Diesel Scrappage Scheme

[Mordac]

This is what happened with the last scrappage scheme. Any car under a grand was automatically demand with the value of the scheme. So total heaps to cars with many tens of thousands of miles of life left got squashed, including interesting classics. In fact, so popular was the scheme that the government had to store a large number of cars in RAF Thurleigh before they were 'processed':

R.A.F Thurleigh (car graveyard) April15 - 28DL

There was a place like that up near Banbury some years ago when I had to visit a client on one of the old airfields. Every inch of tarmac was taken up with all the Rover cars which were left unsold when they went breasts up. Thousands and thousands. They're probably still there for all I know, it was difficult enough to sell Rovers when they had a dealer network, I doubt you could give them away now.

[The_Equalizer]

There was a place like that up near Banbury some years ago when I had to visit a client on one of the old airfields. Every inch of tarmac was taken up with all the Rover cars which were left unsold when they went breasts up. Thousands and thousands. They're probably still there for all I know, it was difficult enough to sell Rovers when they had a dealer network, I doubt you could give them away now.

Jolly interesting if not a little sad.

The website Autoshi5e has a thing for Rover 75s at the moment. It's how I found out about R.A.F Thurleigh too. I like the ethos of Autoshi5e and there's some clever people on it:

Autoshi5e

[BackupBoy]

Nothing says "successful contractor" like a 15yo Astra diesel.

How about an 18 year-old Ukrainian ... oops, sorry Audi A4?