how do you buy all these cars from insurance companies

 

i buy them off craigslist and local people? who ever said anything about insurance companies

 

I find it to be almost morbid when someone has an affinity for a certain type of car, but makes a business out of parting and junking them.

 

WTF. Funniest thing I've seen all day.

 

Did one of those 3rdgen camaros have blackboard paint!?

 

blackboard paint?

 

Paint that makes the surface usable as a blackboard or "chalkboard". You can use chalk on it.

 

This one

 

the one i think your talking about was just scuffed up factory black paint that was really smooth

 

haha no that one is just black spray paint someone got bored with....original red on red car

 

haha

 

nice I know a guy that makes his living parting out thirdgens makes me jealous sometimes lol. Hes parted out close to 500 according to his estimates

 

So basically you're someone who parts out perfectly drivable cars that are in better shape than many of the cars still left on the road that people care about?

Congratulations, you're destroying our hobby. You're not an enthusiast.

What exactly is this great job with a bright future? Parting solid cars? Not impressed.



People like you are what's wrong with our hobby.

 

i part out cars with no floorboards no titles blown engines or cars i get out of junkyards and such already ready to be crushed and provide parts for people who are even on this site with gorgous cars that get there parts from me! just because they look nice doesnt mean jack

 

Right, keep calling yourself an enthusiast.

 

i dont see where i called myself an enthusiest once..?

 

So is that to say that you aren't an enthusiast and don't care about these cars at all, and thus are only on this website to flaunt that you part out and junk a lot of cars that are important to the rest of us?

Unless the above is the case, one would assume that someone who signs up on a car forum and gives themselves a name of marokid, and drives one and has a "garage queen" would probably classify himself as an enthusiast, spoken or not.

So I guess it's one or the other.

 

coming from someone who owns a mustang on a camaro forum i believe if you dont like what i do...well....just keep loooking at other forums because i could go on and on your entitled to your opinion ...but not entitled to waste my time

 

And there's the standard hillbilly Mustang comment, right on cue.

 

I dont know about your area but in my area 90% of what he posted I would normally see sitting in weeds in someones backyard. They'll sit there until the local junkman gets them for $2-300 dollars, and then there headed to the crusher complete with no parts removed. I see nice old cars(not just ours) every week and it sucks too see. Atleast what hes doing is helping keep some nice parts out there for us to have. Im sure hes not the only one that had an chance to buy those cars.

In a perfect world people would line to restore thirdgens but in real life there few and far between. Then on top of that the ones of us that want to buy and restore those cars can only afford our 1 nice thirdgen.

So if its this guy(marokid) or the crusher im taking his way of junking a car.

Keep up the good work marokid....

 

Finally someone said it.

 

HATERS WELCOME

 

over 1 million of these cars made whats the big deal if a couple are parted out to keep others on the road

 

^^^^^^ THANK YOU FOR STATING THE OBVIOUS...i really hope others realize that parting a few to save alot isnt a negative....guess they dont ever plan on needing parts for theirs without people like me parts wouldnt be available for others

 

Marokid, I think what you are doing is great. There are a lot of us out there with nice third gen camaro's that need a particular part or piece to add the finishing touches. I really do not understand where the hostility is coming from, almost feels like jealousy. Either way, you are making a living and happy while doing it....I for one would line up to buy quality third gen parts from you.

onthedownlow

 

Now I see why your screen name is puma, because you are always such a dramatic puss. Grow up... You're really gonna get your man thong in a twist because he parts out cars to make good quality parts available to those that need them? Guess what, I do the SAME THING, just not as my full time job. Like him, I only part cars that have no chance of seeing the road again.

Perhaps when you need something, you'd rather have to find it at a salvage yard where the car has been sitting out in the elements for only god knows how long, rotting away. Good luck with that....you are seriously the most childish person I've ever seen on this site. This is not the first time youve made a stink about something so insignificant here.

I think what he and I do is overall beneficial to the entire third gen community. In fact I'm going to be buying some parts from him for my dads new convertible because I don't have them in stock.

And my last point, you seriously are going to cast judgement on him because this is his full time job? Seriously what is wrong with you? Its what he enjoys doing and from what I've seen (we've been talking quite a bit since he bought my dads car), he is making a REALLY good living for himself. Get out of here with your ignorance and complete closed minded thinking.

 

It's no surprise you are defending him seeing as you sold him the IROC and you do the same thing (yes, I've seen you part your share of cars).

I highly doubt he parts only cars that will never see the road again. That last car he posted, the white one with SS hood? Yeah right. Funny he didn't mention parting only "bad" cars until someone started laying the heat. If this is an 18 year old who sees this as "employment", then he likely sees that more money is to be made parting a perfectly good car than selling it whole; I bet he's taken many good cars off the road needlessly.

I'm sure the next argument is, "Well who cares, they made over a million of these cars." That's all well and good, but that was 20-30 years ago. How many are actually left today? Couple hundred thousand? At what point does it become "significant"? When there are none left on the road and people will spend $3000 on repro sheetmetal and framerails like they have to for the old muscle cars? At one point in time parting 35 '68-'70 Chargers was insignificant too. Point is, there will come an inflection point where all of a sudden it does matter. I can count on one hand the number of thirdgens I've seen in Minnesota the last X years. They aren't everywhere.

My only gripe with this site is that it allows car parting, when it's the premiere thirdgen site and champions history and restoration. It wouldn't be as big of a deal if the OP was an isolated case, but he's not and you said it yourself--you do the same thing, and looking in the classifieds here, it's like people part and scrap these cars like hot potatoes. If the car is totalled or flooded, etc., sure, part it, but too many people part good cars just because they can make more money that way.

My beef comes with the fact this kid comes on here and the first thing he does is say "Look at all your cars I've taken off the road, and I'm gonna take a few hundred more off te road over the next few years." I'm right, he's not an enthusiast, he's either lying to himself or he's just tactlessly flaunting his exploits with his first posts, and some people aren't going to like that. Unfortunatey that battle of wit ended with the standard ****** Mustang comment.

EDIT: This is just my position and you and others are free to disagree with it, just as I disagree with what the OP does. But I do have to ask, for what reason does someone come onto a site like this and use their initial posts to post a thread showing all the cars they've parted? Doesn't make a lot of sense.

 

First off, the photo of the car with the SS hood I believe is the same car in the very first picture. It was his first car he ever got, and the SS hood is just an updated picture of the same car, and he still has it.

Also, you say he mentioned parting "bad" cars when someone laid on the heat...like he should have to explain that he only parts bad cars... He knows he only parts the bad ones, doesn't make a difference if you believe him or not, but he's shown me the ones he's parted and the ones he's sold whole (Yes, he has sold some whole), and he's more than justified in his decisions.


In most cases, we're talking about cars that have rotting holes in the floor boards that have been sitting in someone's driveway or yard for a number of years and they just want it gone, or the engine is blown and the car isn't worth what it cost to put a new motor in it, and the body isn't in great shape. Most of them don't have titles either, the sellers can't find the title and are not about to pay to get a new one issued.







Honestly, I'm going to laugh the first time you need a good quality part and can't find it at a salvage yard, because you're going to be forced to buy it from someone on this site who more than likely parted the car that that very part came from. You act like it's a sin now, but when it's YOU that needs that particular part, your whole outlook is going to change. The site can't ban people that part cars because it's none of your friggin' business what I or anyone else does. If I buy a car for $400 and part it out, you can either buy parts from me or not, either way, the parts are going to sell like hot-cakes and I could care less if you don't get some for yourself.




And just for the heck of it, because I want to prove how ignorant you are in thinking that I part every single car that comes my way, here's the cars I have personally bought. The blue IROC-Z that he bought from me started out as a bare (although rust-free) shell...if it hadn't had a title I would have never built the car. So don't come on here and accuse me of putting every single car in the ground...














Parted out (ran off-road, no title, no keys):





Parted out (holes in the floor big enough to fit a size 13 shoe through)







Parted out (ground effects held on by drywall screws, no title, body filler everywhere)





Parted out (no title, knock in the motor)






Parted out (no title)










And some Camaros that we bought, fixed, and sold (to make YOU happy of course...*sarcasm*)

Before




After (with LS1 front end conversion), sold to my cousin

 

Bought with a cracked head, fixed it and sold it locally, completely rust-free Texas car, 305/5spd







1990 G92 305TPI/5spd hardtop fully optioned, bought it, painted it, and flipped it.


before:






after:





'87 IROC-Z, bought, painted, my wife drove it for a few years, sold it to my uncle...


before:





after:







'89 IROC-Z, bought it for dirt cheap, would have made a great parts car, but I had the heart to fix it up and sell it:


before:





after:






This happens to be marokid's blue LS1 swapped IROC-Z, BEFORE I got my hands on it...bare shell, only thing it had going for it was it was rust-free and had a clear title...pretty close to being parted out...

 

And finally, the convertible that my dad and I are putting together, bought it as a roller and are building it for HIM. Happy now?












So i've parted close to as many cars as i've saved, so you can stop the drama any time now...






And I'm not sticking up for him because he bought my old car, I'm sticking up for him because he's genuinely a nice kid, I've met him in person. You on the other hand, have a tendency to judge people and talk down to them, I've seen it in multiple cases on this site. I think you need to grow up...

 

puma dude ill just flatg out call you a ignorant fool if you think id part out the ss hood white z28?>...your only showing your incompetence if you believe id have professional pix of a car only to part it....that car...like the blue iroc are both restored....so my case in point is...i find it hilarious that a adult is bitching over junk cars saying im no enthusiest when the details in my cars alone are better than your RS....oh and with that being said...im 18...not some adult who has money to throw at a car....my cars are better and ive acomplished more than im sure you did at a young age...you are welcome to your opinion but honestly no body gives a dam

 

bluezee...i love the irocs you restored...as you can see we have had many similar cars even a few identical colors and options lol pretty sweet...i wish i could drop off this new ls1 parts car and my white camaro and have you do another swap for me

 

I'd do it fairly cheap for you

I could use the money anyways, I really wanna get the vert repainted next year haha

 

Sure seems to make a difference to you though!

Bluezee, I don't give two ***** about any of your cars, now or in the past.

I could care less if genuinely bad cars are parted out (as I said, totaled/flooded/etc. cars which I guess you chose to selectively ignore), but I don't think that's what's going on a lot of the time, both in this thread and elsewhere. It's usually someone who gets in over their head with a car when they have no money to begin with, and when they realize what a bucket it is, they just decide it's easier/more economially viable to part it out rather than sell it, or sort out the title issues.

You're awfully defensive, BlueZee. What's your angle here? Why do you give such a crap if I don't like what the OP does?

What were you trying to prove to me by showing me all the cars you scuff and sprayed in the garage and flipped? I guess all you showed me was the stark contrast between yourself and the OP, who doesn't seem to have pics of 35 cars he restored to go with the 35 parted ones. Good on you, bro--you sure showed me.

 

and the MUSTANG OWNER has spoken^^^^^^ true camaro enthusiest right here COOL

 

Why do I give a crap? Because you're generalizing a whole group of people, a rather large group of people I might add, as people who don't care about these cars. This is obviously false and you have no idea what you're talking about, and I posted my photos to prove that your argument is as solid as a sand castle. I care a lot about these cars or I wouldn't have saved so many, and also parted so many in order to make good parts available for others.

I really don't care that you don't give a flying crap about my cars, past or present. I didnt build them for you or anyone else here. I built them for me, and me only. You can think my car is the biggest piece of trash you've ever seen and i wouldn't lose a minute of sleep over it.

 

What are you on about? This started out as a discussion about the OP, nothing more. But yes, a whole lot of people DO part these cars as because it's just "easier". If you don't believe that, you're blind.

Then why do you keep posting about them in a thread that's completely removed from you if you don't care what I think? Posting them would only seem to suggest that you think you can appease me or make me happy. All you did was show the difference between yourself and the OP, which I already pointed out, and didn't really work in the favor of either yourself, or the OP.

Honestly dude, get out of the thread. It's not about you and has nothing to do with you. You're getting more butthurt than anyone. Can't the OP take care of business himself?

The OP makes a living off parting thirdgens. This is abnormal, and an extreme case of the parting problems that our cars suffer. This isn't an isolated case of some guy who parted one car because it was easier (which I've already stated I don't like), this is a guy who is headed towards parting hundreds as a chosen living. Sorry, I think that's wrong. IMO, that's destructive to our hobby. That's it. If you disagree, as I've said, that's fine, but you can certainly **** off now that you've made it known. This has absolutely nothing to do with you, so you can exit now. You keep dragging this out and antagonizing it into something more than it is.

 

I'm entitled to make as many posts in here as I want just as you are. By the way, did you know that Denny at thirdgen ranch makes his living from parting out cars? He doesn't have another job either. Do you know how many people have been able to finish restoring their cars because of the 400+ cars he has parted out?

If you think you are going to tell me to take a hike and keep running your mouth about how wrong parting cars is, you're an idiot. I've seen your attitude in other threads and you seem to think you're better than other people. Grow up.

 

Done with name calling?

The issue of parting cars has been a passionate topic for a decade here, but it sounds to me like this isn't about parting cars at all, it sounds like it's something more personal you have with me. If you got a problem with me, take it up with the administrators/mods, or PM me.

This isn't the time or place for you to launch a personal gripe with me.

 

Enough with the bickering... Parting out cars happen all the time... I know I have bought a TON of parts to fix my Formula and keep it looking how it does. But then again, the Mustang comments are a bit childish. I have a mustang, so what? I am sure this thread is going to be locked soon. Which is too bad, as I thought it was a cool thread.

If I were stateside, I would have really liked to buy Bluezee's Iroc... Glad it went to good hands at least. I will eventually do my own Ls1 swap.

 

i had a cobra too irregardless the name calling should have never started it was a thread about my cars ive owned and just to prove a point that not all kids need to be working at mcdonalds....maybe ill make a career out of it...obviously theres a customer field out there needing parts....and im not all about destroying as i have 2 beautiful camaros i keep near and dear to me...i love camaros the most but ive had cobras,,badass lifted trucks, jeeps, even had a 55 buick and an opel gt....but i left those all out because this is a camaro sight...just everyone drop the bs and just enjoy the camaro pix!

 

Was that black one an 81?

 

Marokid, I think you have done a great job! It's nice that you help other's out with parts.
There are some camaro's out there that just would cost to much to restore. I think all the high testosterone guy's with addatude need to chill. Oh and some of the rims were amazing! I would have loved to get a hold of a set of them. Would you mind if I added you as friend so that I will have easy acsess to getting parts, that I need. Right now I really need Airdam deflector for my 89 RS. Would you by chance have one?

 

My opinion is these guys wouldn't be able to sell parts if there wasn't a demand for them. I've had Mustangs also and there are people on Four Eyed Pride and SVOOA that will castrate you if you even think about parting one of those cars. And they would be the first to buy parts if they needed them. Hey, this is my first post! In before the lock!

 

Do we have a good aftermarket where the parts fit like OEM(fenders, bumpers, seat foam, dashes, etc?) No? Then I approve of parting.

If Marokid didn't buy these cars, where would all the good parts on them be, you ask? Crushed. I would MUCH rather him part cars, than see all those good parts go to the crusher. Thirdgen parts are getting very hard to find around here, not because of people parting them out, but because junkyards crush them with all the parts still on the car. Marokid is doing more good for the hobby than bad.

 

Nothing wrong with what he is doing. Every style of car that is in demand or rare has em. Its a very good side job that if spent time on can wield in good money. I did it for half a year and funded a lot of progress for my past projects.

Let's face it most of our base are on a budget or are just plain old cheap. These are the guys bringing in the good and desireable parts back into market to get that last finishing touch on peoples projects or hell to get it running.

 

thanks everyone for the positive support.....air dam deflector ill have to check on...im getting 2-3 new cars in next week and yes the black camaro was an 81 z28....the floors were held together with bath tub calking and old license plates and the subframe was held in with 2 bolts (he was still driving it like this before engine blew haha)

 

THIS IS WHAT I MEAN by ive had a variety of cars.....call me an enthusiest or not...i love the camaro the most...but i had a blacked out 95 cobra 5 speed with nitrous....and a 98 dodge ram v10 auto ats tranny show truck marble paint and kelderman air ride with dual straight axles and 36's (45 grand to build) these are just a few things ive owned and
that there dodge truck has paid for several of the camaros ive bought since ive have since sold the truck not to long ago

 

HERES a new car im picking up very sooon....yes it made me laugh to when i saw it but its rust free body and a sound proofed interior....its an 84 z28 305 auto with posi disc brake rear has alot of custom work and waqs once a advertising car for a local audio shop has been sitting in this spot for the past 8 years....thoughts on this??

 

i guess the backseat has been replaced with custom boxes i believe owner said this is for 18 inch subs?