old cars going for scrap... dissapointing

Today at lunch I was very dissapointed to see an either 54 5 or 6 chevy on the back of a flat bed headed for the local iron scrap yard. It was missing the trunk lid and the back window was busted up but other then that it was all there, it was a 2 door too, had no paint left on it but looked pretty solid other then that. I am tempted to call them tomorrow morning to see if it is there and maybe buy it. I know it is not a mopar but I still hated to see it on the way to the end of its life as a cool old car. The flat bed towing it looked to be more of a POS then the car. It sucks having that iron scrap yard here in town because I see alot of cars headed there and a lot of them have been old stuff that you wish could have been restored rather then junked for iron weight.