NigeEss
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| posted on 27/12/10 at 11:18 PM |
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on from Nsdev RetroPower post
Got me thinking about the now classics I have scrapped over the years
and now deeply regret. They were commonplace then though.
In particular :
Mk 1 Capri
Chevettes, one with 1600 xflow and an unfinished 2000 Fiat power one
Mk1 Astra GTE
Kadett C coupe with SRi130 engine
323 BMW 1978
Midget (round arch at that)
Talbot Sunbeam
I could go on but it's depressing me 
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.................Douglas Adams.
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MikeR
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| posted on 27/12/10 at 11:21 PM |
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My only 'regret' car wise is a mk2 escort about 5 years ago that only had a little bit of rust in one corner + a badly sealed in front
window which somehow leaked into the footwell. Got it as a donor about 7 or 8 years ago for 125 quid.
Asked repeatidly but no one wanted the shell. Wish i had the space to have kept it and frequently regret scrapping it (especially now as i'm
hardly using any (if any at all) of the parts i salvaged from it. Was a 1600 automatic ghia.
(still have the registration memorised)
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mookaloid
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| posted on 27/12/10 at 11:36 PM |
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I had a chevette 2dr saloon and a 2dr Viva HC - either of which would have been just the ticket for a project like that
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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austin man
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| posted on 28/12/10 at 12:51 AM |
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my regret is my 1958 Austin A35 (see Avtar) 1098 engine high lift cam bug valve head stupidly ;low ratio diff, big carb , straight through exhaust.
Lowere 2 " Midget discs and suspension gutted when it went and still am. But Ive go a kitcar out of it and memories of 3 years graft and well
turned out Austin.
Life is like a bowl of fruit, funny how all the weird looking ones are left alone
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skodaman
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| posted on 28/12/10 at 01:22 AM |
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I scrapped a Volvo 245 that had been in the family 20 years only 80,000 miles and not much wrong with it. Usually sad to scrap any of them even my
terminally rotten Panda cos it was fun. To reverse the thread to cars I would love to scrap I nominate my Rover 800.
Skodaman
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T66
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| posted on 28/12/10 at 09:09 AM |
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1974 Mk1 Ford Capri 1600GT
Sebring red, Rostyles, twin choke weber, four branch, and it used to whoop my mates Ford Capri 2.0 John Player Special
Total rot box, and looked like this one long before I owned it.
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carpmart
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| posted on 28/12/10 at 09:22 AM |
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I'm so glad that all the cars mentioned above were scrapped. It has created a lucrative market for those people, myself included, who were too
lazy to scrap cars and left them in the corner of the field etc.
Old sh*tters I should have weighed in years back are now rare classics!
Thanks everyone!
You only live once - make the most of it!
Radical Clubsport, Kwaker motor
'94 MX5 MK1, 1.8
F10 M5 - 600bhp Daily Hack 
Range Rover Sport - Wife's Car
Mercedes A class - Son's Car
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imp paul
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| posted on 28/12/10 at 10:27 AM |
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wow so many sinners lol i to am glad i have still got mine still love talbot sunbeams 1 day just not now got to much on with the 1 I have now
lol
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thunderace
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| posted on 28/12/10 at 10:38 AM |
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you scrapped a Kadett C coupe with SRi130 engine
NigeEss
i need to give you a slap or you can do it yourself
got a manta gte in a heated garage thats been there 5 years now and i havent even talken a look at it and a cresta in another just sitting there what
with over 10 projects on the go its hard to get round to doing them all.
[Edited on 28/12/10 by thunderace]
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imp paul
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| posted on 28/12/10 at 11:09 AM |
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NIGE ESS go out side right now and beat your self with a wet fish lol
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NigeEss
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| posted on 28/12/10 at 02:25 PM |
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I now feel very cold and slimey !
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.................Douglas Adams.
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phelpsa
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| posted on 28/12/10 at 03:30 PM |
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Wasn't very long ago but this was my first car:
Regret selling it a lot and it spent quite a while off the road, but I ttill know where it is although it looks very different now!
[Edited on 28-12-10 by phelpsa]
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imp paul
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| posted on 28/12/10 at 07:00 PM |
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it had to be done mate lol
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