Scrap car pickup in Archer Heights

Archer Heights, between the expressway and the tracks

Archer Heights is bounded by the Stevenson Expressway on the north, the CTA Orange Line on the south, the Corwith rail yard on the east and the railroad tracks near Knox Avenue on the west. Archer Avenue runs through the middle, and Pulaski Road, 47th Street and Kostner Avenue cross it.

It’s a working neighbourhood in the most literal sense: Wikipedia’s entry on the community area notes that about 60 percent of its land is used for manufacturing and bulk transport. The homes sit in what’s often called the Southwest Side bungalow belt.

Where your car probably is, and how to tell us

If your scrap car is in an alley garage or on a side drive, say so. When you call about a scrap car in Archer Heights, the two most useful things to tell us are where the car sits (garage, alley apron, street) and whether it rolls. That’s how Smart Scrap Metal Buyers plans a pickup that doesn’t waste your afternoon.

Landmarks that help:

• Pulaski station on the Orange Line, at 5106 S. Pulaski Road.
• The Archer Heights branch library at 5055 S. Archer Avenue.
• Curie Metropolitan High School at Archer and Pulaski.

The area takes its name from William B. Archer, a commissioner of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

What we buy and how it works

We take junk, wrecked and scrap cars whether they start or not. Send the year, make, model and title status; we call with an offer; we tow for free and you’re paid at pickup. Title gone missing? We can still help. List the papers you do have, like a bill of sale, the registration or an insurance card; Illinois rules settle which of them count for a scrap sale, and we confirm it with you on the call.

Once the car’s gone, it’s recycled for its metal: the steel shell to mills, aluminum and copper sorted out separately.

The next corridor over

Southwest past Midway, scrap car pickup in Clearing covers the neighbourhood around the airport’s south side.