re: used catalytic converters... a "NO-NO"

[Jon Pike <jhpike@domain.elided>]

> Are you serious?  That's ridiculous.  And easily unconstitutional, I 
> would think.  I wonder how many more people would keep their cars 
> emissions legal rather than removing a plugged-up cat if they could 
> get a good used one at a salvage yard.
>
> So if I were to go to the junkyard and pull a cat off say, a 
> late-model, low-mileage Mustang to try and legalize say, an '83 
> gray-market 3.5L BMW, they'd say, "No, we can't sell you that"?????
>
> For crying out loud, what are they hoping to accomplish??
I agree with where you're coming from..  though if the old cat is pretty 
much shot.. your'e not accomplishing
much..  Perhaps that's their thinking,  make 'em buy a new one, and 
hopefully we'll get 50-60K more miles of smog reduction.

I wonder how many are laying around in junkyards..  vaugely remember 
something about them being recycled heavily..  they get sold to one 
company that has tens of thousands or more, in piles..  waiting to be 
recycled for all that platinum.  I also remember that the place was 
supposedly the third largest "platinum mine" on the planet,  by volume 
of metal recovered (?!?) or something like that..
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