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phatfoto

phatfoto

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Tooele
The 1990 Chevy APD Batmobile is one of their mobile Blood Alcohol Testing Mobile... I lived in ABQ in the early 80s. And believe it was 1983 Albuquerque PD started the Batmobile program....
 
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rholbrook

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Kaysville, Ut
Actually it's not that uncommon. A client of mine gets all the drive trains pulled for warranty purposes from Ford, GM and Chrysler and they have to destroy (part out) these items. They also get parts that are pulled off the assembly line when there is a change that requires new parts. An example of this is while I was there they got two semi loads of 1 ton GM rear truck axles. They pulled them off the assembly line because of a change in the anti-lock braking issue. I asked if I could buy one, they said yes but they had to pull it apart and then they would ship it to me in parts and I could reassemble it. They also had a warehouse that had a GM hydrogen motor, and several GM big blocks that were developed for the marine industry. Lots of really cool stuff. I walked around that warehouse for an hour looking at all this stuff
 
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redrussell

Active Member
A large part of it has to do with liability problems. Thank people that Sue over the dumb stuff. See it all the time sadly, perfectly good vehicles or equipment that have to be "scrapped" to avoid someone filing a lawsuit.
 
thenag

thenag

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Kearns
redrussell said:
A large part of it has to do with liability problems. Thank people that Sue over the dumb stuff. See it all the time sadly, perfectly good vehicles or equipment that have to be "scrapped" to avoid someone filing a lawsuit.
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I know that I saw something like that on "Trucks" or one of those TV shows where most of the project vehicles must be destroyed or returned completely to stock before they get rid of them. I recall the episode talked about ways they could give the vehicles away to people.

If you look into old military jeeps it is the same thing, I seem to remember seeing that you could buy everything for a HMMVV pretty easy except the frame/body which you could easily find cut in half.

I could be remembering all this wrong, but hey it's the internet so yeah.

Zombieblaster said:
This was just on Jalopnik, and tells the story of someone who was supposed to destroy, but instead sold prototype GM vehicles:

http://jalopnik.com/ex-fbi-agent-tells-the-story-of-the-gm-employee-who-ill-1754984967
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And don't forget the Vipers
http://www.motortrend.com/news/chrysler-ordering-pre-production-1992-dodge-vipers-be-destroyed/


I lived in Albuquerque as well and remember the B.A.T.-mobile as well.

Nathan
 
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