Gearheads cringe when a fine automobile is abused by a nitwit knucklehead, plenty of examples of that abound. My great aunt had a pristine garage-kept dealer-maintained '68 Chrysler Newport that her ding-a-ling daughter snagged at probate in '92, who quickly drove it into the ground and proclaimed it was a piece of junk, traded it for some jap car (that quickly met the same fate). Nice things in the hands of neglectful ppl never last long, so disposing of the carcass of a once useful machine can be done a little easier if the remnants are repurposed wisely and not just discarded for scrap. I scrapped 2 flatheads a few years ago as they were well worn when I found them, I pulled off a few external pieces then took them across the scales...possibly could have salvaged them at some expense and that still kinda bothers me that I did not, but I had no adequate place to keep them and they were deteriorating in the high humidity storage so I opted to cut my losses while I could. All we can do is make our best efforts to keep up what is salvageable and know the difference between saving a relic and parting out a basket case