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Originally Posted by Mr Bone
I know that this something that some people on here follow, and some have/do participate, but I cannot see the point in smashing cars up like this.
Restorable classic cars have been, and are still being, destroyed.
Humber estate cars  , how many left?
Mk 1 Granadas, what a cool classic car to own now.....oh, none left.
Sacrilege  |
Thing is at the time very few people saw them as a classic or even a future classic they were just old cars at or near the end of their life, which is much the same way many people view Rover 75s and MG ZTs now, do I regret wrecking all those cars? No because if I didn't race them they would have gone straight to the crusher, almost without fail the cars came to me FOC and I often gave parts that I removed to people for nothing. As for saving classics well I did ask someone once about a yard full of early Rovers and A60s of various makes and was told "no I'm saving them" only to watch them slowly turn to dust over many years of driving past without one being saved..
Oh and I did have a rare Hustler 6 kit car for restoration that I offered to the members on this forum free of charge but no one wanted it.
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Amazing that in 2013 they could find 30 or so Grannie's that they could get running
Many of the scrap yards and banger drivers used to (and probably still do) put cars that are suitable for banger racing into storage when they are taken into the yard for crushing, a guy that I knew bought every Farina/ Granada that he could when they were going for scrap and even now his son will race one every now and then.
Cheers Ian