Another Broken up car??

[Ian Williams]

Thanks Tony, being half a world away makes it hard to fully appreciate the current situation in the UK, I have always considered it to be a backwards step deregulating vintage cars, the days of scrap yards being fully of donor sevens is long gone, yet there seems to be a resurgence of decent cars being broken up since MOTs were abolished. As many of you know I am an avid special builder as well as restorer, however I hate to see complete cars broken up to make a special, particularly if the original car was viable and the resulting special is an ill conceived out of period miss mash. We are blessed in that there are still a lot of parts out there from which specials can be constructed without resorting to vandalism, I guess each to their own, and for every car destroyed the survivors become more valuable! Trouble is we sometimes loose rare cars, the unique Mulliner from a couple or years back, and recently an RG over here are just such examples.