C4 Vette Clunked???????

[Code Red]

IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


the previous owner needs shot


http://videos.streetfire.net/video/C4-Vette-Clunked_702277.htm

[Samckitt]

I can't believe that. Makes me ill.

[Restomod]

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 $$???

[BonzoHansen]

I'll buy that vette form the dealer for $200 with the blown motor.

[speeddemon619]

Well youll have to buy it from the feds because its their property now :P

[Samckitt]

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.

[79-TA]

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.

[MrQuick]

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.

[Mr Nick]

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?

[Code Red]

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

[wicked68]

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.

[subtlez28]

Wtf!?!

[wicked68]

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.

[Kenova]

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.

Ken

[tumper93]

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.

[James OLC]

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.

Ken

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.

[mc84_zz4]

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.
:machine:

[Hidro]

Its given off more pollution killing it then the last few years of driving it .....brilliant!:bsjerk:

[nvmyss]

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.

[79-TA]

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.

[2ndgenhunter]

There is a 86 t type clunked at an atlanta toyota dealer. Its rough but its a t type

[CraigMorrison]

This is exactly what they want. Get all the old stuff off the roads. No more parts, cars will be left to die.

That's the scary thing about this deal and nobody really knows it yet.

[406 Q-ship]

There is a 86 t type clunked at an atlanta toyota dealer. Its rough but its a t type

Sad part is that the turbo V6 will pull down 29 to 30 MPG if tuned proper.......I know of a GN/T-type driveline in a El Camino that has gotten that mileage and runs mid 12 on street tires all the time. Probably bought a Camry that gets worse mileage than that T-type is capable of.......people are so stupid.

[B's Nova]

There two types of people that give these cars up, meaning older performance cars, misinformed people, ones who don't know what they actually have, and ones that do not want to go through the hassle of dealing with private sale. Remember, we are all car enthusiast here and these cars that we turn from a blank canvas to works of art are considered by the general public as junk and waste of time and money to restore. It only takes a few people to low ball them on these cars and they would have gotten fed and took advantage of CARS program.

[Code Red]

There two types of people that give these cars up, meaning older performance cars, misinformed people, ones who don't know what they actually have, and ones that do not want to go through the hassle of dealing with private sale. Remember, we are all car enthusiast here and these cars that we turn from a blank canvas to works of art are considered by the general public as junk and waste of time and money to restore. It only takes a few people to low ball them on these cars and they would have gotten fed and took advantage of CARS program.
agreed

[67 caprice]

A vehicle at 15 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 800 gallons a year of gasoline. A vehicle at 25 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 480 gallons a year. So, the average clunker transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year. They claim 700,000 vehicles – so that's 224 million gallons / year.

That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil. 5 million barrels of oil is about ¼ of one day's US consumption. 5 million barrels of oil costs about $350 million dollars at $75/bbl. So, we all committed to spending $3 billion to save $350 million.

$350,000,000 saved by those who bought a new car $3,000,000,000 paid by everyone else who did not. How good a deal was that ???:bsjerk:

I just can't wait to see how much we save with the new health care!!

[PT_79_TA_461]

what did baldy beardo's shirt say?"make em clunk" ?

[cees67]

that thing still had gatorbacks on it ! oh well........

[Ash]

"There is a 86 t type clunked at an Atlanta Toyota dealer. Its rough but its a t type"
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That's the equivalent of pulling the switch or giving an animal the "Blue Juice" at the vet.....I couldn't be an executioner in an circumstance, especially this one. I just hope it's the exception, and not the rule.