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Old 08-22-2009, 03:45 PM
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Default C4 Vette Clunked???????

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I can't believe that. Makes me ill.
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Old 08-22-2009, 05:17 PM
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HAHA Yep all you chevy guys really love your chevys!!!! I wonder what all the dealers are going to do when they dont get their $$???
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I'll buy that vette form the dealer for $200 with the blown motor.
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Well youll have to buy it from the feds because its their property now :P
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Well youll have to buy it from the feds because its their property now :P
And the feds get their money from our taxes, so technically it is ours already.
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AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGHHH. That is sick on so many levels. Just from the owner's personal finance level, the cheapest C4 'vettes on the market today are about 4k. The owner can't be getting that much more from the CARS program than he could have from the market. Perhaps he could have tried parting it out and then at least other Corvettes could live on. The fact that anyone in this nation would be willing to do that really hurts my view of our country.
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oh yeah, you would all cry if you has witnessed what our Honda shop took off the streets. Sad

This is exactly what they want. Get all the old stuff off the roads. No more parts, cars will be left to die.
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Cars traded in on the clunker program can be sold for parts correct? Is the VIN still valid? Meaning, could somebody buy that Vette now and put a 'new' engine in it?
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Cars traded in on the clunker program can be sold for parts correct? Is the VIN still valid? Meaning, could somebody buy that Vette now and put a 'new' engine in it?

not generally BUT there was a guy who found a 87 5.0 stang that was turned in but was able to buy it before the paperwork was done
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Cars traded in on the clunker program can be sold for parts correct? Is the VIN still valid? Meaning, could somebody buy that Vette now and put a 'new' engine in it?
yes they can according to the dealer I did a clunker deal with yesterday. they sell them to junk yards for 6 cents per pound and they can do with them whatever they like. so really only the block and pistons are toast - everything else is good to go.
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I clunked my 1994 merc grand marquis (135K miles on it) yesterday - it was my commute car forever - but it needed about 1500 worth of parts and work to get it to go for another 2 years and was only worth 1000 so I got a jetta tdi for the daily 50mile round trip to the office 0- got 4500 for it and another 1300 in federal green tax credits. cant beat that.

Its nice - I got 36mpg from tuscaloosa to atl yesterday at 90mph - pretty insane mileage.

that was a good clunker trade.
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not generally BUT there was a guy who found a 87 5.0 stang that was turned in but was able to buy it before the paperwork was done
I read about a dealer in Michigan ( Gibson's Chevrolet ) that had a "little old lady" bring in a pristine Caprice Classic for a clunker trade. They (the dealer) didn't have the heart to clunk it, so they gave her a $4500.00 trade in value for her car, hoping they can get their money out of it.
It would seem to me that this dealer is interested in more than just dollars and cents.

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The VIN is flagged and cannot be retitled. The vehicle also cannot be sold as complete, it can be sold in sections only. The junkyard, etc can remove what they want to resell then the remaining part of the vehicle must be crushed.
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I read about a dealer in Michigan ( Gibson's Chevrolet ) that had a "little old lady" bring in a pristine Caprice Classic for a clunker trade. They (the dealer) didn't have the heart to clunk it, so they gave her a $4500.00 trade in value for her car, hoping they can get their money out of it.
It would seem to me that this dealer is interested in more than just dollars and cents.

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No... although this dealer is interested in more than dollars and sense - making them that is.

I would guess that there have been lots of dealers who have seen clunker trade-ins worth more than $4500 that have given the cash equivelant rather than actually clunking them. The fact is that there are lots of C4's available around $5K so it was probably easier for the owner to get rid of it that way then it was through a private sale. There have been a couple of high profile "clunkings" (well high internet profile) including a "Maserati" (well... ok... a Chrysler Maserati worth about $4500 to someone) but I haven't seen anything that was worth a pile more than it was traded for.

I would guarantee that if you drove ANYTHING onto a dealers lot worth more than $4500 and with decent resale potential that it would never make it into the clunker registry.
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Thank GOD that stupid program came to an end this weekend.
The yard here has plenty of nice cars that need a new engine, but most are in better shape that what is on the road.
Did not get the real polluters off the road.
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Its given off more pollution killing it then the last few years of driving it .....brilliant!:bsjerk:
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The VIN is flagged and cannot be retitled. The vehicle also cannot be sold as complete, it can be sold in sections only. The junkyard, etc can remove what they want to resell then the remaining part of the vehicle must be crushed.
Correct but it can only be at the junk yard for a limited amount of time. Plus the fact that the engines have to be rendered in-op. I know dealer in NY is using liquid glass on the crank case.
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Cars traded in on the clunker program can be sold for parts correct? Is the VIN still valid? Meaning, could somebody buy that Vette now and put a 'new' engine in it?

Shipka and others already covered this, but if it's officially a CARS car, it's dead. The best you can do is pull the other parts off at the local salvage yard. If the dealer just takes it and doesn't go for govt money, then it's open game.



Has anyone been in their local salvage yard lately? My local pick-your-parts were absolutely stuffed full of incoming (and outgoing) cars. I've never seen them have such an issue with space.
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