Ouch! Another wedge bites the dust.

[Waynester]

1st of all, i hope no-one was badly injured here. Looks like quite a heavy impact, just missed the door bars though.

Plenty of spares in there, Zender rear spoiler..i believe?

Very low miles too!

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/718013.htm

Edited by Waynester on Saturday 25th October 01:51

[grahamw48]

Yes, I noticed that one too. Looks like it's gone sideways into a tree or some other immoveable object.

I do wish these scrappers would put covers over the wrecks though, so that the (valuable) interiors aren't totally ruined. What price a bit of polythene ?

[GRIFFONMARK]

Quite right about the covering of dmaaged cars, I inspected total losses for 20 years and could never understand why even the most expensive models would be left out with windows down, sunroofs open etc..

In the meantime Douglas Valley want £750 for what is essentially an SD1 engine with unwarranted mileage (they claim 7,500 miles but can't warranty that) which seems expensive when compared to ebay.

It hurts real bad when you know what they paid for the car under cat B!

Regards

Mark

[GRIFFONMARK]

Forgot to mention, the rear spoiler is a zender, it's identical to mine, in fact the whole car is identical to mine, colour, everything apart from the dent on the door. But mine is a 1988 model.

[grahamw48]

Simpsons near York (where I live) is a huge place which go about things the right way...which is probably why they are so successful.

Virtually everything under cover in a vast building, and parts stripped off the no-hoper wrecks, shelved and labelled.

[Waynester]

GRIFFONMARK said:

Forgot to mention, the rear spoiler is a zender.

Thought it was, don't see so many of them.

Tis a shame this car met such a nasty (immovable by the looks) object.

Are we really to believe that it's only done 7450 miles.. in 18 years??

[Mystic Slippers]

my 1987 has got just over 10k miles on the clock.
mine you it on its 2nd speedo

[Limey 666]

Waynester said:

GRIFFONMARK said:

Forgot to mention, the rear spoiler is a zender.

Thought it was, don't see so many of them.

Tis a shame this car met such a nasty (immovable by the looks) object.

Are we really to believe that it's only done 7450 miles.. in 18 years??

Yes zender spoiler same as mine shame another wedge bites the dust though.

[broadside]

Interesting to see just how well the Wedge has coped with a side impact. I'm not so sure that a Griff or Chim owner would have been as well protected as their doors didn't have the same sort of scaffolding in them as the Weedges had.

[grahamw48]

Just while we're (nearly) on the subject...here is a pic of my Cortina from way back, which was re-built and served me well for another 4 years !

[Waynester]

B..limey Graham!!

Cars are written off for having dirty wheels these days...
Good ol 'Tina though. My 1st car back in '89 was a MkV 4 door saloon. 2.0L, oh yeah.
101 r/w drive rockin horse power..if i remember correctly?

NLF 713V...RIP, died before her time.

[grahamw48]

The pic would be early eighties.
That one was the last in the line of the many Cortys I owned...a 2.0 GL,
which I used as a load carrier for my shop. Still going strong when I sold her at auction, to be replaced by a new Peugeot diesel (which ran for over 300,000 miles ! ).

I'm still on the lookout for a MK3 2000GXL...just nostalgia.

Here's one I built (a lot) earlier:



Customised tinas were viewed with suspicion at the time...hence the daft price, as well as me being useless at selling cars. I'd used it for work and done 20,000 miles in it since the conversion.
Only the odd rear axle needing replacement.

Of course you could have paid more for for the exciting Allegro above.

Edited by grahamw48 on Sunday 26th October 08:58

[tempus]

Sadly Graham Simpsons are no longer ,but it was a good yard and well organized.Tempus

[grahamw48]

Really ?

I must go and have a look to see if anyone has replaced them.

- Used to do most of my shopping there when I was a youngun.

[tempus]

Me three.They had a clearance sale for a while,they had been in business for 35years so they must have been doing something right.Tempus