Date:         Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:50:50 -0400
Reply-To:     Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Casfor Clunkers
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <6bc66ccf0906222101k28105d7cy3e6a8fbb0319e089@mail.gmail.com>
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this is misuse of the intention: it is to get clunkers/polluters of
the street not so that somebody can make money out of their chunk.
Probably legal the way you describe it but ethically questionable and
eventually people crying about high taxes after they misused the
system

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Don Hanson<dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks
> I'll check into it.  Buy some plates and insurance and I would still be
> ahead..Drive it down to the DMV or where ever and make about $3k of free
> money towrards a replacment for...my 1977 Dodge V8 automatic 10mpg van...I
> could sell it to a migrant fruit picker as family transport..they seem to
> like the older large size vans, but I'd probably only get a few hundred
> bucks that way..
>  Don Hanson
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>
>> Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Where and what is this program?  Anyone have a web address to find some
>> info?  I have an old Dodge Van in my pasture
>> > that has been sitting for a bunch of years...Late 70s van, still runs ok,
>> was my way old Baja cruiser at one time.
>> > I could only get scrap $ for it now, probably, but it might be nice to
>> get some Government $ if they are giving it
>> > away....
>>
>> No, you can't drag in some hulk out of a field, trade it on a new hybrid
>> and get $4,500 for it.  The old car has to have been a legal, registered
>> and insured vehicle for the previous year by the same owner.
>>
>> Some info here:
>>
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/earth2Tech/idUS216228605420090619
>>
>> Allan
>> --
>> 1991 Vanagon GL
>>
>



-- 
Karl
1981 VW Westy "Jenny"
2000 VW Jetta GLS VR6
Wilmington, DE