Best Compact, 5-passenger British Car of 1969 to send to the USA?

That actually makes me really angry. There are some cars in these - Nissan 300ZXs, MGBs, 6-series and 7-series BMWs, E-class Mercedes - that could be easily restored to working order, made to comply with modern emissions standards and then sold on again.

I also got a list of the cars scrapped under the UK's scrappage scheme from a few years back. Needless to say they junked a massive number of beat up hatchbacks and the like, but some of the cars scrapped there is depressing. They cut up 15 Audi Quattros, a BMW 3.0 CS (Really? Could you have not sold that to somebody who would save it :( ), a BMW M5 (Whoever turned that car in....fuck you :mad:), a Lancia Delta Integrale (Fuck you too :mad: ), a Nissan R32 Skyline GT-R (And you :mad:), a Triumph Dolomite Sprint (You too :mad:), a Renault Alpine GTA (You as well :mad:), 10 Mazda RX-7s, 12 Mercedes 560 SECs, a Morgan 4/4 (Really?), 57 Nissan 200SXs, 3 Porsche 928s, 31 Toyota Supras ($*%&#!), a Jaguar XJ12 Coupe (I know it may be a piece of junk now, but with a little TLC....) and 5 Toyota Celica GT-Fours, every one of which could - SHOULD - have been saved, fixed to modern standards and sold on to somebody who would have cherished it. (Seriously, I'd have taken the Delta Integrale, the Dolomite Sprint, the Quattro Sport, the M5 and the Skyline GT-R without even looking at them. You could only get £2000 each, and I'd have happily paid that for each one of these.) Instead, each of these is going to get turned into pet food cans. A damned shame. :(


oh good, am glad its not just me thats annoyed.

i once owned a 205GTI for a very short space of time that i never got to drive - it was almost fixed then someone with an obvious steal to order took a couple of bits off mine

traded it back to my garage mate to get the girlfriends car fixed in the end...

there are over 30 205gti's on the scrapping list, any one of which could have been the difference between me driving a 205gti or a 206d

:-(
 
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