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Best way to cut up a car? #353096
06/20/09 09:41 PM
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Hope I posted this in the right section...

I have a '79 Cordoba that I bought for the motor & trans, I have no title for the car so it has to be cut up & scrapped. Hopefully someone has pieced out a car like this, I've done that with an old ramcharger but never a unibody car. I don't have a torch,but I do have a super sawzall and a grinder with cut-off wheels ( I basically cut up the aforementioned ramcharger with the cut off wheels).

Re: Best way to cut up a car? [Re: Not_A_Blazer] #353097
06/20/09 09:55 PM
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Having cut up a '71 Sportsman van body myself, I'd suggest you find someone who'd come pick it up and haul it away instead. For what you get, it might not be worth the time and materials expense.

If you're set on DIY, I like the "The Ax" sawzall blades found at Home Depot. Very heavy duty and they cut quickly.

You'll just have to learn as you go, cutting across frame rails and crossmembers only when necessary. It all depends upon what you're hauling away the pieces in or on.

Re: Best way to cut up a car? [Re: In_The_Pink] #353098
06/20/09 11:55 PM
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I am truckless..
Re: Best way to cut up a car? [Re: Not_A_Blazer] #353099
06/21/09 12:11 AM
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I have "whacked" many cars up with my sawzall. I wouldn't bother with the cutoff wheels, they take a lot longer and you'll go through more wheels than blades. Just make sure you have some longer blades when you go through the thick spots like frame rails and x-members

Re: Best way to cut up a car? [Re: 71 Charger R/T] #353100
06/21/09 12:44 AM
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Years ago when he was much younger a buddy of mine used a Fire Axe and nothing else. And he would do one or two a week! To this day he's still a guy you don't want to wrestle with.

Re: Best way to cut up a car? [Re: Classof70Chally] #353101
06/21/09 01:16 AM
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Being someone that does this stuff regularly...



If you don't want to save anything... Sawzall!

Re: Best way to cut up a car? [Re: Not_A_Blazer] #353102
06/21/09 08:21 AM
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Quote:

Hope I posted this in the right section...

I have a '79 Cordoba that I bought for the motor & trans, I have no title for the car so it has to be cut up & scrapped. Hopefully someone has pieced out a car like this, I've done that with an old ramcharger but never a unibody car. I don't have a torch,but I do have a super sawzall and a grinder with cut-off wheels ( I basically cut up the aforementioned ramcharger with the cut off wheels).



You didn't mention how you're going to get rid of the interior or glass.

Re: Best way to cut up a car? [Re: redraptor] #353103
06/21/09 11:43 AM
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a cutter the plumbers use for sewer pipes...

Re: Best way to cut up a car? [Re: AARCONV] #353104
06/21/09 12:07 PM
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With the price of scrape it really isn't worth the time to cut it up. Look in your local paper or craigslist. There are plenty of scrap guys who will come take it whole. No mess. To spend a full day cutting and hauling to get 50 of 60 bucks in scrap metal doen't seem worth the effort. Then come home and spend the time to clean up the mess.

Re: Best way to cut up a car? [Re: AARCONV] #353105
06/21/09 12:08 PM
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way back in my younger days i chopped up a old ford with a single bit ax,took a while,but i got it done!!

Re: Best way to cut up a car? [Re: rhad] #353106
06/21/09 12:12 PM
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I always use a torch


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Re: Best way to cut up a car? [Re: 69L78Nova] #353107
06/21/09 12:49 PM
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having just bought a plasma cutter.......

Re: Best way to cut up a car? #353108
06/24/09 10:18 AM
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interior color? condition? (especially dash pad)

Re: Best way to cut up a car? [Re: Not_A_Blazer] #353109
06/24/09 10:48 AM
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Back in the 80s I cut up a couple challengers with a torch and put a little out each week for the garbage guy. I got rid of the whole car like that. Took a couple months each car, but I got rid of the whole rusty body like that. Wish I would have kept some of the body parts, but I was just a young kid.







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