Buying and Selling Junk Cars

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

A big car lot here in town told me he would sell me some of his trade-ins for $350. each, but the best yard for taking cars is 40 miles away. $260. a ton, I would need to haul at least 3 at a time to make any good money. Otherwise I'm just scraping by and wearing a truck out.

Not even. That's a gold mine deal if you can adequately scrap everything and have stuff to resell. I got a 2001 Volvo the other day. Motor seized. I paid 200 for it. I took after it with a gas powered cutter and some insight. I sold the interior on ebay, cut out the wiring harness, cut the alternator and starter, made off with the motor and radiator, junked the rims, and then got a small exotic on the cat. I made out with close to 1200 off the aluminum from the motor, reselling off ebay, the cat, and the auto body price. Never even had to tow the car as I just stomped it with a back hoe and took it in the back of the truck. Tell you what, if you want to pm me, being as we're almost in the same location, we'll see if we can't come to a good arrangement on how to junk cars out proper and make you some cash. I don't have an all the time source, but I can junk a car like no one's business. Besides that, you can make your money back on the cats if he's got some foreigns. There's possibilities.

LOL here's a good pic of the hillbilly debauchery.
http://scrapmetalforum.com/image/2cgcgwt38/

I have thought about putting an electric winch on my 16ft flatbed. How big do you folks think I should go to easily pull cars onto the flatbed?

Originally Posted by Mick

10,000 lb - minimum. It's the vehicles with flat and no tires that'll cause you to need it.

I use the cheap 10,000 lb super winch on my trailer, if the car or truck has been loaded with extra scrap no tires I use a snatch block attached to the item being winched onto the trailer, run the cable though the block and back to the trailer head for an anchor.

Really stubborn stuff gets double blocked, another block at the trailer head, run the cable through and back to the item being dragged on where it is attached, double blocking slows the line speed of the winch increasing the pulling power for every block added into the rigging.

If something from under the car gets snagged on the rear of the trailer, it's coming off by brute force.

Regards
Gustavus

No, Gus, Kris Kringle wasn't talking about you ! You're being too sensitive again. Even if he was, it shouldn't matter. But I KNOW he wasn't.

ahhh my first love, junking cars, just cant hack it any more tho. Hey Mr G I dont claim to know every thing, just most of it

2nd car I scrapped was an '89 Dodge Dynasty. It has a good size alum intake on it. Same with the 3rd car, a '95 Dodge Intrepid.

In addition the current vehicle I am tearing down has aluminum transmission and transfer case (AWD Safari).

If I am not mistaken, most of the smaller cars/imports have aluminum blocks, but you're going to have that pesky iron liner.

I thought I had an aluminum intake one day...till I started to saw off a bolt...boy was I disappointed !! How long have they been making them out of PLASTIC ?

Catfish i mess with cars for a living.I can tell you anything you want to know about what to sale to make money.There is alot you can sale but some of it isn't worth messing with because it dont pay enough for the time you have involved in it.

I will buy all of you wheels,converters,batteries and altenators from you and great prices.I can match or beat anyone in the Louisville area.

I seen you said you where moving where abouts to you live at anyway?

what all are you trying to do.I have done this for 7 years and make a decent living at it.Where are you from.I buy cores also if you arent to far away.

no but on the converters you could ship them.Everything else is to heavy or hard to ship.