Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:05:18 -0500
Reply-To: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject: Re: Treatment of "wrecks" by wreckers
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Arkansas has some sort of antique car license that allows you to drive older
cars, but limits you to like 3k miles a year. I think it's cheaper than a
normal plate for folks that collect them. Nor sure of the vanity plate
status of them, but they are unique looking and I see more and more Beetles
with the plates on. Not sure if the age cutoff point is 20 or 25 years of
age.
DM&FS
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike & Mary Collum <collum@BANGORNEWS.INFI.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: Treatment of "wrecks" by wreckers
>Not all States in the US have such regulations. I think some states just
don't want older cars on the road and making it difficult
>to impossible to resurrect one from the wrecking yard is one way of
accomplishing this.
>
>My 2¢ worth : )
>
>Mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:57 AM
>Subject: Treatment of "wrecks" by wreckers
>
>
>> >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
>> ph 64 (3) 473-8863
>> fax 64 (3) 479-7527
>> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
>> www.goingplatinum.com/member/vw1
>> www.highyieldcrusaders.ws/ref.html?ref=vw
>> www.aciimoney.com/index.shtml?vw1
>> VW & Toyota vans, Toyota diesels and Macintoshes rule
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