Vehicular Victims

[KM666]

I own a renault so I spend alot of my time down t' scrappy looking for parts.

Anyway this one place I frequent sometimes has some nicer old motors its sad to see dead.

A couple of examples;






There are many others there too, these are the only two I got pictures of. Theres a Capri, a Custom MGB pickup, a 200sx, a 300zx, half a classic mini, an old 6 series and some old sports cars I dont recognise at all.

So has anybody spotted or got pictures of anything interesting or rare when salvaging parts/abandoned and spotted when out and about.

[Rickyy]

Shame about the Eclat (I think its an Eclat!) Was there much evidently wrong with it?

[KM666]

Not obviously from a look over it. Its been there a while now, strange they've kept it to one side and not dumped it under a vectra like they usually do.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Oh, I share your pain - I have often visited a scrappy and found what I would deem easily restorable, rare cars on the scrapheap. It's sad.

One of the worst local cases was a neighbour of mine who had a lovely, 1990 Merc 500 SEC. It ran fine, had perfect bodywork, but had one or two electrical issues with the heating and aircon, but nothing that couldn't be sorted by a good amateur mechanic.

He eventually got the hump with it's fuel economy though (which wasn't the car's fault - just his own prejudice about his fuel bills) so he traded it in under the scrappage scheme for a brand new Hyundai i10.

Another perfectly serviceable old Merc, gone for scrap because of a silly Government scheme...

I bet his Hyundai won't last 20 years like his MErc had!!

[rotta]

Rickyy said:

Shame about the Eclat (I think its an Eclat!) Was there much evidently wrong with it?

Its an excel, 2.2 twin cam shame to see them in there

[chrissull]

On the train today, it passes a local scrappy, on the way there, e21 beemer in red, on the back of a truck, then on the way back it was on top of the scrap heap, fantastic looking thing too. shame.