i bet you could scrap it and get more money then those pills buddy..i would think you could get at the minimum 500-600bucks and actually prolly way more in scrap metal from an old pickup...you prolly could of broke it down and got a stack for it
Nah, there was $250 worth of scrap metal in that truck tops. Maaaayybe 3. This was no big old Chevy pickup or anything, it was a little 2wd 88 toyota pickup. Doesn't weigh shit.
You're right I know I could have gotten more believe me I have played this game many times before, I've scrapped several of my vehicles and I have worked at 2 different junkyards. I also used to run scrap metal with one of my friends when I was unemployed a few years back to make extra money. Sure if I completely disassembled it and separated all the expensive metals and scrapped the cat separate I could have made a little more. I also could have sold the aftermarket mag wheels and if I really wanted to get into it I could have sold the engine and trans which were mint but that's way more work than I have time for.
Unfortunately junkyards around here will pick cars up for free but they only pay you for it if you bring it there yourself. On top of that, (assuming they give you anything) they'll usually only give you like $100 unless they're also a scrap metal recycler (which believe it or not most aren't, whole cars only). I know of a few that take metal by weight but they're not that close by and they have shit hours. I no longer have access to a car trailer and it wasn't really capable of driving far on its own. I could have cut it up and brought it in multiple loads on my smaller trailer, but the truck was in my friend's yard and I doubt he would want me making a mess there. Also my truck that I'd tow it there with is not registered and the yard I would have gone to is in an area with a lot of cops with nothing better to do than scan plates. And with their early hours I would have lost hours at work trying to get it done so it would have been pretty counter-productive.
The reason I had to do something about it all of a sudden is because my friend who's house it was at got a letter from the town (some ritzy shoreline town, lol this dope fiend so does not belong there) stating that he has too many unregistered cars on his property and gave him 10 days to get them all out of there or there is a $1000 fine for each week they stay past the 10 days so I needed to get on it ASAP. I could have had it towed to my house and bought myself some time but A- it was sitting about 35 miles away from where I live and that's not a cheap tow, and B- I already have 3 of my cars in the driveway here, two of which are not registered and one of them wasn't even running for a year and a half (until about about 2 weeks ago actually) so I doubt my roommate (who is also my landlord as he owns this house) would want another one of my POS cars in his yard. We're good friends and he's been pretty cool about shit but I mean just us 2 people live here and there's 7 cars here as it is.
So basically, long story short it was much much easier to just say "you want a free truck? toss me some oxy and it's yours. come get it today". I got my hands on the truck the same way and I got back about how much it owed me. I broke even and got high in the process. That's good enough for me.
TL;DR: I didn't feel like fucking dealing with it. I don't care as long as I didn't
lose any money on it.