On Aug 4, 3:22*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
DerbyDad03 wrote:

"Unless the vehicles are DESTROYED..."

The program requires that the engine be destroyed and the vehicle
labled attesting that fact. If the dealers are getting around that
requirement, then what will stop them from getting around the
requirement that the entire vehicle be destroyed?

But really, please provide a cite for the "some accounts" you
mentioned.

No cite, but it's obvious you only need the VIN and motor from an identical,
totaled, vehicle and you're good to go.

True, but that really has nothing to do with the double-dipping
argument, in the strictest of terms. You could always take parts from
one car and put them in another.

The engine from the totaled vehicle was always available for use in a
car with a decent chassis. It wasn't traded in under the program and
therefore is still available for use. The program doesn't require all
existing engines to be destroyed and it doesn't state that you have to
destroy the entire "clunker". In fact, the program, as I understand
it, allows recycling yeards 180 days to remove usable parts after the
clucnker's engine is rendered inoperable.

I won't claim to have read the entire 163 page document detailing the
program, but if the rest of the clunker vehicle was usable, and the
engine from the totaled vehicle did not come from an official clunker,
then the combination of these 2 objects sounds perfectly legal.