Cash For Clunkers From the Inside

You see I have a different view than most for whatever reason that seems to take some people aback.

I like my view.

Cash for clunkers or how the alarmists will scream bloody murder, is not really as bad for the collector car market as a lot of people would have us believe. Yes it has its flaws but the present market for used and re-manufactured parts may soon have a glut with overstocks and lower prices. How? Keep reading.

A Car is traded in, under the current Cash for Clunkers rules and is taken to a recycler where the vehicle is disabled under the supervision of the trading dealer or it is disabled at the dealer before being brought to the recycling facility. The hoops of paper work and regulations that the recycler and dealer are made to jump through is as redundant as any other Govt. Projects.

The way they disable the vehicle, is they blow the engine so it may not be reused or rebuilt. This process is rather simple with the oil being drained and a substance referred to as "Liquid Glass" replacing it. This stuff heats up and seizes the engine completely while ruining any hope of salvaging any moving parts within the engine.

So now the vehicle is disabled and nothing in all the hoops says that the other parts of the vehicle can't be removed and reused like transmissions, pumps, body components etc.

Now a good business man can see the unbelievable potential of wharehousing these parts and selling them off as needed.

I see this as being the recycling of a shell of a vehicle and solidified engine being crushed rather than the terrible horror predicted by many of the enthusiast community. Qualified vehicles are not antiques or classics just Clunkers.

I like my view.