Found this gem in the junkyard yesterday. The body parts were in amazing shape. Interior all there besides the gauge cluster and clean. Motor was mostly all there too. I don't know why it was in the jy. Seemed too clean to be there. I forgot the year, 87-89.
Nice find
What junk yard it this? I moved to Melbourne a year ago and haven't checked out what local junkyards are around.
This is the Riverside LQK Pick-A-Part. In southern California.
There's a clean turbo LeBaron there too.
California explains it. It probably failed emissions.
If the wheels are all there and not too expensive they might be worth something, the yards in northern California pull and recycle all the wheels before ever putting the cars out in the yard now.
If it failed emissions, how much would a junkyard pay for that? I'll be shipping it to the east coast and selling it there would result in a bigger payout. I see so many pictures of cars in California junkyards that would be worth good money here in the rust belt. It makes me sad. It also makes me want to start a business bringing those cars across the country and finding them new hones where they'll be appreciated.
I've often thought of that too. Buying emmisions failed cars and exporting them to other states. I'm sure some one does this, just not in a large scale to the east. I'm sure many cars make it to neighboring states though.
Does California issue a certificate of destruction for junked cars like that? Some states do and it basically means the vehicle can never be titled or registered again. If not there's definitely some business potential there, but those cars are basically doomed if they do.
Gearheadotaku wrote: I've often thought of that too. Buying emmisions failed cars and exporting them to other states. I'm sure some one does this, just not in a large scale to the east. I'm sure many cars make it to neighboring states though.
I remember looking into this once. Failed emissions doesnt mean a damn thing in mn, no inspections. The problem had to do with the vehicle coming out as failed in an emissions compliant state. Something about the titles being a giant E36 M3 show to deal with.
Most scrap yards I have dealt with will not sell full cars without an insane amount of convincing. Even as a race car chassis. There was an AE86 shortage in Cali for a while and they had 2 hatchback shells in a local one. It took A LOT of convincing for my buddy to get a shell. And yes, they have certs of destruction turned in to DMV and the title is marked as Junked.
I don't know what that means for other states, but California will not allow the car to see the gray of crap ass CalTrans assphalt again.
You should have seen the junkyards during the horror show of 2013 when the California Air Resource Board ran a buyback program where they bought running cars for up to 3k or something and ran the vehicles with a glass scilica oil replacement and DESTROYED engines. The idea was simply to get older cars off the road.
Those cars had a sticker placed on the valve cover of the engines in the yard. It was sickening what some people turned in.
The CARB is a joke. Only California could take something as simple as, you car can only have x emissions in x category and make it so complicated even the people enforcing the laws have NO clue what is going on with half of it.
I was thinking of buying cars that failed emissions BEFORE they hit the junkyard. Not sure of the logistics of it, but I'm sure that i could pay more than scrap value but still be under market value on the east coast.
They probably paid $400 for the car. It surw was tucked away and it wasn't on their online inventory either.
That's a damn shame to see that car in the JY. I'm a HUGE fwd Daytona fan. You just don't see them around anymore. :(
pointofdeparture wrote: Does California issue a certificate of destruction for junked cars like that? Some states do and it basically means the vehicle can never be titled or registered again. If not there's definitely some business potential there, but those cars are basically doomed if they do.
There used to be a program, maybe still is, if you fail emission, you can pay a fine then you can drive the car for 2 (maybe 1) year but after that the car must be junked. If it is one of these, I doubt it could be put back on the road legally.
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