Cash for Clunkers

Cash for Clunkers

This Saturday I thought that I would check out the new vehicles at my local junk yard. Finding there was about 50 Cash for clunkers cars new to the lot – I was curious to see if any of them were Jeeps. By gollies there was… I found 3 Jeep Grand Cherokee ZJ’s that I removed lots of trim goodies both for need now and later. Having a lot of fun pulling used stuff off that I had paid premium dollars for earlier. I ran across a 1992 Jeep Cherokee and it was exactly like my sons. One of the things that we always do when at the Junk yard is to check out the mileage on the Cherokees to see if they can beat my sons at 255,000 miles. With his in need of a motor and the Jeep being so old we have been looking for a good take out instead of rebuilding his. Here is where it broke my heart. The Jeep that I was looking at had its engine killed thru the chemicals that the dealer had to install in the motor to get the “Clunkers” money. This little Jeep only had 125,000 miles on it and had many more miles to go. This could have been the perfect donor motor for his Cherokee except its life was terminated before its time.
I know that “Clunkers” was the government’s way to try and get the car market moving. guessing it did work for a while. But to a gear head who likes to work on cars and a guy who refuses to make car payments. The mark of the devil (Yellow paint across the spark plugs) will ever bring tears to my eyes. I hope that this was a one time program that will not continue to kill the cars that we love. To you it might be just an old junk car. To me they are vehicles that just need a new driveway to live in.

Greg G.
Powerandplay.com