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WickedShelby88
04-30-2006, 03:14 PM
:confused: Everytime I turn around Im either in the bone yard or on the board and a car that is nicer than the one I have is getting parted. Hell the one I have is pretty nice to begin with. I wish I had a dollar for every decent daytona that ended up in pieces. Im not against a guy making some money as we could all use more than we have at almost any given moment. Im just curious what the driving force is behind taking for example a nearly rust free daytona shelby and completely dismantling it and selling it. More room, too old and dated, make more in parts?, what? Ive got an almost rust free Shelby Z that was going to suffer that fate. Ran fine but needed an oil and coolant leak fixed. My friend was going to send it to the scrap as a shell. Thats a good idea to make some money, but what happens when almost all the actual whole cars that these cars were going to be parted out to fix are gone. I dont think it will be anything like the musclecar craze, but wont this drive the price up enough to where these arent the cheap cars they used to me. Maybe Im just ranting cause I like the daytona shelbys so much and I cant stand to see one less on the road or this might very well be a reality sooner than later. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions and alternate viewpoints anyone may have. After all this is not just my hobby its all of ours.

Thanks, Joseph

86Shelby
04-30-2006, 03:41 PM
Ran fine but needed an oil and coolant leak fixed. My friend was going to send it to the scrap as a shell.

Too lazy for a couple small repairs?:( Sad, but oh well.

I hear ya.

Lee'sdaytona
05-01-2006, 07:58 PM
so save your daytona and have the last laugh in a few years.
-Lee

looneytuner
05-01-2006, 09:34 PM
I'm with you. I bought one that was on the way to the yard. After a year, it is a nice running car. I haven't driven a manual since 73 but this might just stay here for fun. I think a lot of people just don't have the patience to stick with it. I'll just enjoy it till the value goes up. Or maybe I'll just enjoy it even after the value goes up. I'm now the td "in house specialist" at my mechanic's garage.

butchsuppe
05-01-2006, 09:47 PM
I love Daytona,s too altought my car is a Lazer (same differance ) and it breaks my heart that more of them are,nt saved. I also love the 70-74 Cudas and can,t firgure why anyone would let them rot. Recently got parts off a 89 Shelby in the yard apparently due to parking tickets. It was in really good shape as most California cars are. To bad these cars don,t last long in the yards due to high turnover. I would love to be able to beat them to the auctions and save these cars but I haven,t hit the lotto yet, but if I do NO cool cars will ever be crushed while I still kicking !!!!! I personelly think there should be a law against it.

WickedShelby88
05-02-2006, 12:01 AM
A very clean blue daytona ES turbo is about to go and theres nothing I can do because in Illinois once they enter the yard they dont come out. The floors are solid and its a 90 with 120k and completely loaded with the infinity and the power enthusiast seat. Im thinking if they wont let me have it all at once I can get it out of there once piece at a time. I am already having the last laugh with the tona. Its on my next to do list right now. I almost have all the parts I need to put a nice 2.5 together. Maybe my friend will think twice when I pull up and roast the tires with her.

Tim
06-02-2006, 10:25 PM
If it's still rolling, steal the car out of the yard. Sneak attack with a tow truck or something. Get creative on that part. Buy another parts car Daytona of the same year & engine, swap the tags, and save that car! Don't let a little thing like laws get in the way!:thumb:

Lee'sdaytona
06-02-2006, 11:03 PM
If it's still rolling, steal the car out of the yard. Sneak attack with a tow truck or something. Get creative on that part. Buy another parts car Daytona of the same year & engine, swap the tags, and save that car! Don't let a little thing like laws get in the way!:thumb:
Haha, well done sir!:amen:

TopDollar69
08-12-2006, 11:47 AM
I sent a rust free 88 Shelby Z to the crusher. I saved the car from a bad engine and neglect, but after I found out how much it was going to cost to get it repainted, and after bad luck with finding some needed interior pieces, I just decided to part it out to get it out of my driveway. It was a shame, I tried selling it on ebay, but no one was interested. Anyways, the drivetrain lives on in my GTC convertable (which has decent paint).

MiniMoparKing
08-20-2006, 12:23 PM
OMG, you junked a car for PAINT!?!?! :confused:

Painting isn't that expensive..

If you were to have posted it FS on TD.com or allpar, it would have sold!

TopDollar69
08-20-2006, 03:17 PM
I did post it. I even posted a bunch of pictures with it. Turbo-mopar wasnt around back then, but I did have it on turbo dodge. Then I put it on ebay, still no luck. My wife is really understanding, but that only goes so far. After it sat for a couple of months, I decided it had to go. It helped keep a bunch of other cars going, so I didnt feel bad at all about it.

travis_k
09-01-2006, 01:12 PM
I have seen for the most part there are 3 main reasons cars get parted out. Most of the turbo dodges are owned by people that have them becasue they are fun but still pretty cheap. Alot of these people dont really have space or money to have anymore of them than they have, so even if people really like it, when someone tried to sell one no one buys it. I know there are alot of them i would have bought if i had the space, but even if i had bought them, i dont have a place to keep them where they wouldnt get towed by the city and end up in the junkyard anyway. Then, there are cars like the sprirt r/ts, where if anything breaks on them they arent worth fixing, becasue they are worth about 4 times as much as parts. Just a good r/t head is worth almost as much as a running complete car. The last reason (not so much with turbo dodges, but some other types of vehicles) there are people that buy up all of the ones with really clean sheetmetal or lots of options, and part them out for people to use to fix up their rusty base model versions. Its not really the same thing, but around herepeople dont really fix old cars becasue its too expneisve, so the junkyards are full of rust free turbo dodges (and everythng else you can imagine) that needed a head gasket, brake job, new tires, or something like that, but since its an old car the people just donated it to charity rather than fixing it.

boostedblue
10-04-2006, 08:57 PM
Where is around here and how many omni glh-t are in the yards, people always will have different ideals about cars keep,sell, part out,:D :thumb: :amen: boils down to MONEY always seems to but true Mopar guys do what they can boy should have saved that 340 Duster I had in the 70's but I love the GLH-T,s if I won the lottery I would buy everyone in the USA, but for now I just keep plugging along

gkcooper
10-05-2006, 08:40 AM
I just saved another one. A friend of mine found an '87 ShelbyZ with t-tops. Another friend bought it for $150! It did not run, so I towed it to my house with my Dakota. I found out that mice had chewed the hell out of the wiring.

It only has 92k miles! The inside and outside window sweeps are toast. I am trying to find suitable replacements. I think it will be a really nice car when I am through with it.

You should have seen the scene where the car was. Small trailer park with big "3" flags everywhere. We took possession of the car from the "deliverence" boys. "That thangs got two computoors in it" were the words spoken. DAMN

These are the folks that give the south the much un-deserved reputation. We are most definitely not all like that.

BTW, my wife is from Detroit and there are most definitely rednecks there too, just better english.

Greg K. Cooper
Huntsville, AL

WVRampage
10-05-2006, 01:26 PM
I wish I had the money and a Place to put all that cars I would love to have saved around here,one day I will have a large garage and a fleet of turbo cars.