Wrecked Junk Cars
Wrecked Junk Cars
Our next story relating to junk cars in Ohio focuses on vehicles used in movies, which are often severely damaged. Those who buy junk cars from those selling a scrap car in the movie industry are probably fortunate. The reason is that these producers are likely to scrap a high volume of vehicles in a short period of time.
In the May 19, 2015 edition of cheatsheet.com an article titled ‘Life after Death: A Look at What Happens to Totaled Cars’ outlined the following points of interest: “An interesting question: what happens to all the wrecked cars you see in movies? Action flicks have been responsible for the destruction of thousands of automobiles, and the most recent Fast and the Furious racked-up 230 vehicles. What is done to these cars since they are no longer deemed road legal?
Years ago, movie studios would just call up a local scrap yard, the cars would get hauled off for salvaging, and that would be it. Wrecked Mustangs from the classic film Bullitt were listed as collector items wrecked or not, people started flocking to junkyards to see what they could salvage. In recent years, things are not as simple as just calling up the local salvage yard. There are now strict rules regarding the proper disposal of a vehicle, and as an action film’s budget increases so does the # of cars the director will want to destroy. To save money, a lot of these cars that are sourced are either flood-damaged but drivable, are fully functional & not worth much, or serve nothing more than sitting targets on a screen set. What happens to these after the tow truck scoops their shattered shells up?
Most vehicles that are deemed “undrivable” after a violent collision are usually sold to a local salvage yard. This is a fantastic way of recycling a condemned car, and every year countless items are re-purposed by people looking to save money by buying used components. There is another side of the recycling process that goes widely unnoticed by the rest of the world, and that is Hollywood’s purchasing of junk cars for chase scenes. In the aforementioned article, there was an interesting bit of about the Fast and the Furious and its association with used car lots and salvage yards. Picture car coordinator for the films, Dennis McCarthy, reportedly said we’d wreck 25 cars/day, they’d scoop ‘em up and bring us 25 more.
This final element of the “automotive recycling program” is the scrap yard, where cars are turned into compact cubes. This stage occurs after a car has been sitting at a salvage yard for a while, and the yard manager labels the vehicle as “crushable.” Prior to being crushed, all of the fluids must be drained out of the car, airbags must be either removed or deployed, the battery must be absent, and the fuel tank removed. Most modern cars are not entirely made from metal like they used to be, so scrap yards are not getting as much money out of cars.
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