ROTTING MUSCLECARS

[Tommy]

I have watched my great Uncles do that several times. They torch the front end and sometimes the mounts and secure a HUGE logging chain to the engine and take off in the truck and when the chain reaches the end.... out comes engine and trans. Load em up and scrap em. I watched them do it to a pristine falcon pickup truck once. They jerked the engine/trans and part of the cap off the car. Chain was about 80 ft long . Fun to watch .

Tommy

[Dog427435]

Back in the late sixties we would pick up old cars and bring them to the junkyard
in Jamaica (Queens) . You got $13 if it had a battery, starter, generator and radiator.
It did not matter what else was or wasn't in the car.
They would climb on top of the car, whack a hole in the roof with an axe and hook it
with a crane.
It would be hoisted about three feet and the wheels came off with a T wrench.
With the car about six feet off the ground they would torch the engine and trans mounts
and cut the drive shaft. A bounce or two with the crane and the whole mess would fall out.
The car would be hoisted about ten feet away and another whack with the axe would drain
the gas tank. Then up on the pile it went, total time five minutes.
Everything drained on the ground and it was like quicksand walking through it.
I never saw a fire, a car land on anyones head or anyone from the EPA!
I'm sure the location should have been a Superfund site by the nineties!