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[skinnyminny]

Why would you say that??!! I could do with a new interior for that too though the drivers seat is wearing through.... 

 

TMF trip?

[alex-95]

2 Chelsea's! Wonder if any had centre caps still fitted 

and the ritz

[MaxAndPaddy]

 

So if I just happened to turn up and do a quick interior swap.... for a nice full leather interior.... reckon anyone would notice?

 

Spotted an XJS like ours on that link as well poor babies.

 

Jags actually faired worse than Minis, over 740 Jags were traded including over 40 XJS models.

 

 

I was surprised at the amount of Jags, I  bet most of those owners are seriously kicking themselves now

[Archived2]

Out of interest what limited edition mini are you referring too?

 

I saved one myself. Paid a garage 2800 to get it from them. The dealership had a guy who paid the company 2000 to save it. He had put it up on ebay for 4k.  Seems too familiar!

 

Drove it until the mot was out and after the purchase and work I actually made a loss on it but I let it to go to a decent mini nut who has been doing a running resto on it.

Happy to lose a few quid to see it saved tho. It was pretty bad in areas.

[MaxAndPaddy]

Out of interest what limited edition mini are you referring too?

 

I saved one myself. Paid a garage 2800 to get it from them. The dealership had a guy who paid the company 2000 to save it. He had put it up on ebay for 4k.  Seems too familiar!

 

Drove it until the mot was out and after the purchase and work I actually made a loss on it but I let it to go to a decent mini nut who has been doing a running resto on it.

Happy to lose a few quid to see it saved tho. It was pretty bad in areas.

 

Have to admit I can't remember, I'm sure the advert I saw it was being sold on again from some who had bought it from the guy that had saved it but I can't be sure. Does sound like a weird coincidence though.

[Archived2]

This was a blue mini cabrio. 

[MaxAndPaddy]

This was a blue mini cabrio. 

 

That's not ringing any bells with me,but certainly worth saving never the less.

[Archived2]

Guys doing a great job on it and I hear from him from time to time with small updates. Was nice to save it from that pile of minis.  Would love to visit and "save" a few of those 

Edited by minihobbymini, 20 September 2014 - 11:02 PM.

[AVV IT]

Interesting stuff!!!

I can't believe that I never knew that they were all stored at Thurliegh air field! It's just down the road from me and somewhere I drive past all the time. Ironically it's also next door to Yarlswood immigration detention centre, which just happens to be where the government stores the backlog of unwanted people too!! Come to think if it, I always wondered what all the car transporters were doing going up there, and kind of assumed the old airfield was being used as some kind of a test track!

I'm glad to say that both my minis managed to avoid becoming part of the statistics though, one even has a badge to prove it!!!

[Black.Ghost]

I hate that scheme. Such a waste of so many nice older cars. Why the hell would you trade an old Jag or Mini for sodding Kia or new Fiesta, or whatever else was taken. New cars are great machines, but they have no character and no charm. They should have just let the market run its normal course. It would have forced the manufacturers to drop the prices, or produce a lot less cars. These firms would have suffered in the short term, and yes they would have less capital for R&D and the like, but they would have got through it and come out the other side. 

 

New car prices in general just mean its really not worth owning one (for me anyway). There are so many 90s and early 2000 models that are perfectly good enough that unless money is no object, new cars are just not worth the money. 

 

Its a real shame all those cars can't be saved. The government could easily overturn its decision, and sell off every car still in existence through auction, and put all the money to good use for something. I am sure there would be plenty of support for such a plan, even if a few people who bought new cars might be rather annoyed at the government making money from cars they traded in. 

[skinnyminny]

 
 
Its a real shame all those cars can't be saved. The government could easily overturn its decision, and sell off every car still in existence through auction, and put all the money to good use for something. I am sure there would be plenty of support for such a plan, even if a few people who bought new cars might be rather annoyed at the government making money from cars they traded in. 

They could use the money to resurface the roads/reduce petrol prices for a year or something. Brilliant plan!

[Corey96Williams]

http://www.pistonhea...p?storyid=30915
There's the whole list of all the cars...

[megamini_jb]

I was passing by last week and went this way, but best way I could see around the perimeter was a trek across half the runway. I was going to park up as my skunk2 exhaust wasn't helping stopping and creeping around as I was near houses defo going to go back soon, but will go in mini and see if I can park up somewhere and have a walk and accidently find myself on the runway

Edited by megamini_jb, 29 September 2014 - 03:57 PM.

[Corey96Williams]

I don't fully understand, are these cars still dumped there from 2009? They can't have much security then...

[megamini_jb]

Yes, they've got security, well from what I've been told. Not sure about the cars though. I'm pretty local and go past the road leading to it every other day so really intrigued as I wasn't aware that's where they were stored bfore this thread.

My google maps is 2014 and looks like a fair bit still there, but never know. Don't kmow what the perimeter was like when the urban explorers went, but I didn't want to go any further. Badly want to see what's left though, especially to see minis. I'm a fast runner haha joke

Edited by megamini_jb, 29 September 2014 - 04:29 PM.