ever scrapped anything you wish you had now?

[mitsisigma01]

Pretty much every car I've ever owned, some were complete shit boxes that wouldn't die and others that in hindsight would still be easy fixers and worthy of wearing the Autoshite badge. 

[strangeangel]

Two Renaults: my 4F6 van and a 16TX. Both victims of lack of time and space.

[BL Bloke]

I had a 1970 Morris Oxford back in 1981 which I passed on to my Dad when I bought my Chevette, A few months later it failed its MOT on worn steering and was scrapped. ?

[cobblers]

7 years ago I scrapped a really solid MK2 Golf GTi because I needed the front seats out of it for another car and had to swap the insurance off it and had nowhere to keep it.

H662 HAD. I feel bad every time I see one, it was way better than the bag of shit I raped its seats for!

[montytom]

I really regret a couple. The first was an MG Montego turbo that I had, The turbo was puffing out blue smoke on the overrun and my dad jacked the car up and the car stayed n the floor but the seat was touching the roof. We were moving back to the Isle of Wight and had nowhere to store it as my dad would have restored it so scrapped that one.

Next was a nightfire red Rover 800 vitesse. The gearbox blew and we were moving to the mainland and unfortunately had nowhere to store it so scrapped that one aswell.

 

Theres a few more than this but these two stick out for me 

[Amishtat]

G436TYE, my 2-door E30 318i. Bought on a whim and with low expectations for 225 with six months tax & ticket,it was absolutely fantastic. Someone had fitted four brand new Kleber tyres just before I got it, which must have been a good chunk of what I paid. I drove that thing like a hooligan for six months and enjoyed every second of it but the few little jobs keeping it from another mot were beyond my pocket and my landlady flatly refused to let me keep it off to one side so I was compelled to weigh it in. On the last drive to the scrapyard I drove it like an absolute cunt down the lanes between Brentwood and Stock which in hindsight was a mistake as it just made me love it more. The very next day my mate Dan asked me why I didn't put it on his dad's driveway, he wouldn't mind at all.. I felt like throttling him.. Always promised myself another one but they're out of my range now. Its replacement was a P-reg Megane 4-door which I hated from the first moment I clapped eyes on it. But that's another story. 

[GeordieInExile]

Just three for me:-

Rover 75

Puma

SportKa

The Puma was my first car and it died on a roundabout, the 75 was my second car and the suspension collapsed while I was driving it, and the Ka was just a total rotbox which I got shot of after the radiator went because I was sick of fixing the bloody thing.

[clayts450]

Everything I've owned which wasn't sold/roffled (just the PT Cruiser then)

1969 VW Beetle

1977 Morris Marina

1983 Skoda Estelle

19?? Rover Metro

19?? Vauxhall Cavalier

2001 Rover 45 V6

[Bradders59]

A pair of 3.0 24v Senators. Lovely cars, but the rot had set into the rear end badly on both, and at the time (almost 15 years ago) I couldn't even give them away for spares, so ended up sending them to the scrappy. Really regret having no pics for keepsakes either.

[Dannyk]

When i was 18 i had a nova, 1.2 expression. It had done 40k full history, grandad and grandson previous owners, i put a few nice* parts on it. Then scrapped it with the parts still on aswell as all my spares thrown in it after a little bump, that 18 year old me couldn't fix or afford to, but me now would have it done in a morning. was still driveable aswell.

When i was about 15 i had a kawasaki kl250 i used down the fields, but sold it to a breaker (after i bought a suzuki ts50x for the road). Never seen one since and most people have never heard of one.

Other than that all the other cars i've scrapped have deserved it.

[overrun]

Ones of note for me are a couple of mk1 XR2’s, around ten years ago.

Lots of P11 Primera GT’s (I think I have personally weighed in about 8 ) along with a few P10 eGT’s and even a P10 eZX. An early Volvo 343 oh, and a JDM spec P11 Primera that I bought when it wasn’t actually for sale, solely for its folding wing mirrors and black dash. (can you tell I was into these things?)

 

I’ll no doubt regret stripping and weighing in a Rev 3 turbo MR2 in a few years, also!

There’s been more, but this is what comes to mind at 2am.

[bramz7]

Never regretted scrapping a car as they've all been monumentally shit. 

Xantia 1.9D- everything was broken, immobiliser had been screwed when someone tried to steal it. 

LHD Tipo- rancid due to previous life as a dog walkers car.

Citroen XM- HGF 

Alfa 156- arguably slightly mis sold as a good car when in reality it was terrible. 

Mercedes E320- Fuel pump lunched itself and the car was in a semi limp mode anyway. Plus scrapping it made me turn a profit. 

 

 

[sierraman]

As above I’ve no regrets. It’s easy to say ‘if only I’d kept that’ but you’ve got to think back at the time it was costing you big money or it was fucked so it had to go. 

[bunglebus]

MK2 Escort with a 2.0 Pinto is probably the worst. Regret putting my 1st car, MK1 Fiesta in the crusher too.

Don't regret the various MK5/6 Escorts I've weighed in though

[Zelandeth]

1988 Renault 25 2.2i Monaco.

On account of needing rear suspension arms.  I'd have fixed it in a heartbeat now, but it was worth £20 back then and I had zero funds available.  Drove it twice...still the most comfy car I've ever sat in.  Epic stereo too.  First time I encountered the concept of bass you could feel rather than hear for real.

[Datsuncog]

On 10/3/2019 at 6:48 AM, bramz7 said:

Alfa 156- arguably slightly mis sold as a good car when in reality it was terrible

You too?

I couldn't even give mine to the scrappie, nine months after paying £1500 for it. Eight years old and an absolute nail.

That's the only car I regret buying, rather than selling.

I thought it was only good for scrap, what with the fucked gearbox, cracked block, pissing out coolant, corroded brakes, seized suspension, broken doorhandles and the fuel tank falling out, but amazingly someone put it back on the road, albeit clad in a matt black wrap.

It's dead now, thankfully.

Total piss-take of a car.

I felt quite sad passing my Mk6 Escort Zetec with the Caramac coloured interior on for scrapping, as it had been a surprisingly willing and reliable little thing over five years of ownership - but it was fucked. Clutch and rear wheel arches were gone, plus I'd dragged it down a wall and the near side was like a relief map of the Andes.

The XM estate was also a borderline case, having been shockingly bodged but probably fixable with some welding. But it was high miles and very shabby, and since they were worth the square root of fuck-all back in 2011, it went off to a Citroen breaker. I promised myself a good one someday,  but prices are out of my range these days...

Generally I'm a sentimental fool and will sell my heaps on for £100 rather than do the deed and ring the yard myself.

I've been the last-but-one owner of pretty much all my cars.

[sierraman]

Renaults always used to have really good Phillips sound systems in. 

[Jazoli]

Mate of mine scrapped a 20V UR quattro, he blew the engine and couldn't afford to fix (he never once checked the oil and ran it dry) it, he ran it on a shoestring, all 4 tyres were down to the canvas, he really knew fuck all about cars and he got £200 quid for the car and the plate (153HHY) which is now on a Mercedes, the car would be worth about £40k now.

I did take advantage of his muppetry and bought a nice tidy 6 year old Supra turbo off him for £300 when it failed its mot on fucked tyres and wipers, I did scrap it myself when I blew the headgasket 5 years later and rust had begin to take over, it was a great car and had around 280bhp with a few mods, it was quite a lot for 22 year old me

 

[dozeydustman]

Both my Felicia and my Cougar I wish I'd kept. The Felicia was a great little car, but it needed so many parts for the next MoT I could have bought another with 12 months ticket for the same amount of money. The Cougar was a 2.5 V6 X-pack with an ST24 engine from a Mondeo, I struggled to find the parts I needed for the MoT at sensible prices.

Loved both those cars.

[Schaefft]

My early manual 2.0l V6 Xedos 6. I just checked registration numbers for the manual V6s in Germany yesterday and its frightening how few are left now. Numbers here in the UK are even lower (somewhere around 100 across all V6 trim levels with the manual) so my mission now is to find a decent one with the right options/color before they are all gone, or maybe even import a Eunos 500 with the 160hp variant of the V6 from Japan, but even that is hard now.

[sutty2006]

I regret selling this to a mate who ran it till the MOT ran out and scrapped it. 1.7 NA diesel. Would have ran forever.

 

 

[Three Speed]

I bought a CX Familiale C-matic (YYU 114T) from a scrap yard to use as a parts car for my CX2500D (ERD309V). This was in about 1988. The Familiale had been scrapped because of a fairly heavy front left hand corner impact. And the steering box had also been removed. Otherwise the car was in good nick - metallic gold with a brown vinyl roof and brown interior (perfect for here). I pulled out the front using the 2500D and a tow rope as a puller (which amused the neighbours) and fitted a bonnet from a a scrap car (blue with orange interior which was one of the first batch of CXs in the UK) and another steering box from somewhere and got an MOT on it. I sprayed the bonnet brown to match the roof as I could not match the gold.  That was the brownest car I have ever had. I ran that car for a few months, often commuting from Sittingbourne to Southend. Going round roundabouts at speed it used to lose drive - particularly the the M25 / A127 junction. This was because the clutch microswitch on the gearlever was tripping and disengaging the clutch (remember it was C-Matic). I assumed this was because it was misaligned after my amateur body straightening and just needed adjusting. Then the driveshaft tri-lobe came out and left the car without drive in exactly the wrong place when I had no time to fix it. The reason the tri-lobe came out was the engine was moving about (I forget exactly which part was loose) - that was why the clutch microswitch disengaged on roundabouts. So I took the doors and bonnet off and called the scrap yard and they took it away - I remember the steel cable they put over the top crunching the roof and tailgate, popping the back window. I do regret that - you don't often see a Mk1 CX Familiale C-Matic these days. The doors and bonnet replaced the rusty ones on the 2500D which was then treated to a couple of coats of white Japlac all over. 

[brownnova]

THE brown Nova. Hugely regret allowing that to be scrapped. But naive student me thought buying a VW Polo which was 12 years newer was a good idea. 

What a knob. 

[Floatylight]

Cavalier 1.7td GLS, had it just under 6 years, had been brilliant but cylinder head had cracked, part exd for scrap money against a 3 yr old Passat TDI for proper money which turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. Would love to still have it now..

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[chaseracer]

A very early XM on a G-reg- but this was 2006, it was using more oil than fuel (and it used a lot of that...) and it was worth the square root of rien.  Many parts live on in other XMs.

I also regret letting my GS go, but I had used it to T-bone an off-duty copper shooting a red light, so...

[Eyersey1234]

Not scrapped by me but I sometimes miss my first Fiesta, it died a few months after I got rid though due to the bodywork being fucked. 

[schonker]

A mini 1275GT that I scrapped because one A panel was rotten and the door was hanging off.Everything else including the sills and subframe where original!

[hennabm]

A 1600E - TLO 540G - needed engine work;

P plate Transit MKI 1600 cross flow. Had to scrap it as no space to park it once the chassis corrosion had been discovered.

[Anthony30]

On 10/4/2019 at 8:27 PM, schonker said:

A mini 1275GT that I scrapped because one A panel was rotten and the door was hanging off.Everything else including the sills and subframe where original!

??

[HMC]

I scrapped a 240glt estate - it was £120 off eBay (2007) with some mot. Got rid once the mot was up and so wish I’d not bridged it.