Breaks my heart to see these classics meeting their final end. To think, there are restorers out there searching years for trim pieces, headlight bezels, and small parts, just to see them wasted for a few pennies in scrap.
@@GODOLLAHA Not restore but some of those good pieces of trim were invaluable to someone that needs them. I remember needing a turn signal lever for my otherwise mint low mile 1959 Chrysler. It must have been broken in the early 60's and someone put in long bolt instead of getting a new one; you can't believe how happy I was to get one and that was the mid 80's; small parts on these cars would have sold easily and with places like ebay and the like I am sure would have been worth quite a lot more then the scrap which they would have gotten anyway after removing a few pounds of valuable parts.
Damn. That sucks. Those old cars are full of parts that people need. Too bad they don’t take the time to advertise them for parts and let the community rebuild their classics. So sad
They should put good trim and interior parts like handles and knobs in a box labeled for the car, year, and model then get a kid to put them on ebay and ship them, I bet it would be a new income stream. When they crushed that BENTLEY if they put the entire car up starting at $1500 it would have sold and the thought of those tail lights and grill, bumpers, and interior trim; I can't even think what they would be worth as BENTLY parts don't show up easily and they rarely get junked in this country
@@carminealiffi9738 Hah, I just posted almost the same thing. It is exactly what I have seen other yards do, they hire some kid to take apart the cars and lists all the parts on Ebay, then he ships them at the buyer expense. Makes them plenty of money.
WRONG,that 1957 Chevy cost $31,000 brand new in 1957 so today the stainless trim would be $5000... Cars were not dirt cheap its not like going to a dealer today and paying $2,780 for a brand new car thats what you think,not true at all.. People do not understand math...$1 was not the same $1 in 1957 as it is today... I also laugh when people talk about gas prices,gas was always expensive but people think it was dirt cheap! Example it was $3.36 per gallon in 1957 for the average gallon of gas,that is what 31 cents is converted for todays dollar..
Just think at one point in time, those beautiful machines rolled off a dealership, and in the drivers seat a proud owner, cars these days don’t have the pristine craftsmanship and quality like they used to!
@harrisonashley1631 Cars we’re really fine back in the 1930s and 40s. Cadillacs and Lincoln’s from that era we’re absolutely astonishing. It’s just the cheapness of the materials that are used in cars today is what gets me, but yeah I understand what your saying.
Cars today are absolutely not built to a higher standard. It's nothing but plastic, fiberglass and other materials that don't age well. Yes, I'm aware of the issues at Chrysler in the late 50's, but that's an isolated incident really. Cars today are disposable, regardless of sticker price.
To an extent it's a safety issue - the car has to crumple in an accident so that it absorbs the impact, instead of all the force going to the passengers like very rigid older cars did. Unfortunately that also means it's expensive to replace parts on newer cars after even minor crashes since there aren't really solid bumpers anymore
And probably little to no effort was made in posting these cars for sale. You know - that literal 5 minutes to list a car for sale is killer! But hey, there's cheap beer waiting. Yee haw!
i recently watched a video of a car disassembly factory in Britain a vehicle is completely stripped of useful parts no matter how small, and put on shelves to be held until a part is needed on another vehicle..
Plenty of people would have wanted them. If only they had some way to get the word out, like maybe some futuristic technology that somehow magically connected computers together.
Ive seen entire yards full of these old cars disappear quietly. One moment they are there, next moment gone without a trace. I remember one yard was fixing to be cleared and i was helping a friend get some parts for a 40s car he was fixing up. I pulled a couple sticks of fender stainless off a 55 chevy wagon I happened to find buried in the woods as we made our way back to the front. Didnt plan on getting anything for myself but I offered the guy what money I had on me for them..he laughed and threw the fender stainless in the back of a truck full of scrap he was hauling off.. That is what makes you disgusted..when people that run these yards take pleasure in denying you and destroy it in front of your face. These old classics shown here with good glass and trim with value still on them were crushed first out of spite while the worthless late models with nothing useable on them sat there untouched. What was once common from cars like these is now rare..try to find the regulators, release mechanisms , hinges , window tracks and other wierd brackets and specialized hardware out of the doors on those kinds of cars.
@@robertlyman9789 I seriously anybody running a scrap yard is a liberal by any means lol. That shit is getting old. It's like when everything people didn't like in the 50s and 60s was automatically "communist". Stop using a word you don't understand.
Quienes hacen esto no son buenos americanos. No tienen el menor sentido de pertenencia de la historia de los Estados Unidos de América. No aman su glorioso pasado, solo aman al dolar. Yo soy cubano de Cuba, y política aparte, ver esto me produjo tristeza e indignación
@@jaredmiller8740 i think I had 25 on me that I offered. No telling how long that Chevy sat out there in those woods.I woulda put that trim back to use. Tragic to have seen that yard disappear. It had some cool cars in it. Nothing later than 1962 in it with stuff going back to the late 20s model As.
@@mattmccain8492 i have read a similar story, about a bloke wanting a wind screen, ( wind shield) the bloke went a scrap yard with a mate, who was after some bits. He found a car that had a decent wind screen, that was better con than the one he had in his project, at the time. The bloke offered the breaker, a few dollars, might have been what the screen was worth, maybe more even. The breaker wanted more, and the bloke stated, that's all i have on me, at the moment. The Breaker went no bother, and bust the window screen. So it boils down to greed i found, but the law here is, never remove anything with out pricing before hand. So you are not wasting your time and been stung on a daft price. I priced a rad before, the breaker wanted 40 quid with out fans, so i said i will get back to you on that one. A few weeks later, i priced it again, and he said £30 with the fans. i said ok i will take it. I got the rad for 10 quid less and fans for free.
you wouldn't expect it would you, i know some yards wont keep cars in at a certain age, due to the profit they will get. They just go threw the crusher straight away, only some of the very old school yards will keep the older stuff. but i think there maybe even a limit on what age they will keep.
I know it’s your job but what the fuck man “keeping people from getting hurt on the rusty parts” Bullshit even if the car isn’t able to be saved I’m sure they all have a few parts that can be sold
This guy isn’t a car guy it’s just another old car what the big deal. I seen a collect of rare cars get crushed when owner died and kids crushed them for quick money.
@@Blk63Vette That's what UA-cam uploader "Iowa Classic Cars" keeps saying, DON'T keep old cars laying around for your kids to inherit! Disposing of them will be a monumental headache for them.
@@Blk63Vette Well, if they're American kids that figures - absolute clueless and lazy. Doesn't happen here in the UK, they know moolah can be got from old tin.
Some of that glass, trim, body panels, etc looked good enough that I'm sure someone restoring cars would want it. There had to have been value in some of those
you have to remember the mentality of crusher types, they can only understand the 10cents of a dollar. Really sad and why people like me run them off when they came around wanting to do me a favor and crush my lifetime collection.
These crusher yards are ran by meth head types that only want the cash quickly, so any hunk of metal to them is their next dollar. Too them, they don't do much work in the first place and sitting there and parting everything out while also operating an online front to make an inventory seems like to much effort for them. These aren't pull a part yards.
Did he actually say that they were crushing them because they're Rusty and he didn't want somebody to get hurt on them? Imagine that finding a rusty piece of tin in a junkyard!?
@@tandy5811 once you've been smoking tandy? Here, it makes no sense. Ever heard of Bondo and rust remover? That is your question ⁉️. When you use a body filler make sure of 2 things. That you use as little as possible. That you also don't use a filler that says BONDO. Use a quality item. Now there's much more to this but I'm not here to tell you step-by-step you can UA-cam it. Not that you'll ever do it of course. Watch a video as many times as you need to. That is an order for you to comprehend. Then read my question which that's all it was.
To each their own... But I sometimes think that people and scrap yards crush these old cars on purpose just to get their jollies knowing that no one else can have them.... Because they definitely could sell these super fast for far more then they'd make by scrapping them.
You got that rite-probably gave thst crusher a good workout! ,,,,,,, 😉😏 Back in '98, I worked w/an outfit that crushef cars in N.W. Indiana and Chicago area. We were called out to a yarf in Lombard, Ill. to a salvage yard no longer operating. When we got there, the last car that had been towed in that yard was about 1972. That was the "newest" car tag I saw; some of those cars were from early Thirties to early mid-Sixties, as the "newest" car in there was s '63 Olds 88. Mostnof those cars were complete, but had bern sitting in thst yard for decades, most were in the ground, buried up to the rockers! ALL of those once beautiful machines were turned into vintage scrsp in a matter of two weeks! Incredibly, some of those Fifties cars seemef to hold up quite well, until about tan yrs before meeting us ('88), but such a sad, SAD day.. there were Studebakers, Packards, plenty of Fords and Chevies, and as I remember, three DeSotos, a '49-'50, and a Beautiful, at one time, a '58 Firedome! Such a travesty is to be expected in the salvage business! 😩😲
You be in a crash in an old car compared to a newer car ,the older car may be steel but they crumple up into a jagged mess compared to the internal structure of new cars .
@@jjMcCartan9686Yes, that’s true but if you own a Classic Car you need to avoid driving it at certain times. Because now there are so many disrespectful & angry drivers on the road. You are taking a big risk at times each time otherwise! 👏🏼❤️✌️🌎😎
Lol, what? Those cars have the resistance of wet paper, even when new compared to modern cars structure. Google some car accidents with classic cars involved vs modern ones, you'd be surprised.
Crazy watching someone crush a '57 Ford 2-door hardtop. Back in 1957, Ford produced more cars than Chevrolet. I reside in Kansas, and the 1957 Ford is very rare to find/see laying around or restored. The '57 Chevrolet's are everywhere.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmaras someone who’s 24, I’d have all cars from the 90’s and up crushed. Modern cars are ugly, a pain in the ass to work on, slow, and overall are shit in general. Modern vehicles suck ass, so are the people who keep on buying and demanding them.
The last time scrap prices went nutso,3 yards I frequented crushed well over 350-400 older cars ,most were actually true junk but sadly tons of big blocks of all makes went away
@@pierrelaboom4026 I find the Pontiac big blocks and the bigger models of Pontiac laying around. Have them look lately but they don't seem to be jumping out of woodworks either like you say. I was trying to decide for my 68 firebird coupe I want to put 326 400 possibly 455. My preference would be a true Pontiac engine from that era. I'd rather not throw a Chevy small block of some sort in there. But it's one of those long-term projects. Who knows might even sell it but I don't get back to it pretty soon. Oh I love the car. But I love all kinds of old cars and trucks. Anyway where I found them before was scattered around the Midwest. Farming communities. If that helps any.
I know its horrifying seeing these cars get crushed is inspiring me to get into collecting these cars for a living to save it from the crushers I'm gonna get to the bottom of this and buy all of these classic cars left on the earth in all of the junkyards so nobody will ever be scrapping rare valuable classic cars again. I will be investing in them getting them restored then making a profit off of selling them and they will be getting a second shot of life on the road. That'll put a stop to the worst happening to them in the end.
@@deanfarr3249They're junk .Why buy them to sit in another field to rot away even more ? If you're gonna buy it at least try & restore it .Hope you have deep pockets & a blank cheque book.
Crushing old cars is a sin. Crush only new crap that nobody will be looking for parts for. Old cars are rare and parts and glass are hard to find for restorers.
@@seana806 The only thing they're good for is reliability and safety. I mean those are two major things but regardless classic cars are better. I'd rather die in a Pontiac GTO Judge rather than a Toyota Corolla.
Around 2010 a bunch of our local junkyards crusher all they’re classics because of the high scrap prices. I watch a UA-camr who owns a junkyard and is always talking about how no more that ten years ago they regularly crushed out entire vintage salvage yards. Now thankfully he saves most classics.
That’s when China Ramped up buying all them at all they could from us for the war effort against us. The same great people who bought the metal from the world trade Center building right after it collapsed
I hate seeing classics crushed. Thankfully I work at a junk yard and I get to destroy modern cars. And every car and truck built in recent times is ugly except the Challenger. I hate every Japanese car so I will post a video of a del sol getting crushed. I so look forward to watching that. I save classics, I kept 2 from geting out in the yard. and am restoring them.
I can't blame you for just doing your job, but those cars look like they still had good parts on them, like the glass and chrome trim. Finding parts for 60-70 year old cars isn't easy so we shouldn't just keep throwing away parts like that.
People who take parts off of a car are monsters, restore the car in general. I've seen a very large amount of these conditions get turned on reginitioned and driven away.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmarpeople take parts to save other cars that are already running ...Monsters are people like you who sit & bitch from the side lines without putting your hand in your own pocket to save them .
When a modern one gets crushed I feel even joy... but when a classic meets its final destination, breaks my heart wondering how many stories it could tell since she was new.
Dennis and Alex Taylor saved way worse than this when they built their '55 Chevy. How the scrap yard didnt think to list these on FB marketplace and make more than scrap value is mind blowing. Even if the frames are shot they use the roof frame structure to build tube chasis drag cars.
No estoy de acuerdo en destruir esos carros de coleccion, son iconos del pasado, de ellos podemos usar partes para otro vehiculo del mismo año, me da dolor ver como lo chatarrean.
Well yeah some parts might be salvaged, but goes both ways. I used to work in yard, folks want to pay 2 bucks for something worth far more, and then too yard owners ask far more than something is worth.
Are there no buyers out there for these old classic cars? UA-cam is full of car restoration people. Tell Ya what you can crush my 2015 Nissan Rogue piece of shit and I will take one of those classics off your hands haha
Those cars are over 70 years old now, there way too old to be worthwhile and Even if they were most people don’t want to waste money on materialistic things like cars anymore.
@tommarks3726 all depends on the generation thing too, A mate i used to work with, watched an auction of cars from pre 70s era, those went either for buttons or unsold. That was due to newer generation not having that much interest in cars of that era, they were keen on the 70s to the 90s.
Pretty cool how they survived this long. They went from the showroom where they were some buyer’s dream come true to the end of the line. Everything has a service life and this was the end of it. Yeah, it is sad but inevitable. The glass breaking was scary. No safety glass in those days so a razor share edge of flying glass would cut you up in a crash.
I've been a old car guy for my whole life. But my main question is, why do so many people think that crushing old cars is good so we can focus on the newer electric junk that we don't need? Electric cars aren't going to make a difference, they're worse for the planet anyway
supply and demand. Obama BS deal effed us. U will make more in parts than a block of metal. Ppl want real parts. Not repo. Fukkin sad. I care more bout old cars and ppl than most do. Kids got no respect for either. History is dying daily.
@@1965Gindy Unless it's all rust, it has potential. They don't make those cars or pieces to less popular cars. Now u can buy all new pieces for a 57 chevy, 70 chevelle, Camaro etc.
Unfortunately, they just aren't smart enough to sell the parts separately and make real money for these cars. They could have advertised and made so much money. Not mention help someone who really needs the parts.
I used to haul a lot of crushed cars. Many times we would go to remote set up a crusher. Usually the same story every time. Eccentric old man dies and his kids don't want to deal with selling it. So they just bring in a crusher of haul at all off. The beautiful cars that I seen go through the crusher would break your heart. I wish I could have saved some of them.😢
Because of all the rust the #2 Ford crushed quite easily, but the #1 Ford appeared to be a solid car. The time to crush them is when they look like car #3 (no windows or trim to salvage).
i remember as a kid lived close to a big scrap yard during gas shortage 70s watching cars like R/T i remember the hood 440 six pack. and SS 396 442 cobra jet being crushed at 10 years old it felt so wrong
I know a few people that restore classic cars. Much of the time when cars like those are getting crushed they are actually devoid of any useful parts. Some people that restore older cars will usually buy some hulk and get every useful part needed for thiers aand sell the rest to a scrap hauler. Much of the time when they are in a scrap yard like that.There's usually nothing left to take off of it. Many people that own classic vehicles don't have the space to keep a lot of spare body parts, they just keep the car in good condition.
your loader operator does not do his job very well. He needs to push in the side doors before the crusher comes down, to prevent the doors from bulging out.
I used to work at a yard & yeah it's sick how many classics get smushed let alone good running cars nowadays. The way insurance companies total everything out and sell them to the highest paying scrap yard ppl just don't care about oldschool cars anymore, I guess its just a car can't take it with you when you die.
There was no need for this. Surely the yard owner could have easily broke even on what he had into the cars or with the scrap metal value without crushing them. There is no reason cars like this should not sit indefinitely in a yard rather than being crushed. The low volume part sales would still net a great return.
even though it bites, but cars like these in yards, are probably costing the owner more money, with them sitting in spaces, where something a lot more newer could be sat, and the owner could be making a hell of lot more profit off. Also you got to think, how often is someone going to pop in and ask for a light off a car from the 40s etc, compared to someone coming in and asking for a light, off a car that is pushing 10 years old etc.
@@procta2343 Well I mean if the car isn’t even 10 years old then it should be used as a daily rather then for parts, once it hits 20 or smth like that it would make sense to use it for parts.
@@Ecchier i am still using two cars that are 20 plus year old as a daily, the other at the moment my parents are using, while their 30 year old car is been restored. The bloke you mentioned, i bet no one was keen on doing any work or wanted to charge him the earth. i question some body work places, if a car needs a new rear quarter putting on, they will not touch it. But they are happy to fill a body full of bodge.
Imagine youve just bought your abandoned shevy project car from an old man and you begin restoring it its missing a fender and some trim so you head to your junkyard pulling up you see the exact same car you have with almost brand new looking parts you run inside with your ratchet set but then see the cars gone you look around and in about a moments time you spot your parts car getting loaded in a crusher you rush to stop the action but its too late the beautifull mid condition car has been crushed flat body panels mangled trim pieces destroyed you head home sad thinking about how that car was usefull and you could have used it but it got destroyed
These cars should get donated to high schools with auto shop class. Kids can get the opportunity to work on them and develop their talents and passions.
They should of saved those rare parts for restorers, they aint cheep these days. The late 40s started planned obsolescence when cars would only last about 90-120k miles and it was not until the 1980s until cars started to be made more reliable because they had to compete with the reliability of Toyota and Mercedes of the time. Thats why there are so many cars from the late 40s to 60s era with low demand, since the mechanics was mostly made to not last long and some of them are difficult to restore mechanically.
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Breaks my heart to see these classics meeting their final end. To think, there are restorers out there searching years for trim pieces, headlight bezels, and small parts, just to see them wasted for a few pennies in scrap.
restoring cars isnt easy man and those cars were mostly rust
@@GODOLLAHA Not restore but some of those good pieces of trim were invaluable to someone that needs them. I remember needing a turn signal lever for my otherwise mint low mile 1959 Chrysler. It must have been broken in the early 60's and someone put in long bolt instead of getting a new one; you can't believe how happy I was to get one and that was the mid 80's; small parts on these cars would have sold easily and with places like ebay and the like I am sure would have been worth quite a lot more then the scrap which they would have gotten anyway after removing a few pounds of valuable parts.
@@carminealiffi9738 i knew someone would say that commenting and all i gotta say is ur right but i was to lazy to say it in the other comment
No wonder these cars get crushed due to that kind of thinking
agreed, look at those dirty but perfect original rounded windows that people would love to get
Damn. That sucks. Those old cars are full of parts that people need. Too bad they don’t take the time to advertise them for parts and let the community rebuild their classics. So sad
They should put good trim and interior parts like handles and knobs in a box labeled for the car, year, and model then get a kid to put them on ebay and ship them, I bet it would be a new income stream. When they crushed that BENTLEY if they put the entire car up starting at $1500 it would have sold and the thought of those tail lights and grill, bumpers, and interior trim; I can't even think what they would be worth as BENTLY parts don't show up easily and they rarely get junked in this country
@@carminealiffi9738 Hah, I just posted almost the same thing. It is exactly what I have seen other yards do, they hire some kid to take apart the cars and lists all the parts on Ebay, then he ships them at the buyer expense. Makes them plenty of money.
A 57 Chevy Bel Aire brand new cost $2,780. The stainless steel trim on that car cost $5,000 today.
WRONG,that 1957 Chevy cost $31,000 brand new in 1957 so today the stainless trim would be $5000...
Cars were not dirt cheap its not like going to a dealer today and paying $2,780 for a brand new car thats what you think,not true at all..
People do not understand math...$1 was not the same $1 in 1957 as it is today...
I also laugh when people talk about gas prices,gas was always expensive but people think it was dirt cheap! Example it was $3.36 per gallon in 1957 for the average gallon of gas,that is what 31 cents is converted for todays dollar..
@@mypronouniswtf5559actually op is correct, it would be around 2700 in 1957, 31,000 sounds more like todays money
I tell my hoarding gf everythings gotta go sometime
@@mrwow1667 That is exactly what the mypronoun person was saying...
@@mypronouniswtf5559No way a '57 costs $31,000 in '57.
*So much useful stuff still on those old cars despite their condition, once they're gone they're gone* :(
The trim , the glass OMG , these cars deserve a better fate . Once they are gone , that's it . This was painful to watch.
Just think at one point in time, those beautiful machines rolled off a dealership, and in the drivers seat a proud owner, cars these days don’t have the pristine craftsmanship and quality like they used to!
@harrisonashley1631 Cars we’re really fine back in the 1930s and 40s. Cadillacs and Lincoln’s from that era we’re absolutely astonishing. It’s just the cheapness of the materials that are used in cars today is what gets me, but yeah I understand what your saying.
Not nice crushing classics that had good parts left
@@dannydean9204were ... not we're 😂
Cars today are absolutely not built to a higher standard. It's nothing but plastic, fiberglass and other materials that don't age well. Yes, I'm aware of the issues at Chrysler in the late 50's, but that's an isolated incident really. Cars today are disposable, regardless of sticker price.
To an extent it's a safety issue - the car has to crumple in an accident so that it absorbs the impact, instead of all the force going to the passengers like very rigid older cars did. Unfortunately that also means it's expensive to replace parts on newer cars after even minor crashes since there aren't really solid bumpers anymore
Some of the chrome trim pieces can be worth far more the the rest of the car.
I agree there. The chrome and glass on the rusty Chevy was a few hundred $ easy. But who's got the time to do it?
The entire car can be salvaged
Not to mention windows!
Sad Day😢
I Was just thinking that, some of it looked really good
Shame to see the irreplaceable glass and chrome being destroyed 😢
Absolutely disgusting
And probably little to no effort was made in posting these cars for sale. You know - that literal 5 minutes to list a car for sale is killer! But hey, there's cheap beer waiting. Yee haw!
Yep good luck restoring these piles of dirt. Though I will admit the last one looked actually solid
@@adrenalinsam
Meh
Part out old ford's
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i recently watched a video of a car disassembly factory in Britain a vehicle is completely stripped of useful parts no matter how small, and put on shelves to be held until a part is needed on another vehicle..
In the UK some of them cars would ride for the last time in classic banger racing and the glass and bits would have been sold off
That is a real shame the Fords had to be crushed, it's too bad no one wanted them, the 57's are my favorites. Thanks for sharing.
it s a murder !
😢😢😢
Plenty of people would have wanted them. If only they had some way to get the word out, like maybe some futuristic technology that somehow magically connected computers together.
I agree. It hurt to watch
At least they shut the hood on the 1st one
Ive seen entire yards full of these old cars disappear quietly. One moment they are there, next moment gone without a trace. I remember one yard was fixing to be cleared and i was helping a friend get some parts for a 40s car he was fixing up. I pulled a couple sticks of fender stainless off a 55 chevy wagon I happened to find buried in the woods as we made our way back to the front. Didnt plan on getting anything for myself but I offered the guy what money I had on me for them..he laughed and threw the fender stainless in the back of a truck full of scrap he was hauling off..
That is what makes you disgusted..when people that run these yards take pleasure in denying you and destroy it in front of your face.
These old classics shown here with good glass and trim with value still on them were crushed first out of spite while the worthless late models with nothing useable on them sat there untouched.
What was once common from cars like these is now rare..try to find the regulators, release mechanisms , hinges , window tracks and other wierd brackets and specialized hardware out of the doors on those kinds of cars.
Liberal,run environmental yard
@@robertlyman9789 I seriously anybody running a scrap yard is a liberal by any means lol. That shit is getting old. It's like when everything people didn't like in the 50s and 60s was automatically "communist". Stop using a word you don't understand.
Quienes hacen esto no son buenos americanos.
No tienen el menor sentido de pertenencia de la historia de los Estados Unidos de América.
No aman su glorioso pasado, solo aman al dolar. Yo soy cubano de Cuba, y política aparte, ver esto me produjo tristeza e indignación
@@jaredmiller8740 i think I had 25 on me that I offered. No telling how long that Chevy sat out there in those woods.I woulda put that trim back to use.
Tragic to have seen that yard disappear. It had some cool cars in it. Nothing later than 1962 in it with stuff going back to the late 20s model As.
@@mattmccain8492 i have read a similar story, about a bloke wanting a wind screen, ( wind shield) the bloke went a scrap yard with a mate, who was after some bits. He found a car that had a decent wind screen, that was better con than the one he had in his project, at the time. The bloke offered the breaker, a few dollars, might have been what the screen was worth, maybe more even. The breaker wanted more, and the bloke stated, that's all i have on me, at the moment. The Breaker went no bother, and bust the window screen. So it boils down to greed i found, but the law here is, never remove anything with out pricing before hand. So you are not wasting your time and been stung on a daft price. I priced a rad before, the breaker wanted 40 quid with out fans, so i said i will get back to you on that one. A few weeks later, i priced it again, and he said £30 with the fans. i said ok i will take it. I got the rad for 10 quid less and fans for free.
Never thought I'd see a 1940s car getting crushed at around 75 years old.
you wouldn't expect it would you, i know some yards wont keep cars in at a certain age, due to the profit they will get. They just go threw the crusher straight away, only some of the very old school yards will keep the older stuff. but i think there maybe even a limit on what age they will keep.
I know it’s your job but what the fuck man “keeping people from getting hurt on the rusty parts” Bullshit even if the car isn’t able to be saved I’m sure they all have a few parts that can be sold
This guy isn’t a car guy it’s just another old car what the big deal. I seen a collect of rare cars get crushed when owner died and kids crushed them for quick money.
@@Blk63Vette That's what UA-cam uploader "Iowa Classic Cars" keeps saying, DON'T keep old cars laying around for your kids to inherit! Disposing of them will be a monumental headache for them.
@@Blk63Vette Well, if they're American kids that figures - absolute clueless and lazy. Doesn't happen here in the UK, they know moolah can be got from old tin.
"Getting hurt from the rusty metal" 😆 ....so many good usable EXPENSIVE parts on those junkers its like throwing money into a fireplace 😂😂😂😂
Crushing that 51' hard top was foolish. Front clip looked pretty good. Doors for conversion. Roof and trunk deck $$$$$
Some of that glass, trim, body panels, etc looked good enough that I'm sure someone restoring cars would want it. There had to have been value in some of those
you have to remember the mentality of crusher types, they can only understand the 10cents of a dollar. Really sad and why people like me run them off when they came around wanting to do me a favor and crush my lifetime collection.
These crusher yards are ran by meth head types that only want the cash quickly, so any hunk of metal to them is their next dollar. Too them, they don't do much work in the first place and sitting there and parting everything out while also operating an online front to make an inventory seems like to much effort for them. These aren't pull a part yards.
All that trim lost on those 56--57 FORDS, a shame.
My first car was a '57 500... that hurt 😪
Y hay muchas piezas originales que ya no se hacen ufff
Did he actually say that they were crushing them because they're Rusty and he didn't want somebody to get hurt on them? Imagine that finding a rusty piece of tin in a junkyard!?
I have a running/ driving 57 ford fairlane 500- 4 dr. In Minnesota for sale. Needs retro tho.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 lame ass excuse, have you ever heard of rust removal or better yet BONDO?
@@tandy5811 once you've been smoking tandy? Here, it makes no sense. Ever heard of Bondo and rust remover? That is your question ⁉️. When you use a body filler make sure of 2 things. That you use as little as possible. That you also don't use a filler that says BONDO. Use a quality item. Now there's much more to this but I'm not here to tell you step-by-step you can UA-cam it. Not that you'll ever do it of course. Watch a video as many times as you need to. That is an order for you to comprehend. Then read my question which that's all it was.
The 59 Ford at the end of the video still has good tail lights in it.
I jus about cried seeing that first car gettn crushed, that 57 Ford 500, it reminds me of my mom's 57, she had, what memories 😥😢😰😭😭😭
To each their own... But I sometimes think that people and scrap yards crush these old cars on purpose just to get their jollies knowing that no one else can have them.... Because they definitely could sell these super fast for far more then they'd make by scrapping them.
Untrue, I can find these rusty cars all day on FB marketplace for like 500$
@@Ecchier Where at?
But for how long@@Ecchier
so sad seeing the old cars being crushed
Notice how the old cars were sorta resistant to being crushed Steel!!!!
You got that rite-probably gave thst crusher a good workout! ,,,,,,, 😉😏 Back in '98, I worked w/an outfit that crushef cars in N.W. Indiana and Chicago area. We were called out to a yarf in Lombard, Ill. to a salvage yard no longer operating. When we got there, the last car that had been towed in that yard was about 1972. That was the "newest" car tag I saw; some of those cars were from early Thirties to early mid-Sixties, as the "newest" car in there was s '63 Olds 88. Mostnof those cars were complete, but had bern sitting in thst yard for decades, most were in the ground, buried up to the rockers! ALL of those once beautiful machines were turned into vintage scrsp in a matter of two weeks! Incredibly, some of those Fifties cars seemef to hold up quite well, until about tan yrs before meeting us ('88), but such a sad, SAD day.. there were Studebakers, Packards, plenty of Fords and Chevies, and as I remember, three DeSotos, a '49-'50, and a Beautiful, at one time, a '58 Firedome! Such a travesty is to be expected in the salvage business! 😩😲
You be in a crash in an old car compared to a newer car ,the older car may be steel but they crumple up into a jagged mess compared to the internal structure of new cars .
@@jjMcCartan9686Yes, that’s true but if you own a Classic Car you need to avoid driving it at certain times. Because now there are so many disrespectful & angry drivers on the road. You are taking a big risk at times each time otherwise! 👏🏼❤️✌️🌎😎
Lol, what? Those cars have the resistance of wet paper, even when new compared to modern cars structure. Google some car accidents with classic cars involved vs modern ones, you'd be surprised.
It's such a pity and shame those old cars were too far gone to be saved, and sad too
They weren’t too far gone to be saved lol. They just wanted to eliminate the liability of the rusty metal.
I'm telling you I know some people out there that will pay top dollar for all of them cars he could've saved
@@JasonShipley1979 yeah these people are crazy for scrapping these rare valuables makes me mad.
Im sure there were lots of useable parts on these cars.
Why didn't you all buy them ?
Still a lot of expensive pieces on these car its a shame to see them get crushed 😢.
Surprised some of the trim and glass wasnt saved,especially the black Ford.
damn all that rust and that thing looked like it was struggling ...
American history getting crushed.
Crazy watching someone crush a '57 Ford 2-door hardtop. Back in 1957, Ford produced more cars than Chevrolet. I reside in Kansas, and the 1957 Ford is very rare to find/see laying around or restored. The '57 Chevrolet's are everywhere.
This is why their rare, modern people think they can just crush them when they "aren't working" anymore.
That’s because Chevy guys have BIG egos with a chip on their shoulder.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmaras someone who’s 24, I’d have all cars from the 90’s and up crushed. Modern cars are ugly, a pain in the ass to work on, slow, and overall are shit in general. Modern vehicles suck ass, so are the people who keep on buying and demanding them.
@seana806 I don't think I'd go that far. Every make of vehicles has its faults.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmarthey don’t think, they do.
Those older cars are better than those newer ones there
The last time scrap prices went nutso,3 yards I frequented crushed well over 350-400 older cars ,most were actually true junk but sadly tons of big blocks of all makes went away
And man, at age 53, I'm finding True big blocks early pontiacs/olds are not that readily available. They now bring a premium.I miss my 400's
@@pierrelaboom4026 I find the Pontiac big blocks and the bigger models of Pontiac laying around. Have them look lately but they don't seem to be jumping out of woodworks either like you say. I was trying to decide for my 68 firebird coupe I want to put 326 400 possibly 455. My preference would be a true Pontiac engine from that era. I'd rather not throw a Chevy small block of some sort in there. But it's one of those long-term projects. Who knows might even sell it but I don't get back to it pretty soon. Oh I love the car. But I love all kinds of old cars and trucks. Anyway where I found them before was scattered around the Midwest. Farming communities. If that helps any.
I know its horrifying seeing these cars get crushed is inspiring me to get into collecting these cars for a living to save it from the crushers I'm gonna get to the bottom of this and buy all of these classic cars left on the earth in all of the junkyards so nobody will ever be scrapping rare valuable classic cars again. I will be investing in them getting them restored then making a profit off of selling them and they will be getting a second shot of life on the road. That'll put a stop to the worst happening to them in the end.
@@deanfarr3249 preserving history a noble cause.
@@deanfarr3249They're junk .Why buy them to sit in another field to rot away even more ? If you're gonna buy it at least try & restore it .Hope you have deep pockets & a blank cheque book.
Look, I've seen the movie Christine. They're just going to make these old cars angry
Special spot in hell for people that destroy classic cars
Crushing old cars is a sin. Crush only new crap that nobody will be looking for parts for. Old cars are rare and parts and glass are hard to find for restorers.
As someone who’s 24, absolutely f***ing hate modern vehicles. Modern vehicles suck ass along with the people who keep on buying and demanding them.
@@seana806
The only thing they're good for is reliability and safety. I mean those are two major things but regardless classic cars are better. I'd rather die in a Pontiac GTO Judge rather than a Toyota Corolla.
Sad
Around 2010 a bunch of our local junkyards crusher all they’re classics because of the high scrap prices. I watch a UA-camr who owns a junkyard and is always talking about how no more that ten years ago they regularly crushed out entire vintage salvage yards. Now thankfully he saves most classics.
That’s when China Ramped up buying all them at all they could from us for the war effort against us. The same great people who bought the metal from the world trade Center building right after it collapsed
I do remember scrap price being high around 2011 - 2012. Dad ended up getting something like $460 for a rusty 1997 Plymouth Voyager EXT then.
I hate seeing classics crushed. Thankfully I work at a junk yard and I get to destroy modern cars. And every car and truck built in recent times is ugly except the Challenger. I hate every Japanese car so I will post a video of a del sol getting crushed. I so look forward to watching that. I save classics, I kept 2 from geting out in the yard. and am restoring them.
This hurt my soul 😢
it's infuriating to see that..save the old cars..some are works of art..hello from france
I can't blame you for just doing your job, but those cars look like they still had good parts on them, like the glass and chrome trim. Finding parts for 60-70 year old cars isn't easy so we shouldn't just keep throwing away parts like that.
People who take parts off of a car are monsters, restore the car in general. I've seen a very large amount of these conditions get turned on reginitioned and driven away.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmarpeople take parts to save other cars that are already running ...Monsters are people like you who sit & bitch from the side lines without putting your hand in your own pocket to save them .
NOOOOO! THOSE ARE NICER THAN MY TRUCK AND I STILL DRIVE IT! This was a painful video.
When a modern one gets crushed I feel even joy... but when a classic meets its final destination, breaks my heart wondering how many stories it could tell since she was new.
I can just hear the cars screaming “Goodbye everybody!” It’s a Mad Mad World out there!!
Man, just the money that could be made in parts and glass alone!
Dennis and Alex Taylor saved way worse than this when they built their '55 Chevy. How the scrap yard didnt think to list these on FB marketplace and make more than scrap value is mind blowing. Even if the frames are shot they use the roof frame structure to build tube chasis drag cars.
I'm waiting for Christine...to come back alive
No estoy de acuerdo en destruir esos carros de coleccion, son iconos del pasado, de ellos podemos usar partes para otro vehiculo del mismo año, me da dolor ver como lo chatarrean.
Over here in Germany, those Fords would have Been brought 2-3 k each, they were Not all rotted
If you gave me one of those cars, I'd buy it.
The windshields could have been saved along with many other parts.
think of this video as a tribute to these cars, and the amazing lives they lead
Well yeah some parts might be salvaged, but goes both ways. I used to work in yard, folks want to pay 2 bucks for something worth far more, and then too yard owners ask far more than something is worth.
Are there no buyers out there for these old classic cars? UA-cam is full of car restoration people. Tell Ya what you can crush my 2015 Nissan Rogue piece of shit and I will take one of those classics off your hands haha
Quite a shame there was a lot of usable parts if nothing else on those old cars the new cars are garbage what will it be like 20 years from now 🥲🙈
Those cars are over 70 years old now, there way too old to be worthwhile and Even if they were most people don’t want to waste money on materialistic things like cars anymore.
@tommarks3726 all depends on the generation thing too, A mate i used to work with, watched an auction of cars from pre 70s era, those went either for buttons or unsold. That was due to newer generation not having that much interest in cars of that era, they were keen on the 70s to the 90s.
السيارات القديمه ينبغي أن تترك مهما كانت حالتها
A lot of hopes and dreams were crushed that day.
Pretty cool how they survived this long. They went from the showroom where they were some buyer’s dream come true to the end of the line. Everything has a service life and this was the end of it. Yeah, it is sad but inevitable. The glass breaking was scary. No safety glass in those days so a razor share edge of flying glass would cut you up in a crash.
If you poke the doors as its crushing, makes for a neater bundle.
BTW love the 371GM running the ship!!!!
It's heartbreaking seeing those old cars get crushed! 😭They have so much personality.
There not alive
I've been a old car guy for my whole life.
But my main question is, why do so many people think that crushing old cars is good so we can focus on the newer electric junk that we don't need?
Electric cars aren't going to make a difference, they're worse for the planet anyway
Most cars are gasoline? Lmao.
There’s more steal in that old Ford than 10 Hondas.sad about the 52 Chevy .RIP
Man my dad has been looking for that Ford chrome for a long time , everyone right that chrome is what's the most valuable,
Had to stop watching this video. Could not stand watching these fifties relics being destroyed.
Holy shit, the glass alone worth more than my car. 😮
What kinda car you driving that a crushed pile of rust is worth more than your entire car.
@@Ecchier smart car 😁
@@jefflong4349 eww
@@jefflong4349 no need to pay insurance because if you end up in an accident your a dead man.
@@Ecchier 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This used to upset me, but older and wiser now, sometimes there just isn't enough to save to make sense anymore.
Yeah, I cringe in horror whenever a 1957 or 1959 Ford gets crushed, but these had about been stripped of everything useful, and the bodies were rust.
supply and demand. Obama BS deal effed us. U will make more in parts than a block of metal. Ppl want real parts. Not repo. Fukkin sad. I care more bout old cars and ppl than most do. Kids got no respect for either. History is dying daily.
Yeah same. But I still get upset when someone crushes something thst has potential.
@@1965Gindy Unless it's all rust, it has potential. They don't make those cars or pieces to less popular cars. Now u can buy all new pieces for a 57 chevy, 70 chevelle, Camaro etc.
Dmn, those were looking good parts there.
This breaks my heart seeing this
Watching the Farlains go.....broke my heart
That sucks. Lots of good parts plenty of people would have wanted
That chromed seagull on the sides didn't deserve an end like it, James...
Unfortunately, they just aren't smart enough to sell the parts separately and make real money for these cars.
They could have advertised and made so much money.
Not mention help someone who really needs the parts.
I used to haul a lot of crushed cars. Many times we would go to remote set up a crusher. Usually the same story every time. Eccentric old man dies and his kids don't want to deal with selling it. So they just bring in a crusher of haul at all off. The beautiful cars that I seen go through the crusher would break your heart. I wish I could have saved some of them.😢
Stove the doors in with fork before you crush and won't pop open like that!
I think he avoided that for our benefit so we could see the complete crush.
1960 Rambler Classics were the epitomy of gruesome to look at; rank insults to Detroit!
Because of all the rust the #2 Ford crushed quite easily, but the #1 Ford appeared to be a solid car. The time to crush them is when they look like car #3 (no windows or trim to salvage).
i remember as a kid lived close to a big scrap yard during gas shortage 70s watching cars like R/T i remember the hood 440 six pack. and SS 396 442 cobra jet being crushed at 10 years old it felt so wrong
I know a few people that restore classic cars. Much of the time when cars like those are getting crushed they are actually devoid of any useful parts. Some people that restore older cars will usually buy some hulk and get every useful part needed for thiers aand sell the rest to a scrap hauler. Much of the time when they are in a scrap yard like that.There's usually nothing left to take off of it. Many people that own classic vehicles don't have the space to keep a lot of spare body parts, they just keep the car in good condition.
that crusher sure makes those fords look good, better then when they came out of the show room.they are worth more as scrap then they were new.
wrong
sorry but true ford boy @@KeithCriswell
@@wayneheigl5549
A lot of those Fords will fetch a lot of money.
your loader operator does not do his job very well. He needs to push in the side doors before the crusher comes down, to prevent the doors from bulging out.
I used to work at a yard & yeah it's sick how many classics get smushed let alone good running cars nowadays. The way insurance companies total everything out and sell them to the highest paying scrap yard ppl just don't care about oldschool cars anymore, I guess its just a car can't take it with you when you die.
There was no need for this. Surely the yard owner could have easily broke even on what he had into the cars or with the scrap metal value without crushing them. There is no reason cars like this should not sit indefinitely in a yard rather than being crushed. The low volume part sales would still net a great return.
All old people I know always scraped they’re classics at a certain point, Had a Guy scrap his 1964 Chevy c30, it was rusty but it still ran and drove.
even though it bites, but cars like these in yards, are probably costing the owner more money, with them sitting in spaces, where something a lot more newer could be sat, and the owner could be making a hell of lot more profit off. Also you got to think, how often is someone going to pop in and ask for a light off a car from the 40s etc, compared to someone coming in and asking for a light, off a car that is pushing 10 years old etc.
@@procta2343 Well I mean if the car isn’t even 10 years old then it should be used as a daily rather then for parts, once it hits 20 or smth like that it would make sense to use it for parts.
@@Ecchier i am still using two cars that are 20 plus year old as a daily, the other at the moment my parents are using, while their 30 year old car is been restored. The bloke you mentioned, i bet no one was keen on doing any work or wanted to charge him the earth. i question some body work places, if a car needs a new rear quarter putting on, they will not touch it. But they are happy to fill a body full of bodge.
They should pass laws for all old cars to be taken off the road and be crushed because of safety issues .
Imagine youve just bought your abandoned shevy project car from an old man and you begin restoring it its missing a fender and some trim so you head to your junkyard pulling up you see the exact same car you have with almost brand new looking parts you run inside with your ratchet set but then see the cars gone you look around and in about a moments time you spot your parts car getting loaded in a crusher you rush to stop the action but its too late the beautifull mid condition car has been crushed flat body panels mangled trim pieces destroyed you head home sad thinking about how that car was usefull and you could have used it but it got destroyed
This is heartbreaking
Rest in Peaces old fellas. Really not nice to see those classic cars being crushed like that. Would love to restore that ford 500
So sad looking at the 57 Ford bumper
sad to see the old cars crushed
This man has no value for classic cars l cant see good chrome bumper .grill and many more so sad all 50 chevry l dont like safe claasic cars
The reason I unsubscribed 😊
A good channel to unsubscribe from 🙈🤷♂️
Something classic car lovers tell me, you can save them all, that a hard pill to swallow
Damn a few of those were in really decent restorable shape
America's Got Talent!!!
Mr George, The new guy, he’s no good. Doesn’t hold the doors closed when the car is getting crushed!
The glass alone in some of these is worth a fortune. get them on the web!!
These cars should get donated to high schools with auto shop class. Kids can get the opportunity to work on them and develop their talents and passions.
Whoever put this video up is a heartless monster. I breaks me seeing beautiful classics get destroyed like that. 😡
Wow, that’s second car really got flattened
Christine R.I.P
They should of saved those rare parts for restorers, they aint cheep these days. The late 40s started planned obsolescence when cars would only last about 90-120k miles and it was not until the 1980s until cars started to be made more reliable because they had to compete with the reliability of Toyota and Mercedes of the time. Thats why there are so many cars from the late 40s to 60s era with low demand, since the mechanics was mostly made to not last long and some of them are difficult to restore mechanically.
Lots of old memories being crushed 😞