Notice the statement about today's cars having many more electronics on board, i.e. computers versus cars of yesterday. Try mixing water and electronics and what do you get? How many of these water-logged dogs will make their way to your local used car lot?

What to do with Sandy's waterlogged cars?- MSN Money

Too bad Toshiba doesn't make cars.

They'll end up at Ford Dealerships in Texas.

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1991 300-SEL - Model 126
M103 - SOHC
"Fräulein"

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What *I* would do is buy the WHOLE LOT of those P72 taxi package Crown Vic's, and the vans too, give them each a quick interior cleaning and an oil change, and a battery if needed, and ship them ALL in containers to Peru, and flip them for a huge profit to cash buyers in Peru.

You bet.

All the trucks, buses and cars in Japan, that fail smog and safety, what do you think happens to them? I will tell you what:

They get shipped across the Pacific by the boatload to Peru, and sold for $1500-$2500 apiece after big converted to LHD. It is pretty funny to see buses all over Peru with the Japanese writing still all over them.

Smog and safety checks in Peru, what's *THAT*? " ! No me tomes el pelo ! " mua hahahahahahaha

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

Last year when I was working at a dealership we had an ML that had been underwater in Katrina. It looked great and didn't smell. Getting it to start and stay running was a different matter.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

a new cash for clunkers?

Maybe they could reinforce the coastline for the NEXT time this happens.

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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

Water in electronics and what do you get?
Snappity-poppity, snappity-poppity, snappity-poppity BOOM!

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The taxis will be cleaned and reused. The personal cars? Depends on the insurance co.

I'd be fine picking up my next project car as a flooded car-I'd be tearing it down anyway.

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$60 OM617 Blank Exhaust Flanges
$110 OM606 Blank Exhaust Flanges
No merc at the moment

They go to Ohio, IN and IL

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15 VW Passat TDI
00 E420
98 E300 DT
97 E420 Donor Car - NEED PARTS? PM ME!
97 S500
97 E300D
86 Holden Jackaroo Turbo D
86 300SDL
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The roof lights are missing, and I think that NY taxis have to have a permitting mediallion affixed to the hood. I'm guessing that these cabs were semi-retired when they received their bath.

It could be that they are not a part of the New York Taxi livery.

I, too, noticed the lack of Medallions, so these are either new or destined for elsewhere.

But being purpose built for livery they may survive to function in another city or state with less regulation than New York.

Small operators are always looking to reduce costs, and these will have a 50% value in reduction at the very least.

That was the first thing that came to mind.

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They could make foil out of them....

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1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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They are going to ship those taxis to Cape Cod. Those folks don't mind a vehicle that runs intermittently. And, there are a couple of mechanics there that might be able to fix them.