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Posted by: Aaron Cox Jul 5 2003, 12:12 PM

what do you do with a totally parted out body? can you call those " give us your car - running or not, tax deductable" places, and have them take it away? or do you have to pay to have it taken away? also, how much does a stripped body weigh?

Posted by: tryan Jul 5 2003, 12:19 PM

i know a guy that donated a celica gt to the kidney foundation. it ran though.

cut it up into sections and weld up a 914 modern art statue for your front lawn. then put a $3000 price tag on it to see if someone will buy it.

stripped, i would guess 800-900#.

Posted by: Aaron Cox Jul 5 2003, 12:21 PM

is there any use in cutting out fenders and such?

Posted by: tryan Jul 5 2003, 12:33 PM

you can cut off the drivers side rear corner for me. i am desperate. maybe the control arm too.


look up a few metal recyclers in the yellow pages. if you have a sawzall, you could cut it up into managable sections and get some money for the metal. instead of paying to get it towed. (i am the fool that owns a truck and gets the willyoubemyfriendandtowthisforme phone calls. duh. okay)

5-17 cents a pound? i know scrap copper(pure) is 90 cents/pound.

Posted by: scotty Jul 5 2003, 12:39 PM

Isn't a Viking Funeral (fire) a traditional farewell for 914's?

Posted by: Bleyseng Jul 5 2003, 12:48 PM

there is a place is the Seattle area that will pay for the steel if cut up into four pieces and if it weights more that 1500lbs. If not you just dump it for free. I loaded the 70 914 into the F250 pickup and pushed it into the pile there.

Geoff

Posted by: nomore4 Jul 5 2003, 12:57 PM

Try some local towing company's. They should be able to dump it for free at a scrap yard and may only charge for their time.

joe

Posted by: garyh Jul 5 2003, 01:14 PM

I've done it twice now.

You're in California. You need a 'junk slip'. Free from the DMV, go get it.

The 1st one I took the local body shop that does a lot of 914 work (Hi Scott!), and he cut it up and put the pieces on customer cars.

The 2nd one I took to the local dismantler (Hi Rich!), and he took care of it.

Any junk yard can/will deal with it, once -you- get the junk slip.

Weight? Dunno, but 4 people lifted it easily onto a flat-bed without any budweiser.

Posted by: ! Jul 5 2003, 05:26 PM

Sawzall the fenders, the rest in a dumpster or the dump....BTDT....

Posted by: tryan Jul 5 2003, 05:45 PM

i'm working on this one for my own viking funeral in 40 years. ......little stain and 13 coats of varnish.


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Posted by: 2teeners Jul 5 2003, 07:08 PM

i could use the right rear fend and door post pillar, if you saw it.

Posted by: Aaron Cox Jul 5 2003, 08:02 PM

well see. i comtemplating cost / benefit analysis on (soon to be) mine parts car

Posted by: anthony Jul 5 2003, 08:44 PM

Yes, you need the junk slip or title for the regular junk yards to take it. Often, when people don't have the title on these types of junkers they do the cut up method and then take it to the dump or a metal recycler.

Posted by: Rob Ways Jul 6 2003, 10:58 AM

If you have the title, be sure to surrender the title and possibly get rid of the VINs if you end up cutting it up for scrap yourself. Otherwise, CA will just keep sending you renewal notices.

Posted by: rhodyguy Jul 6 2003, 11:30 AM

you guys and your sawsalls. what ever you spend for blades, time hauling it away plus gas, what ever time you burn up cutting it up, screwing your back up loading that one big piece. last time it cost me $20 to have one drug out. would you work anywhere else for what you are saving if you figured it at an hourly wage?

kevin

Posted by: SirAndy Jul 6 2003, 11:54 AM

Posted by: rhodyguy Jul 6 2003, 12:02 PM

andy, it takes me so long to get stuff done that i think my head would explode, if i started cutting one up with the silver car needing time.

kevin

Posted by: Lawrence914-6 Jul 6 2003, 02:08 PM

Cutting up a car? Geez, one afternoon and a 12 pack.

I have to admit... when we did the Bumblebee, it was the recipient of donations from several sawzall'd cars. Of which, I was very grateful.

One cut up can save many. Even though my old 72 was a rustbucket, it had a good front trunk floor. I cut it out for someone... and a couple years later someone repaid the favor by helping me out with something and it was completely unexpected (and greatly appreciated).

-Rusty

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Posted by: seanery Jul 7 2003, 08:48 AM

I used to LIVE on a wooden boat!

63 Chriscraft 37'

Posted by: tryan Jul 7 2003, 09:09 AM

krk, i like to water ski for therapy and i have three old correct crafts. this one is 1960 18' starflite, gray marine fireball v8 327 cu in based on a continental block. low rise intake with two side draft carters. shifter on the collum, go pedal on the floor.

i hit a BIG pothole on 77 in w va and it put a crack in the transom. board sanding the whole puppy the only way to get that mirror finish.


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Posted by: mr914 Jul 10 2003, 10:01 AM

I could use some custom cuts from the front inner fenderwells.

Posted by: ThinAir914 Jul 10 2003, 10:29 PM

It would be nice to see some pictures of a car that has been cut up to see how it was done so that there were useable parts left over. Cutting it up to just get rid of it is probably easy. Doing it so that you've got useable fenders left over may be a bit more difficult.

Posted by: Malmz Jul 11 2003, 04:29 PM

Cut up one 914 and you will know more about how the car is built structurally then you could ever imagine.

I've shipped cut parts all the way to the east coast. Easier if you know before hand what people need, then you can cut around those areas and hack more on the rest.

After the main parts are carefully removed from the car (interior, etc), it takes about 5 hours to wack the roller with one person (see avitar) with a sawzall... I haven't tried a plasma cutter.

Only cut the ones that are too far gone to save, otherwise ship the solid rollers east...

sm

Posted by: dan10101 Jul 11 2003, 06:49 PM

Here's one we did with a 14" cutoff saw. Still have some pieces..


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Posted by: dan10101 Jul 11 2003, 06:51 PM

Here it is before sectioning it...


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