escortmad79 Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 2 days ago a Mk1 Ford Capri XLR was towed into a scrapyard in Fife, I went to enquire if I could get bits off it but was turned down. A few weeks previously the same yard towed in a Mk1 Ford Cortina which they described as being mint, under the scrappage scheme, this ended up in the crusher! The owners got up to £2300 under the scrappage scheme for their classics, if they had sold them privately they would've made at least £4000 each & would have survived! The Capri is due in the crusher at some point too, a decent usable car scrapped & even if broken up for spares, a lot of usable hard to get spares destroyed! Makes me sick! This isn't what the scrappage scheme should be for! Classics should've been sold on!
tom28 Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 pisses me off mate they all want shooting
mk1v4 Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 i,ve got a mk1 xlr and i need bit the bas***ds
RossMK2 Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 pisses me off mate they all want shooting i'm with you tom! ive gt a air rifle if thats any use . i hate the idea but at my local ford garage theres people who like there osf's so none have been scraped yet
baz105e Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 round my way the adverts for the scrappage scheme say it must be under 10 years old or am i just being a cloth ear'd tit?
Miller Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 round my way the adverts for the scrappage scheme say it must be under 10 years old or am i just being a cloth ear'd tit? I think cars have to be over 10 years old to be eligable.
MK2Ed Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 It should be ending soon when funds dry up - the government sunk 300 million into it, not much left now apparently...
SebringRS Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 Ye classics should be sold on My m8 picks up the cars from the dealers forecourts to take em to the scrapper, and he said tht hes had loads of really clean classics, but cnt get em bk or do anythin wit em, cus he said once the dealers and the government sign the scrappidge papers there nout anyone else can do He told me a story bout one guy, he had just chopped his Sit up and Beg Pop (all toltally original) 2 owners, been sat in a garage all tht time, only a lil bit of rust and he'd chopped it in for a Peugeot
RossMK2 Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 Ye classics should be sold on My m8 picks up the cars from the dealers forecourts to take em to the scrapper, and he said tht hes had loads of really clean classics, but cnt get em bk or do anythin wit em, cus he said once the dealers and the government sign the scrappidge papers there nout anyone else can do He told me a story bout one guy, he had just chopped his Sit up and Beg Pop (all toltally original) 2 owners, been sat in a garage all tht time, only a lil bit of rust and he'd chopped it in for a Peugeot shocking
GJUK Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 Well I guess its quite rare for classic cars to be 'chopped in' for a new car. Lets face it. Those that buy a new car are stupid (or have money to burn). Those that buy a new car and chop in a classic car, worth more than they're being given by the garage are special needs (or have money to burn). Sure if you're rich, buy a new car. But I can never understand why people want to lose ~30% of the value of the car in a year just because they want a new one. How stupid are people (or does the goverment think people are). On one hand its "be green, recycle..." This encourages people to waste usable items. I don't recycle on principle. I pay my £1400 a year council tax for one person in a house. You can bloody well pick up my god damn waste and no, I'm not sorting it in to little piles for you. I'll stop there or I'll go on ripping in to the shit goverment we've got.
cjay2004 Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 i though all parts could be sold , but the body has to be crushed? thats what the scrappy down my way does?? they just had in an 1966 moggie van? how sad is that? & im not a fan off them but such a shame??
RossMK2 Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 i though all parts could be sold , but the body has to be crushed?thats what the scrappy down my way does?? they just had in an 1966 moggie van? how sad is that? & im not a fan off them but such a shame?? Think the shell and engine has to be crushed
Copey Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 where is it? i will go King steel the damn capri!
RossMK2 Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 where is it? i will go King steel the damn capri! Good idea
Mk3laserboy Posted September 18, 2009 Report Posted September 18, 2009 where is it? i will go King steel the damn capri! I'm with you Tom, but i think Fife is a way away mate.. anyone closer This scrappage scheme is 1 big ripoff..although i did here of people and garages doing 'deals' to save some classics from the crusher in the sky! If the dealers are into classics, some might be saved
tom28 Posted September 19, 2009 Report Posted September 19, 2009 i say whoever decides to crush a classic should be locked inside and crushed with it, even that aint enough though.
Mr.Sumo Posted September 19, 2009 Report Posted September 19, 2009 There will always be a garage involved in the scrappage scheme that will bend the rules....you cant tell me that some of them see that the re-usable parts on these classics can be sold on via the likes of eBay...... ......i mean , its not as if theres a Govt operative at EVERY garage involved in said scheme ......
faceman Posted September 19, 2009 Report Posted September 19, 2009 i thought it was the shell that had to be crushed, and the rest could be sold on !!
tom28 Posted September 19, 2009 Report Posted September 19, 2009 nah just the person should be crushed
Mr Sam Posted September 20, 2009 Report Posted September 20, 2009 they should of made it got to be 10 years old but nothing over 20 years old and who goes from owning something like an OSF to wanting a brand new car
mk1super Posted September 20, 2009 Report Posted September 20, 2009 they should of made it got to be 10 years old but nothing over 20 years old and who goes from owning something like an OSF to wanting a brand new car That will be one of the greedy sods who has like a rough mk2 tina 1600E in the front garden that no matter how many times you knock on the door it aint for sale ,or it is but for stupid money, i know of one such car
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