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How to dispose of a car. Advice Please.

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I was disappointed that neither the trade school nor the re-hab center wanted the car.

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See if they've a notice board you could advertize it on. Some budding mechanic might like a challenge....
 
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I was disappointed that neither the trade school nor the re-hab center wanted the car.

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Me too, how picky can ya get? I'm almost embarrased that I suggested that option to you in the first place.
 
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Me too, how picky can ya get? I'm almost embarrased that I suggested that option to you in the first place.

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I'm not entirely surprized. We've had the odd piece of used furniture that we've offered to various charities from time to time but unless its in A1 condition AND a full set (Sofa & chairs or Table and chairs) they don't seem to want to know. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Seems that Beggars CAN be choosers, after all.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nopity.gif
 
Auto schools today don't teach students to work on old cars....they teach them to read the computer & replace what it says is broken! Thus, they don't need to learn how to diagnos problems & solve them - only swap parts!
 
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Auto schools today don't teach students to work on old cars....they teach them to read the computer & replace what it says is broken! Thus, they don't need to learn how to diagnos problems & solve them - only swap parts!

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It's like my CAD class, half of us only know how to plug in G & M codes...
 
G & M codes? For CAD class? I can see it for CAM, but CAD?

I thought I had the car disposal all sorted yesterday. I found a charity on the web that WOULD take the car. After setting up the donation by phone I started looking at what paperwork will be required. I contacted the charity again to postpone the pickup for a couple of days and something didn't seem right. I googled them at length and looked over their web site. They had a list of the charities that your donation is supposed to benefit. Most of those donations were given over six years ago and were "token" amounts. I went over their web site searching for a mailing address and only found phone numbers. Finally I found them listed on the NY State Better Business Bureau web site. They had very little to say about the charity except that the charity had declined the BBB request for information. That was the last straw, I canceled the donation.

It now looks like I'll sell the car for a token amount to the only local mechanics who have ever worked on the car. The transaction will be local and face-to-face and I'll have the satisfaction of knowing the car (or its parts) will be put to good use.

I'll post a closing follow-up (hopefully at the end of next week) when this is finally over and done.
 
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G & M codes? For CAD class? I can see it for CAM, but CAD?


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Our class is actually "CAD Engineering Technology," which means we get a good bit of hands-on training. I like it because it teaches you a very important lesson...

...someone has to actually MACHINE what you sketch up...
 
Naw, the Computer Aided Machine will do it all. Someone is there just to clean up the tools when it finishes.--Keoke-- /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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Is it a diesel? I'll take it! I wanna build a greasecar.

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What is a grease car?
Bruce
 
Bio-diesel...
Runs on waste grease from restaurants etc, added into a processing machine and mixed with a bit of regular diesel. Gets way up there in the mpg range, but because it runs on significantly less diesel, costs pennies per gallon.
Easy to do with VW.
 
Worst case you can take a saw to it. I chopped my Stellar up in decent time.

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Bio-diesel...
Runs on waste grease from restaurants etc, added into a processing machine and mixed with a bit of regular diesel. Gets way up there in the mpg range, but because it runs on significantly less diesel, costs pennies per gallon.
Easy to do with VW.

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Baz, You're extremely close. Like you said, that's Bio-diesel.
Any diesel car can run, unmodified, on bio-diesel. because the process of "mixing" the fuel up creates a stable, cheap fuel.
A grease car runs on straight used fryer grease (vegatable oil) strained and poured into a slightly modified car.
The modifications essentially consist of a heated fuel tank, heated lines and a special heated filter.
The car is started on diesel and warmed up, then switched to grease and run on that until just before shutting it down, when you switch back to diesel to get the grease out of the unheated injectors for the next cold start.
These mods have been done to all kinds of diesel cars and trucks, new and old.
Heres one of many sites that suppourt grease cars
Both ideas are good. I personally like the greasecar idea because after the initila investment of the modifications, your fuel is FREE!!! you just need to make a deal with a resturant or two (who usually have to pay to have the grease hauled away) to get a supply of fuel.
 
One fella with a grease car has reported just that: Everyone close to his car asks where the french fries are bein' made.
 
As long as the grease didn't come from a restaurant where Nook-mam is made/sold, I could live with that.
Doug, did you get rid of that car yet?
 
What's a "Stellar"?
 
Its a Hyundai Stellar - basically an old MkIII Cortina with Italian styling and a Mitsubishi engine. Wasn't sold in the US but was in Canada. They rust even faster than a 70s Alfa. I used it for a donor car for my Lotus Seven clone project.

Here is what is looked like pre-chopping

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...They rust even faster than a 70s Alfa.

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That's gotta be some sort of ~accelerated~ rust! I've never seen anything go to red lace faster'n an Alfa or Fiat.
 
Those stellers were quite popular around here for a few years.....Then all all turned back into iron oxide....Good thing too, extremely ugly boxes they were.
 
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