http://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/08/21/an-inconvenient-car-leads-to-inconvenient-lives/ Delivering the Best of the New Media Since 2004. Fri, 25 May 2012 18:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/08/21/an-inconvenient-car-leads-to-inconvenient-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-686140 Cars4Charities Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:22:13 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=10047#comment-686140 Many of the cars being turned in for a cash for clunker voucher would have been donated to charity. Those cars would have been sold or given to the poor instead of destroyed. It seems like a terrible waste. Many of the cars being turned in for a cash for clunker voucher would have been donated to charity. Those cars would have been sold or given to the poor instead of destroyed. It seems like a terrible waste.

]]> http://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/08/21/an-inconvenient-car-leads-to-inconvenient-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-686100 ~* Cheesestick *~ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:58:38 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=10047#comment-686100 You know, these car videos make me cry. And if my dad were still alive today, he would be suicidal over all of this. He worked on cars all his life. He bought many vehicles from salvage auctions and fixed them up like new. My favorite truck I owned was a 1993 Ford Ranger XLT, bought from the salvage yard in 1995 w/ 20k miles on it. All that was wrong w/ it was the driver's side was peeled off in an accident. We bought it for $2500 and put another $2K into parts (by buying a similarly more wrecked Ranger at the same auction.) So for $4500 dollars (plus free labor, courtesy of my dad) I drove that great truck for 11 years and, aside from wrecking it once more myself, had no engine trouble or other repair work done to it ever. And I still was able to sell it for about $500 dollars. Unbelievable to me what they are calling "junk". You know, these car videos make me cry. And if my dad were still alive today, he would be suicidal over all of this. He worked on cars all his life. He bought many vehicles from salvage auctions and fixed them up like new. My favorite truck I owned was a 1993 Ford Ranger XLT, bought from the salvage yard in 1995 w/ 20k miles on it. All that was wrong w/ it was the driver's side was peeled off in an accident. We bought it for $2500 and put another $2K into parts (by buying a similarly more wrecked Ranger at the same auction.) So for $4500 dollars (plus free labor, courtesy of my dad) I drove that great truck for 11 years and, aside from wrecking it once more myself, had no engine trouble or other repair work done to it ever. And I still was able to sell it for about $500 dollars. Unbelievable to me what they are calling "junk".

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