged it right out onto the main road, made a right turn and did the rest of the way to the yard. I had to keep moving and not let the chain slack, because the car would tip and drag on the tailgate area. I swear it sounded like a train, and all these people were coming out to see what the noise was. There was a shower of sparks coming from the roof! Things went well until I hit a bump and the back window blew out of the elky. I finished the run, went back and cleaned up the glass and went home. I did it so fast the cops didnt have time to get me, but the next day when I went to the yard the owner (who knows me) was laughing his head off cause he heard about it and knew I did it. Like Chad infered, the car was absolute garbage, and purely for parts. I think I still have the buildsheet for it somewhere. Just one of my interesting car stories, got lots!

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Dave
70 chevelle ss396 conv
66 chevelle ss396 hdp/conv
72 chevelle
55/57/61 chevies
TC member #493
Never forget Earnhardt!

Have you tried calling the Phoenix landfull. Last time I was out there, they had a area for metal, with old appliances, etc. They also have designated areas for glass, batteries and oil. It would be worth a call.
Don't try to bring a 50 gallon barrel of oil. They don't like that. Been There, Done That!

Good Luck,
Jim Endrud
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[This message has been edited by jimmy (edited 01-04-2002).]

if you talk to the junk yard you can schedule them to pick it off your trailer with a forklift.
cutting them into little pieces takes way too much time and I have waisted a lot of money in oxygen and acetylene doing that.
now I cut them up into manageable pieces so 2 or 3 people can pick it up and take it to the dump on my trailer.

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