19-05-2020, 08:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 19-05-2020, 09:06 PM by Bob Culver.)
End of life Sevens were often as the photo. I briefly ran one and dismantled two. In the early 60s I attended a Wellington Council 6 monthly auction of abandoned cars. About 30 of. More or less intact old 1920s Essex and the like would fetch L20, a good weekly wage, and Ford 10s twice as much. (A the times cars were kept on the roads here far longer than UK)
The scrap yards today, including the most basic Pik A Part are full of cars often with no obvious serious deterioration. A minor prang is the end for most, esp if of the air bag era. Any mechanical or worse electical or electronic problem is the end because it is so expensive to fathom and access to fix, assuming you can find someoene who can. It all seems very wasteful , even tragic to the likes of me who has eked a lifetime of motoring from seriously outdated cars.
The scrap yards today, including the most basic Pik A Part are full of cars often with no obvious serious deterioration. A minor prang is the end for most, esp if of the air bag era. Any mechanical or worse electical or electronic problem is the end because it is so expensive to fathom and access to fix, assuming you can find someoene who can. It all seems very wasteful , even tragic to the likes of me who has eked a lifetime of motoring from seriously outdated cars.