[BraveMan]

It seems to me that this could be a benefit to collectors and restorers. If the vehicles are scrapped while operational, that means less wear and tear on parts, as opposed to units that hit the boneyard only after they've expelled their last hydrocarbons. Less units on the road makes the remaining ones more valuable. Scrapped doesn't necessarily mean crushed. Subsidies to the boneyards would drive the cost of the parts down . . .

Having said all that, the thought of using money fleeced from the taxpayers wallets to pay for this Shinola is detestable . . .

[BluesDuke]

You make a pretty good point. But it is, really, legitimately (like about 99 percent of everything else into which it mixes its big fat snoot), none of the government's bloody business.

[norton]

Dream on.

After the great japanese buying spree of a few years ago it's hard enough to find any parts, period, today.
That's why the aftermarket companies are going strong building reproductions and mix-n-match assemblies. (Making big bucks in the process)

As it is you can spend years looking for that one original part and months finding what should be common (pitman arm, maverick, manual shift V-8 por ejemplo). It's made worse here because the interchange models (Granada) are being scrapped out even though that particular instance was fairly fuel efficient.

What really chaps my hide is that by fuel efficient they mean that half of the market that is already going to japan - the same place that bought up or raiseed prices on all the old timers I used to see on the roads!

Besides, I get a rousing twelve per out of the '60 and eighteen out of the '57 so what are they bitching about (snicker).