Morris Minor Owners Club

Restore that then.....

At least it's not on the DVLA database still .....;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... st+type%5D

The cost of disposal theory seems a plausible explanation. I remember in the sixties there was a problem with scrap car volumes which suddenly increased with the MOT test and easy credit in Macmillan’s ‘never had it so good’ era.

Traditional scrapyards parked the cars in rows until all the useful parts had been scavenged and only then would the remains be burnt to destroy non metals and cut up. I can remember one yard where the old boy went around at teatime and closed the doors and bonnets customers had left open.

Until the modern industrial scale yards were developed the old yards struggled to cope with the unprecedented rush and cars were dumped all over the place, which as kids we thought was great! There was an Austin Big Seven dumped near us which I played in and was most upset when some older lads set fire to it. Later a school friend’s big brother chopped up a Renault Dauphine himself because the local yard wanted to charge him so much to leave it even if he took it there.

With modern car numbers it is probably well that the scrappers are processed more scientifically and no longer set alight. I do miss wandering around the old yards though.

No Ian - you cannot have it.

Phil

Oh please! It only needs a polish....

Where I used to live there was a sports centre behind. When it was being constructed in the late 1960s the ground was built up to make it flat and level for a running track and one of my friends said that one evening they drove an old Ford Prefect from round the corner, parked it up and left it. Next day it was buried in soil. It must have been what you did to Ford Prefects in those days.

car sos will have that on the road in 2 weeks no problem

IF you believe everything you see on TV

do you mean it's not true