A Bit Depressing

[MrIan]

Just having a nosey on the internet and found this depressing list. Scrapped vehicles via the scrappage scheme 2009.
when you think that all these vehicles to qualify will have had a current MOT !!
Yes there's a morris minor traveller in the full list as the link is just to the first 1,000 entries !!
Oh and there's loads of minis there and Capris (even a MK2 3ltr Ghia one of the rarest)

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... sv/preview

[MrIan]

A quick look shows 83 MOT'd mogs were scrapped !!!!

[SteveClem]

According to CCW lots of those could still be sitting in a field waiting for the crusher. Crazy!

[les]

Even Allegros were amongst the scrapers! Makes you realise how much peoples values vary.

[Tea]

Once put into the scrappage scheme is there any way of legally taking a car back out before it has been crushed?

I only ask as two of my parents cars from the early 1990s that were put into the scheme are still on the road with a current mot and tax according to the dvla.

[MrIan]

I know the idea was to get older cars off the road and to boost new car sales but surely crushing classic cars that are of value to enthusiasts just seems daft to me. I read somewhere else that over 400 minis went through the scheme and I noticed on that list there were 2 mini jet blacks. Only 3,000 jet blacks were made and only 1,000 of them for the UK and as far as I'm aware there are less than 50 left ( interested as I have one).
I'm sure these classics could / should be sold back to enthusiats as if nothing else it'd generate more money from the sale and then tax if the car is put back on the road.

[The Issigonis Kid]

They weren't all crushed, there's plenty of pictures on facebook of the airfields full of Minis and Land Rovers and Minors etc. There is even a petition to sign to get them back on the roads as restoration projects for youngsters.

https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron- ... re-schemes

[panky]

Just had a quick scan through As well as the Minors and Minis I spotted a Sunbeam Rapier, a Singer Vogue, a Wolseley Hornet and even an Austin Healey

[philthehill]

All that and the diesel scrappage scheme has not even been started yet.

[MrIan]

All that and the diesel scrappage scheme has not even been started yet.

Yes just been reading about that today .

[iwsmithy]

It is a shame but there was one club member locally who had a Minor as his everyday runner, a saloon that was needing a full restoration to make good as it had been patched up for years. No one in their right mind would have given him £2000 for it. The car was a victim of playing the system. Sad but I can't blame him-mind you he robbed and replaced anything decent off it!

[MrIan]

But did he get £2,000 for it ? It might have said he did on paper but reality is another thing as numbers get crunched.
Each to their own obviously as peoples outlook on and ability to repair older cars differs as not everyone can strip a car to it's bare shell and restore it.

[faversham999]

I want £800 for my 2007 Octavia and that would not of even of qualified

[bmcecosse]

Part of the scheme was to remove old 'polluting' cars from the road - replacing them with nice clean-exhaust cars.

[SteveClem]

The cars they were pushing us to buy 10 years ago ( diesels) are now considered the worst polluters! And all this rubbish about electric cars being pollution free....look up the environmental costs of manufacturing/ recharging/scrapping the batteries.

[panky]

Here here and thrice here, the biggest con going.

[SteveClem]

You know,we went to the Eden Project in Cornwall a few years back and all the staff were driving around in Fiestas with electric motors. Got talking to one of them,he was a proper tree hugger,and he said he had a real problem using the car around the site because it was being done for Eco- publicity and made no kind of sense.

[panky]

Can you imagine how the power stations would cope if every one plugged in their car to re-charge - they have enough trouble coping at half time in the FA cup final when all the kettles get switched on

[MrIan]

Part of the scheme was to remove old 'polluting' cars from the road - replacing them with nice clean-exhaust cars.

Old Boris Minor is ok then as I polish his exhaust tail pipe !!! ooo-err mrs !!!

[panky]

Hope you used a bottle brush