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http://www.copart.co.uk/c2/individualLo ... =onSaleNow

Goodness me !!

Not much 1960 left there though.

Al

Makes you want to cry.

Not much 1960 left there though.

Sadly too true, not worth £700 either.

This is why I use a trailer!!

OUCH!

Bill,

I'm sure you use a trailer cos you are getting old & soft

Last time I heard, cars can come unstuck on trailers too.

We should be glad that this happened in the UK!

Just think. If it had been on a trailer, the car AND trailer would have been totaled... and maybe the tow vehicle!

One of my favorite bumper stickers: "If you see this car on a trailer, call the police. It's been stolen."

How can they sell this I was told cat B is to be broken and not sold on
in any shape or form strictly parts only

What a shame!

It would take ALOT of work but im sure the repair cost would be nowhere near 6K?

Do I spy oversills?

mk1 wrote:OUCH!

Bill,

I'm sure you use a trailer cos you are getting old & soft

Last time I heard, cars can come unstuck on trailers too.

we had a rolls that we bought in for its chassis at work, it has just won first prize at a big show in america, and was being towed home in a box trailer, the trailer got a waggle and couldnt be straighened and the trailer flipped all the body was rippled and dented, it was sold cheap to a guy in devon who shipped it over to resore with new wings and doors etc, as it was being loaded onto the ship, the hydraulics failed and pushed it up into the roof of the hold ruining it completely! we're building a tourer body on it, the chassis and engine are mint though!

Feckin' hell! Look at that passenger seat - hope nobody was sitting there on impact

What the hell hit it? Seems like there's hardly any paint from the other vehicle...

cheers

Jacob

Thats what I thought vulcan! Looks like the min could have been stationary when it was T boned by something much bigger & harder.

What a shame... I 'think' I saw it on the IMM this year...

mk1 wrote:Thats what I thought vulcan! Looks like the min could have been stationary when it was T boned by something much bigger & harder.

Just about all modern cars are now bigger and harder than a Mini, perhaps a 4x4 hit it,............crash tests on 5th Gear showed that cars designed in the last 10 years or so crumpled safely when hitting a similar era or recent car design but acted more like a battering ram towards older designs and would severely damage 1980's or early 90's era cars under the same conditions. A late 1950's design like the Mini really has no chance!

Crash Video New v Old Renault Espace @ 35mph:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvoumToSP5c

And now a 67 mkII
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1967-austin-mini- ... 19bace4f79

medwaybeat wrote:And now a 67 mkII
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1967-austin-mini- ... 19bace4f79

ouch, that looked to have been in very nice condition, pre accident

rich/anyone

Do you know what the early one at coparts went for in the end?

All up for it until realised i needed a breakers licence!

P

i didnt bother watching it, i doubt it went for much - copart just bang the stuff out, they dont bother holding it back at high prices for months on end like douglas valley do

i know someone with a copart breakers licence (it was him who rang me when he saw the car), but i just couldnt be bothered with the hassle of the thing