By now we’ve all heard plenty about the Cash for Clunkers. Whether you feel it’s what our auto industry needed to get back on its feet or a horrible waste of tax-payer dollars, the video above is likely to bring a tear to your eye. It’s a C4 Corvette that’s been traded in through the program. Like all Cash for Clunkers trades, it has to be decommissioned by pouring sodium silicate into the crankcase. We’re not huge fans of that particular vintage Corvette, but watching any sports car succumb to critical mechanical failure is painful beyond words. We’ve got to imagine the sodium silicate/engine oil smoke pouring from the valve cover’s great for the environment, too. [Source: CorvetteBlogger]
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1 Lapping The Web: Auto News Roundup | Auto News, Recalls and Car Blog - DriverSide // Aug 20, 2009 at 11:16 am
[...] perhaps the best Cash For Clunkers urban legend going. It’s still less heartbreaking than the Corvette mishap [...]
2 Death of a Corvette, Clunker style on The Patriot Room // Aug 20, 2009 at 7:21 pm
[...] H/T to DriverSide. [...]
3 Cash for Clunkers Ending Monday at 8pm! | Auto News, Recalls and Car Blog - DriverSide // Aug 21, 2009 at 1:30 pm
[...] area into the continuing recession. One things for certain: the recycling plants are going to have their hands full for [...]
4 Cash for Clunkers Ending Monday at 8pm! | Свежие автоновости. // Aug 22, 2009 at 11:38 pm
[...] area into the continuing recession. One things for certain: the recycling plants are going to have their hands full for [...]
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