I am, of course talking about parts of the car itself, not the license plates and personal effects. The car is a 2002 Daewoo Lanos. It is being junked because the engine failed (the cylinder head cracked), and I decided to buy a different vehicle instead of replacing the engine. When it broke down, the car had a new battery (literally only a month old) and I disconnected the terminals so it wouldn’t go bad. I’m planning on keeping that, as well as the metal hold-down clamp, since the other car I bought is missing the clamp. I put premium speakers into the car, and I plan on pulling those. I may actually keep the factory stereo as well, since it fits other models. Anything else worth keeping? I put a new starter in this car a year ago, which would also fit the Chevrolet Aveo and certain other models. Unsure if it’s worth the effort to pull that. I also put a new rear oxygen sensor on this car last year, unsure how universal these are. The car has a nearly full tank of fuel, and at today’s prices it might make sense to try and pump that out. Anyone know of a low-cost siphon pump which would work for that purpose? Anything else worth taking before the scrap yard gets it?

[image] ledhed75: it’s a slippery slope to hang onto random things you “might need one day.” That’s how folks end up with a yard full of “project cars” in various states of disrepair, Yup! There is a house just down the road from me, where the owner accumulated 4 Volvos from the '70s-early '80s. Over the years, a grove of trees grew up around the never-touched Volvos. After he died, the new owner had the Volvos hauled away, and when all of the trees were cut down, it turned out that he had also stashed a Chevy/GMC van from the '70s. Based on how far back it was, it appeared that the van was his first “treasure”, followed by the Volvos.

This issue is a little personal for me. I have aging family members who have houses full of decades of “stuff”, most of which is not being used. They’ve accumulated this “stuff” for a variety of reasons, and it’s not been used for the same variety of reasons. But while they’ll insist they’re “going through and getting rid of stuff”… it seems like none of it actually goes into the trash or to Goodwill. Instead, it gets moved from one room or closet to another. When “the inevitable” comes in the next few years and we have to clean out their houses… I’m already dreading having to deal with the “stuff”. Unfortunately fire bombing houses is frowned upon in my state. :thinking:

[image] ledhed75: When “the inevitable” comes in the next few years and we have to clean out their houses… I’m already dreading having to deal with the “stuff”. My hoarder friend died last July, and his wife (who refused to live in their cluttered apartment) was saddled with the task of cleaning out all of the “treasures” that he had hoarded over the space of a few decades. This is the guy who filled his largest closet with 40 watt incandescent bulbs (the same wattage that he used throughout his apartment) because “nobody will ever want those LEDs”. He was convinced that he would make a lot of money selling those bulbs, but he lived in a town that is populated almost entirely by young, affluent couples, many of whom work in tech. The last that I checked with him, he had never sold even one bulb. Even if those young folks did want an incandescent bulb, apparently they didn’t want their homes to be illuminated with 40 watt bulbs. And, the bottom line is that his grieving widow had to rent a dumpster in order to get rid of all of his “treasures”–including the bulbs.

Yep. I expect to be ordering a construction dumpster or two, when that time comes. It’s really a shame.

Heck, I wonder what’ll happen to our stuff when the time comes. Kids have no interest in most of it.

[image] jtsanders: [image] davesmopar: what your saying is, this is bad?? Sure is. I only see three transmissions and two torque converters. Ya gotta have more than that!! :zany_face: Look a little harder, there are at least 4 complete transmissions and 1 case without the tail housing (so 4 or 5 depending how you look at it, in the picture), I have all the parts for the gutted one, just not sure what I am going to do with it yet… I also have another complete trans on another wall, some of the converters were removed for one reason or another… One has the black oil drain pain on it with the green folding chair against the wall, converter is in it… I will have to look again, but I might have one facing the other way below the case with no tail housing installed… lol Years ago, I also had 4 big blocks and 5 small blocks, rear ends and all Mopar’s, plus even more transmissions, lots of heads and tons of misc Mopar stuff, sold most of it all…

[image] davesmopar: Soooo what your saying is, this is bad?? Yes it’s bad, none of it is Chevy or Oldsmobile.

We had a friend from Illinois that was a Volvo fan. When he visited I suggested he check out the guy just outside of town that had 15 or so Volvos around his house. Dont know if he collected fixed them or what. Haven’t been by there in a while so maybevdied. In my diesel olds days I got to the point of replacing my own injector pumps to avoid the $500 expense. So I ended up with a spare pump on the shelf with th3 car long gone. When I took a load to the recycler, i gave the guy the pump. This was a stanadyne injector pump worth $500 rebuilt but he just threw it in the barrel.

[image] ledhed75: When “the inevitable” comes in the next few years and we have to clean out their houses… I’m already dreading having to deal with the “stuff”. When my father in law became unable to care for himself, he and the MIL moved into a senior care facility. They moved into a 2 bedroom cottage and took a lot of stuff with them, but there was a lot that we had to get rid of too. There were two walk-in closets with treasures neatly stacked to the ceiling. We had several runs to the junk yard and several to Goodwill, and the family took a lot with them. We repeated it recently when the MIL moved into the permanent care facility. FIL passed a few years ago, btw. Oh, and my wife’s side of the garage has a lot of stuff from her mom’s place to sort through. One day she might park in the garage again.

[image] ledhed75: This issue is a little personal for me. Same, the wifey and myself are mom’s fulltime care taker, moved in when I had to take dad’s keys from him about a year before he passed away, they kept all the paper work for everything, I found recites from when dad built this house in 72 as well as for every repair ever made and every warranty and or manual for everything… Plus he still had EVERY real estate deal he ever made… Every piece of healthcare paper work… So far I had filled two 96 gallon trash cans to be recycled… I still have another full commercial filing cabinet to go through and then all the normal stuff…

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Nevada_545 May 20, 2026, 4:00am 24

A note about scrap metal dealers; they pay by weight. Today I way quoted $60/ton for steel, I didn’t ask about car bodies.

If the catalytic converter, alternator, battery and radiator are missing, price per ton is the same. Don’t send good cores to the shredder.

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