Re: very disturbing

["Dan" <danielpwillis@xxxx>]

And yet I hope there are enough trashed DeLoreans left so that my next 
car might be one... I don't want a mint one!!

Dan
Vin#5284 (not for long I hope!)

"claire_usher71" <claire@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> I tried the link to Discovery, but it didnt work. Even so, to 
> compltely wreck two seemingly perfectly good DeLorean's in my book 
is 
> totally wrong. 
> 
> There is a show on Channel 4 or 5 called Car Wars (or something like 
> that) where they turn cars into radio controlled fighting machines. 
> In one show they wrecked a perfectly good 1960's Austin 3 litre 
'Land 
> Crab' once owned by Richard Burton and Liz Taylor - and took great 
> pleasure in boasting about it. Unfortunately numerous cars with 
> historical and rarity values meet their deaths on UK banger tracks 
> every week. The recovery driver who collected me and Flopsy from 
> Hitchin the other week is a banger racer (I told him if he even 
> thought about putting a D on the track he'd soon be six feet under 
> and pushing up daisies), he boasted about smashing up a 2yr old 
> Bentley this year! Also, I once worked with someone who fully 
> restored an Austin A60 Cambridge (Farina shaped), then a guy who 
> worked for our local council spotted it, nicked it, guess where it 
> ended up.....
> 
> I'm just glad we took the plunge and rescued Flopsy from an 
uncertain 
> fate......
> 
> Just my 2pth,
> 
> Claire
> #2292 'Flopsy' - built in Ireland, trashed in the USA, resurrected 
in 
> England