Vehicle Scrapage bill

Tom@Hilltop_Machine

Tom@Hilltop_Machine

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:shaking:I got an email alert from SEMA. Apparently congress is trying to pass the scrapage bill again hoping it will stimulate people to buy new cars and help the failing auto industry. I think there is a link where you can email a letter opposing it. If the bill goes thru Nancy Pelosi wants it ready for Obama to sign 1/20/09.
 
I hate when this stuff comes around. It really infuriates me. Manufactures produce too many damn vehicles in the first place so they're trying to make this an excuse to force people to buy all their overstock.
 
SStone said:
I hate when this stuff comes around. It really infuriates me. Manufactures produce too many damn vehicles in the first place so they're trying to make this an excuse to force people to buy all their overstock.
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AMEN!
 
X3 on what SStone said. I heard quite a few stories this past year of people stealing cars out of peoples yards and taking them to the scrap yard while the prices were up. Surely this wouldn't increase the chances of that starting up again:shaking:
 
I think some of the big guys really need to focus on other things. Vehicle's sitting around have never been a problem to me, and I know many others would agree. I remember the last time I heard about a bill like this I got pretty upset.
 
GONOVRIT said:
X3 on what SStone said. I heard quite a few stories this past year of people stealing cars out of peoples yards and taking them to the scrap yard while the prices were up. Surely this wouldn't increase the chances of that starting up again:shaking:
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friend of mine lost a 68 lemans, 71 cuttlass and 72 gto from out back of his body shop in pittsboro because of that. By the time he found out and found the scrap yard only the lemans hadn't been smashed.
 
As if old cars/trucks were "loaded" with lots of steel to scrap. The biggest detroit boats from yesteryear don't weigh nearly as much at the crap made in the last 10-15 years. Safety crap including pipe-style doorbeams, rigid "uniody" structures, and more exotic materials in new cars should make all the newer stuff more "scrap-worthy" than old cars.

It is hard enough to find parts for my '69 Blazer now, I cannot imagine if the scrappers get paid off by the damn government. They don't have any money to pay for those programs anyway.
 
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