1961 The Dead Cars Place

[Norweger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-HnR3BGkyo&feature=g-high-f&list=FLvyDs6RsxB_W9ef1igbCPxw

[Ponce]

My 49 Ford and 64 Corvair is problably there somewhere.......sniff, sniff.

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[Cebu_4_2]

Well that wasn't very uplifting.

[Libertarian_Guard]

I couldn't watch for one minute. Too painfull. Why not ship those cars off to Cuba instead? Such a waste!

[gunDriller]

I couldn't watch for one minute. Too painfull. Why not ship those cars off to Cuba instead? Such a waste!

it seems like a waste.

but it takes time & energy to take them apart, sort them, etc.

in the meantime, that quality of scrap got about $200 per ton, for a while - in 2012.


if i was sitting on 100 old cars, and hadn't gotten around to marketing them, and no one else had - i'd be tempted to trade those 100 old cars as scrap for ...

back then, steel scrap was more like 1 cent a pound. so, maybe $20 per car, $2000 total.

which in 1961 would be 2 x 715 ounces = 1400+ ounces of silver ! 14 ounces of silver per car. tempting.


there was no USENET in those days to market used car parts on.