Quite a few of the comments in the 8,000-car Hemmings Find of the Day
surprised me. I fully expected the attempts to pool our money and buy
the Idaho salvage yard, but didn't expect so many to simply calculate
the value of all that scrap metal and look at the yard as a mere
profit/loss deal. Sure, 8,000 cars and $3 million ain't no pocket change
for many (okay, pretty much all) of us, but I wonder if there's more to
it than that.
Consider how many junkyards (I much prefer that term over salvage
yards, scrap yards, or whatever other synonyms people come up with to
try to give the yards a friendlier image) are folding or have folded in
recent years, how much automotive history is headed to the crusher, how
many owners are choosing to retire from the business.
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