Car breaking guilt.

I still have regrets about breaking my old Alfa 156 in similar circumstances.

My head tells me it had no MoT, doing the MoT work and the timing belt would have cost £500 and I wouldn't have got that back if I sold it, I wasn't using it so the battery went flat then died, it was in the way etc. etc.

However, I loved that car and I still miss it.

I've only ever sold 2 complete cars lol, they're always worth a huge chunk more in bits.

How much you after for the whole car? My old mans Volvo needs a whole front end as his rotten!

You have to be a bit philosophical about such things
Ive had to break a few, but if it becomes to uneconomical for you to repair
you just got to do it dude

I spent £300 on engine work on my old 480 after the timing belt snapped. I should have either broken it for spares or bought another car and broken that to save this one. I ended up selling it and it got broken anyway after it was rotten

I've just abused it really. One of the rear windows is broken so it has a sheet of perspex gaffer taped over it, the tyres are bald, the shocks are knackered and it could use a rebush.
If I was to spend 3 or 4 hundred quid on it I could make a nice car of it again, but it would only sell for about 700 and I could probably get 300 for the engine alone.
The manual box probably won't hang around either.

A car of this level is just a car. Feel bad if it has sentimental value but otherwise, it's only a consumerable at the end of the day. I wouldn't think twice about breaking up the 360 if it would make me profit - but I know it's actually worth more as a whole.

YES

I hate seeing it, I would rather sell at a loss and it have a chance at life again.

My MR2 is set to the same fate I could easily triple if not more my money if I striped but I just can't bring myself to it.

It onlys wants a bit of love and a clutch fitting, but I have way to many things to play with and we never really formed a bond, but I can't have it turning out the same way as my 205, 7 years later.

You can't save them all, and then your other retros risk not having the attention they need IME.

I have sold one car which went on to become broken up for Spares (Alfa 147 2.0 with a holed piston but in great condition otherwise (irrelevant when good examples are £1-1.5k).

Years ago I broke up a 2001 Ford Mondeo Ghia X for spares because it had a broken gearbox (diff was shot). A crime many said who came to buy bits off me, but many would have scrapped that car long before I broke it for spares. It was on 380,000 miles and at the time it seemed uneconomical to repair it (I would have ended up changing the clutch at the same time as the gearbox, and the engine despite having great compression was starting to smoke slightly on the overrun. Besides that, the car drove quite well (it had had many things changed over the years (bushes, brakes etc.).

That car in bits kept the following two Mondeos alive (the Green machine of death as I call it had many spares off that car, and truth be told I was nuts to pursue keeping that car alive in comparison the high mileage 2.0;My sister's Mondeo took the inlet manifold (I changed that to a non rattly derivative previously, and a number of other small sundries over the years).

I still have a jar of bolts which I still use on every car (the green car took many of those from the garages who botched that car along with the retro stuff where having galvanised nuts and bolts with washers built in can come in very handy .