Renault 25 V6 turbo robbed by travellers

Makes you sick would have made a lovely old car. This is the problem when value of scrap goes up any moron with access to a hiab thinks its open season on anything more than 10 years old, this is exactly why I keep getting visions of a Hiab reaching over the fence of my yard at 1 am and snatching my bumped `89 Mazda 323 that I have plans for which do not involve a weighing station! Is that the state he got it back in? I suppose it could have been worse!

Thats gutting! Good job the weigh bridge people did their job, as it said in the listing they usually grab the cars off the truck, rip the fuel tank off and dump it straight in the frag. I'm very suprised he got it back.

The story the scrap guys gave could be true. I know of someone who was convicted of stealing a £50 scrappy metro from the road outside someones house. He had to pay £500 to the person who owned the car!

Apparently the guy had parked it half over a neighbours drive and then gone on holiday for 2 weeks. The guy whos house it was parked outside ran a taxi firm and parked alot of motors on the road there. He got miffed and rang the scrap man saying it was dumped, apparently it looked "dumped" I don't think it even had any tax on it. Either way the guy who took it for weighing in found himself in court and was forced to pay an extortionate amount for a car that was on its last legs anyway. The poor metro wasnt recovered, it went straight in the frag at the scrap yard.

As part of my day job I pick up "abandoned cars" on behalf of the local council - only ever with a properly faxed official request - and the number of these has dropped to almost nothing recently - from maybe 25 a month a few years ago to 3 or 4 a month now - and most of those burnouts or caravans....

As has been said, the scrotes will just lift anything they think they can get away with at present scrap prices....

Having said that, I picked up an old Mk2 Granada last week - been sat in the middle of a pub car park for weeks, and the new landlord wanted it moved, so called the council who instructed me. I picked it up but had "a feeling" about it - left it sat on the back of my truck for a day or two.....sure enough owner came out of the woodwork, screaming that his car which was worth £800 (!) had been stolen......it was just about to be MOT'd and was bound to pas "as it passed recently (?) and only needed a bulb". From the rust which fell off the chassis when I'd shut the door I had my doubts, but with the Council's agreement, released the car to him. Think he was almost disappointed I hadn't weighed it in.......:-)