the problem is i cant fit it in my garage and i dont realy want it out front, could i angle grind off the back end of it once ive stripped the parts i need?

its 125 miles away from me so its quite a distance with no mot or tax..... i dont have a trailer and only got a diesel punto with a towing capacity of 900kg so i would need to either pay for collection or make a new friend that owns a car trailer

something like this would seriously aid me in my £1200 locost....
not sure bout engine size tho.....


cheers

matt

[Edited on 4/1/07 by novacaine]

Is your question can I cut a car in half? if so then yes!

i guess im going to be there for quite some time and get through quite a few discs then lol

matt

Yeah I wouldn't use a dremel or a hacksaw.

That's it! The winner of the Locostbuilder pissing competition is the person who can in one go (of course!) karate chop a Volvo 740 in half with the hand of their choice....

I choose someone elses

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Yeah I wouldn't use a dremel or a hacksaw.

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That's it! The winner of the Locostbuilder pissing competition is the person who can in one go (of course!) karate chop a Volvo 740 in half with the hand of their choice....

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Hire a 12" petrol grinder, dead cheap and will see it in half in no time. Try not to cut through the fuel and brake lines though!

not a bad idea......

12'' angle grinder, sparks flying and (optional) evil laugh ........sounds fun

how do i go about getting rid of it tho?

i doubt any scrappy would even think about loading rusty chunks of volvo onto their lorry.....

ideas?

cheers

Matt

where is it and what model ?

dont think about cutting it up until youve offered people the interior if its the right colour youll be maikng money .

and agreed , a stihl saw with 12 inch disc is your friend .

price of scrap nowadays , a full volvo is £70

PM me .

You'd have no probs getting rid. Scrap steel prices have gone thro the roof - a friend just got £105 for a Rover 827 purely for scrap steel value, not from a breaker!!! So I think they'd be happy to take away a (2 piece!) shell for free.

if thats the case then i will get looking in the yellow pages for scrap dealers

cheers

Matt

I've recently weighed in a Pug 106 fairly complete & a Polo stripped but with a fair bit of crap tin inside it, I got £95 for the 2 which weighed 1600kg together.
When I've cut stuff in half I've cut the fuel & brake lines first & nipped the ends up with pliers to seal them & folded them away from the path of the saw. It does take a fair bit of doing on a well built beast such as that but its good fun too if you want to vent some fury

Agreed as the general consensus goes - I'd get the car recovered to a scrapyard and then get the bits off you need and leave the rest for them -as a thanks for getting in an area for you to work on it...


ACTUALLY - 'SCRAP' that idea!

You in the AA? Just make out you broke down and get them to tow the car back to your home - then strip @ leisure and then weigh the car in with the scrap man! That's what I'd do



[Edited on 4/1/07 by muzchap]

im with the AA

problem is theres no MOT or Tax and someone has chucked a brick through the windscreen of it so im gonna have a hard time convincing them ive broken down....

would be a great idea if i could get it to work...anyone tried anything simmilar to that?

cheers

Matt

If the AA sends a private contractor as they always have when I've used them you'll be ok I think. When the wheel bearings failed on the borrowed trailer we had the bloke couldnt get the trailer & my trackday Mini on the wagon together, so we left the trailer under a motorway flyover & he fetched the totally not road legal Mini home on its own.
We went back a couple of days later with spare hubs & fetched the trailer which sadly didnt get pinched back ourselves.

AA wont tow u unless its road legal, well, taxed, and i think the bricked screen might be suspect lol........