Government Motors = GM????

You will now!

Do you know how much trouble we got into last time? Our knuckles were rapped so bad, they still wince.

 

Sorry Krash it was a slow day

 

http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2630&highlight=hijack

We just can't help ourselves.

 

The gub'mint is in charge. They own the CEO and the Board of Directors now (so much for what once were known as "shareholders"!). They will now feel free to run the company into the ground forever; all the while, they will try to force us into micro-cars and trucks.

Do you remember when the Feds took over the Mustang Ranch in Nevada...you know, the world's most famous whorehouse? After the Feds took it over through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the Feds ran it...until it went out of business forever. Leave it to the Federal Government to fark up a business that deals in women and whiskey!

Anyone really think they can do better at building automobiles???

 

I remember a Reader's Digest cartoon called "If the Government built..." and the Airforce guys have that Acronym "SNAFU" Situation Normal, All Farked Up"! But wait until they turn it over to Teachers' Pension Plans and the Greenies. You'll be feeding it lettuce on steroids!

Longterm, my guess is they'll try to keep petroleum-based fuels for Jets and Trains and Semis, and the rest of us will drive some sort of alternate-powered vehicle. We're gonna run out. It took a 110 years to learn what's left, maybe 50 more to really nail down the rest, and another 100 to figure if we can have horses in urban ranches.

61 this year. I might make it to 90. So I've got 3 more cars to go or one made to last. I won't be looking at anything post 1985 for those last 3. I need to tinker and play.

 

Cash for clunkers plan might be up for more study. Sounds like it won't work as planned.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30325553/

But our cars are like a Deer trapped by the headlights:


A new car is typically driven between 15,000 and 18,000 miles a year in its first three years of ownership, while a car owned for 10 years is driven between 5,000 and 6,000 miles a year and a 15-year-old car is driven only 2,000 miles on average.

In the end, the greatest benefit from any new car program will come from reduced smog emissions, Sperling said.

“Old cars tend to be much more polluting in terms of smog, much worse than new ones, and they can be 100 or 1,000 times worse in some cases,” he said. “Emissions have been dramatically reduced in new cars, so this is the area where you’d get the most impact.”

 

Norman I truly believe that program or any program similar will not be a benefit at all. the old car movement is getting stronger. with the economy the way it is and people losing jobs and houses they are selling off newer cars and trucks and getting ones from the 60's and 70's to fix up even young people here are doing the same thing.The younger people here are moving away from ricers slowly and finding and restoring older cars since they are so much cheaper.

I can only see failure from GM which the US Government now owns and Fiat buying Chrysler since they went chapter 11 a few days ago.So I look for older cars to be come more valuable and harder to find. I told my wife it's time to start buying and fixing them up.

BTW this is one of the few Lucid moments I have had in a while.

 

The EU is trying the cash for clunkers crap now. That ought to go over like a turd in a punch bowl!

Oh, wait, they're Euros...they like that shiite!

 

It maybe working there,but the gearheads in Cali have learned to watch the places that take clunkers for cash and buy all the muscle cars they can to keep them from being crushed. My Heart sank when a new Pull A Part near me that is about to open is buying up cars and trucks to part out and some one brought in a 1960 Corvair that was in excellent shape and a easy restore along with a 66 Chevy C10 pickup that wasn't all that bad with a great interior. So they will be parted out then the remains crushed.