Cash for Clunkers program
Cargo Master
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For the profit involved, it would be worth buying an utter junker that barely ran, tagging and parking it for the required time, then trading it in. All perfectly legal.
"Plus of course there is always the little old lady from Pasadena turning in her classic old car to the crusher and losing all those beautiful old cars that would see few additional miles if they were retired to a caring person who appreciated them."
The old lady is likely pushing daisies or in a nursing home, considering the classic era was so many, many decades ago. Those of us ancient enough to remember them are of the generation that scored most of those vehicles back in the day and are on the lookout for the remaining few.
It should be noted that dealers who encounter a person trading in a worthwhile car can skip the "clunker" option, offer the customer more in trade (trade-ins being freebies in the case of old cars anyway) , and be seen as doing the customer a favor. Dealers have many, many options.
"Plus of course there is always the little old lady from Pasadena turning in her classic old car to the crusher and losing all those beautiful old cars that would see few additional miles if they were retired to a caring person who appreciated them."
The old lady is likely pushing daisies or in a nursing home, considering the classic era was so many, many decades ago. Those of us ancient enough to remember them are of the generation that scored most of those vehicles back in the day and are on the lookout for the remaining few.
It should be noted that dealers who encounter a person trading in a worthwhile car can skip the "clunker" option, offer the customer more in trade (trade-ins being freebies in the case of old cars anyway) , and be seen as doing the customer a favor. Dealers have many, many options.
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Joined: Apr 2009
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This seems like nothing more than a formula for getting people to spend money they don't have on cars they can't afford. My cars are all paid for, I haven't made a car payment since 1995, and I don't intend to start now. Just sucks that it seems our friends in government seem determined to force guys like me into payments we don't want. And I say this because it's not going to be long, if they don't get the results they want, before they start trying to force older cars off the road in the name of fixing global warming. Which at this point, no one can actually prove even exists, let alone that my f-250 is causing it.
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