WEBVTT - Junkyard Etiquette 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.600 Welcome to car Stuff, a production of I Heeart Radio's 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:09.360 How Stuff Works. Hi, and welcome to car Stuff. I'm 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.440 your host Scott Benjamin and I am Kurt Garren and 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.360 we are a man down today. Oh yeah, that's right. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:16.800 I guess we're not gonna have been in the studio 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.520 with it. He got that escape and he skipped down. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.840 He did. He was mentioning the escape, wasn't he. Yeah. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:24.960 I wonder if that's part of what's going on today. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.240 It just for so fans know he will be back. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.080 I mean, he's just taking the day off really, so 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.040 he might be gone today, might be gone for our 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.560 next show, who knows one or two. But um, he 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:36.879 definitely will be back. He's just outrunning some marins are 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.440 doing doing some important stuff. And he always gets into 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.760 some some crazy adventures when he goes out. So and 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:44.839 he sometimes I'll tell you about him. And then sometimes 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.720 he's real cryptic, you know, sometimes keeping things close. Sometimes 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:50.280 he could be a little yeah, close to the vest, 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.200 or a little sketchy sometimes when he when he says 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.520 what he's doing. But but I mean this is something 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.480 actually that the Ben and I in the past have 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.600 had a I know we've had several conversation aations about 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:02.840 what we're gonna talk about today, and I felt that, 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.000 you know, since it's just you and I, maybe we 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.000 could have a similar conversation or kind of a revamp 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.480 of that with some maybe some new information, maybe just 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.240 some different stories to kind of pass around. But we're 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.120 gonna be talking about junkyards, and I guess in the 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.400 same sense salvage yards. It's all the same thing, really, 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.880 but junkyards and salvage yards today. And Kurt I asked 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.120 you off air if you had much experience with junk 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.959 yards in the past, and you said, not necessarily, is 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.600 that right? Yeah, And I don't personally, but growing up 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.040 in the South, you meet those folks that are I mean, 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.040 I say this with affection, but um, I'm talking about 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.640 the junker types and they go they visit the salvage 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.600 yard to find those parts that everyone hopes they find 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.440 when they go to the salvage yards, you know, the 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.480 parts that are desirable. Now, these are the treasure seekers 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.240 that you're you're talking about. Yeah, I understand, you know 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.920 the people that And again, not in any way disparaging 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.280 people to go to junkyards because I am one or 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.360 I used to be one that would love of to 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.240 kind of hang out in junkyards and gather things and 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.760 find things and and try to at least do my 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.640 best to do that. I never really found any gems 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.720 along the way. I never found anything that was really 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.280 worth uh, you know, hanging on the wall or anything. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:15.799 If I, if I looked harder when I was younger, 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:17.959 I would still have some of those things that now 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.120 would be classic items that would be great to have 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.400 on the garage wall. You know, like maybe some old 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.960 offenders or maybe you know, a grill or something. But 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.040 at the time, you know, you're looking at the stuff 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.480 and it's like it's not really old at that point. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.400 But now he would be classic parts. It would be 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:33.960 something that you know, you would look back at with 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.880 nostalgia of some sort. But you know, I would find um, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:38.920 you know, I would try to stop at places, you know, 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:40.640 along the way. If I was taking a road trip, 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.480 i'd you know, I was on my own I was 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.520 on my own schedule as well. I'd be able to 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.799 pull off and you know check out the local junkyard 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.480 and you know, these small towns that I go through, 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.799 and you know, even if it's just well, I always 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:52.400 say this, like even if it's gonna be ten minutes, 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.000 but it's not just ten minutes. You get kind of 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:55.680 caught up in the stuff, you know, walking around and 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.120 looking at the the cars to get older as you 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.960 go to the back of the lot. Sometimes. Um, and 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.120 while we're reminiscing, I'll just say that I used to 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:08.000 remember seeing junkyards. I mean not everywhere, but they were 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.040 more common. You drive on the country roads and you 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:14.160 would see junkyards, you know, here and there. Uh And nowadays, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.720 at least down south, they're overgrown cud zoo. Now you 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.400 don't really see them. And the junkyards seem to be 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.680 more and they're organized businesses more so than they are 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.920 just um, a bunch of cars out in the field 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.320 somewhere next to someone's house. You make a very good 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.640 point here, So you're you're talking about, you know, the 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.080 old um almost kind of started not by accident, but 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.880 almost by accident. You know, they had a towing probably 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.720 business or something and started to store cars and uh, 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.600 you know, then decided well, I'm gonna start selling some 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.760 parts from those cars that I picked up. And you know, 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.560 they kind of they evolved that way. So they become 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.680 a small time junkyard salvage yard dealer, or they intended that, 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.000 and they you know, have a few acres of property 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.000 and they want to become that. But it does require 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.200 some maintenance. It requires bringing in new vehicles, occasionally getting 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.760 rid of the old vehicles sometimes when they're pretty much 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.400 picked over, you know, to the point where it's just 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.600 a big hunk of metal that no one could really use, 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.800 rusted or or bent or you know, damage beyond repair. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.160 So there's some maintenance even with a small lot that's required. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.800 But we're talking about today, I think in general we'll 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.680 go back and forth a little bit, but we're talking 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.080 about the ones that are the big ones where there's 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.240 an inventory list online and there are auctions that are 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.920 held on the site and they host specials. They charge 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.240 admission to go in because they don't want people just 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.200 going in, because there's ways that people can go in 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.960 there and actually make not a living, but they can 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.280 make a decent profit for the day, I guess, um, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.320 especially if you know when they get the new cars in, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.839 because they have they rotate the cars a little more 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.400 frequently than they used to years ago. Oh sure, Yeah, 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.799 so you know, I'm a big fan of the old 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.000 time junkyards as well, the kind you know that are 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.520 just kind of heaps of cars that are piled in there, 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.719 you know, kind of willy nilly, and you can walk 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.599 around and pick them, you know, pick out parts or 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.640 you know, look at whatever you want. And a long, 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:58.360 long time ago, you know, when I was walking through 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.520 some of these, you know, I remember being out in 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.120 the middle of winter and the snow, trying to uncover 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.480 some things, and you know, there's an old sixty seven 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.960 Mustang and uh, you know, nearby you might find the 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.560 Mustang emblem from it, and you know, you could either 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.360 purchase that, or if you were on the other side 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.440 of things, you could maybe pocket that and walk out. 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.840 You know, I didn't really, I never stole any parts. Um, 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.280 I'll be honest with you, I didn't take anything. I've 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.039 been with people at at places that have done something 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.160 like that. I didn't think it was It just didn't 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.120 feel right to me to be able to do something 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.960 like that, UM, to nab a part that normally, you know, 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.200 this guy would have made a dollar off of or whatever. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:35.720 I didn't feel right doing it. But a lot of 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.680 people are okay with doing that and then buying something bigger. Also, 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.159 you find a lot of parts walk out of junkyards, 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.200 but maybe some of the like some of the coolest 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.000 things I found. Of course, you know, you find old 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.400 vehicles that you're interested in, but maybe just kind of 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.159 passing fancy, you know, like you can look at it 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.400 and say, there's a fifty seven Chevy Body. I haven't 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.080 seen one of those in a long time. It's kind 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.120 of cool looking to see what's left and maybe check out. 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:57.919 They've got an old stereo in there, They've got the 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.000 old steering wheel. Maybe parts that both still might go 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.200 back and pick, but you know, are kind of worthwhile 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:04.960 looking at while you're there. I found an old car 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.120 in a Now I went to school high school in 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:13.000 southeastern Michigan, and I was traveling up in northern Michigan, 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.120 not the up but right at the northern tip of Michigan, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.839 not the Upper Peninsula, bit the lower Peninsula. And my 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:20.719 friends and I were walking around this, uh, this lot 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.719 in the wintertime, and we came across I think it 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.600 was an old microbus, a VW microbus. Had a parking 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:30.520 sticker from our high school's parking lot from decades prayer, 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.440 so somebody, I don't know if they how whatever, you know, 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.159 there's there's gotta be a story to how it ended 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.480 up where it did. Have no idea how it ended 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.560 up where it did. But that same lot was one 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.400 where you know, you'd walk around and you'd find that 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.080 they've taken an old camper top from a pickup truck 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.280 maybe and put it on the ground and torn out 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.520 the windows and put in chicken wire and there were 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.360 chickens living in there, and you know, they have crazy 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.000 things like that laying around. You know that you were 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.160 you're wondering, like what is the story behind all this 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.440 junk that's here. You're like, who's who's who's the odd 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.159 ball care or that's operating this place? And that is 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:03.840 the thing that if you go and you talk to 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:05.599 the owners of these you know, before you walk around, 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.560 you'll find that a lot of times you're gonna come 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.040 across some real interesting characters, some people that have great 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:12.760 stories to tell if you want to listen to them, 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.200 or you know, maybe maybe they're not so nice, maybe 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.240 they're nice. Maybe. You know, everybody has their own demeanor, 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.200 and it's it's interesting to kind of figure out who 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.760 who knows what in the area, like who's who's an 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:28.480 expert on packards or corvets or maybe British sports cars 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.600 or you know who has uh you know, the uh 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.520 the market cornered on the import parts in this town, 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.960 you know, because that they're some of these bigger ones 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.160 have sections that are that are just strictly for imports, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.200 and some that are just for Chrysler and some Ford 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.520 and some GM parts, and other lots you know, are 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.600 kind of all mixed up. You know, there's there's all 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.320 variety of things that you can find at these junkyards. 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.400 And I know that's over explaining all of this, you know, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.920 does this long long lead into this whole thing. But 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.440 some of these these lots, especially the newer ones, have 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.600 an incredible amount of organization to them and and they're 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.400 really meticulous about how they have them laid out. Yeah, 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.520 they thrive on keeping their inventories somewhat fresh and organized 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.520 and um moderating it to a certain degree. Although as 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.880 I've found out, there's a lot of shenanigans that go 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.440 on the side of these places as well. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.920 you know, by uh wait, by the customers or by 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.880 the by the owners, by the customers the customer, but 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.840 I'm talking more about the people that go in there 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.480 and you know, rifle through the cars. Yeah, you know. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.080 Um later you know, as as we get towards uh, 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:30.720 near the end of this, I would I would like 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.200 to share some uh I guess what I'll call junkyard 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.680 etiquette with you. If you don't mind a little valuable 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.720 for people to hear them, well, I think so too, 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.000 in case case you ever find yourself in a junkyard 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.240 and you you just don't know you know, which fork 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.840 goes on which side, where your your soup spoon goes, 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:47.319 that kind of thing, you know, right, But tell you 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.520 there's there's definitely junkyard etiquette. And people will call you 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.400 out on these some mistakes if you if you make them, 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.599 you know, some people get not angry, but um, I 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.280 have a little frustrated with your behavior if you're not 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.640 doing things in the way that a feel is the 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.640 proper way to do things, because there are regulars to 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.080 these There are people that go back and regularly pick parts. 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.120 You can make money by doing that if you know 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.080 what to look for. And that's another kind of interesting angle. 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:11.959 This whole thing is that you know, if you know 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.240 the valuable parts. Keep your eyes open because you might 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.160 just run across these at any point. You might be 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.720 going for a part that you specifically need and run 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.920 across something that you have kind of filed away in 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:24.920 your memory bank. Is like, oh, that's something that people 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.120 pay a lot of money for on eBay or on 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.040 Craigslist or wherever. How hard would it be to pull 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:31.800 that part out and sell it on eBay if you 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.800 have an account. I mean, it's it might be a 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.160 pretty good profit generator for you, even if it's just 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.120 a small time thing, you know, like you know, a 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.200 part here or there, It might pay for the part 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.600 that you're out there picking that day, which is a 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.920 fantastic thing to have happened. I mean, if you're able to, 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.160 you know, kind of make it a wash and get 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.440 what you need as well, it's it's all the better. Yeah. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.760 I feel like every town has this group of people 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.200 though that go just for that. Yeah. So, I mean 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:01.160 finding these little gems and junkyards. This actually not as 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.760 easy as you would think. No, no, because there are 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:04.920 a lot of people that are out there on the 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.439 same hunt, exactly the same hunt, and you can find 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.520 all these places online and that's another I guess why 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.680 is that an advantage or disadvantage, Curt, I don't know, 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.719 because it's a disadvantage to you, I suppose, but it's 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.080 an advantage to anybody this will use it as that, 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:21.839 you know, to to kind of keep up on the 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.000 new arrivals, because that's another section on these websites. If 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.520 you go to anything any of these part sites that 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.520 I'll mention here, and I'm just gonna mention like three 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.400 or four to give an idea of the names that 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.000 they go by. It's you know, pull apart, or you 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.200 pull it, or you pull and pay, or you pull 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.719 and save. They come in all flavors of this you 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.760 pull and something where you know, you pull parts or 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.720 you pull whatever you pull crap, I don't know, whatever 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.960 you want to call it. But um, of course have 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.720 this stuff all categorized on their website and you can 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.959 search for your vehicle and they'll tell you, yeah, we've 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.560 got one vehicle that meets your criteria. It's within this 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.480 age range two thousand ten to two thousand and twelve 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.160 model year Honda, a Chord, or you know, whatever it 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:05.000 happens to be, and they can't tell you specifically exactly 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:06.679 what's on the vehicle. You have to go there and 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.359 really check that out for yourself. That's one of the downsides. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.280 I guess it doesn't have every part listed, but that's 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.000 really impossible to keep up with, as we said, because 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.400 their parts leaving from that vehicle every single day, every 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.600 single hour. Probably find to guess on some of the 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.040 more popular models. So it pays to get in on 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.320 these things early. And I said that they have in 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.560 all these categories, they have tabs listed for brand new vehicles. 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.040 To the lot. They have vehicles that are I guess 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.240 you can call them going going gone. You know, they're 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.160 like the last minute before we actually just scrap this 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.200 metal because there's only a few parts left. A lot 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.559 of them will have use cars for sale, which is 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.120 kind of interesting. So cars that have a clean title 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.840 that you are able to buy and typically they're damage 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.439 but they are running and driving, not a salvage title, 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.240 nothing like that. You have to worry about it because 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.320 as I think we've we've said another shows if you're 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.440 gonna buy a salvage car, you know a flood car, 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.000 car that's been on a fire, or a car has 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.320 been damaged to the point where it can no longer 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.880 be driven safely according to the insurance company that did 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:04.560 the adjustment for it, that said, you know, this is 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.320 a total loss. If it has a salvage title, you 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:08.920 have to have a license in order to be able 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.480 to buy that vehicle, and that that varies by state. 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.440 If you search for your laws within your state, you'll 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:15.800 find that, you know, there are a lot of different 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.800 regulations and licenses that you have to apply for, and 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.920 different types of salvage licenses as well. Most often is 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.880 the case that we're UM, I went through a few 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.319 of these states and uh and checked out what it 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.559 would take to get a salvage license, uh, you know, 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.120 like Texas and here in Georgia and I think Wisconsin 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.520 and places like that, just kind of scattered all over 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.920 the US, and I found that, um, a lot of 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.520 them require you to have a piece of property that 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.319 is not your primary residence with a certain amount of 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.439 acreage with you know, you have to have a certain 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.880 amount of insurance as well, and it's just just really 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:53.520 complicated the requirements and fees, the qualifications that you have 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.600 to have. And there's of course the federal and state 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.160 laws that come into this as well, including some e 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.960 p A guidelines that you have to follow. Your property 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.400 and your treatment of that vehicle have to follow that, 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.600 so you know, the draining of fluids or the capture 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.880 of gases that might be in that vehicle, you know, 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.640 whether it's refrigerant or you know, whatever the case may be. 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.480 Uh So, the whole thing is really an interesting process 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.040 when you get right down to it. There's a there's 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.040 a lot involved with buying a salvage vehicle. So the 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.400 implication there is that you would be buying it to 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.440 put on in your own salvage yard. Correct, Yeah, Yeah, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.560 you'd be buying a crash vehicle that you most likely 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.800 would have to you know, throw on a a flatbed 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.880 and bring it to your your property and just dump 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.520 it off in a lot wherever it goes because a 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.640 lot of them, as you said, we keep wandering away 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.920 from this, but there's so much organization now which is 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:39.840 really fascinating to me. And I don't know if you've 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:41.440 seen this or not. One of the places that I 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.319 used to go again in Michigan, and I think this 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.920 is common in a lot of junkyards of the past, 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.600 where they used to just be piles of cars. Then 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.880 they went to. We're going to kind of lay these 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.840 out like they're in a in a parking lot, and 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.439 of course doesn't matter if they're parked in so because 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.600 no one's moving these cars really, so you can park 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.360 them several deep and you know, make kind of a 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.040 grid work of them, and that's something that a lot 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.520 of places still do. And then there are other places 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:05.960 like the one that I used to go to now 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.960 that i've I've looked at photos online and they have 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.600 started to store vehicles on racks, so you know, there 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:16.560 might be three or four vehicles high, and if you 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.319 need one from up above, you have to get somebody 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.400 with a forklift come out and lower that vehicle down 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.320 to you and just see if you have the part 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:24.800 on there that you need or unless you can you know, 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.680 spot it from down on the ground. It becomes a 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.720 little bit more complicated. But the yard itself can stock 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.080 or can carry more vehicles, and you know, not at 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:35.840 the expense of having to pile them on top of 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.760 each other, which would damage panels, that would damage all 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.120 the windows in the vehicle, It would bend components that 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.760 otherwise would be useful. So this is a much better 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.840 way to do it. I think, and in the cataloging, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.120 I mean, essentially, what we're talking about here, Kurt, is 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.480 that things have just been really cleaned up quite a bit. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.600 It's not the dirty, old, musty location that you might 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.840 think it was in the pastor you know, like grease 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.240 soaked areas. It's still you still get your hands dirty, 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.360 and you still get dirty climbing underneath vehicles and pulling 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.600 stuff out, but they're a lot cleaner than they used 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.400 to be. Yeah, that's part of the recycle process for 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.360 the vehicles. They go through this life cycle out on 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.000 the road, and then for whatever reason, they end up 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:21.440 in a salvage yard and then um, eventually after they're done, 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.480 they're after they're picked over and they go on to 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.520 wherever cars go next. I guess scrap, Yeah, they become 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:30.120 soupcan somewhere right. Yeah, Eventually eventually that's long down the 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.920 road toasters and whatnot. They become the engine block for 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.320 the next vehicle. And there's big money to be made 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.120 in this too. I don't have any facts and figures 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.880 about what, you know, the average salvage heard owner makes 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.560 or anything like that. If you were to part out, 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.000 let's say your typical Toyoto camera. You're gonna find that 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.280 the Toyoto camera is worth many, many times the value 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.400 of what it is as a complete vehicle in parts. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.800 So you know, you start piecing out those parts and 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.720 they're worth quite a bit of money each and it 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.320 and it amounts to as a total way more than 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.720 that cars were sitting on the curb. Here's the other 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:03.880 side of that. If that's your car, if you own 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.680 that camera and you suddenly realize like, oh crap, it's 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.000 got a lot of stuff wrong with it. You know, 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.280 transmissions gone, the engine's gone, and I mean gone, like 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.480 they don't operate anymore. But there, you take it somewhere 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.360 to sell it for scrap metal, or you sell it, 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.160 you know, to it to a salad yard. They're gonna 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.200 give you just a few dollars for it. I mean 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.240 you're gonna make fifty bucks on it or something like that. 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.600 It's a very low pay out for you. They make 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.000 a lot of money on the parts, and then they 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.560 take the hunk of metal to the recycling place which 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.560 then will melt it down and make even more money 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.960 off of that. But in the end they're only gonna 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.160 make a few cents on the pound for those vehicles 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.280 when they get rid of them. It's just a metal 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.400 weight thing. And have recently had some experience, you know, 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.760 with metal recycling yards, and we'll talk about that later maybe, 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.240 but it's an interesting business. It really is um to 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:51.600 see exactly what's going on there and and how once 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.360 you take something that you know takes up so much 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.360 space in your own your own home. You know, you've 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.440 got all this metal laying around, you know, hot water 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.920 heater and engine parts and you know, whatever the metal is, 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.320 and you're maybe a little bed frames something like that. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.320 You take it to the scrap yard to get rid 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.440 of and it looks like it's just a you know, 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.639 a grain of sand on the beach. It's really nothing 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.160 because these lots are so big. But it's all very 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.359 fascinated to me. I I love the order and the 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.520