https://youtu.be/gjsd8nibjBo

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That milk crate looked useful...

Ugh

Who made that wheel?

That was awesome.

GM that looks like a Pontiac Lemans wheel. Was tbat a Texas plate?

Wow. Looked better than what some guys here have started with for a restoration. When he said "There's nothing in here I need" I think the uneducated hillbilly was looking for an engine.

Too bad, the trunk lid letters are probably worth more than what he'll get in scrap...

What a

the A/C unit would have been worth something

what a waste

What waste is right. So many salvageable parts. I wonder how it ended up on the crusher.

Nothing in there you need..... like 3-4k worth of parts.

I totally agree. Its also a shame to see a car like that get crushed. I wonder what the scrap value really is these days.

Lats one I scrapped (which still had suspension and stuff on it) I got $45

The dash top looked pretty good too. And I needed that engine lid!

What a bummer. Door handles, early (!) bumpers, targa bar trim, interior parts, lights, lids, glass, and much more looked like good parts. And it sure looks like worse chassis than this one have been saved.

Doubt it's the first time this has happened to a 914, but suspect the quote above, if posted in the Youtube comments, would probably kill the guy...but maybe he'd think twice about crushing old sports cars.

"I don't see anything there I need."

Well duh? None of those parts fit on a redneck '86 Chevy pickup with beer cans in the bed.

That was satisfying to watch.

This makes me sick!

was better than the first few cars I owned.

Some of the /6 guys would have killed (a Miata) for that rear bumper ...

Well there you go. About what a decent set of letters would cost...

Yea, a grand worth of easy to remove parts but if you don’t know 914’s...

Notice the re-drilled 5 lug rear hub.

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That's exactly why he is doing exactly what's he's doing....

The dash, seats, and back pad all looked good. That glass and the chrome parts were also all in good shape. it looks like that could have easily been rebuilt and sold. Oddly in Texas, there is a GLUT of cars with no title. They are hard to get replaced here and they were obviously too dumb to sell it as a parts car. Not enough 914's down here. too bad too because *things don't fall apart from rust here like up north.

Hell, before he started stabbing it with his forks, some of those body panels looked useful. Just a damn waste.

Even the towing hitch was in good shape!

I agree with everyone, I mean look at those door gaps.............. Much better then mine!!!!!!

I have an un-cashed check for $3 and some change from Schnitzer Steel (Pick-N-Pull) for one I cut up....it was to funny, I thought, to cash it.

I always think of the cars first owner to the day it ended up a mess in someones side yard. I rescued a very cool, totally original 74 2.0 once, from a yard in Napa, Ca. Tough to save them all.

MB

is this supposed to be funny?

My first reaction was "What an idiot." Then I remembered that I myself am almost as guilty. My 1971 911E MFI pump was worn and in need of a rebuild. The usual symptom was gas leaking into the oil supply, and gas-diluted oil isn't very good for any engine. This was late 1980's, nobody local did such work, and back then sending parts cross country for a rebuild was practically unheard of. The usual remedy was to swap for a pair of Webers. The conversion is straightforward so that's what I did. My sin was throwing the entire MFI setup literally into the garbage. That was probably a $5K garbage can.

I bought the same car back many years later and the PO had gone to great lengths to collect restored MFI parts, including a rebuilt correct series MFI pump. I only needed to source the injectors and reinstall the MFI bits.

A friend of mine told me that many early FI Corvette owners made the same mistake. Lesson: Be very careful about what you throw away (or crush), even if your SIGO accuses you of being a hoarder.

- MR

Yeah, that's what I thought. Wasn't someone looking for a DPD A/C system recently?

And like someone on the U-Tube site commented, that rear chrome bumper may have been worth something.

Mountainroads,
I know the feeling about junking out stuff worth big bucks today. I junked out a Chev. 283 Corvette motor with Rochester Fuel Injection sitting in the dirt in my Dad's barn. It was in the way & he said get it out of here!! The rest is history.
Tom

One word: Ouch!

- MR

First thing I said to myself was - 'that car has a 5 lug conversion!!' after seeing the front wheel.

Watched it again just to see what I missed.

I’ve seen many people document their ignorance and stupidity, this guy’s right up there...