harry k wrote:
On Aug 4, 11:25 am, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Aug 4, 2:03 pm, wrote:

On Aug 4, 11:44 am, "Jon Danniken"
wrote:

I'm not exactly what you would call a die hard "green" kind of a
person, but having learned the ways of thrift and economy from
grandparents who survived the great depression of 1929, I can't
help but see this as a total waste of otherwise useful resources.

Unless the vehicles are DESTROYED, there is nothing the government
can do to prevent less scrupulous dealers and other shady
profiteers from double-dipping by collecting the CARS rebate, then
turning around and selling the trade-in clunker for Kelly Blue Book
price. Heck from some accounts, vehicles from the CARS program are
showing up on auction lots, running and driving under their own
power already. Anything but the total destruction of the tradeins
leaves that loophole.

"Heck from some accounts, vehicles from the CARS program are
showing up on auction lots, running and driving under their own power
already"

Cite please.

"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.

Thus far I have seen nothing that says the entire vehicle must be
destroyed. Only the engine has been mentioned. I have been wondering
what would keep someone from buying the "hulk" after engine
destruction and putting a new motor in it.


The "clunker's" VIN is recorded as junked. The car cannot be registered.

BUT if you have a corresponding model, you can transfer the engine and VIN
tag to the cluncker and you're good to go. Probably. For a while, anyway.