dicer

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That video has been around. My memory recalls this was a prototype provided by Toyota for a SEMA project. That was a non serialized chassis so the car was destroyed after the aftermarket parts were removed. Toyota showed us a working LS 460 back ~'06 with a chassis of 00000000 or something.

dicer

Yeah but this same thing happens to lots of soon to be rare parts for Gen 1 and Gen 2 LS400's every day at pick n pull yards especially, they only let the cars sit for a month in the yard and then smash it. I'd say almost everyone has the engine , transmission , rear end, all suspension parts and most electronic boxes still in them.
All the small parts are priced way out of reason especially for the money the yards gain from their scrap value. How much smashed in the car scrap value does an ECU have? I'd guess maybe .02 cents. I got the great honor one time since my buddy worked at the place for a while to watch cars go up a conveyer into a machine that chewed them up into very small pieces and then they came out the back from another conveyer and I got to push the pile of metal chips up into a huge pile of those chips to be loaded on to a ship headed for china, there was no separating any of the materials that I know of, because they don't do that at the wrecking yards when they smash the cars. And when they hit the chewing or shredding machine they are in that smashed form. And its nice to see ford Taurus's and mopar sebrings and that sort of junker get the smash and chew.