I guess i was very lucky to get perfect gas tank, fuel pump, brake
drums, instrument cluster, etc,etc,etc
not to mention camping stuff...
Saved a bundle!
Leon
85 Subwagen Westy

JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 6/4/01 9:41:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> drillock@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Due to State and Local regulations, the fluids are drained,
>> batteries
>> and other hazardous materials removed, gas tanks ripped out, etc.
>> Then a
>> giant front end loader (fork lift) is used to gently, ha ha, cart
>> the
>> victim several hundred yards to it's spot in a row. There it is
>> placed
>> on 3 or more welded stacks of old steel wheels with no regard for
>> any
>> consequential damage to brake lines, hoses, wires, body, bumpers,
>> etc.
>>
>> Get the picture?
>>
>
> i agree.   once a car hits the salvage auction circuit, its on its way
> to
> being trashed..even at the salvage auctions, the expensive stuff
> (radios,
> center caps, alloy wheels are swapped out for steel ones, spoilers
> dissapear,
> etc) grows legs and walks away, being picked over by salvage auction
> buyers..the van is picked up by a forklift (usually ALWAYS, even if it
> does
> run) and the gas tank/LP tank is always crushed (you pick up a vanagon
> with a
> forklift, you WILL crush the gas tank, its inevitable) and most yards
> will
> toast the fiberglass bumpers (if not already) by the time it makes it
> back to
> it's spot in the yard. gotta push it back into it's spot in the row?
> no
> problem, that's what forklift tines are for..  ram it right back in
> there.
> most cars actually get more damage on their way from the final owner
> to their
> final resting place in the junkyard than they even had before the car
> was
> junked..
>
> my best mental image was quite some years ago when i happened to be at
> a yard
> and witnessed the fork lift driver picking up a '62 23 window microbus
> by
> jabbing the fork tines thru the skylights in the roof....    that
> makes ya
> sick..
> chris

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