Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[clan chieftain]

If you were offered a car the same as your own only in a much worse condition would you break it for spares or restore it.. I have broken and scrapped a few marinas over the years but if it had been a car from say the 50s I dont know.Sometimes a donor car is the only way of keeping your best one on the road.Its a difficult choice especially as spares are hard to come by.I would imagine there are body shells lying all over the place.
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[Rick]

If it was beyond economic repair, and not super-rare, then yes I'd break it for bits. I bought a number of Amazons years ago for that purpose, they were rotten as a pear but had some handy bits to get my 121 and later the 122S back on the road.

RJ
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[Ironhead]

if i could find a rusty old Herald going very cheap,i'd use it as spares for my own.

[ukdave2002]

I have broken a couple of Morris 8's, one was completly rotten, neither had an identity, it never feels good when you have to take the stripped shell to the scrappy

Dave