some people are just plain stupid. alot of guys that haul scrap dont ever relize what they have, its just metal to them.
An idiot in my home town had a 1955 Chevy Nomad wagon sitting in the weeds. He would not even consider selling it to some snot-nosed teenager (me). Even back then (about 1971) I had seen the production numbers and knew they were relatively rare.
Well, my town had a cleanup drive, and they brought in a car crusher to take care of all the "junkers" around town. Yep, you guessed it. By the time I got out of school that day, the Nomad was 4 inches high.
I think they guy is burning in Hades to this day for that.
My dad has a similar story about a 1920s John Deere tractor. The scrap dealer was getting ready to cut up this pristine, rare, but otherwise useless old tractor. He offered to sell it to dad for $125, but it was the 50s during a drought, and dad didn't have $125 to waste. So a tractor that would now be worth $20,000 or more is instead recycled somewhere...
