Don’t do it. Trade in your so-called clunker, that is. You will be guilty of murder. Once the deal is done, you might want to go to confession. Murder of valuable used engines and other valuable, hard to get parts for your old clunker.
Cash for Clunkers trade-ins aren’t being salvaged. No, they’re not being parted out by recycling yards and sold to the public like they should be. Instead, the engines are loaded up with sodium silicate until it’s a dust. As for the rest of the car, care to take a guess at its fate? More worthless than a wing nut.
You’d think that this was some kind of bad joke on clunker owners. Some of us want to slip off our hats and cover our heart. These cars are being put down, Death Row-style.
Not true. These vehicles are wanted, and in high numbers. Many car enthusiasts- or your average Joe Car Owner wanting, say, a used fender, can’t even touch these cars. It’s forbidden.
What is happening is it’s going to become increasingly harder to find quality used engines and parts at affordable prices. Compound that with the body and repair shops losing a valuable source of affordable body parts, leaving them unable to perform “affordable” body work on older cars. The future doesn’t look so bright, auto-wise. .
Speaking of dirty work, why would a death sentence for good used engines come about in the first place? Shutting out Mr. Clunker owner from keeping his car on the road is no more fair than making new cars “affordable” to people who can’t afford one even with the rebate. Like waving a carrot in front of a horse.
What is staining lawmakers’ hands is oil. From euthanized engines.
Little do lawmakers know, however, is how much we need these so-called clunkers. Yes, working daily duty. In the daily grind of going here and there. On the streets of America.
And being especially useful by donating their parts. That includes engines.
So save the clunkers from an unjust and frightful end. Lawmakers think the clunkers are being put out of their misery. What really needs to be put down, by lethal injection, is a bill that does the automotive industry no good in the first place. People depend on used engines for their clunkers. That is the point, most people who drive clunkers can’t afford new cars or more expensive choices in engines or they would have a newer car already.
