I have a hard time finding good carriers too.Most I find have the axle thrust surface worn so badly the spiral oil groove is gone.As for old junk,in the last few years I have seen two,(locally)instances where parts were scrapped.One was at the estate of a man who lost his dairy farm to the feds in the mid 50's when they built Pease AFB on it.He was paid VERY well for it.He had A's in use at the time,and after his retirement from farming he would tinker up engines.He assembled dozens of them,starting with only the ones with perfect babbit.There were two?maybe three dozen of them on wooden stands,complete and running with all accessories.The lawyers handling the estate wanted to sell them off,but to remove them you had to show proof of insurance and workmans comp for any helpers.They wound up going to a local scrap dealer.That guy was pretty good,he tried to save them although he knew nothing about A's.He made extra trips with the dump trailer,setting them on the floor in one layer instead of filling the trailer.He did contact a club about them,I don't know who it was though.A handful of guys showed up,wanted to pick and choose,fire them up,etc.He is a pretty nice guy,but these guys tried his patience.He had told them X cents per pound,take all.In the end he broke off the starters and generators and loaded the engines into the frag trailers.At a salvage yard less than three miles from me the owners widow finally died and her grandkids cleaned the property up.Those executors had set the rules so strict that the bidding went from buying the scrap to charging to remove it.The yard had closed in 1978,and the latest car in there was a 1968.I was helping the yard that did a lot of the cleanup so I got a lot of the old body tools from the shop.We were removing the old Weaver 4 post lift when one of the attorneys caught us.It was to be scrapped,and it was not leaving as a workable unit.We had to torch it into sections and throw it into the trailer.The only cars that left there whole were the ones from his personal stash that had been stored in the garage.Everything else was crushed on site.There were around 700 cars in the yard,mostly 50's Chevys.There is a stash of engines in the western part of the state,the man that used to do babbit work for lots of us passed away a couple of years ago.He had 700(seven hundred)engines in his barns.Who would even want to try and handle the logistics of dealing with that,except for a scrap buyer.
Now after thinking about this, I think I'm gonna puke! 
silver lining...grey primer is all i could do, back when...so used to it
