Initially, you had to tow your car to the nearest scrap yard to get your car scrapped. After which you had to stay till your car was scrapped to get a confirmation certificate. This process would take almost a day or sometimes more than that and most people would not want to get into it. Today, you just have to find a suitable salvage yard/scrap yard online and fill a form describing your car. The yard will call you back and visit you for negotiations. If the negotiations are successful, they will tow away your car to be scrapped after which they will provide you with the destruction certificate. The scrap yards also help you with the legal proceedings of the entire process. This is as easy as it can get for scrapping the car. You really don’t have to do anything.
Another reason the electric RC cars are good is because you don’t have to deal with the mess of carrying around gallons of nitro or gas. You also don’t have to fill fuel tanks or start big engines. With the push of a button, the electric motor starts up and gets going. With a quick charge and some extra rechargeable batteries, you can have a long day of fun.
Another thing that you will notice once you look closely at any of the vehicles is the incredible attention to detail on each of the cars. It is just as if the characters from the movie Cars 2 have shrunk themselves and ended up on your living room floor. And with the bright vibrant colors, these vehicles will be easy to find even after a long day of racing about the house. Oh, almost forgot to give you some specs on these little beauties. First of all they are made of rugged PVC so they can withstand just about anything your child can think of. They are also a nice size, most ranging around 3 to 3&1/2 inches long. A perfect size for those little hands.
These first pedal cars were based on real cars on the road back in the day, kids really were driving like their parents. Unfortunately though, like all cool toys they were very expensive and reserved for wealthy families. Children from families with less money would have ride on toys, usually not pedal powered.
They have very little overhead; usually the office is a trailer or a small building. Many of the cars that are in there were had for free. In some cases there was a charge for taking the car to the yard.
Yes, good old junk yards where most sales are cash and no refunds are available. The parking lot is loose gravel and the counter at the office is greasy and dirty. The prices are not set on a computer but the attendant sets the price when he is selling the part. A 1990 firebird owner or manager sometimes will allow the buyers to remove the parts themselves making the price even lower. And of course, there is always the opportunity to negotiate a lower price for a part does not have a label and that is not registered in a computerized inventory.
Obviously buying used can have a huge cost benefit. Unless you have a rare or high-end luxury or sports car, a salvage yard special will be between $25 and $50. Not bad compared to the cost of a new cooling system from your local dealer.
The only time that I had ever seen a rattlesnake was when I was six years old. I thought it was interesting, almost getting to it before my favorite uncle Hugh, who I was visiting, drew his pistol, shooting it’s head off. I really didn’t want to see any. Robert, though, had learned all about them in the Boy Scouts handbook. We stopped to cut two, four-foot long, branches with a Y at the end. Robert said, “If we see any rattlers, we’ll pin them down to the ground with our sticks. They can’t bite you if you push the Y stick down on their back, just behind the head.” It sounded good, anyway.
