Everyone on the list....please read this. Congress wants ourcars!!!!

[roccolister@hotmail.com (Craig Williams)]

Last year before my Scirocco registration renewal was due, I got a nice
letter from the State of California telling me that now that my car was 20
years old, I could take advantage of the vehicle buy back program. For $500
I could sell the state my car, which they would then crush. Seriously. Oh
yeah. I'm going to jump at that offer.

-- Craig Williams
1981 Scirocco S 2008cc 16V (As seen in 01-2001 Sport Compact Car) 15.114 @
91 MPH
2001 Passat Wagon, 1.8t (For the Wife and Son)
1991 Passat Wagon 2.0 16V (For Sale)
2000 Saab Viggen (20 psi, Turbo charged monster)15.047 @ 94 MPH
Northern California, USA

----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Overholt <ioverholt@hotmail.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:21 AM
Subject: RE: Everyone on the list....please read this. Congress wants
ourcars!!!!


> Jim Jarret said:
>
> I think if you read what's being proposed, it is NOT that 15-year old
> cars MUST be crushed, it's that they are thinking of giving incentives
> for older cars to be taken off the road...ie. you turn in an old,
> "fuel-inefficient" (ha) car, and you get some bucks.  Probably not a lot.
>
> So calm down.  They are not coming for our cars.
>
> Hey, CA dudes, isn't there something like this already in place out there?
>
>
> Yes, we do have this program in CA already.  And NO ONE is forcing anyone
to
> retire his car.  This proposed legislation does not require you to turn in
> your old car.  Whoever wrote the initial overreaction needs to calm way
down
> and quit trying to block this legislation.  The ability to retire your old
> POS car and get more money from the state than you would selling it is a
> GOOD thing!!
>
> I've got an '80 Volvo which is barely holding together and I'm seriously
> considering taking the $1000 the state will give me to retire it.  When
your
> car isn't really worth anything to anyone else, it's real nice to get an
> incentive from the state to get that POS off the road.  And it makes it a
> little easier to get a down payment together.
>
> Just my $0.02, but I think whoever is calling for this piece of
legislation
> to be blocked is highly uninformed.
>
> Ian Overholt
>
>
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