I need to save this Accord.

[JamesJimJam]

I was at the salvage yard last week and saw this.






Here's the issue:
The yard won't let me buy the car. Their reasoning is illogical, but in short, they said these cars are only for parting. It makes me angry because this car is in such perfect condition.

[89HatchbackLxi]

Well, guess you'll have to part the entire car, lol.

That does sound extremely illogical... In other words that would mean any car that ends up in that lot never comes back out? What a waste!

[lostforawhile]

the logic is they will make more money, also due to the liability crap, they are afraid if they sell it to you, then you get in a wreck, you will sue the yard, it's stupid. no one here will sell an entire car either, one of the yards here a mint SEI went to the crusher, I asked why it was in the yard, and was told fuel pump

[import racer]

That's stupid,what idiot makes up these laws!

[lostforawhile]

That's stupid,what idiot makes up these laws!

it's lawyer run nation of course

[Xaisk]

Just pay for each part of the car without ever taking the off. Fight illogic with illogic. I hate stuff that doesnt follow the rules of logic.

[lostforawhile]

Just pay for each part of the car without ever taking the off. Fight illogic with illogic. I hate stuff that doesnt follow the rules of logic.

they can't sell the body, because it has vin numbers and they are listed as junked/scrapped, the intelligent thing would be to get a car from a yard and repair it,you would think that would make the green Nazis happy, but no!! it pollutes too much, doesn't matter if it causes far less pollution then building and transporting a new car, logic doesn't matter

[87roach]

What a shame... I find those now and then at the yard and wonder wtf.

We also can't buy anything out of the yard as a whole. Sometimes the car's they sell at the front(whole) that need something or nothing are in total shit shape compared to some of the "wrecks".

[obdriver6]

It does make you angry, I would like to meet the idiot that decided to leave that perfectly good accord there.

[lostforawhile]

I'm pretty sure the pick and pull here lets you buy complete cars, the one in Tallahassee, their website says something about project cars, probably not wrecks though, If I had a way to move it I would cut a wrecked hatch into sections for future collision parts

[Dr_Snooz]

In California, they are really trying to get all the old cars off the road. If you park your car in your backyard and leave it unregistered for a few years, you have to pay all back years of registration if you want to put it back on the road. If you sell it, the new owner pays all the back years. The only way out is to sell it to a wrecking yard. If you try to buy the car back from the yard, you still have to pay all the back years. I ran across an '87 Chevy 1-ton the other day at Pick-A-Part. It was immaculate. 4x4, camper special (heavy duty leaf springs), 454, Dana axles, interior was plush, clean and perfect, dash had only two cracks (unheard of for these trucks), sliding rear window, running boards and a sweet lumber rack. It made me sick. Then I saw the tags were from 2003 and knew why it was there.

You can go down to Santa Barbara and look at all the rainbow swirls on the beach because the oil rigs persistently dump oil into the water and it washes up on the beach. So the big oil companies can pollute to their heart's content. No problem. But if you're an average joe trying to get something to drive to work, they hammer you with onerous smog checks and this registration stupidity. Then they wonder why people hate government.

[2drSE-i]

In California, they are really trying to get all the old cars off the road. If you park your car in your backyard and leave it unregistered for a few years, you have to pay all back years of registration if you want to put it back on the road. If you sell it, the new owner pays all the back years. The only way out is to sell it to a wrecking yard. If you try to buy the car back from the yard, you still have to pay all the back years. I ran across an '87 Chevy 1-ton the other day at Pick-A-Part. It was immaculate. 4x4, camper special (heavy duty leaf springs), 454, Dana axles, interior was plush, clean and perfect, dash had only two cracks (unheard of for these trucks), sliding rear window, running boards and a sweet lumber rack. It made me sick. Then I saw the tags were from 2003 and knew why it was there.

You can go down to Santa Barbara and look at all the rainbow swirls on the beach because the oil rigs persistently dump oil into the water and it washes up on the beach. So the big oil companies can pollute to their heart's content. No problem. But if you're an average joe trying to get something to drive to work, they hammer you with onerous smog checks and this registration stupidity. Then they wonder why people hate government.

Have someone in oregon buy it, register it there, and then buy it from them and register it in CA

[Dr_Snooz]

That's just crazy enough to work!

The truck is strewn halfway across the Central Valley by now though. Too bad. Gawd it was beautiful. I really want a square-body dually now.

[Cody]

In California, they are really trying to get all the old cars off the road. If you park your car in your backyard and leave it unregistered for a few years, you have to pay all back years of registration if you want to put it back on the road. If you sell it, the new owner pays all the back years. The only way out is to sell it to a wrecking yard. If you try to buy the car back from the yard, you still have to pay all the back years. I ran across an '87 Chevy 1-ton the other day at Pick-A-Part. It was immaculate. 4x4, camper special (heavy duty leaf springs), 454, Dana axles, interior was plush, clean and perfect, dash had only two cracks (unheard of for these trucks), sliding rear window, running boards and a sweet lumber rack. It made me sick. Then I saw the tags were from 2003 and knew why it was there.

You can go down to Santa Barbara and look at all the rainbow swirls on the beach because the oil rigs persistently dump oil into the water and it washes up on the beach. So the big oil companies can pollute to their heart's content. No problem. But if you're an average joe trying to get something to drive to work, they hammer you with onerous smog checks and this registration stupidity. Then they wonder why people hate government.

Just send the chevys over here to australia, in exchange we'll send you guys 100 million old jap imports like skylines, evos and supras that all the kids have got bored of, trade off lol.