Soon to be one less 2009 HHR SS Panel
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From: Akron Ohio
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Warhoops is where they were if I recall correctly. I wish I could have seen them there. Bortz has some and has sold a few. The Biscayne is being redone right now or may be finished.
We have a dis assembler here that does work for many fo the MFG's. The take cars appart that are pilot cars and hand builts some of the very first built. They have to video the car being taken aparts and document where the parts went as requested.
Cars are like people some die before their time.
That is the way it has been for years. Most of the Motorama cars were sent to a junk yard to be scrapped. The guy at the junk yard cut them up and saved them. Some have been restored today. QUOTE]
That junk yard is still there. I've spent many a pleasant day wandering the aisles
A bunch of those cars from the Joe Bortz Collection will be on display at Meadowbrook later this month
That junk yard is still there. I've spent many a pleasant day wandering the aisles
A bunch of those cars from the Joe Bortz Collection will be on display at Meadowbrook later this month
We have a dis assembler here that does work for many fo the MFG's. The take cars appart that are pilot cars and hand builts some of the very first built. They have to video the car being taken aparts and document where the parts went as requested.
Cars are like people some die before their time.
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Joined: 10-14-2006
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From: So. Cal
This reminds me of that Mazda shipping accident a few years ago...
If you think getting rid of one car is bad, how about more than 4,700 at once?
iirc, Mazda shipped every one of those doomed cars to a crusher in Oregon. They're all gone, prolly recycled by now.
If you think getting rid of one car is bad, how about more than 4,700 at once?
Automobile makers usually try to find the best way to build a car, but Mazda had the unenviable task of finding the best way to destroy over 4,700 brand new cars:
It all started about two years ago, when a ship carrying 4,703 shiny new Mazdas nearly sank in the Pacific. The freighter, the Cougar Ace, spent weeks bobbing on the high seas, listing at a severe 60-degree angle, before finally being righted.
The mishap created a dilemma: What to do with the cars? They had remained safely strapped down throughout the ordeal — but no one knew for sure what damage, if any, might be caused by dangling cars at such a steep angle for so long. Might corrosive fluids seep into chambers where they don’t belong? Was the Cougar Ace now full of lemons?
The Japanese car maker, controlled by Ford Motor Corp., easily could have found takers for the vehicles. Hundreds of people called about buying cheap Mazdas. Schools wanted them for auto-shop courses. Hollywood asked about using them for stunts.
Mazda turned everyone away. It worried about getting sued someday if, say, an air-bag failed to fire properly due to overexposure to salty sea air.
It also worried that scammers might find a way to spirit the cars abroad to sell as new. That happened to thousands of so-called "Katrina cars" salvaged from New Orleans’ flooding three years ago. Those cars — their electronics gone haywire and sand in the engines — were given a paint job and unloaded in Latin America on unsuspecting buyers, damaging auto makers’ reputations.
It all started about two years ago, when a ship carrying 4,703 shiny new Mazdas nearly sank in the Pacific. The freighter, the Cougar Ace, spent weeks bobbing on the high seas, listing at a severe 60-degree angle, before finally being righted.
The mishap created a dilemma: What to do with the cars? They had remained safely strapped down throughout the ordeal — but no one knew for sure what damage, if any, might be caused by dangling cars at such a steep angle for so long. Might corrosive fluids seep into chambers where they don’t belong? Was the Cougar Ace now full of lemons?
The Japanese car maker, controlled by Ford Motor Corp., easily could have found takers for the vehicles. Hundreds of people called about buying cheap Mazdas. Schools wanted them for auto-shop courses. Hollywood asked about using them for stunts.
Mazda turned everyone away. It worried about getting sued someday if, say, an air-bag failed to fire properly due to overexposure to salty sea air.
It also worried that scammers might find a way to spirit the cars abroad to sell as new. That happened to thousands of so-called "Katrina cars" salvaged from New Orleans’ flooding three years ago. Those cars — their electronics gone haywire and sand in the engines — were given a paint job and unloaded in Latin America on unsuspecting buyers, damaging auto makers’ reputations.
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