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[–] cthulian_axioms 0 points 36 points (+36|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Fuck "Cash for Clunkers". Fuck it so hard. The only effect of that bill was to take solid, pre-ECU, field-repairable vehicles off the road and replace them with cheap plastic bubbles that require expensive trips to the mechanic, because only the mechanic has the fucking software to talk to the ECU. Fuck that.

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[–] BobTodd 0 points 16 points (+16|-0) ago 

Seriously lost a fucking ton of great project cars to that shit. Sold for less than scrap in many cases.

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[–] cthulian_axioms 0 points 18 points (+18|-0) ago  (edited ago)

EXACTLY

And it's not like they dismantled them all for parts -- honestly they could have made a fucking fortune doing that -- the cars were destroyed. Destroyed. Not recycled, not rebuilt, destroyed. They didn't even keep the fucking steel. They crushed them in compactors and threw the result in fucking landfills. That was a big red pill for me. Those blue-tie fuckers say they love the fucking environment. Bullshit. That's a fucking bullshit lie. And the damage can never be undone. Never. Even now, eight or ten years later, I'm still viscerally disgusted with what they did. I wish they all had one big neck, so I could wrap a timing belt around it and choke the life out of every single one of them all at once.

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[–] patriot_biz 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Yeah, I wish some young entrepreneur or other would bring back classical car designs, by which I mean something that I could do the maintenance on. I miss working on my car.

=-(

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[–] unclejimbo 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

(Laughs in mechanic)