Crash For Clunkers: Demolition Derbies Hard Up for Cars

Time ^ | 9-3-09 | Ada Calhoun

[kingattax]

There's at least one group of people who are happy Cash for Clunkers is over: demolition-derby drivers. Participants in these events, in which drivers smash into one another until there's only one engine left running, don't enjoy the sight of old cars going out of commission without making a pit stop at the county fairground. "Obama is an anti-demo-derby guy," says Tory Schutte, head of the Demolition Derby Drivers Association. "He's targeting the cars we've been using."

Also contributing to the shortage of derby-worthy cars: scrap-metal prices have doubled in the past two years, leading more owners to sell their cars to the junkyard instead of to a local kid with demo-derby dreams.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

You mean demolition derbies are not one of the government authorized methods of destroying perfectly good vehicles?

[AUH2O Repub]

This is one of the dumbest articles on cash for clunkers that I have seen. How many cars actually end up in demolition derbies? 1/10 of 1%? And they actually think that program affects them getting cars? Get real. There are a lot of more important Bam Bam policies we can concentrate on - obamacare, how he is losing afghanistan, the deficit, the czars, even the birth certificate.