Parts cars, donor cars and project cars - sad afterthoughts

Hmmmm, me thinks thats a 70 Plymouth Fury convertable. Tail lites to big for a 69 and 71 had vertical slots design..

Rear view of the 58 Ford and 64 Poncho and a 1969 Chevy convertible.

 

God NO! I've got a better idea, an old one that worked too. I'm glad you asked the question because I'll bet you know from the US side whether it worked or not. Here it goes.

Canada, in the mid 1960s had a population of 18.6 million, today we aren't even double that at 34 million. I hear Tokyo, Mumbai, Osaka, Mexico City and a few others have close to or more than we do.

After WWII, our Feds and Provincial Government started up Reform Trade Schools, where kids with little or no parenting, wayward or caught in the act, were sentenced to these schools. Jails with teachers of... Apprenticeship and Journeyman Grade trades of all kinds, from Cooks to Electricans, Plumbers, Carpenters, Cabinetmakers, Auto Mechanics... They practiced on Police cars, school desks, sports bleachers, ambulances, county and utility vehicles, and government construction projects. They were paid about 25 to 50 cents an hour, BUT, they could only use that, while under their sentence, for smokes or chocolate bars. The rest was banked for them, when banks paid 2% interest on savings accounts (oh so long ago). They were also given their trade tools and safety gear, and daily clothes, soap, razors, etc. So they banked enough to leave with enough to buy a pickup and licensed in their trade. Net effect was that we only had 6 national gangs in Canada.

Up come trade unions, the schools are closed. Kids formed and joined gangs. We now have 950 NATIONAL GANGS in CANADA! Can you believe that!

Here's the Canadian equivalent to your CIA, who track Gang Activity and their annual reports:
http://www.cisc.gc.ca/products_services/products_services_e.html

http://www.cisc.gc.ca/archive/archive_e.html

They only go back to 1997. The original story was reported when our Current PM was a candidate running with a "GET TOUGH ON CRIME" platform. He still hasn't allowed the bill to pass. If he doesn't like it, he shutsdown parliament and all the consulting dollars go down the taxpayer toilet. Yeah he can do that here. Its called Proroguing. He's done it twice. Over $40 million in the committee and consuting expenses thrown away.

But back to the point. All we're doing right now, is handing out soccerballs and keeping the broke kids in these sport bubbles, intead of helping them get free of the bling and life of gangs. A plumber makes from $50 to $75 per hour. I can't even find one to give me a quote, and often, they charge for the estimate!

So the Reform Trade grads left these schools, made good money and never went back to crime 98% of the time!

Revive the system, I say. Get them recycling all kinds of throw aways, from Computers to Trucks and Cars. Pay them a fair wage minus their jail costs (right now $75,000 per convict in our Club Fed system) and help folks get back on their feet, and the kids away from gang life.

That's my best thoughts on it. Maybe there are others. Our PM wants longer sentences, no training, and more jails. How many prisons in Mexico City, Mumbai, Tokyo, Osaka, New York City, LA. And here, the last new Federal Jail cost $11 million for 1,100 prisoners in 2001. A new Provincial Jail in BC cost $44 million for 638 prisoners in 2004 and its overcrowded already! We aren't dealing with the Prevention part in our social structure. We're wasting people.

 

I saw the hump at the rear fender, but now that I look at the bumper, its a Mopar alright. Dad had a new 1971 Chrysler NY with a similar bumper.

 

Looks like a Chrysler Newport convert to me.....

 

The Poncho's a '62.

 

And a very rust one.

I'm not sure about Norm's exact point but as a society we toss away way too many good and repairable things including cars. I've done it. IMO we should NOT be fixing everything or cars that have become unsafe due to structural fatigue or excessive rust but we also shouldn't be crushing and melting down cars with continued usefulness as in can still supply parts to keep others on the road.

Once that Newport is picked over then off to the smelter it should go. We need to be keeping our steel here though. We lost many millions of still useful cars about five years ago. Here in Ridgecrest all but one of the salvage yards got rid of just about every late 70's to 80's cars to the crusher when steel prices spiked. Almost all of that went to China. The result is even greater difficulty in sourcing replacement parts for those cars. It's quite impossible to find 83-88 Cougars and Thunderbirds in the junkyards as a result.

Sad, as the next generation of collectable cars is the 70 - 80 models.

 

After watching that video that 442 linked to, I was thinking of how many dried up mines are NOT used for landfill. This 3rd rock from the Sun, must feel like swiss cheese, at least, but besides that we haven't even begun finding any major way to stop the fungus of Landfill sites, except paper and hopefully, Thermal Depolymerization. They both have decent paybacks, but the trash bins are so full of electronics, non-recyclable materials (so far), that we, in the modern world, are squeezing ourselves into a big ZIT!

Here's a well-referenced item on Thermal Depolymerization - Urban Oil Crude! Money for cities! City Gold, less trash, and lower taxes? ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

 

I'm a Ford addict, and I'm stickin' to my story. Not true. I just couldn't nail it down.

 

Hmmmmm, looking at Newports online, I think your rite Krash....


At least I got the company name rite Norm

 

Well, my guess started with 'C'.

 

I am in such "AWE" of you and others, so many wreakers with old stuff, even if finding what you need is a Bi***! I call and or go to my Island wreakers and they look at me like I'm from another planet because I'm asking for 1980's cars.............

 

Umm, Tedy, perhaps no one else has mentioned this but......

I love it when someone leaves such a wonderful opportunity for a little bit of humor

 

The white Ford sedan next to the 62 Pontiac is a 59. I like the 64 Dodge Polara hardtop next to the red 69 Pontiac Catalina convertible.
Thats for sharing your junkyard finds.

 

Jerry is the owner's name there, sounds like a reasonable guy. Prices aren't printed but I didn't have to dicker with what he charged. Most of them on that road, know they have to compete with the big yard up the road, who does publish his prices. That's BucksAutoparts.

http://www.bucksautoparts.com/default.aspx

Here's the local rates, but they probably differ by region. They are big.

http://www.bucksautoparts.com/locations/Winnipeg.aspx

 

my neighbor has a 1949 willy's woody 4x4 wagon that he won't sell and has no intention on restoring,kinda make's a guy sad to see such a great piece of history going to waste