# Cash for Clunkers.

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cash-for-clunkers/203526>\
**Category:** PittSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [August 23, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cash-for-clunkers/203526 "2009-08-23T19:21:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 7:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cash-for-clunkers/203526/14 "2009-08-25T07:47:24Z")

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Please keep in mind as Im writing this Im just speaking my opinion off the top of my head. ((Putting on flame suit))

> [@4g63 Lamborghini (Replica)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/4g63-lamborghini-replica/40919/25):
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> Defeats the purpose, They don’t want people fixing their clunkers. Instead buy a new car.

The govt gives $4500 dollars for a “clunker” destroys the engine,transmission and shreds it therefore "recycling it. How much does it cost to “recycle” the car ??

Why not let it be picked over in a yard before it goes to the shredder? Possibly making other “clunkers” not be “clunkers.” The clunker is still off the road and revenue can be made off the sale.

> [@My Turbo E30 thread, ABORTED. info on page 7, post 170.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-turbo-e30-thread-aborted-info-on-page-7-post-170/38701/144):
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> The funny thing is that the government is trying to help people out by giving them $4500 to get into a new car…
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> cliffs: here’s $4500 to go into $20,000 + debt.
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> in the long run its fucking people more. if you cant afford your shitty clunker now, you cant afford a new car with $4500 down

I can see Bj being busy in the next couple of months.

> [@Official ICE BOWL Meet](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ice-bowl-meet/40785/102):
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> And the fact that the $4500 is coming out of Economic Stimulus package, which gets paid for by… taxpayers.

The other thing we pay for as taxpayers all these people and there welfare cars. I love when I was selling my dads cheap cars ($1200-$1500 cars.) I would get the whole “I have a welfare check to buy a car deal.” So why not “recycle” the good “clunkers” for welfare use? Make them un transferable Im sure there are some good cars in the lots out there that people could use.

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