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[ChriSOL]

So I have this preconception that they only exist to facilitate the liberal idea that any car that is not a zero-emissions vehicle with 100 airbags and choked to death by its own restraints should be crushed immediately if not sooner.

I see people talking about rare classics that seem to live only in California being crushed after spending maybe a week in a back corner of a lot that os staffed only by non-English speaking workers and I have to wonder whether this is part of some crazy plan they cooked up to make holding onto older cars impossible...

Someone local want to fill me in?

[Gibbs]

Dude lkq here crushes the week after the car has been put on the yard

[CelicaDRIFTER]

I've seen cars that shouldnt have been in the yard that were still restorable and clean shaped bodys like this suicide continental i found once. Soo sad. Also found a clean bodied '73 corolla at the yard once too. such a shame good cars go to waste.

[Mo]

I seen a... not exagerating, could pass for Brand fucking new X32 with baby blue exteior and a beautiful blue soft supple interior in the junk yard last year. I almost committed suicide in it.

[JimmyHoffa]

You guys can't buy cars from the wreckers? Here if we want the car we can just buy the whole thing from the yard and usually put it back on the road without too much hastle if it's in good shape. The sad part is that any car that's in a yard in Canada is usually completely fucked mechanically, structurally or cosmetically, or all of the above. It makes me very sad to hear about that kind of thing happening down there. At least let out of state buyers snatch up the classics. fuck, I'll import 40 tons of un-crushed scrap classics to Canada and sell them off for restorations.

[CelicaDRIFTER]

depends on the junkyard here. in Cali. yards like pick your part or ecology dont sell cars that are in the actual yard itself, tho they have cars usually in the front where you enter that are up for sale.

[Kyle]

It's fucking gay here. The salvage yards have to surrender the title to the state for some reason which makes it non-op FOREVER. If you know someone that's running the place, you can have them keep an eye out for something and they could hold out from surrendering. My SC400 was absolutely beautiful for a 1992, not even tears in the leather, no dents, dings. Then apd said I ran from them and they impounded it and now it's in the scrap. I was walking through looking for x8 shit and saw it sitting there all glorious. Still had all my personal shit for the most part which they let me get. DAMN!!! Today is the 1 yr anniversary of that shit!!!! HA! Bitches! I'm gonna go smoke a blunt in that bitch! This is her 9 months after being there. When she first got there the only things wrong/missing was the front lip and the inside door handles were broken

[Piggity]

Should have pulled the engine out at least.....