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Sept 19, 2009 23:54:49 GMT
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Pinched off another forum....... "This morning I was in idle conversation with the sales manager at Crossflags in Dumfries (a BMW and MINI dealer) when I spotted what could only be a Triumph Mayflower in the furthest corner of the yard. I made mention of this and was told that it was 'a sad tale'. It had been traded in for a MINI under the scrappage scheme, and as disposal of scrappage cars is dealt with centrally by BMW GB, the dealer has no control over its fate."    |
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1939 Francis Barnett Powerbike
1971 Honda C90
1992 Mitsubishi Lancer 1.5 GLX
1993 Fiat Panda Selecta
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Sept 20, 2009 0:09:01 GMT
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It doesn't even look in bad nick! Wouldn't you get more just selling it?
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Sept 20, 2009 0:13:41 GMT
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I'd say so.. BMW GB probably realize that too. The owner wants his head boiling! I mean, I know its ugly, slow and probably breaks every single time you try to go anywhere in it, but a MINI? ffs. should have held out for a 3 series as a straight swap  |
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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skinnylew
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Sept 20, 2009 0:36:02 GMT
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thats just absurd!!
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Sept 20, 2009 0:42:45 GMT
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PS panda... what on earth are you doing in North Carolina? and don't you have better things to post if you are? we NEED decrepid old US tin to drool over! get out there NOW with a camera and don't come back til you have found me a lowered AMC gremlin on ATS cups. Shame on you...
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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welder
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Sept 20, 2009 0:45:14 GMT
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I despair, i really do......
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I'm not completely useless, I can be used as a bad example.
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Sept 20, 2009 4:55:41 GMT
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let it go - i will not weep for this Mayflower
sounds the owner got a good deal
its still taxed, according to dvla
The vehicle details for 773 XUC are:
Date of Liability 01 08 2010
Date of First Registration 18 07 1951
Year of Manufacture Not Available
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1247CC
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour MAROON
Vehicle Type Approval null
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room. |
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chaz
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Sept 20, 2009 6:29:10 GMT
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Something wrong here, the scrappage scheme
was introduced to get rid of junk poluting the
air this is definetly not one of them. Can't see
this Triumph being a daily driver.
People drive for hours to go to shows to look
at cars like these, it put's a smile on their face.
You cannot use a car older then 25 years in the
American scrappage scheme, so real classics
are saved from the crusher.
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Sept 20, 2009 6:50:14 GMT
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Something wrong here, the scrappage scheme was introduced to get rid of junk poluting the air this is definetly not one of them. Can't see this Triumph being a daily driver. People drive for hours to go to shows to look at cars like these, it put's a smile on their face. You cannot use a car older then 25 years in the American scrappage scheme, so real classics are saved from the crusher. The Government might have introduced the Scrappage Scheme under some pro-environmental smokescreen, but in reality it's got nothing to do with getting 'polluting old cars' off the roads, and everything to do with getting the new car market moving, whatever the cost. I'd have liked to have seen a clause like the one in the USA whereby (for example) vehicles which are Tax Exempt would not have been eligible, but the kind of ill thought-out curse word we have is what you get when you vote for a bunch of car-hating beard-stroking panty-waisted Socialist scum, insistent on destroying the moral, spiritual and now financial fabric of what used to make this country great. I hope you all remember things like this come Election Day. <gets off soapbox> |
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welder
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Sept 20, 2009 8:48:12 GMT
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what he said.
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I'm not completely useless, I can be used as a bad example.
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Sept 20, 2009 8:52:33 GMT
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I know a friend who has 3 of these.Looks like a poormans rolls royce.
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Peace,Max signature height = 80px
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Sept 20, 2009 8:59:54 GMT
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Looks like the Number has been harvested off and the car is the seemingly worthless end product...
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Mine
2003 Honda Accord Wagon
1963 Buick Riviera x1 1/2
1964 Cortina Estate
1932 Ford Tudor sedan
1964 Honda C50 Step thru
The Missus
2000 Toyota Bb
1972 Daf 33
1968 Triumph 1300
1946 Chevrolet Fleetmaster
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Sept 20, 2009 10:04:53 GMT
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Yet another scrappage thread? Come on, it's happening, there's nothing we can do about it apart from NOT trading in your own retro/s and/or buying more.
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Sept 20, 2009 10:12:50 GMT
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Yet another scrappage thread? Come on, it's happening, there's nothing we can do about it apart from NOT trading in your own retro/s and/or buying more. Good point. Same old arguments eh? This thread is off to the 'bin now. |
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Last Edit: Sept 20, 2009 10:25:52 GMT by rmad
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