How many of you have a junk car on your property?

That's not a junker! That's a fine piece of machinery. I have one just like it only orange. and white.

87 Chevy 4x4 dually crewcab that needs a new engine. Someday my husband may get around to fixing it.

lol, exactly, that 47 Studebaker truck I have out back is worth fixing someday, as soon as I finish the 56 Studebaker. My DW would prefer to make a planter out of the 47. The 56 is currently being restored, she can't have that one! lol

None, the DH has them taken to the scrap yard. But I do feel left out , 1 neighbor has 4, another 3 and another has 4+, can't tell what the 5th is, to rusted. Now what are these cars used for, chicken koops. I remember many years a go my now DH bought a Corviar, that had been used as chicken koop. Fond memories.

I have a 74 mercedes. It is on my spare lot.

We have three and are still driving them although most would consider them antiques.

The snowplow isn't even close to junk......its a usable work vehicle....hopefully with many many more years of service.

My definition of junk is something that just sits there. Year after year. Leaking toxic fluids into the ground water.

If someone has the property to keep there "stuff" out of site, I could care less. Of course, the lazy white trash guy with zero ambition, living in the grubby trailer, undoubtedly has all kinds of junk in his yard. Not behind a fence. Not hidden in the woods. Out there for the entire world to see. Visual pollution.

They aren't junk cars!
They're lawn ornaments!
They're antiques... or will be someday!
Oh, you were referring to the one I drive... well...

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We've got a 91 E-250 that doesn't run, but it's still got good parts and has all kinds of stuff stored in it. We were so close to getting rid of it, until some jerk called zoning on us (90% of the homes here have at least one junker, the call in this incident was a personal vendetta) and we had to spend $100 on the tags for it. So now it will stay for a few more months.

there is a 280Z I parked over the hill. it kinda got "forgotten"
I was going to have to pulled out but I was outvoted.
the opossum living in the glove box said "no".
the groundhog whos main entry hole is under the car said "no".
the cats who all sack out in the front and back seats and on the dash all voted "no".

so the best I can hope to do with it is cut off all the loose bits and parts, maybe the doors too and scrap them.
since the natives are all using it.

I have a little blue truck I use as a manure truck.... its not junk, its just retired.
I have a red truck under a tarp, thats not junk its "spare parts" for the one I drive.

We have a red 1973 Datsun 240 Z in the garage. Still runs, but doesn't get out much.

I'm driving the 1991 Toyota Previa with 360,000 miles on it.

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Hi Ricky;
I have TWO junk cars in my yard but I'm driving one and my dh drives the other.
tamilee

First it's not a junk car, it's a parts/or fix up car. I've got an 89 civic sitting by the barn that needs a little work. I guess I'm a little backwards as instead of taking it to the junk yard for scrap, I bought it from the junk yard. Originally I was looking for a part for my 91 civic, but this car wasn't rusty, just a little dented, and still has all the parts on it.

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I personally don't have any, but DS brings them home or has them hauled here like they were stray dogs. Now there is only 2 and has been up to 5. None have left under there own power. I tell him to park it behind the shed so I don't have to look at it and you can "work on it there also".
So far the latest has been target practice with his new 20 guage.

Obviously we have a different definition of a junker .
A junker doesnt run and very unlikely to ever run again .
Case in point a 53 dodge 3/4 tom with no cab that hasnt moved in 20 years and has been flooded twice, beside it is a 46 ford 1 ton in the same shape . these are junkers and are in the proces of being cut into pieces and sold as short iron.
we then have reserve vehicals such as the 68 3/4ton doge and 66 ford short bed , these run but are seldom driven. And yes we also have a school bus which curently is not running as the engine is on the stand in the garage, the previous engine has a nice hole in #1 piston. In the barn is a 64 &1/2 barracuda
In addition to this yard art there is also a grain conveyor, two plows, a disc, three pick up bed trailers, a combine (which runs), a baler, land scraper, rear scoop, spring tooth, drag harrow and two old trailer houses (in various states of destruction)
From what Ive seen posted as junkers so far , we call those nice cars

Hi Don;
Thank you! I'll just hold my head high when those snooty rich people in the gated communities down the road make lemon sucking faces at my vehicles. My vehicles have a combined property tax of $33.00.
There is a gated community down the road a piece where any resident CANNOT have a vehicle over 5 years old within the community.
tamilee

Johnson county KS has tried to tell my cousin he can only have three cars, he collects old classic cars most run fine . To keep from being ticketed for having over the limit he keeps the extras hooked up to farm equipment . when asked those are his tractors and theres no ordinance against tractors. the burden of proof is on the county . so he often discs his garden with a 1948 plymouth coup and rolls his lawn with a Henery J . the 1929 IH schoolbus is his clothes closet
nearly all his are running and many fully restored , he just collects cars

Johnson Co. Ks is a very unique place. I've been working there since 78 when it was not much more than a dirty spot in the road. Now it is a model of Mcmansionism and expanding.
I live 35 miles away because I want nothing to do with it, but I have no problem taking there $. They are also pretty free with it.
It's all business right? That's what they always tell me. OK I can do that.
If the SHTF it will be a smoldering pile of (edited).
It would be interesting to see the outcome.

Got a junker JD 6400 sitting in the shed. When we bought the new 6420 last summer, we offered it as a trade. Dealer said he'd have to charge us MORE if he took it than if we didn't trade anything. That was when it was still sort of running. Now it's well and truly dead.

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Do you really need a title to fix up and drive an old truck??

We have a junk 73 chevy with a clutch that won't die. I say save the clutch and ditch the truck.

But the 58 Chevy Apache stays, rusty or not. Someday ... someday ... sigh! I want it to be the toter, but the ancient house comes before the ancient truck ...

My gawsh! I have never even owned a vehicle younger than 12 yrs old! What a bunch of ... ewwwwwwwww!