MasterDave

Ok, not a Corvette (there I said Corvette). Crushing these cars is just wrong. Who wants to bet one or two will escape and show up in 20 years.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/articl...ar-5290521.php

Plasticman

I blame it on the lawyers...........

stratplus

Corvette or not, that is a shame, and does not make any sense. You would think that they could come up with something to salvage it.

AZDoug

It probably doesn't meet emissions or safety spec.

I think emissions spelled the end for factory prototype cars that went out to the public in various ways. Maybe the practice ended earlier, i don't know.

Doug

JohnZ

Those cars are full of all manner of Engineering prototype, hand-made, and pre-production parts in the body, chassis, frame, powertrain and driveline, and as a result can't be certified as meeting federal safety and emission standards, so they're not salable (and the cost to make them salable at this point would be higher than the cost of replacing them entirely). The only way to avoid the potential liability (like the idiots described in the article) is to crush them, and that's probably the nail in the coffin of the tech school donation program.

Been there, done that - I can tell you stories that would curl your hair about cars that were supposed to be crushed by contractors that showed up later at auctions and we subsequently seized them (and crushed them).