So, today at the junkyard i saw a ranger.

[Funnyman141]

The junkyards 'round here say they can't sell vehicles as a whole which sucks because they have all sorts of fullsize broncos and older trucks sitting out there in really good condition

 

[AllanD]

Swapping vin plates is illegal. TRS does not condone illegal actions.

Junkyards are not permitted to sell whole CFC cars. They can sell you a whole vehicle if they want, and I have bought vehicles that way, but they are not allowed to sell a whole CFC car. Technically they are not supposed to sell parts off them either, but since most junkyards seem to be run by people interested in making money off of what they have in the yard, parts dissappear.



They usually stuck them in neutral and poured liquid glass in the motor or some other compound to completely destroy the motor.

They can't sell the ENGINES from CFC cars but everything else is up for grabs

And the junkyards have all adopted a policy (around here) of shooting blaze orange paint all over the engines of the CFC vehicles and then put up bigh signs saying they are not allowed by law to sell Blocks, cranks, heads, internal parts or whole engines from the orange marked CFC vehicles.

Oh, and the blanket statement that "Swapping the VIN tag is illegal" isn't the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

there ARE conditions where doing that IS entirely legal.

Like In pennsylvania where a vehicle is by law a kind of abstract concept,
it isn't so much any specific part is a "Vehicle" as it is the sum of the parts

In Pa we have a "rust law", and in complying with that "rust law" parts replacement
is the prefered method, you just can't replace the Cab AND the frame in the same
job...

I have a spare CAB for my 1987, obviously swapping the VIN tag from
my current cab will be required at some point....

In this case I wouldn't say that swapping the VIN onto a Clunker ISN'T illegal
(You are circumventing the law saying "clunkers must be destroyed")
but if you swap the body and call it "rust repair" then replace the frame and
call it structural repair... well, frankly you are going to be waiting until hell
freezes over before you find a trooper willing to get his uniform dirty to crawl
under a truck to scrape the frame clean to read the VIN on the frame...

And you'll wait 100 times as long for them to do it on a 20year old truck

Unless the vehicle is involved in a fatal accident and if that happens you
might not be around to give a damn.







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[85_Ranger4x4]

The body has to be crushed after so many days, but they are free to sell whatever off of them they can. A junk yard owner was on the news while it was all going on making noise about the gvt killing what they get the most $$ out of. My brother works at a dealership and I got to hear of all the later model 5.0's and a really nice older carbed 351HO that he had to kill... while I try to patch together a 302 for my Ranger. Few of the vehicles themselves were really roadworthy that they got in, but most ran very well. Most were late 80's early 90's F-150's, they played with the borescope on one 351, it still had the crosshatching in the block before they blew it up... it didn't after.

Don't spend too much time crying over that '90, at least scalp the fenders, doors and bed so it didn't die in vain. What I wouldn't do to find a first gen. in that shape that was dead so I didn't have to feel bad about killing it myself.

 

[AllanD]

The body has to be crushed after so many days, but they are free to sell whatever off of them they can. A junk yard owner was on the news while it was all going on making noise about the gvt killing what they get the most $$ out of. My brother works at a dealership and I got to hear of all the later model 5.0's and a really nice older carbed 351HO that he had to kill... while I try to patch together a 302 for my Ranger. Few of the vehicles themselves were really roadworthy that they got in, but most ran very well. Most were late 80's early 90's F-150's, they played with the borescope on one 351, it still had the crosshatching in the block before they blew it up... it didn't after.

Don't spend too much time crying over that '90, at least scalp the fenders, doors and bed so it didn't die in vain. What I wouldn't do to find a first gen. in that shape that was dead so I didn't have to feel bad about killing it myself.

Mabey by the law the body has to be crushed after so many days, but if there is any enforcement for that part of the law it ain't evident....

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[heptofite]

i think i'm gonna try to buy it and fix it, to hell with C4C

 

[86 slo-vo]

there is atleast 20-30 C4C ars and trucks in the local yards here...a few super nice RBV's

 

[97RangerXLT]

last fall there was a mint condition 94 Ranger supercab 4.0 with 28,000 original miles on it turned in for C4C at the Indianapolis Pull A Part. I got a pic of the odometer. made me sick.

AJ

 

[jdm_farmboy]

last fall there was a mint condition 94 Ranger supercab 4.0 with 28,000 original miles on it turned in for C4C at the Indianapolis Pull A Part. I got a pic of the odometer. made me sick.

AJ

That makes it tough for those of us searching for a nice 4.0 to replace our worn out 2.9's

 

[bcost882]

all our cash for clunkers went to the pic-a-part. only the engine block can't be sold. we have a bunch of trucks will no engine parts except for the block sittin in the lot so just yank the engine and take it home with you

 

[TheTopher]

Gotta love seeing our taxpayer's dollars at waste.

Time for another shot. *cheers*.

 

[hwcoop]

Damm, even a V10 What a waste,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4VTSCZJnq8&feature=related

 

[bcost882]

that makes me angry.........^^

 

[Clay Lorance]

Thats the government and another one of their bright ideas for ya. Dumba**es.

 

[Boggin]

i know its kinda ilegal, but steal it some night. seriously

 

[adsm08]

Mabey by the law the body has to be crushed after so many days, but if there is any enforcement for that part of the law it ain't evident....

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I don't think there is any legal requirements to crush the body after so long. I think most places are crushing them so fast because of spacial issues.

That's a lot of cars coming in really fast.