Scrapped early, not wrecked
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My Nissan primera gt le , snapped the cam chain at 60,000 apx if my memory serves me right , I was so gutted mrs sold it to a friend of hers who had a garage , it was then scrapped , car was mint ( in that chromaflair green / purple etc ) , should of just got a 2 nd hand engine
Strange as it’s said older Nissans never break , that one did & my mrs micra had problem after problem
Strange as it’s said older Nissans never break , that one did & my mrs micra had problem after problem
I was still driving car transporters during the scrappage scheme (just another govt white elephant), we normally delivered new cars only but our company had part of the scrappage contract, we only picked up runners capable of getting up on the decks under their own power, our vehicles were full size 11 car carriers without recovery equipment ie winches.
Some of the cars i picked up were gems we'd have been glad to buy ourselves and given our eye teeth for to snap up for our coming of age kids
Some were dogs held together with baling twine, but there should have been a grading scheme involved to allow the sifting of really good examples.
3 of many spring to mind, BMW 3 series low mileage immaculate, as new Civic 3 door (the pretty curvy one) covered just 35k.
The little barely used Starlet i collected from one rural Toyota main dealer, the service lads there had looked after this little old ladies Starlet from new and it was in showroom condition, what a waste, it should have been bought by someone who would cherish it and show it at classic meets in years to come.
My many colleagues could tell of so many similar examples.
Might sound odd i know but the whole debacle was really rather emotional, those who have pots of dosh and buy new and dispose soon after won't have the same affection for these cars, those of us of more modest means tried in our skint younger years to find cheap cars that would last a couple of years and keep us mobile whilst hopefully debt/loan free, these cars and thousands like them should have been helping those who needed some cheap reliable transport, the best ones becoming classics in due course, they were the last cars not stacked with computers so able to be kept running with home mechanic TLC.
Some of the cars i picked up were gems we'd have been glad to buy ourselves and given our eye teeth for to snap up for our coming of age kids
Some were dogs held together with baling twine, but there should have been a grading scheme involved to allow the sifting of really good examples.
3 of many spring to mind, BMW 3 series low mileage immaculate, as new Civic 3 door (the pretty curvy one) covered just 35k.
The little barely used Starlet i collected from one rural Toyota main dealer, the service lads there had looked after this little old ladies Starlet from new and it was in showroom condition, what a waste, it should have been bought by someone who would cherish it and show it at classic meets in years to come.
My many colleagues could tell of so many similar examples.
Might sound odd i know but the whole debacle was really rather emotional, those who have pots of dosh and buy new and dispose soon after won't have the same affection for these cars, those of us of more modest means tried in our skint younger years to find cheap cars that would last a couple of years and keep us mobile whilst hopefully debt/loan free, these cars and thousands like them should have been helping those who needed some cheap reliable transport, the best ones becoming classics in due course, they were the last cars not stacked with computers so able to be kept running with home mechanic TLC.
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