[DeTomaso] NPC Watched nice newer looking 'Clunkers' being crushed today

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Let me tell you about my dad's truck:

He had a farm truck that he purchased several years ago for $100.

It didn't have a bed, so he bought one - for $300.

The bed didn't fit.  It was for a normal truck, and the farm truck was an extended cab.  If you put the bed on the truck, the wheel wells were in the wrong place.  So, he cut a foot or two off the cabside of the bad.

The bed was a different color.

The dog ate the seats.

The springs were bent from being overloaded.

None of the wheels matched.

This truck was a piece of junk.  It was used on the farm to haul junk around.  The best part was the 351W that was running like a champ.

He traded it in on a new pickup truck, even though he already had a King Ranch edition truck.

Now he has a truck that he doesn't need.  It cost $17K after rebates, cash-for-clunkers, and so on.  The truck probably cost Ford $12K to make.

My dad is a die-hard Republican. He even does the expensive fund-raising dinners.  He has met Dick Cheney and George W.  He did the cash-for-clunkers because he wanted something back from the gov't for all the mess that's been going on.

I can sort-of see the logic behind cash-for-clunkers, but once again, the government has proven that it doesn't know what it is doing.  (no comments about my dad)

-----Original Message-----
>From: "michael at michaelshortt.com" <michaelsavga at gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 4, 2009 7:08 PM
>To: larry at ohiotimecorp.com
>Cc: Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com>, detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC Watched nice newer looking 'Clunkers' being	crushed today
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>The CARS program had the following rules ( just a part of them )
>The car had to be on the approved list
>The person trading it in had to show proof that they had owned it for the
>last twelve months
>It had to be running and licensed with tags and insurance.
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>Once traded in, the dealer poured a substance called "Liquid Glass" into the
>crankcase while the cars idled, in a few minutes the engine will seize.
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>They just "Killed the car"
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>Now they have less than 30 days to sell it to a salvage yard operator or re
>cycler.
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>A salvage yard operator can keep the remains for up to 180 days from the
>date that it died to pull parts off or it for resell.
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>at 180 days or before, the remains must be crushed, shredded or otherwise
>disposed of with no exceptions.
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>That was the bad dream that 700,000 cars had in the last two months, once
>proud possessions, loved and groomed, washed and waxed, with great pride
>taken in their acquisition, some body's first new car, somebody else's first
>car,
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>it is a sad end to a mechanical life, if cars had a spirit, I'd hope the
>disembodied autos swarm 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington Dc and haunt the
>place until they can't stand it and move out.
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>Michael Shortt.
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>On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:55 PM, <larry at ohiotimecorp.com> wrote:
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>> Ken,
>>
>> I think they are killing the engine (acid?), then it is ok to sell the rest
>> of the
>> parts....what i heard on the raido. They also want them gone as they are
>> not as "green" (no
>> not you) as they should be.
>>
>> There should have been a program to trade in your "S-box" for one of them.
>> I have 4 S-box car
>> that were to good for the "Clunker" program.
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>>
>> Larry (never fit) - Cleveland
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>> On Fri Sep  4 16:13 , Ken Green  sent:
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>> >Am I the only one who wonders why the "Clunkers" (many of which are nicer
>> used cars because
>> you had to be able to afford a new car to get into the program) are being
>> crushed instead of
>> traded to low income folks driving the real clunkers.
>> >
>> >Great to see my tax dollars at work.
>> >
>> >Ken
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