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she just kept truckin..poor old girl i think those guys didnt know what to think when she kept starting up and runningYou don't have to like what he did, but I would hope that you can appreciate the time, money and love that went in to the build. If you can't, you're not really an enthusiast, just another dumb kid with a car.-visualpoet
Money and Knowledge are never in the same sentence, because people with Money think they know it all, but people with knowledge, know better.-ragingasian
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Originally posted by LeosCB7h22 View Postany car qualifies, as long as it pulls up to the lot. But thats the stupidest program ever. its a waste.
I would argue it was a great program because it really did move a lot of cars and got a lot of crappy old ones off the road. Sure there were some that weren't exactly "clunkers" but no program is perfect.
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I traded in my 02 GTP for $3500. The engine was leaking oil in multiple places... it was too complicated for me to figure out, and it'd have cost me about $2000+ to have a shop do it, since the motor had to come out.
If I could've gotten $4500 for it with CFC, I probably would have. It was a really nice car, aside from the engine and electrical issues. And the blown suspension. And the pathetic brakes (well, I replaced those with larger ones... so they were good by that point).
It was a good program because it got a lot of inefficient, polluting vehicles off the road. A LOT of SUVs were traded in. The downside is that some people traded in cars that probably had plenty of good life left in them. I've seen a lot of what I would consider really nice cars fall to CFC. If the repair cost is high, and the trade-in value is lower than the CFC offerings... off it goes. The person giving it up doesn't care. The minute they trade it in, it's not theirs anymore. They'll never see it again. What do they care if it's destroyed or resold? Most people don't care as much about cars as we do. We're automotive enthusiasts. To us, cars are more than just transportation.
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