Killing Old Clunkers

" I'm actually draining oil and then fill me and you would two quarts of liquid glass. Sounds like plans for -- practical joke on your local service station but they're actually marching orders for mechanics coast to coast. Now being told to annihilate -- gas guzzling motorists part of that cash for clunkers program. It's designed to make sure those cylinders never see a spark plug ever ever again and uncle Sam's weapon of mass. Drive -- destruction. Is a chemical called sodium still -- case. Jim Burton is the service manager of Buick Pontiac GMC dealership in Kansas City -- it. I mean if you're a doctor you have lucky hypocritical it isn't there such a thing for mechanics and -- you never in your job was to fix these things in value lineup and destroying and -- feel about that."

" Mixed emotions some of the stuff we get going to be too nice to destroy -- In order to you know qualify with the program to keep up with the government we have to actually. We finally get the breaks -- and I get in trouble for."

" You know popular mechanics. -- That they can now the good article saying look a lot of these things that -- destroying her perfectly good cars. And a lot of people cannot afford new cars so these perfectly good cars could really benefit a lot of low income families in here we are lining them up. Fill them up -- this liquid glass and get rid of."

" Yeah -- we've had some people call actually call and ask about donating like -- for kids or the kidney foundation and stuff but -- we -- actually required to disable. Just after world war the street how the stuff around port in there and it gets hardens -- what's what's the process. Yeah -- in radio allowed before this chemical and start the engine. -- we did 1 this morning it took about two and a half minutes. Once this chemical reaches about 23240. Degrees. It starts to solidify into actual glass. And it plugs up all the oil passages the oil pump. And it goes to -- in real lab for a few seconds and then just totally seizes up."

" Such a little animal just dying on the table there. That sounds like it couldn't. That's a hard way to put it but yeah I mean it's it doesn't -- 88 doesn't it just feels kind of wasteful. You know to just -- used cars and dismantle an antenna part of that team you know sort of counter intuitive in this day day in age when we're trying to. Recycle everything and save everything or is a lot of the car being recycled."

" A lot of cars being recycled -- parts that are not -- components but doors hoods. Transmissions. Interior components can all be recycled and reused there's a lot of people that still have these cards as you say that. They can't trade a manner won't but they're pretty sad shape this is gonna -- an opportunity for salvage yards and people to actually sell some components. And -- bring their car back to a better condition. Some of the -- we get in actually qualify for the word -- there's some of you actually are really safe to drive anymore. So it's not a bad idea getting some of those off the street."

" My belief though is Jim if you saw seventy Corvette pull up in your life you're probably getting back to your house -- back yard and jagged little tender loving care there is that -- that liquid glass of my right I would cry. That would be so hard to do. They -- to -- paperwork can -- do it right. -- paperwork signed into vin number off the cars submitted. We have to take off the streets. My little liquid blasts in and get -- Jim thanks very much about that."