gRape of the Verdes

**Alfisto Steve** · #1 (**permalink**) 10-16-2007, 06:44 PM

Well, Alex your two old fallen by the wayside Verdes have been pillared and plundered we are both sad and glad to say. What started out to be a "Race" car project for Team Stupido in Shawn's side yard took a nasty twist when the Code Violation police took matters into their own hands and served him with a 48 hour notice last Thursday to move'em or suffer serious legal consequences. So Skip's Shriner bud Pete towed them to his wrecking yard Saturday.

Skip, Kent and I raped silver gray one Monday and today Skip, Joe and I did old Rosso today. Sad fact of life they had to donate their innards but it was the only way we could hope to give life to others (glad part of story).

I am now awash in "Save the Verde Parts" to slow down my 164 Rescue projects, but I will overcome this problem. Maybe I need to get some bumper stickers made about "Save the Alfas be a Organ Donor"

Stay tuned for more on Verde organ donor project.

**Alfisto Steve** · #2 (**permalink**) 10-16-2007, 06:53 PM

More of the Verde donor project:

**Alfisto Steve** · #3 (**permalink**) 10-16-2007, 06:56 PM

Saga continues. Where am I going to put all this stuff still in truck?

**AlfaTango1** · #4 (**permalink**) 10-16-2007, 07:38 PM

You can put the transaxle on a Greyhound to San Diego!

**Bill S** · #5 (**permalink**) 10-16-2007, 07:44 PM

48 hrs! Man, Norfolk is brutal.

I thought Skip only smiled like that when he was working on a 4 cyl. I guess tearing apart a 6 cyl. is okay - as long as he doesn't have to put it back together. He does seem to be making sort of a modified gesture toward the camera - no doubt in grateful recognition of what you got him into.

Thanks Steve, great shots of another mission of mercy.

**Alfisto Steve** · #6 (**permalink**) 10-16-2007, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by AlfaTango1

You can put the transaxle on a Greyhound to San Diego!

jhutton · #7 (**permalink**) 10-17-2007, 06:18 AM

looks as bad as i did last weekend, found out the junk yard got a bunch of new saabs, benz's and bmw's so my brother and i went after church.... a wheel barrow or two later we did pretty good going back next payday to get more

: (Stand up) Hi my name is jason and i am adicted to the junk yard (sit down)

**Alex Csank** · #8 (**permalink**) 10-17-2007, 07:22 AM

Great job, Steve and Skip!

I'm sorry you got stuck with the work. I thought the "team" were going to do something with the cars. I guess they didn't work fast enough, huh?

Thanks for all the pics. It's sad to see two more Verdes bite the dust, but this way...more Alfas will live again.

**Alfisto Steve** · #9 (**permalink**) 10-17-2007, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex Csank

Great job, Steve and Skip!

I'm sorry you got stuck with the work. I thought the "team" were going to do something with the cars. I guess they didn't work fast enough, huh?

Thanks for all the pics. It's sad to see two more Verdes bite the dust, but this way...more Alfas will live again.

DPDISXR4Ti · #10 (**permalink**) 10-19-2007, 05:34 PM

I'd tell you to build a utility trailer from the rear-end assembly (less the T/A of course), but it looks like you already have one. As a point of reference, the Verde T/A I sold on eBay about a year ago went for ~$600. At ~150 lbs, FedEx Freight cost to go half-way across the country was $150 IIRC. Of course, it had to be put on a pallet - wasn't too terrible of a job, but not the most fun I've ever had.

Curious, did you have a friend at the junkyard so that you could haul the cars there and then dismantle everything as yours? That was a lucky break considering the time-crunch you were under.