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Ever the oddball, I own a '74 International pickup truck. There are hardly any around, and none around here still on the road. I did find one parked in a backyard and while it was in pretty rough shape I knew it would make a great parts truck. But I could never get together with the owner. Everyone associated with it seemed to be a flake. This had been going on for a couple years. Well, Monday this scrap hauler shows up at my office-I didn't know him from Adam. He somehow ended up with the truck and wanted to know if I'd give him $300 for it. I told him I was interested; he said once they got air in the tires he would bring it by. If I didn't want it, off to the scrapyard. Well, he never showed up so I went to check on it. He decided to bypass me and just towed it to the scrappers. What bothers me most is that the yard will not sell anything, not ever a lugnut. Supposedly the seat in that truck was just like new, and the engine had been replaced with a new one not long before it was parked. But the yard doesn't care about any of that. By now all of those parts are crushed, on the way to being turned into fenders for new Kias. As heavy as that pickup was they can probably get a half years supply out of it!
Another story, I may have mentioned-a friend of mine has been looking for a GE Monitor-Top refrigerator from the 20s/30s. He was talking with one of the local junkyard owners and they mentioned that they recently hauled one out of a house. It was in mint condition, always inside the house, and was still working like new. They promptly crushed it! To them, it's all metal.
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Bryan
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