I still see crushed cars regularly making the trip from Minnesota to
the steel yard in Selkirk Manitoba.  That's a trip of over 100 miles
I'm sure.

Jef

On 7-Jul-08, at 9:03 PM, pickle vanagon wrote:

> Since I posted my craigslist ad for our passenger van with cracked
> heads
> (plug: http://cnj.craigslist.org/car/738381653.html make me an offer!)
> I've received lots of responses from people that will tow it away
> at their
> expense for $400 and sound like they are just planning on scrapping
> it.  It
> only makes sense to me if they are getting at least $600 for their
> troubles.
>
> I hope a vanagon person will want our van so we don't have to scrap
> it.
> Otherwise, anybody want to venture a guess how many miles I'll be
> able to
> drive to the scrapyard with a cracked head and steam blowing out
> the back?
>
> -Wes
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:15 PM, The Bus Depot
> <vanagon@busdepot.com> wrote:
>
>>> not in the last 6 months since scrap metal has skyrocketed.
>>> the scrapyard near me pays the highest in the area.  a guy
>>> i met locally just scrapped out a 91 audi last week for $600.
>>
>>
>> It may vary by area. I am in a relatively rural part of PA (about 40
>> minutes
>> from JordanVw) and had a hard time finding someone who would tow
>> away the
>> stripped carcass of my tree-damaged '89 Westy for free, much less
>> pay me
>> for
>> it. Several turned me down flat, telling me that even for free they
>> wouldn't
>> make enough in scrap value to justify the fuel costs and time
>> involved in
>> transporting it.
>>
>> - Ron Salmon
>>  The Bus Depot, Inc.
>>  www.busdepot.com
>>  (215)  234-VWVW
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