My car is a junker but I am strapped for cash. I need some new parts and I am handy with a wrench. So i ask you old timers

Where are the nearest junkyards to, or even in FFX?

There's a junkyard on RT1 just north of the 160 exit on I95.

Maryland has better ones, though I can't recall where. It's been too long sine I last went.

http://tinyurl.com/cc63rj


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

Junkyards are becoming rare beasts. Not because of a lack of land or a lack of demand, but because of demand for steel scrap.

Chinese trading companies were roaming all over the South this past year offering to buy every single junker car off of the scrap lots for very large sums of cash. Given that junker lot owners are often not the smartest tools in the shed, many readily accepted the offers and closed shop.

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What PA junkyards do you go to?

ITRADE Wrote:
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> Chinese trading companies were roaming all over
> the South this past year offering to buy every
> single junker car off of the scrap lots for very
> large sums of cash. Given that junker lot owners
> are often not the smartest tools in the shed, many
> readily accepted the offers and closed shop.

Because selling out your products to the Chinese for more than Americans would pay for them and retiring on the proceeds is not a "smart tool" behavior.

By the way, the term is "sharpest tool in the shed" or "sharpest knife in the drawer," not "smartest tool in the shed." lol, if you are going to call someone dumb, at least do it without looking like a total idiot. pwn3d.

As helpful as that link may seem, Gravis. Actual junkyards where you can go pick parts are little harder to get with google. As an example, they listed Willow Springs as one of the top finds. Which isn't a junkyard to go poking through. It's a place that hauls cars. They aren't a comsumer scrapyard.

So sometimes asking around is a much more effective method.

I seem to recall Crazy Ray's in MD was pretty good.

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pgens Wrote:
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> ITRADE Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Chinese trading companies were roaming all over
> > the South this past year offering to buy every
> > single junker car off of the scrap lots for
> very
> > large sums of cash. Given that junker lot
> owners
> > are often not the smartest tools in the shed,
> many
> > readily accepted the offers and closed shop.
>
> Because selling out your products to the Chinese
> for more than Americans would pay for them and
> retiring on the proceeds is not a "smart tool"
> behavior.
>
Its a long term versus short term game. You could have immediate gratification and sell to the Chinese for $300.00 a ton or reap the benefits of salvaged parts which, when parted out, yield significantly higher profits. Sales of salvaged mirrors, chrome bumpers, quarter panels, and steering wheels would yield significantly more revenue than the flat revenue of the car as a scrapped commodity,

Of course there are considerations like time, rent, and other items, but over the long haul there is much more money in parts than scrap.

I miss having a pick-and-pull junkyard around. There was one back where I used to live. You'd pay $2 for entrance into the junkyard, and then you just wandered around this giant field full of half-junked cars, pulling whatever you wanted with your own tools, and they had engine hoists if you needed it.. Then you took it up the front and they just quoted you some really low number for whatever you'd pulled.

It was eerie, because some of the cars would still have people's personal possessions in them, and were obviously in bad accidents, but all the bloody stuff had been taken out.

I'd find photos, name badges, CD's, ID's, personal documents, tickets, etc...

Try green leaf auto recyclers. I know there is one close by and everything comes with a 6 month warranty and you can extend that warranty to .

French's in New Market Va off 81. If its still open

Shadow Wrote:
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> As helpful as that link may seem, Gravis. Actual
> junkyards where you can go pick parts are little
> harder to get with google. As an example, they
> listed Willow Springs as one of the top finds.
> Which isn't a junkyard to go poking through. It's
> a place that hauls cars. They aren't a comsumer
> scrapyard.

Amen. There really isn't much to be had through googling. Junkyards that do have websites, tend to have really bad ones. It's always better to ask around


jimmy jingles Wrote:
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> I miss having a pick-and-pull junkyard around.
> There was one back where I used to live. You'd pay
> $2 for entrance into the junkyard, and then you
> just wandered around this giant field full of
> half-junked cars, pulling whatever you wanted with
> your own tools, and they had engine hoists if you
> needed it.. Then you took it up the front and they
> just quoted you some really low number for
> whatever you'd pulled.

And that is exactly what I would love to have. There's got to be something similar within... a two hour drive?

Found it. Crazy Ray's of Baltimore

$1 to get in, you pull and dirt cheap. 5 locations to choose from.

http://www.crazyraysautoparts.com/