Cars scrapped

[Kwacky]

Remember that scheme a few years back when you got a discount for getting rid of your old car?

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Doing some quick sums on the Excel document showed 101 Porsches bit the dust, split between 944s and 924s, but also three 928s. A Triumph Dolomite Sprint was scrapped, as were nine Triumph Spitfires and quite a few MG Midgets. It's sad how cars that will be loved one day in the future were culled - a whopping 45 Jaguar XJSs hit the 'heap for example, out of 731 Jaguars in total. It's also sad how it hastened the demise of cars that weren't really loved, but you want to see every now and then. Cars like the Skoda 130, the Peugeot 505 GTI family, the Mitsubishi Tredia (okay, maybe not that).

But there were also cars that were or would have become bonafide classics, like the Honda Integra R, Ford Capri 3000 Ghia, Lancia Delta HF, Lancia Beta Spyder, Fiat X1/9 (11 of them!) and the Mercedes 560 SEC.

[D41]

Oh no....not the SEC...I love those cars!

Do you know how much the slave cylinder on one of those things costs....oh, nevermind..

[duke63]

Lancia Delta HF? Scrapped? Noooooooooooooooo!

[Deegee]

The really surprising thing about that was the fact there were actually any Lancia Beta's or Fiat X19's left to scrap, Italian steel was a treat for metal worms as I recall.

[StMarks]

I've got a Haynes manual for a Fiat X19. I suspect it will have an increasingly dwindling market value.