Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club

Ford have announced this little wheeze to help save our planet from foul emissions by older vehicles. Trade-in anything built up to 2009 and receive £2k scrappage allowance. And scrappage means scrappage - they won't get re-sold. Will they allow breaking for parts? Wonder what that'll do for our choices when looking for decent R8's? Mind you, I suppose the sellers will have to be prepared to get lumbered with a new Ford if they insist on being haggle-resistant.

yeah but ford

crepello wrote:Ford have announced.... Wonder what that'll do for our choices when looking for decent R8's?

They should insist that only old Fix Our Rotten DustbinS qualify. That way we can be rid of all the "Dagenham Dustbins" and the roads will be a lot less polluted by all the rust flying off them as they go by on the back of a recovery vehicle!

That has gone on for some years now in Italy in the late nineties.

At the beginning it was a government scheme applicable on any new car purchase, where the scrapped cars had to be crushed and disposed of. At the same time a new law over junkyard created more stringent requisite for keeping cars while being broken down, so that the junkyard themselves preferred to crush the cars instead of keeping them on their lot for spares.

That until someone found the way: they started sawing the cars in half, as to book them as "scrapped" and sell them to east-european traders who would weld them back together.

That meant a carnage of interesting cars being lost. I remember visiting a scrapyard and walking past a Jaguar XJ40 which seemed brand new...

I also started a negotiation on a decent lancia fulvia coupè, which at the time was worth around 2,000 €. The car needed some attentions, so I had to reduce the offering a bit. The seller walked away, because the scrapping allowance would earn him more money.

A guy I met on a BMW owner club meeting could manage to save a E30 320i in mint condition, which was intended for scrapping. He could buy it for 0 € while it was already in the junkyard, waiting for its driving plate to be taken off.

This scheme has gone on for few years as an official government support.

Begininng early 2000, every mass-market manufacturer has gone on offering any type of scrapping allowance on a new vehicle purchase. Not that this matters anymore, unfortunately, because the big bulk of potentially collectable cars has been disposed of 10 years ago.

They're not getting either of mine.

1234dist wrote:yeah but ford

I'm still recovering from my dad owning a 1985 Escort 1100 Popular in Doom Blue for 9 years from new.

Might trade in the 25 derv if they will give me 2k off a new car, wouldn't mind an ECO Sport derv for work.