Remember the scrappage scheme?

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Dryad
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Remember the scrappage scheme?

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I've just found this video filmed last year of hundreds of cars accepted under the scrappage scheme back in 2009/10. They still exist! I counted at least ten Minors, including a pickup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhUGMrWCqyg

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I thought the cars under that scheme were not to be broken for spares. Looks like I was wrong.

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Perhaps people have been raiding them at night. It certainly looks like some have been done. What a waste though.

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Maybe but money talks!

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We had a main Ford dealer who had a salesman who made a lot of money selling cars off the scrappage scheme :evil:
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What a crying shame all those good cars going to be scrapped , I am restoring a minor at present which llooks to be in a worse state than the minors in the video.
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I bet a lot of perfectly decent Minors went down the scrappage scheme route - some people would sell their own grandmothers! :-?
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Yes, I remember at the time seeing several ads for Minors at inflated prices and in the description "If not sold then it will go into the scrappage scheme", which is just another way of saying 'give me three times what the car is worth or the Minor gets it'. Shameful.

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I think a case of pure politics and we all know that where politics and facts conflict, politics prevail.
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Unfortunate thing about the scrappage scheme was that it was a con by the main dealers. The £2000 knocked off the dealer price in exchange for your old banger was around the same amount a discounter was cutting the price. I remember Perry's had new fiat panda dynamic (1.2) for exactly £2000 off list price at the time, and you could have driven the old banger down to the discounter and got a little bit of part exchange into the deal. So the main dealer got a helping hand of £1000 off the government, which they didn't need, and weren't really giving the customer a good deal.
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what a waste :evil:
a good number of those ex-owners will be deeply regretting weighing in their Moggy/Herald/Beetle/Daimler/MG etc etc,now or in the near future,for some worthless piece of junk,that has probably already fell to pieces.shame on them :evil:
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