Re: Rail yard incident
A friend of mine works fixing damaged cars at the import terminal for BMW.They get cars that break loose in storms on the ship and rattle around until there are no straight panels left.They hang all new panels and paint them up and sell them as new.They had one car that was on the deck during a hail storm.It has over 300 small dents on the top sides.They have a paintless dent repair guy fix every single dent on the car.All damaged cars are sold as new with no report of the incedent.Back when I was in high school,BMW did donate a new car that fell off a car carrier.It was curled up like a pretzel so there was no denying that one.I saw a new car that they put a quarter panel on and you couldnt see even one seam or weld that didnt look fatory.This guy is the guy that paints a lot of our hot rods out of his house.A lot of old cars are painted in BMW colors in BASF with German printing on the labels.
So damaged cars dont always get scrapped unless the insurance company deems them totaled,and even then they dont need to be destroyed or have the VIN cut out,they are donated to technical schools around the country.My father's old boat had a 318 chrysler in it that came out of a van that was donated to our high school shop class after it fell off a car carrier.I had nothing to do with it,the shop teacher was a member of my father's boat club and the engine was in a boat that my father got the engines out of.
So like I said,I wouldnt mind taking a 6.0 and a 2WD 4L60E off their hands.
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