[txhurl]

Yes, it does sound like cash for clunkers. You can’t get a salvage title, - well in theory you can’t, but we have the liar’s affidavit here in TX - but you have what was it? how many thousand clunkers turned in for the 4000.00 credit in TX alone?

Fantastic opportunity to get an untraceable vehicle for a crime.

[Brad from Tennessee]

The Cash for Clunkers trade-ins were supposed to be prominently defaced with paint that would mar the exterior supposedly to prevent resale in the used car market. But if it was a Clunker it could have been shipped to a scrap dealer in the Northeast. From the story:

[Investigators said that the vehicle's Connecticut license plates didn't match the make of the car. The license plate's last known location was Kramer's Used Auto Parts in Stratford, Conn., according to a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation. No one answered the phone there Sunday.]

The Clunker could have gone from the scrap dealer to this parts dealer even though the Clunker rules prohibit it. Someone may have stolen the Pathfinder from Kramer's along with a license plate from another vehicle in the yard. Or Kramer's may have repainted the Pathfinder and been using it for deliveries, etc. When someone stole it they couldn't report it because it was obtained illegally.