"When you hit a pot hole, thank your councilman!" (Bumper sticker on the Olds Cutlass Supreme--I had to freeze the video to read it)...although the Cutlass looked like it hit a tree...and to those crying about the Buick Roadhawk, who would have taken the time or paid the money to restore it in its pre-crushing state? Half of it was gone anyway
Just think, One day these were new cars and people washed and waxed them every weekend. Now look at them. LOL With the cost of cars these days, I bet folks will start to take better care of there cars and make them last longer.
@@Carcrusher1998 Yes sir - and THAT has been going on all over the country for decades. Most salvage yards won't deal in stuff more than 10 years old, not enough sales volume.
People are idiots, that's all I can say. None of them have the money to even justify saving any of this junk. It's just all talk from their arm chairs.
Just think, One day these were new cars and people washed and waxed them every weekend. Now look at them. LOL With the cost of cars these days, I bet folks will start to take better care of there cars and make them last longer.
It's okay, looks like the doors, fenders and hood were stripped off. Those are pretty much the only valuable parts of those cars because people use them for spares on their racecars. Everything else looked like it was pretty much toast.
1979-1980 Buick Skyhawk Road Hawk: The Rarest of (H-Body) Birds A new option was the "Road Hawk" package that included a Rallye ride and handling package consisting of larger front and rear stabilizer bars, larger tires, and special interior and exterior trim. There was also a "Skyhawk Designers' Accent Edition" that was primarily an exterior trim package available in bright yellow or red with black trim.
Just think, One day these were new cars and people washed and waxed them every weekend. Now look at them. LOL With the cost of cars these days, I bet folks will start to take better care of there cars and make them last longer.
@@jaysmith179 It would unfortunately take a lot to change people's habits. Too many people trying to look "rich" by having a new car every few years and not having the desire to learn how to work on them. Unless we have another great depression, that's not going to change.
I happened to load RU-vid and saw the new video in recommendations.. don't get notified until several hours later after the upload. Also I find it funny that I can usually tell a car from the 90's..
Buick also made a rare modified Buick Regal G body in 79 ,that had a 2 tone gray paint job with a 2 tone orange/red stripe between the colors ,blacked out chrome trim,grille & headlamp trim & taillights as well as a Buick hawk on each fender, I still got a pair of those hawks ,sold the 2 spare grilles years ago for good money too ,
I remember my dad had to replace the taillight a couple of times from being broken I remember going to a junkyard & we were in luck my dad found the same Oldsmobile we had & it had the same taillights it had
You crush a tape stripe package version of a Malaise Era econobox that couldn't be given away new and that hardly anyone knew existed before seeing the title and Googling, which hasn't been on the road in 20 years, and suddenly you've lived long enough to see yourself become the villain. Baffling.
Nobody wanted that car back then, that's why they made the special package to try to move them. On the other hand we could have used the hood off that Escort for the Honda K swapped one were working on.
To the guy filming. Just saying... Fire Department story. Many years ago we went to a salvage yard that crushes cars for a worker having a heart attack. He was nearby while a car was being crushed and suddenly dropped dead. On the way to the hospital we noticed a tiny pinprick size hole in the center of his chest. I'm Talking a DOT . No blood nothing, ZIP ! You could easly mistake it for a micro freckle. YEP ! You guessed it ! A tiny metal shard had lauched from the car that was being crushed and had ripped into his chest like a bullet , resulting in his heart being torn apart at the base of the Aorta ! Amazingly X-ray to see with the shard still in his chest. The Guy, never stood a chance ! And likely dead before he hit the ground. He was fairly young too maybe late 40s or early 50s.. Never know when the Grimm Reaper will pay you a visit ...
Was my first car. A 1980. Bought it slightly used with 30,000 miles on it. I forget which motor but it was a six cylinder with 5 speed. Loved that car. Spent so much time waxing it that I scrubbed the paint off in a few places.
My first car in 95 was an 80 Spyder. It only had the Buick 3.8 & TH350 but I loved it. Wish I knew more back then cuz I could've squeezed a bit more power out of it when I yanked the engine to clean it up. I found concave lifters so I thought replacing them would help. I was young and stupid, so I only did the lifters. Duh.
Never. ever. thought i would see 1 again. in 83 moved back from a year in the big city. got a job. Needed a car. A friend sold used cars. Told him how much $ i had. (not much) he showed up in 79 skyhawk Roadhawk edition. Best he could do for what i could afford. Owned it for year and a half. Ugly. Hated it.Odd side panels. The spoiler blew off on the highway. Huge hawk logos every where.............ahhhhhhhhhh...those were the days
Just think, One day these were new cars and people washed and waxed them every weekend. Now look at them. LOL With the cost of cars these days, I bet folks will start to take better care of there cars and make them last longer.
This what happens when your grandpa gets lazy and they properly dont store it right they leave it set outside to let it rust and everything such a shame ngl
@@fryloc359 most likely what happened. This guy up the street from me had a 78 firebird on a trailer ever since I was a kid. It never moved and every 5 or 6 years I'd ask him if he wanted to sell it and he'd get pissed off and tell me he was going to restore it. After almost 20 years, he died and his wife had all that stuff hauled away.
Customers say “can you pull this?” “can you save this for me?” And they never show up and what are you supposed to do now? It’s just gonna sit until someone buys it. But that someone could be in 1-5 years. Depends on the part, and how long it’s been in the yard.
@@Jerms995 Yes, that's how running a business works, you have inventory, you advertise it somewhere, and people buy it. odds are nobody knew this car was there to pick any pieces from it.
