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Just under 5 minutes of video to show 3.5 hours of taking a 3rd gen camaro from a complete running driving car (with severe subframe to chassis damage, just listen the the noise and watch the LF tire as the car pulls into the driveway) to parts. Everything was pulled off the car. Nuts/bolts were kept with subassemblies, put in labelled bags, etc. Yard was clear by 11:30, chassis was gone same day. Started at 8am, done by 11:30, ate pizza rolls and took a nap.

At 2:30 in we take a quick breakfast break. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvVk7COoS-o

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A few people told me mine could have been fixed, and it looked a lot worse than the one you just trashed.

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The spindle was bent, strut tower 2" closer to the valve cover on the passenger side than the driver side, broken brake line, flat tire, windshield cracked on driver side, bent strut tower brace, cracked AC box, the driver side fnder didn't line up right, and the hood had a peak in the middle. Along with all the obvious damage you see here.

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A few people told me mine could have been fixed, and it looked a lot worse than the one you just trashed.

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Sure...they can ALL be fixed. But at what cost? And when you have 3x what the current street price is in the repairs of the car then you are just stupid***. A 92 TBI car w/2000+$ in repairs (on top of the 750 purchase price), a trashed interior (we threw away the seats and carpet...they were nasty), and a tired motor is worth what? 1200$? No AC (which, in Texas means it will be tough to get 1000$!), worn out suspension, cracked to hell dash, etc.

***I've done it too. Put WAY more money into a car than what you could ever hope to get out of it. It's still stupid. <shrug>

Mine had a decent (paint completely faded off trunk lid and roof) LOOKING body. That was it. We've all seen it before. The great LOOKING car that was a worn-out POS, or the car that looked like crap that was stupidfast and handled great and was reliable. Things aren't always what they seem. Most really beautiful girls have SOMEone, SOMEwhere who is tired of putting up with their sh!t. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Even if the one we parted (we only 'trashed' the shell + front subframe) had been a PERFECT rolling chassis (no multi-thousand dollar frame damage) it would be worth what? 1000$? 1200$? At best! Do the math and you'll see it isn't pretty.

Stan,
Yeah, we were booking right along. We had two air compressors and two guys on airguns. Then two folks following them bagging the proper nuts/bolts/hardware and labelling and then two 'freelancers' who got other stuff out by hand. Two of us had stripped quite a few cars before and the other four also had fairly extensive auto experience. Between the six of us I was pretty sure we'd be done by lunch and we made it with 30 minutes to spare. The delivery guy actually asked 'uh...wh..wh...what kind of car did this USED to be??" (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

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