Looks interesting:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31359&item=4519905312&rd=1

Marcus

.....but wouldn't it badly upset all those C******m owners when you told them the donor for your locost was....a Caterham! Which wouldn't be nice.....would it...

[Edited on 15/1/05 by GeoffT]

I'm just struggling to understand why the insurance company have written of a car which is so lightly damaged ?

Can only guess it's got a twisted chassis - though as you say how that happened with so little other damage is strange. Anybody know the story on this one?

It may be my imagination, but the driver's-side front wheel looks a bit back from the other one...

David

When I was buying a lot of breakers (up to three years ago) a couple of insurance companies wouldn't allow some cars back on the road, even though they were lightly damaged.
Don't know what the ruling was exactly, but I seem to remember the NU were a bit keen sometimes.Also if the car is of unknown history the car usually gets broken.
Quite often a stolen recovered would go through the auctions with almost no damage,but had to be broken due to its unknown parentage,either a "bitsa" car or reclaimed from a "ringing job" etc.
Ther are lots of reasons for cutting cars up!
I had a waste exemption certificate and I never quite worked out why some complete wrecks were rebuilt, and some with next to no damage were deemed breakers.
Sometimes they also had previous repairs which only came to light when the car was examined again,the current regs concerning checking cars before they go back on the road, should help in that respect.