By Robert Emslie
We hope he was able to figure out how to get his cherry picker up higher before hoisting the engine into the recipient.
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We hope he was able to figure out how to get his cherry picker up higher before hoisting the engine into the recipient.
Jeff Glucker
Well, he didn't need the core support and header panel, therefore nobody did, right?
Perfect placement for a front-mount intercooler… Someone show this body to the Sharks!
Actually, it looks to me like he threw a chain through the grill, hooked ‘er up to the ol’ tractor, and yanked it on out. Probably did a flip over the bumper, but tore the center of the grill out on the way through.
I have morons in my family that might attempt something like this, BTW. I won’t name them because then I’ll have to actually admit to knowing them.
That is just lazy. Wonder how the SawZall and wire cutters made out on everything else.
Actually, he was getting ready to put this in when he ran out of money.
Maybe the engine clawed its way out to find a better car?
“Fuck this, I’m outta here. ‘May the Best Car Win.’ Not without ME it won’t.”
If this was done at the junkyard, so what. Half the fun of going to pull-a-part is the ability to do guilt free wanton destruction. I’m guilty of using tin snips to remove more than one e30 wiper motor.
GM plastic fenders are great too, if the part you need is obscured by a fender a few good whacks with a sledge hammer will generally remove the offending part of the fender.
It is fine, as long as the Yard Rats that own the place are cool with it. I’ve seen many a car that has had expensive parts decimated by other parts coming off.
In several trips to the Pull-a-Part yards around Atlanta the only time the Yard Rats have taken any notice at all of what I’m doing is to tell me “we are about to close, get out.” Remove a dash with a crowbar to get to the master cylinder nuts, no problem. Of course they do have the no power tools, no torches rule.
If you can’t use power tools to remove your part, then you should be allowed to destroy anything in your way. It’s only fair.
I try not to bust up stuff that someone might actually want, e.g. no random window smashing or destruction of clean body parts.
My adherence to that policy depends heavily on the temperature and how much of a pain the obstructive part is.
Opel 1900 actually. Strangely, the wagon was the only version of the 1900 to warrant a tachometer.