Practical Classics Granada?

I can't help thinking that in some cases it is a case of no-one wanting to beleive that someone didn't buy a car to restore/preserve that has ended up being bangered and so to make it seem more comprehendable new reasons for it falling into the racers hands are dreamt up.

However, there is of course the underminding minority of travellers that do obtain cars through diceitful means with promises of restorations/preservations that do end up getting destroyed.

The story behind WCs motor (cant remember weather it was a P5 or a vanden plas) was that in very poor condition in storage somewhere and ended up being stolen by gippos who then sold it for top dollars to a banger driver. The police recovered the car and the insurance wrote it off. Said banger driver then bought it back off the insurers and raced it. It was meant to be mega rare as it was a coach built 2 door. Thats the story as I remember it anyway, few years ago now.

Id hasten to add that the banger driver DIDNT know it was stolen and wasnt charged by the police.

Banger drivers get all these lovely rare cars to race as they are often the only people who will turn up with a wad of cash and take the motor away without pulling a face, slagging off the condition of the car and offering half what they were offering.

People have got to accept that while there are people who want to see all old cars restored and preserved there are just as many who would want to see some of the poorest examples raced and destroyed in the name of entertainment. The drivers pay good money for a rare car and spectators pay good money to watch.

Back to the topic(ish) £200 for a MK2 granada?? In my opinion real banger racing is racing nothing that cost more than £40!!

I could go on for ages, but I wont
to all those that say its terrible that banger racers get all these classics to race, some of the cars have been in banger drivers hands for years, some are bought through the classic car mags, and some off ebay. money makes the world go round and if the money is there to pay for a car then surely the purchaser can do whatever the f### he wants with it, even if that means supplying the classic car world with spares after the cars been stripped. if it realy is so bad that the cars are raced, why the hell don't YOU do something about it and buy the cars! ill stop there otherwise ill go on and on and on..................
that said nicking cars is sh!t

incidently there is currently a very rare and extreemly rotton farina (of some sort) estate which has just been passed on to a banger racer from another driver who has had the car for years. when the car gets raced the pictures may or may not end up on here, either way if any of you lot knew what it was you would probably be physicly sick, but thats the way it is.

I'm off to ENJOY my classics, wether it be mint or smashed to pieces.

Thats the dealy. So there should be plenty of cars to go round to keep everybody happy without people having to resort to stealing them....

exactly! its not like theres a shortage of cars for sale, allsorts of cars in all sorts of conditions, so the fact that so many have been raced is neither here nor there.

its neither cheaper or easier to use 10 year old cars. ANY car that uses injection or any sort of electric wizardry is harder to prep, and older classics are more proffit bearing once they are stripped. Anyhow, old cars bend better!
Ive been into classics for 27 years having been pulled around the shows by my dad, who is an ex racer him self. Ive also been into banger racing for 7 years or so and ive got a very good understanding on how both sides work, I see things from both sides of the fence and the only way many old classics have been saved is by the spares that have been removed from cars that are raced. In my eyes there is no problem with 60's and 70's cars being raced if there is no one to buy them, which ther isnt. if there was then they wouldnt be being raced would there!

mr plums talkin just that again, put some of your cars on ebay, id bid just to upset you

Hang on...A group of gyppos turn up with a car like that and no questions are asked?

"Yeah we've had in storage for ages, finally want rid of it? The locks? They've always been like that...Lost the V5, yeah...took it in payment for doing a shonky driveway...Pass the hedgehog."

*n

What a surprise indeed.

I notice that i have found myself bidding against you once or twice already actually, i.e. on that alfa arna. Did you want that or were you just bumping the price up to annoy me because of my anti-banger stance? Actually let me guess.