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Hi, a friend sent me this pick today. The ute went to the crushes last month as is

Wasn't far from me

that's too sad to think about

Thank god the price of scrap has dropped, and old Holdens and other pieces of our past arnt been shipped to china as much. Shame this one went though. Was it ever offered for sale??

Probably had one of those fancy dash clock's
in it aswell

Chockers full of NASCO

I was told the Ute was at Glenn Innes .... Just up the road

Looks like it outlasted it's shed.

Wonder what colour it was?

What a waste...........

Looks a bit like the color of the car in your avatar Steve, oh and cathay grey flash? Trev .

It's the inside tray that throws me. Is that white under the Pinky Mushroom or on top?

not much of a friend sending you the pics after the fact but i'de check with the scrappers around the area not all of them are meat heads or atleast there may be some saveable bits left

He is a good friend Ratty, And a great pic for the album. So many went that way, so what can we do, just try to save what's left. I guess we all here on the forum are trying to do that!

Plus he knows I love flash cars

Good point I will ask him has it already gone to china

Steve

worst thing is the attitude of some scrappers recently had dealings with one asked why i play around with these old shit boxes he said he's crushed HEAPS of FB/EK's and i'de believe him as there used to be plenty around here, goes on to tell me he gets about $200 each for them i told him a reasonable one would be worth easy $1000-$1500 any day he laughed and said i'de rather crush 'em told him it must be nice to be able to throw away money like that and i'll tell you looking at him and his house and kids he could use the money

Agree with you Rat, I have dealt with them too, a lot (not all) are simply oxygen thieves. However I also know a few farmers that got the crushers in cause they were 'sick of people knocking on the door wanting to buy stuff'
one in particular early last year had a clearance sale, I knew he had a lot of old holdens so I went along, only a HR and 2 FC's were left. The FC's got $400 and $800 each. When I asked him what happened to the rest, he said Sims picked them up last month, they hadnt been back for these, so they were included in the sale. He was a bit shitty that the scrappy gave him only $300 in total for about 5 other cars (ek's, ej's and a FJ that i wanted) and wished he had put them in the sale. Sucks to be him really...

My great uncle lives on a farm adjacent to the hume highway. He had an old zephyr in his paddock (that actually still went and was quite tidy) was constantly getting motorists come in off the highway offering $$ for it. He got sick of it, pushed it with the bucket of his tractor and buried in a farm tip he was filling. Why not take even 50 bucks for it if someone could use it??? If it were a flock of his stinky old sheep, he'd try top dollar for them at market, why is this different????

On a side note there is a scrappy in canberra, that hoards a lot of good stuff and parts, he has ek van and several other old holdens, And the bloke from eziscrap that came to my house to pick up some rubbish saw and liked my EH, I asked him how many he takes to the crusher, he told me that most are usually bought off the back of the truck before they make it to the yard by people that see him on the road.
scrappers arn't all bad..

hey steve picture looks better than on my phone.I have rang the guy that found that he is finding out if it is still alive lets hope so