He Clunked His Corvette?

I'm first!!! And I'm trying now to get around to a couple of blogs a day to start.

The real culprit behind that cash for clunkers is that new Greenie Czar avowed Communist, twice imprisoned Van Jones, who was appointed by Oman and has to answer to nobody. How does this happen???

How does a guy like this pass the FBI security test? A twice convicted felon? EXcuse me, but Obummer is choosing these czar right and left who are not accountable to anyone, we don't know what kind of money they are making and we have no idea what their plans are.

Had to vent about that before I said anything about those wonderful old clunkers. XRay had a 57 Chevy that was fantastic but he blew the motor up. Dumb a$s to say the least

Ron owned a corvette, I got to date someone with a corvette and loved the car, but the guy stunk with no personality. The car had personality but not him.

I used to drive all my dad's Olds. those were fun because they were huge and smooth. You could take them up to 120 mph and never realize you were going that fast. Ah the good ole days. Now we're supposed to drive little green boxes that everyone can run over on the road. And how does a guy who is over 5'6" or woman for that matter fit into one of these little "savings" vehicles? I'm 5'8" and I'd never fit my legs in one of them since most of my height is my legs.

But who cares about the public. If we complain we're not really representative of true Americans according to Specter so we just go round and round on this merry go round of idiocy. Anyone like to slap the crap out of the people who voted for this moron??

Welcome back! Your wit and wisdom have been missed! We watched Glenn Beck and his espose of Van Jones! Talk about spitting bullets! To be frank, he fits that stereotype perfectly. "Everybody is a czar ...." Remember Sly and the Family Stone? Now the zebra ghetto carnival crib wants to be in charge of interrogations instead of the CIA! How can prezboy continue to get away with actions like these?

Cannot believe a real true blue, red blooded American male could turn in a Corvette to be clunked! I can only imagine what Ron is thinking about the senseless waste of a beautiful car, especially since he owned one. Stuart is beside himself that the government is destroying perfectly good cars for this kind of scam. I believe the dealers have not been paid because there is no money to pay them.

Love how you drove your dad`s Olds at 120 mph! You are so right, the ride in those heavy cars was smooth! My mom had a 64 Tbird, white with red rolled interior. I took it without permission to a dance, had fun, headed home and missed the exit. Busted driving over 90 mph on the Evergreen Floating Bridge. I`m not driving at all these days! Taxi!

And yeah! I would like to slap the crap outta those tools who voted for prezboy and have sent the nation into despair. The line is getting longer each day!

I'd like to cash our entire administration and start anew.

I definitely would not trade a classic corvette for any new "green" car. The gas mileage would be the only reason.

We had a 1990 Buick LaSabre for years, around 199,00 miles and lots of wear and tear. That car and I had many ordeals, as my friends and I took it airborne on a country road.



Nothing wrong with the old cars, except to the hippies who believe in global warming. Idiots.

So funny. Yes,let's trade these poles in for a whole brand new set that wouldn't stink up the environment so bad. All the hot carbon monoxide coming out of their slippery tongues mouths need to be GONE!

Is what we got with this--the clunkers are the commieczars who are looking around licking their chops. Have you noticed the so called "media" in this country never mentioned the computers used at car dealers in this program "became" property of the government?? (thank you Glenn Beck!!!)

Yes, We Can! But it is doubtful we could get much $$$ for any one of them! I read that the $4500 cash rebate for the clunkers is subject to state taxes. A nasty little surprise for those who participated. I truly believe there is no money to pay the car dealers. "Hope" the checks eventually clear!

My Uncle Gene always drove Buicks. Great cars. You sound like a typical American male, driving so fast you go airborne and have lived to tell about it! Thanks for your visit, Eric!

Major typo! I apologize! I know your name is Eric! Hit the wrong key ....

Eric is onto something but not one politician is worth a flying fig! And that carbon monoxide is coming out of all their orifices! Ha!

Commie cars! Exactly. Like clown cars. We are huge fans of Glenn Beck! We saw the segment about the computers but, gee, for some reason we didn`t see or hear about it any place else!

Beck is doing a great series this week. If all this govt takeover/spending had not been happening in our faces, the townhalls, the tea parties, activisim by real Americans, Beck would be blown off as a kook. He is bravely spreading a message of truth. Thanks for coming by, Tiger Eye!

It occurred to me that we are scrapping perfectly good cars, and it would be nice to give these cars to folks hit by the recession, many of whom may need a way to get to a job or an interview. The idea of trying to get all the clunkers off the road to make the earth somehow greener is tomfoolery at best. Some of these cars got 25 MPG. So you trade for one that gets like 33. Great. But then what does it cost over the life of the new car to scrap the car, pay the all the new people employed in this "program" and justify how this is saving the planet?

People like me only BUY clunkers. That's what I can afford. I look for old cars driven by seniors who but like 22k on the car in 8 years. The insurance, inspection and taxes are like nothing compared to buying a "green" car. I'll do it my way thanks. I would have gladly taken one of these clunkers so the government could save money "recycling" it. And yes, Van Jones is a radical communist. That's the "green-jobs czar". God help us.

I added "knuckles" because the leftists call us astroturfing "mobsters" so I adopted knuckles as my mob name. Since I am a knuckledragger ANYWAY, it fits.

Many years ago I was the Fleet Manager for a dealership that at the time was the largest Corvette dealer in California. A Corvette customer differs in that he/she knows every detail of the car before he/she buys it. They taught me things about the car! None that I knew would ever imagine the car-love of their life being crushed.
In the car business today the deal is made and the car delivered to the customer. Before that customer turns the new car into the driveway at home the dealer has been paid, dealer expenses have been paid and the bank has set up the loan. The salesman recieves his or her commission when the car is paid for. In the electronic environment of today that is in place well before payday. With cash for clunkers, there are salesman, already hurting from the recession in car sales, waiting to get paid.

Van Jones and his idea of hoopties for hybrids was the catalyst for cash for clunkers, blessed by the prez. Big grins, toothy smiles. Totally in over their heads and out of their minds.

I believe it will be a while before the used car business recovers after this ridiculous act of domestic terrorism on the car industry but it will recover! Americans are too resourceful, level headed and independent. We may be in a rough patch now, but we will soon prevail! Thanks for coming by and for your comments, David!

I like "Gunny Brass Knuckles G", myself! Thanks for coming by!

Such a sad, sorry ending for this beautiful car, the Corvette. My husband said the chassis alone of this car could have been sold for a lot more than $4500! What guy, with some extra money and had been given the opportunity, would not have bought this Corvette to restore and drive? What has happened to our society to buy into this sham of destroying viable cars to only "gain" major car payments and tax liability? The error of hopenchange, Third Eye! Thanks for coming by!

old cars only enable the poor to get around. We can't have that? Hey, I was within a hair of buying a forest green 1969 GTO in my youth. I can still see that car. Sigh.....

My wife and I have been contemplating getting her a new mini van. She currently drives an SUV and as our son gets bigger, his wheelchair is becoming a bigger issue. We had looked at mini vans back in February and there were good deals to be had, but the finances did add up for us at tha time. However, we could have gotten a Dodge Carivan for about $22,000.00 before our trade. After the trade it would have been about $17,000.00. We looked again during cash for clunckers. The Caravan was now $28,995.00 before trade. Funny that we could have gotten a better deal before the government stuck it's nose in..

Great post Dawn

I can't drive because of my affinity for passing out. There is nothing cooler! I think it's best for everyone that I stay off the road, at least until they can invent a travelling styrofoam cup. I talk about this briefly in my latest blog with the idea coming from Van Jones, but really just a way to funnel money from taxpayers and into the pockets of someone else. I found it humorous that most of the vehicles bought in this program were foreign. I'm sure Obama went "DOH!" after the results from that. I'm also expecting many autodealers to get screwed someway, somehow. "Well you didn't have item #24 legible enough, so you were denied your $200,000".

I'm with Eric, trade in the politico's instead, [but still use the car crusher]

...that was the question. Cash 4 Clnkrs took the lives of so many still useful economically reachable used cars off the road. Kids wanting a first car were temporarily unable to find reasonably any priced as the old 5 hundred to 1 thousand dollar beaters were now jacked up to, 2500, 3500 or $4500.00. And now there are fewer of them available as those traded for new models have been euthanized, sent to the the mechanical bone crusher and eaten by JAWS.

I swear dawndawn that was the funniest, choc full o' truism and nostalgic piece of writin I've gazed upon yet. My first car was a Mustang and I do remember -- lovingly -- every last detail. The way the metal-flake paint sparkled when even the slightest glint of direct sunlight refracted across the surface. The rich American naugahyde. The throaty air sucking sound of the four barrel Carter carburetor when ya'd tromp down on the throttle. And there's more, oh yeah, so much more...

Great to see more posts from you

Just read someplace that auto dealers will all be paid by the END OF SEPTEMBER! No doubt, they will be writing Rangel Rule on top of the checks. They should pay interest! Grrrrrr ....

GTOs were so hot in the 60s! The Beach Boys liked them, too. Of course, you had to think about the insurance .... Thanks for your visit, Davecat!

You are so right about government interference!! I am still stunned by the destruction of all these cars! What happens to the freon, do they send it to Yucca Mountain? It will be a while before this shakes out and it is very doubtful the automobile industry can ever recover from this gross incompetence by this sham of an administration! Thanks for coming by, Jim!

Hahaha! A travelling styrofoam cup! Doncha know styrofoam is NOT environmentally friendly? Van Jones is a piece of work! Some could call him a hassole! Thanks for coming by, Jesse!

2010 is not that far off! However, the WH is controlling the Census and ACORN is out there already registering dead people and rodents. Voter ID now! And maybe some purple ink!

The car crusher works! Hey! Pelosi, Reed, Rangel, Dodd, Waxman, Wasserman-Schultz, on and on, ad nauseum, CRUSH THIS! Thanks for swinging by!

I remember metal flake paint! I think it was very high maintenance! The early Mustangs were so cooooool! Yep, it used to be a lot easier for young kids to save money to buy the clunker of their choice. Now, that choice will be much more expensive for them.

Like davecat noted in his comment, "they" want to force everyone to use public transportation, to control the schedules and the destinations. Thanks for coming by, AfterShock!

Can't believe I missed this. I guess I was so engrossed in finding all of these checking and savings accounts that I never knew that I had. They must be about $750,000 worth. Wow - I am rich. I guess I better get Tim on the horn and let him know I owe some dough. Or I could always follow you know, Rangel....

Oh just clunk me! What a lame head program. Loved out the online system blew out. Where was the techno czar through all of this nonsense?????

got clunked--by his own words!!This administration is doing to America what was done to that corvette--OOOO the tragedy of that great car!Keep up the good work Dawn!

We already had a CASH FOR CLUNKERS Program It is called PAYING FOR THE CLUNKERS IN CONGRESS AND WHITE HOUSE. We have been ripped off

should be immediately involuntarily committed to a mental institution.

I agree with Gar S...as if y'all didn't see that one comin'.

My first car was a hand-me-down from my parents...a 1971 Olds Ninety-Eight, with the Rocket 455 engine under the hood. Speedometer topped out at 135, but it accelerated from there. At those speeds you could SEE the gas gauge dropping!

Oh, Clunk Me! Girl, you have been missed! Haven`t been on the blogs much recently because of connection problems! Grrrrr! Off to Georgia on Thursday to see my sis and my niece who is in the AF and fresh from a 90 day tour of duty in Iraq. Her husband is still there, Special Ops. Hotlanta will never be the same! The humidity is 95 percent! Thanks for buzzing by!

Van Jones body lies a molding in liberal land! No doubt very soon to be resurrected and celebrated. Maybe mickeymooorbidlyobese will make a movie about him! So, how many more czars to go -- 33? Small fries? Don`t think so! They must all go! Thanks for coming by and commenting, Patriot 76!

Boy Howdy, we have been clunked. Cannot believe what is happening. Hollywierd could not produce an epic fail such as we are experiencing with prezbo and his ego. So exciting and heartwarming to watch the TEA Parties, TEA Party Express and the upcoming rally on 9.12!

I am leaving for Georgia to see my sis and my niece who is in the AF, home from a 90 day tour in Iraq. Her husband is still there, Special Ops. I am going to enjoy my family time and am gonna eat all the BBQ ribs I can! Thanks for coming by, Kev!

So much senseless waste! And the dealers have to wait until the end of September for their do-re-mi! Incompetence. Yep, the guy who clunked his Corvette deserves the same fate. Thanks for stopping in, Craw.

NO! NOT a CORVETTE! Oh I think I feel a pain!! I love cars--got a classic Maverick I am restoring even as I write. Great post Dawn--I think what just happened to the latest "czar" sends a message to washington--WE the PEOPLE still love this country!

Have a good time in Atlanta.

Go clunkers baby!!!!

Here is an idea to find out whether we true conservatives are really ready to take the reins. Let’s begin e-mailing a list of what the people want for "Health Care Reform". After all The Great Oz and his Munchkins keep lying and saying no one had provided alternatives. Okay so let's "pony up" and provide some. Here is part of my list;

1. NO PUBLIC OPTION and NO TRIGGERS FOR A PUBLIC OPTION (its number one for a reason)

2. Tort reform that favors doctors and patients, not trial lawyers.

3. Specific language stating that Illegal Aliens will be EXCLUDED from this and requirements to show proof of U.S. Citizenship (Driver's Licenses and State issued ID's won't work) for medical insurance.

4. Transferability of coverage and less government regulation over what the insurance companies can put together.

5. No additional language for pork projects, this is supposed to be about health care reform-not a senator or representative slipping something in for their pet project or group (like Obama and ACORN) or trying to slip something in to gum up the process.

Please, please spread the word and send your list. I would suggest e-mailing your Rep. and Senator, but most of them don't really give a RA what we want.

The green jobs Czar is gone, but the rest of the loonies are alive and well.

By the way, make sure to have a lawyer on retainer. You will need it to answer your gog's lawsuit that is being filed by Cass Sustein.

Maverick is the Legend of the West! Not the car! The dude! Hahahaha! I just got back from a few days in Hotlanta -- Spent some time with my sis and my niece. My niece is in the AF and she works on that airplane JSTARs. Her unit is deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, 90 days on, 13 or so days off. I had the honor of meeting a few of her friends. Great young men! Still have tears in my eyes because of who these young people are and what they are doing to protect us all! Thanks for coming by WD!

Gracias for the bon voyage! Girl! This little jaunt to nearby Hotlanta (Warner Robins AFB) was the best trip I have ever done in my life! The first night, me and my babysis sat up until 5am, talking, catching up and reaching out. I know you understand about family .... Thanks, Sue!

I support everything you believe! I have wondered for such a long time how common sense, values and patriotism can now be called Racist. You do not stand alone .... Thanks for coming by!

Thanks for swinging by this blog! Been to Hotlanta, visiting my sis and niece. Don`t know what it will take to wake the masses but I know the ones with pulses are restless. Stay safe ....