I know when I scrapped, I mostly bought Chevy Trucks and vans, Had a buyer that bought all GM v8's from us blown up or not, I'd stock up on some things like transmissions, cores and known good, Radiators, electric fans, window regulators, rear ends, Door windows, you name it. We usually kept all that stuff for a while with no buyers, we'd throw it into a scrap van or truck for weight, I'm not giving it aways for free when I can still make something off it. Or we used the spare parts to make one good truck and sell it.

But typically yes, parting out you could make more money, but it will take time, not everyone is going to have a need for Focus parts ya know, You will not get $1,000 for scraping that thing complete, you may get closer to $500 assuming its still got the cat, if someone comes and picks it up, Lucky to get 400 out of it with how low it is right now, they got to make money too. But the potential to make more selling parts is there, its just time.

Before covid we were pulling in almost 600 per truck without a transmission and engine, just weight alone, Now that same truck would bring in 300 on a good day lol, its sad.