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Originally Posted by turbobill
The oldest stuff normally kept around here is about 15 years. Road salt reduced anything older to a useless pile of scrap that disappeared in '09 when scrap prices went sky high.
There are a couple yards still hoarding old stuff, but most of it is salt destroyed scrap.
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My comment may a tad off subject, but we're lucky here in our dry climate. It used to be I could buy an almost complete vehicle for parts for the one I was building for 3-4 hundred dollars. Then sell what was left for scrap/trade.
Once in awhile, you could find complete cars/trucks in farmers junk yards from the '30s-40s that were "running when parked". Not any more. Scrappers would come from other states combing the back roads buying scrap, but that's pretty well cleaned out our source of good clean, mini-rust parts.
So, the high scrap prices has sure taken some of the fun out of our project building here.