some more scrappage victims

[FredTransit]

You ought to be ashamed of yourself! Couldn't you put it on ebay and use the proceeds to part fund the new boiler? Mine's older and tattier than yours, maybe I could substitute mine for the crusher?

[VWPowered]

wonder if they do scrappage on a tin of beans

[retro80sboy]

My first car was a tatty old MG Metro.My grandad had stopped driving a couple of years earlier and apart from my auntie using it now and again it was laid up in his garage and ran out of MOT.anyway, just before he died he told me I could have the car as I was learning to drive, so it cost me nothing - although it cost a fortune to get it try and get it through the MOT.It got that bad though with so much needing doing and was rotting to bits that I eventually sold it for 100 quid and bought myself a Nova for £500 off my cousin.I too can't believe these days the amount of young kids in brand new cars, my mate has a 17 year old daughter and is on about buying her a new mini!by law, first cars should always be shite in my opinion.

[morris_ital_lover]

Don´t worry, not all of us young ones are getting new cars, my parents told me to f**k off if I thought they were going to fund any of my ventures into the world of motoring... hence why I am 18 and dreaming of shite and not coming any closer to owning/driving the stuff!I do agree though it is ridiculous to give your darling daughter/son upwards of 20,000 worth of car especially when they are still going to roll/crash it. Currently Im looking around tons of unis and the thing that strikes me is that the car parks there are pretty plush with rows of new minis, fiestas and then "lower end" chevvie and hyundai chod!m0rris

[CortinaDave]

A fair few MGB's seem to have succumbed to the scheme in particular.. theres 2 in upullit just now and there was another 2 in the Kirkcaldy yards when i was having a look in there last week.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Someone on Club Triumph submitted a FOI request to ask how many old cars, and Triumphs in particular got traded in:

In answer to your questions, we estimate that around 170 and 1,000 claims for completed transactions under the Scrappage Scheme have involved vehicles registered before August 1972 and August 1984 respectively. This figure is an estimate for vehicles registered in Great Britain only (i.e. excluding Northern Ireland) as we do not hold data on age and so have derived an approximate figure using number plates which might include some cherished number plates.We estimate that around 60 claims for completed transactions under the Scrappage scheme have involved "Triumph" vehicles. Again, this figure is an estimate as some Triumph vehicles may have been recorded as British Leyland or vice versa in the returns from manufacturers.There have been no claims for completed transactions involving "Standard" vehicles.

[CortinaDave]

Thats a lot of squashed classics. Gits! There should definitely have been a no - older - than - a - certain - date clause put in it.If you scrappage a classic you should be legally banned from ever owning one again!Its like trading in the mona lisa against one of those framed pictures you get in IKEA

[trigger]

Another tidy MGB at u pull it, I would of thought it would have been worth £2000 still.

 

 

It has a very tidy engine bay and 53k on the clock.

 

and this 39k Nova saloon likes pretty tidy as well, Not seen one for years on the road.

 

 

Hang on, STOP THE PRESS!!! Don't show this to POG, It's only a bloody 318iS with 57k on the clock!

 

[pogweasel]

Hells teeth. One with that low a mileage would make two and a half g ALL DAY LONG.

[barrett]

sorry trig, thats a Midget not a B....only saying....and probably not worth anywhere near 2k

[scrappylad]

^^^ The Midgets have gone up a fair bit in value in recent times... looks a nice one.The 318is is a lovely car in really nice condition. The back arches need a little tidying, but thats all they'd need. The interior is mint. The engine is a little bit noisy-ish but I think they're all like that with them being chain driven.

[55bloke]

I can understand the appeal of scrappage if you've got a totally shagged heap that's just about life expired, but why would anyone want to trade in low milage minters? Utterly beyond me!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Is the skrappage scheme still going? I thought it was going to die a death at the beginning of Jan or something. If its still going it cant have long left surely.

[whitevanman]

reading about it yesterday...seemingly runs out in February, don't know the exact date though....

[VWPowered]

the day the government goes into liquidation

[Mr Lobster]

Scrappage is scheduled to end on 28th Feb unless the money runs out sooner. I'm sure the SMMT etc will be lobbying for it to be extended, hopefully without success.

[trigger]

sorry trig, thats a Midget not a B

Silly Trig, I should know, I spend 2 weeks solidly preparing one once for a respray from brown to BRG.