Could of stripped all the parts of that Bentley and sold it to the uk market regardless of age of that car, the V8 engine alone would of been worth something.
Just imagine in 1987 who bought that car first. A CEO of a company. A Dallas Cowboy. A lottery winner. A real estate monguel. Now its just crushed metal.
I once came across an immaculate, perfect low mileage BMW in a junkyard, thinking the engine must be toast I enquired about buying, the guy said the car was totally perfect and running but he couldn't sell it to me as the car had been seized by the authorities and there was now a court order for it to be crushed by law. They go on about saving the planet and resources and yet thousands and thousands of repairable vehicles are crushed across the globe year on year. It's not the junkyard's fault, they're not responsible for that car ending up in their compound. Manufacturers should be made responsible for the end of life recycling of their own vehicles.
Under that type of seizure, the government should auction the cars off to offset court costs. Would save a bit of space in a land fill, conserve resources and put another serviceable car on the road - pergaps negating a purchase of a new one.
@@christopherstory2136 I feel like that would be worse because it gives them an incentive to seize cars to sell. I feel like that could be offset by donating the funds to a non government ngo, but I bet your ass that politicians would suddenly also become board members, spend most of the funds on "oversight and management" and suddenly the government would start seizing and "donating" cars over the smallest infractions.
There's a bunch of stuff on that Bentley that could have been salvaged but you got a guy looking at the gear shift actuator even notices that it's connected to the transmission and doesn't even know that it's a gear shift actuator so that kind of explains a lot
It went right over your head. Do you see how i got you to comment🤔 do you see all the other comments about it 🤔 im trying to have a youtube channel not learn car parts. I like to get the audience involved. And it worked. So before you cast judgement maybe you should see what's really going on 🤣 thanks for watching and commenting 🤠👍👊
@@CowboyCarCrushing nope, Got better things to do than read your comments. Lately clear you didn't understand it just like you didn't understand how to scrap the parts and get more money than just metal weight but I would expect that from a guy with your accent 😂😆😂😆😂😆😎
@@ryak2 hahaha....do you understand that i do not own anything out there? Do you understand that this channel is a mobile car crushing company? We are hired to crush cars. That's it. You are trying really hard to make me look the fool (cause of my accent) but you are having Zero success. You have no clue. You just want to call someone dumb.
@@CowboyCarCrushing whats really going on is you destroyed a car that had thousands in parts lost forever, because you would rather have followers than cash, wow, how shallow, that you think followers are far more important than keeping rare cars on the road.....
Must be nice to be rich enough to throw thousands of dollars away. The grill alone is worth several thousand. There was a lot of valuable trim got crushed. With any Rolls-Royce product, contact Park Ward Motor Museum in Chicago. They will usually want parts like that. If the leather is good inside, that original Connelly hide is worth bucks too.
People in this industry are scrappers.. they avoid thousands of dollars with small effort in favor of pennies for no effort over and over. Stupid is as stupid does. Most often the claimed attempt at marketing parts or even the whole thing are laughable at best, steeped in ignorance of where the proper market is. EDIT: It is not usually the scrappers fault that something has been chosen for recycle... I should have made this more clear in my first post. Usually its the owner of a dead car that has no knowledge of how to maximize the return on their property by reaching the very specific market that needs to know. By the time a scrapper in engaged, then the "time is money" axiom comes into play. They have work to do, and it boils down not to earning maximum return by investing in research and marketing, but rather how quickly the asset can be converted to sellable fluids and steel, which DOES represent the smart business decision.
Do you know what is the 1 big thing you are completely missing? IT'S THEIR STUFF TO DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO WITH IT. Have you forgotten about Freedom to make as much as you want or as little as you want. It's their stuff
I agree that this is a waste. There are a finite number of these left. With a little bit of time and effort, many parts could’ve been salvaged to be used to restore several other examples. However, you can’t put the blame entirely on the scrap yard. They are only interested in the metal. Whoever brought the car there should’ve taken these scarce and valuable parts off of it beforehand. Still a shame to watch.
From what I could tell on JD power, the Bentley was $89 900 new, lowest price was $16 000. Sure looked overbuilt. I bet the colours on it are Royal Navy air arm colours. British cars will give you a whole new vocabulary.
The device where you kept saying "What is that?" is the transmission shifter. RR and Bentley used GM TurboHydramatic 400 transmissions. Maybe by 87 they used the 700R4 version. Anyways, the column shift in these is electric, and that device was the actuator unit that actually shifted the transmission.
There’s probably some Bentley owner who’s transmission shifter is playing up and needed that part just to keep there car on the road but now it’s crushed and unusable .
@21:21 nice score ..Bentley badge ...got to also try to get a Rolls Royce hood ornament...& the Rolls Royce centercaps that always keep the RR upright when driving..When you ever get any old or modern Rolls Royce cars .....ALWAYS check out the doors for the hidden factory umbrellas installed in them in the door jams 🌂...they are highly wanted & collected...I found a few over the years
After some quick Googling, the base model Bentley’s back in 1987 were about $30,000 back then. That works out to be about $75,000 - $80,000 in today’s money. But based off of options, this one was probably a $100k car in today’s money. Two-time paint, nice wheels, probably some interior upgrades, etc.
I love watching your videos but it kind of makes me sick cuz I'm from the Midwest where everything is rust and I see all these good bodies going away. Take care. It's fun to watch
@10:18 some old Bentleys & Rolls Royce have reversed threaded lug nuts too.....go figure.....probably the car was junked when they had the flat right front tire .....couldn't find the key & couldn't figure out how to get the wheel off with the reverse threaded lugs 🤣
No one needs to worry too much about parting out the Bentley. Most of the parts are still available as new old stock from VW. There really isn't much on the car that is hard to find.
Easy four-five figures in parts alone crushed for $600 in scrap metal. Wow. Blows my mind. Those 4-piece taillights are $300-400 per piece alone. That's $1,200-1,600 in just taillights. The European headlights were probably a grand each, if not more. I mean, seriously, any of those dudes in the video could have grabbed a screwdriver and had themselves an easy couple of grand in just a few minutes. Not to mention all of the trim and other stuff. Insanity. Just a complete waste.
Honestly, I'm surprised someone didn't buy the Bently even in the condition it's in, take it home and put plastic hubcaps on it that look like fancy wheels with spinners and park it in their driveway, or Section 8 apartment complex parking lot, in the ghetto so they make sure their neighbors see it but only wash and wax it at 2 a.m. so the neighbors don't see and think it's being driven still. I bet the front tire got shredded like that from the driver running from the Po-Po going over spike strips as they say in the hood.
Whoever was saying the low-end Bentleys were $30K back in 1987 is incorrect. The original MSRP for those vehicles was $89K (in 1987 dollars). That's base price, with no options. Everything I've read states that these vehicles are (were) incredibly expensive to maintain, with repair costs easily surpassing the actual current worth of the vehicle. There's a reason that this car could purchased for $300 and then found itself languishing in the yard with no takers - it just wasn't worth it, not even for parts. I'm guessing the engine either had a catastrophic failure or needed tens of thousands in repairs.
Damn Cowboy. That was hard to watch, when you crushed that Bentley. The guys an A** for junking it. He should have stripped it clean . Doors, hood and trunk lid. Interior, motor and transmission. If they were good. Rolls and Bentley used GM Transmissions for decades. Hard to watch. Still an EXCELLENT VIDEO.Always fun to watch. Loyal viewer.
In 15 years of working junk cars not 1 time has anyone ever asked for any Bentley parts. The man had posted it for 2 damn years. Nothing, zero action on it. I showed that car in a video 6 maybe 8 months ago. No one said anything about it. Not worth name calling on that junk that no one wanted. Really wasn't expecting that from you William
@@CowboyCarCrushing It could have been a flood car, or have a blown motor. Used ones in those years don't bring much. Just hard to see a 1/4 million dollar car in a yard get crushed. No disrespect.
You have to know where to look for buyers. There are several shops in the US that only deal with Rolls-Royce and Bentley restorations. They will buy parts or even whole cars, but you need to contact them. Park Ward Museum in Chicago is one.
@@michaeltutty1540 You're CORRECT. TOTALLY! MY GRAMPS WORKS FOR SOME REAL SUPER RICH PEOPLE ON FISHER ISLAND, MIAMI FL. THEY OWN A FLEET OF ROLLS.R. BENTLY TOO. HE MAINTAINS THEIR FLEETS! THEY HAD PARTS BOUGHT FROM A PARTED OUT BENTLY PARTS CAR, AND PAID A LOT AS PARTS ARE HARD TO FIND. THE BENTLY HAD A COLLISON! HE JUST CRUSHED A FORTUNE IN PARTS😩😩😩😩💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💲💲💳💳💳💳💳💱💳💳💲💲💲💲
@@michaeltutty1540 If the buyers just sit around and wait for people to come to them, this is the result. These yards don't have staff to sit around and look for prospective buyers. The buyers have to come to them.
Chrysler products in the 60s had left hand threads on the left hand side lug nuts. Also some trucks and wartime MB/ GPW jeeps. It was some weird theory about the direction of rotation on the left hand side of the car unscrewing right hand thread nuts. But really, that only applies when the nut is directly screwed onto the axle, as in a horse drawn cart.
Cool to see what juicy whips have ended up in the junkyard. Would all be fixed up here unless complete total losses. Caught my eye: E53, E65s, W140s, Impreza, Legacy
That part underneath was the electronic shift box. The transmission gear selector shifted electronically. That's what allowed the shifter to be silky smootn.
Coincidentally CarWizard another youtube channel that does work on these exotics just had a video this week that those shift servo motors are super hard to find and aren't made anymore. Only reason I knew what it was.
I have been looking for some information in regards to the exact Bentley or most likely model of Bentley that was actually crushed in this particular video. Firstly most models for the American market are likely to be in LWB. In 1986 Bentley only made 19 LWB / LHD Bentley Mulsanne four door sedans. If we assume that the Bentley Mulsanne is a 1987 model, then I can assure you only 6 LHD / LWB sedans had been made, in this particular year.... In regards to actual weight 5.039 Pounds. If the Bentley Mulsanne sedan is indeed NOT a LWB model however, in the year 1986 only 48 models in LHD had been made. In model year 1987 only 30 LHD ever left the factory....again in regards to actual weight 4,980 Pounds. Either way, I must say quite a rare car these days.
Apologies, but as a UK resident even I can say that those Bentleys are just big, thirsty, prohibitively expensive things to maintain. They aren't actually even desirable now, the people who could afford to keep one running will have a far newer version. Far better off as crushing material!
Procedural question - why do some junkyards send in cars or trucks full of engines and transmissions? Wouldn't they be able to send them out as cores to be remanufactured? Or are they usually junk or undesirable models? I'm guessing not a lot of LS Chevys or Cummins diesels get crushed and sent to the shredder.
I work at a crushing yard in Orlando and we jerked out all the motors and trannies and sell them as aluminum combos for scrap. We get more per pound that way
@@CowboyCarCrushing we have a picking yard also, if the motors don't sell out the vehicles they still get pulled and put in the container for aluminum combo scrap
Obviously the engine of the Bentley was broken, and then they end up parted out..or crushed by our cowboy friend. For us the sad thing is that we just bought body parts for a customer car like this for over 2400 euro's...We can use video this for customers who want to spent to much on their cars... will be shocking for them....😁
As someone who knows how they cost to maintain and repair, especially when bought used, I can assure that if you don't have the money to buy it new, you don't have the money to buy it used.
Look at all these poor souls rotting away dreaming for someone to rescue them but alas most suffer the fate of either rotting away or get crushed and sent to the scrap heap rest in peace cars
Chrysler cars used LH threads on the left side of the car in late '50s- early 60's Some engineer figured they would tend to tighten rather than loosen as the car moved forward. Engineers! Wonder what that gizmo was that hooked to the shift linkage?
Could have been a Friday Bentley. .you could have put it in the corner just to have some yard art. Sat in it for lunch. Lol. Made brum brum noises..lol. thinking the body's were aluminium anyways.
I'm sure those Bently rims will end up on a Corolla someplace🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Surprised some collector didn't pick up the Bentley....but then again some of the "junk" people do collect (yeah, I know beauty is in the beholder....)
Its a junkyard...these cars are there for a reason guys. While it sucks seeing a classic get crushed, they most likely ended up at the yard because they are beyond repair. Its easy to say, "oh should have saved it!" Ya, time, money and space. I daily a 1998 Buick LeSabre, clean body and frame. Its going to Kenny U Pull end of summer. Needs an exhaust and subframe...just too much money to fix it which is why classics end up here.
10:46 that's the actual shift mechanism. There's no physical connection between the shift handle at the wheel and the gearbox. Car Wizard can tell you all about that.
Hey cowboy! You are really putting in a lot of hours! Indeed, it is not easy being easy! That device just to the left and rear of the transmission was the electric gear selector for the transmission. The shifter on the steering column sent electrical signals down to that device to tell the transmission which gear has been selected. The legendary engineering of that vehicle used the legendary turbo 400 automatic. Later on Bentley and Rolls-Royce changed over to the overdrive 4L80E which is basically a turbo 400 with an overdrive attached and electronically control. The legendary Engineering also used the legendary General Motors A6 compressor and other GM air conditioning parts for the HVAC system. Sad to see that beauty go, but nothing is around forever. Too bad about that Ford pickup at the beginning as well. As others mention, that front axle on the Ford Super Duty is a very popular item being used for solid-axle swaps 4 GM pickup trucks. Just to quickly knocked, you are very observant about their rear axle on the Bentley, it did use a form of a full floating type bearing on the rear to ensure a very quiet and vibration free final drive system
You know that the part alone of these car are marketable ?... There is a specialist repairer in England who buys Rolls Royce and Bentley wrecks no matter the era or the condition, because these cars are small series, not like their contemporary counterparts badged BMW or VW which are real shit has one arm; compared to the old ones. So it's very stupid to destroy one of these , because all the parts are recoverable on this type of car , it's not a Bad Fomoco for poor people ... It's not me, who loses precious money doing stupid things like this.
@@CowboyCarCrushing ahah it's USA , the country of car , one more or one less nothing to f.... Lol =) I guess if these cars were destroyed there was a good reason, otherwise they are leaving in pieces.
Bentley's manufacturer got one thing right: They made them out of metal! Left-hand threads on the lug nuts. Sounds like a typical Bentley. The next time Cowboy crushes a Bentley with the wheels on, he'll know what to tell his ground man to help him get the tires off! 😊👍
That really is a waist!! My friend used some front seats in his man cave they were very comfortable. So I used my old mk10 jag seats in the same way and they were great!!
@@CowboyCarCrushing we all wish we had a crystal ball eh😊. Anyways you guys work hard, I love your commentary and there is something very satisfying about the crunch of an old beater. Keep up the good work👍.
It's totally okay to like cars. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. I like cars but in a different way. Cars feed my family and provide me with entertainment. 🤔 i guess im a car guy but in a different sense of it
The Bentley you're going to crush. I saw a 1985 when I looked on my phone. Went for about 45,000. If you look at a 2024 a brand new one goes for like 540,000 a half a million a lot of money. Thank you.
@@CowboyCarCrushing and thank you cowboy car crushing appreciate the response back. Boy a new Bentley cost a half a million boy. You'd have to have money to get that. I'll watch one of your videos again very soon. Thank you and God bless. Good luck to you.
My Uncle bought a new 71 ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER SHADOW. I learned to drive in that car, and took my drivers test with it. It was a magnificent vehicle. To anyone who has never ridden or driven one, well, its hard to explain how wonderful it is. He kept it for about 15 years, put well over 100.000 miles on it, and it served very well, and he never told me he had ANY serious issues with it. When he sold it, it still looked and ran like new.
@@CowboyCarCrushing think about that word unfortunately , why does that word just not sound right , 💀💀💀💀💀😀😀😯😉😈😈😈, somebody found the car crusher near a graveyard , so technically in heathen war space , the car crusher is a highly treasured car crushing device .😀😀😯😉😈😈😈 , but it has been done before , by that devil guy john leguizamo in the movie 007 .
Good eye on the transmission shifter box. You cannot get those anymore, only ones at a salvage yards now and every time they come up for sale they are gone quick. Too bad you didn’t have that would be worth about $1500 if it was good.
