Date:         Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:57:21 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Treatment of "wrecks" by wreckers
Comments: To: Mark Drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
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>Due to State and Local regulations, the fluids are drained, batteries
>and other hazardous materials removed, gas tanks ripped out, etc. Then a
>giant front end loader (fork lift) is used to gently, ha ha, cart the
>victim several hundred yards to it's spot in a row. There it is placed
>on 3 or more welded stacks of old steel wheels with no regard for any
>consequential damage to brake lines, hoses, wires, body, bumpers, etc.

Asinine laws. Here a car can be bought from a wrecker no problem... IF the
wrecker wants to sell it whole. Reregistering it is no big hassle either. I
have bought partly-dismantled motorcycles and cars from wreckers, all with
cancelled registration, and put them back on the road, sometimes within a
couple of days of purchase.

Cars are only stacked here if there is a severe lack of room. Wreckers want
to be able to sell bumpers, roofs, corner and end cuts etc. Often they
remain on their own wheels until the suspension or wheels are sold. Wanna
gastank? It's still there in the car.

But there are no Vanagons... (well, just the surprise roughie spotted by
listee John Pronk).


Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin, New Zealand
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fax 64 (3) 479-7527
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