A.C, I just hijacked your note for my views, not meant to pick on ya...
Folks, ya'll talk like every Ford vehicle with stuff that might fit our
cars and our hot rods has been crushed. Approximately a 1/2 million
cars, give or take a few, went into the clunkers program. A drop in the
bucket of the production runs of any of the vehicles given the wide
spread of manufacturing years involved. It was my understanding that
parts from any of the clunkers, except the engine, which is the only
deliberately damaged assembly on the vehicle, could and would be
recycled. Recycling involves the reuse of parts as well as crushing. I
think if your google the cars program it might shed some light on the
recycle aspect.
Some mention has been made on the cash aspect of the cars program.
Ostensibly, it was to get the "new" car companies back to work and
decrease the number of unemployed because of the trickle down through
all the suuppliers, etc. However, here is what it was really about
(IMHO), it was simply a redistribution of wealth. Folk with good running
and newer vehicles are the wealthier citizens while those with beaters
are generally the poorer. So what happened? Well, we wealthier folk just
paid to transfer up to 4500 of our bucks to the less fortunate folk so
they could own a nicer vehicle that gets good mileage and probably has
AC and a working stereo system. The sad reality is that a great many of
the people who bought new vehicles under the CARS program will not have
the money to make the remaining payments. So what happens then?
repossesion? No, I think that then we will have a bailout to help those
folk to keep their vehicles without having to make payments on them.
This entire administration and congress is about redistribuiton of
wealth. Why? Because when you have the vast majority of people on the
dole, they don't dare vote the people who gave it to them out of
office. Our two party system is likely deader than a door nail...
off my soap box now..
and headed back under the worlds fastest sunbeam (wannabe)..
mayf
A. C. Tynes wrote:
>The later 5.0 Explorers also have the GT40P heads which are acknowledged as
>being the best breathing iron heads Ford ever built for the small block V8.
>They also had the shorter front serpentine drive system which made the
>overall length of the engine about 1.5 inches shorter - which is important
>to people doing engine swaps, like me.
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>What a waste to see so many cars with so many good miles and so many usable
>parts in them destroyed. And the worst of the "clunkers" are still out there
>because the people who own them can't afford to trade them in on a new
>vehicle. It's a shame those folks couldn't have access to some of the
>"clunkers" which are being crushed since one man's "clunker" is another
>man's new and better used car.
>
>A. C. Tynes
>New Orleans
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net
>>[mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Alvin Johnson
>>Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:32 AM
>>To: Thomas Witt; tigers@autox.team.net
>>Subject: Re: [Tigers] Clunker Car Carnage
>>
>>5.0 explorers have the GT-40 intake & a bigger throttle body,
>>which is an inexpensive performance upgrade to the standard
>>late Mustang V-8.
>>
>>
>>
>>>if you attempted to remove drivetrain components (engine,
>>>
>>>
>>trans, rear
>>
>>
>>>end and even the driveshaft) from the clunker cars.
>>>
>>>Ford Explorers seemed to be the most represented "clunker
>>>
>>>
>>vehicle" there.
>>
>>
>>>There must have been 50-75 of them.
>>>
>>>
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