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Old 06-21-2014, 10:02 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by vskid3 View Post
Why not throw it on craigslist as-is and see what happens? Parting it out may have better potential, but you could end up with a pile of left over parts in your yard.
Engines on car-part.com go for $3,000 and transmissions for one thousand, while it's blue book is $6,600; shouldn't I be able to get at least that much from parts? I have read that places will come and get your scrap without money being exchanged.

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Throw the truck away and part out your Dad's "friend". I hear kidneys go for a pretty penny on the black market.
But that is called "harvesting," my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

Besides, he is an alcoholic, and I would hate to have a pile of left over alcoholic parts in my yard.
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