08-12-2021, 10:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-12-2021, 11:08 AM by Bob Culver.)
I guess scrap fetched more in UK as could be recycled locally. Into the 70s many car bodies here were simply buried. I towed a stripped Javelin to the (free!!) tip by inserting a big 7 chassis rail up the drive tunnel and pinning it the towbar of my everyday Javelin. A brake adjuster fell out and wedged a rear wheel so I had to spend an awkwrd and very visible quarter hour on the roadsise unsorting. In those days were allowed to tow anything "for repair." ( stock car fans used to tow cars 100 miles Wellington to Palmerston and the battered wrecks back again the same night!)