1951 Triumph Mayflower scrappage

[PandaSelecta]

Pinched off another forum.......

"This morning I was in idle conversation with the sales manager at Crossflags in Dumfries (a BMW and MINI dealer) when I spotted what could only be a Triumph Mayflower in the furthest corner of the yard. I made mention of this and was told that it was 'a sad tale'. It had been traded in for a MINI under the scrappage scheme, and as disposal of scrappage cars is dealt with centrally by BMW GB, the dealer has no control over its fate."

[yantorsen]

It doesn't even look in bad nick! Wouldn't you get more just selling it?

[scaryoldcortina]

I'd say so.. BMW GB probably realize that too. The owner wants his head boiling! I mean, I know its ugly, slow and probably breaks every single time you try to go anywhere in it, but a MINI? ffs. should have held out for a 3 series as a straight swap

[skinnylew]

thats just absurd!!

[scaryoldcortina]

PS panda... what on earth are you doing in North Carolina? and don't you have better things to post if you are? we NEED decrepid old US tin to drool over! get out there NOW with a camera and don't come back til you have found me a lowered AMC gremlin on ATS cups. Shame on you...

[welder]

I despair, i really do......

[Autofive]

let it go - i will not weep for this Mayflower

sounds the owner got a good deal

its still taxed, according to dvla

The vehicle details for 773 XUC are:

Date of Liability 01 08 2010
Date of First Registration 18 07 1951
Year of Manufacture Not Available
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1247CC
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour MAROON
Vehicle Type Approval null

[chaz]

Something wrong here, the scrappage scheme
was introduced to get rid of junk poluting the
air this is definetly not one of them. Can't see
this Triumph being a daily driver.

People drive for hours to go to shows to look
at cars like these, it put's a smile on their face.

You cannot use a car older then 25 years in the
American scrappage scheme, so real classics
are saved from the crusher.

[briandamaged]

Sept 20, 2009 6:29:10 GMT chaz said:

Something wrong here, the scrappage scheme
was introduced to get rid of junk poluting the
air this is definetly not one of them. Can't see
this Triumph being a daily driver.

People drive for hours to go to shows to look
at cars like these, it put's a smile on their face.

You cannot use a car older then 25 years in the
American scrappage scheme, so real classics
are saved from the crusher.

The Government might have introduced the Scrappage Scheme under some pro-environmental smokescreen, but in reality it's got nothing to do with getting 'polluting old cars' off the roads, and everything to do with getting the new car market moving, whatever the cost.

I'd have liked to have seen a clause like the one in the USA whereby (for example) vehicles which are Tax Exempt would not have been eligible, but the kind of ill thought-out curse word we have is what you get when you vote for a bunch of car-hating beard-stroking panty-waisted Socialist scum, insistent on destroying the moral, spiritual and now financial fabric of what used to make this country great. I hope you all remember things like this come Election Day.

<gets off soapbox>

[welder]

what he said.

[fordf350camper]

I know a friend who has 3 of these.Looks like a poormans rolls royce.

[flannelracing]

Looks like the Number has been harvested off and the car is the seemingly worthless end product...

[BenzBoy]

Yet another scrappage thread? Come on, it's happening, there's nothing we can do about it apart from NOT trading in your own retro/s and/or buying more.

[rmad]

Sept 20, 2009 10:04:53 GMT BenzBoy said:

Yet another scrappage thread? Come on, it's happening, there's nothing we can do about it apart from NOT trading in your own retro/s and/or buying more.

Good point. Same old arguments eh?

This thread is off to the 'bin now.