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    Spring is sprung and summer is right around the cornner and I don't seem to be noticing near as many third gen F-bodies. Even fewer Trans Ams than Camaros .Anyone have an idea of the "death rate of old cars. Maybe someone that used to work for the gov'ment or the insurance industry?

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    Re: ATTRITION RATE FOR 20 YR OLD CARS

    people are putting them away,,
    and alot of them now need work,,,
    and might be garage art for a few years as they get redone..
    also with so many out of work , or hours cut..
    they might have had to park it for this season

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    • #3
      Re: ATTRITION RATE FOR 20 YR OLD CARS

      Originally posted by hoosiergta
      Spring is sprung and summer is right around the cornner and I don't seem to be noticing near as many third gen F-bodies. Even fewer Trans Ams than Camaros .Anyone have an idea of the "death rate of old cars. Maybe someone that used to work for the gov'ment or the insurance industry?
      it is much like houses..
      location, location, location.

      I worked and still ive in a 30k+ city, north central maine...and knew I was the only one driving a 74 chevelle in 1994.
      I knew I was the last one with a monte daily beaten.. that was only 1996 (they had much shorter lives than the last of the heavy guage steels).. in fact, they got alot of bad opinions, breaking frames and all kinds of stuff left for japanese stereotypes.
      I am now the only crazy person driving a 23 yr old ten geared subaru with a 1 year paint code...
      without a singular doubt.



      my same scenario lasts longer in all the south states.
      Heck, I remember wandering with friends around texas in 1993, and seeing a well dented 60s chevrolet packed full of poverty, cracked glass... and no doubt the owners only car. that same piece of crap around here is a totally different value.
      Previously boxer3main
      the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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      • #4
        Re: ATTRITION RATE FOR 20 YR OLD CARS

        One year paint code! :o
        That which you manifest is before you.

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        • #5
          Re: ATTRITION RATE FOR 20 YR OLD CARS

          got a wasted 85 trans am in the back of the shop
          not for me


          I like em way older

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          • #6
            Re: ATTRITION RATE FOR 20 YR OLD CARS

            Lots of old stuff around here. Probably hard to tell just by registration numbers, how many are left, or how many are really being used.



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            • #7
              Re: ATTRITION RATE FOR 20 YR OLD CARS

              Ive noticed a lot less cutlasses around here too it seems
              COBEY..... franklin, kansas

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              • #8
                Re: ATTRITION RATE FOR 20 YR OLD CARS

                rust never sleeps
                so get used to new cars -with the matching smog stickers
                got a pesky p0442 I can't fix and no waiver , so the state says I must junk my fancy musclecar , that cannot keep the fumes in it's tank

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                • #9
                  Re: ATTRITION RATE FOR 20 YR OLD CARS

                  can't AFFORD to fix
                  my p0420 JUST CAN'T GO AWAY WITH THE EL CHEAPO CAT from the zone
                  but the parts man wants 2 grand ....and johnny law says I can't buy em used

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                  • #10
                    Re: ATTRITION RATE FOR 20 YR OLD CARS

                    Originally posted by SpiderGearsMan
                    can't AFFORD to fix
                    my p0420 JUST CAN'T GO AWAY WITH THE EL CHEAPO CAT from the zone
                    but the parts man wants 2 grand ....and johnny law says I can't buy em used
                    Not even from a yard?
                    Cheap, slow, half-assed: Pick three

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                    • #11
                      Re: ATTRITION RATE FOR 20 YR OLD CARS

                      cutlasses have gone the way of the dirt track car....

                      my Camaro is garage art right now, has been for a while.

                      Charles

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                      • #12
                        Re: ATTRITION RATE FOR 20 YR OLD CARS

                        There is plenty around here . I think 3 or 4 right in my neighborhood. a few nice Monte SS's just showed up around too.

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                        • #13
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                          federal law says all cat converters get recycled

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                          • #14
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                            GM charges a core

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                            • #15
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                              there are some who will recycle it for you with a cordless sawzall and 5 minutes. :-\

                              3rd gen camaros, TAs, mustangs are the cheap hot rod now.... 20 years from now, Barrett will be selling those for big money to people who say "remember when we went out in our new (camaro/mustang/ta)?
                              Doing it all wrong since 1966

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