« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2012, 07:53:36 AM »
Because it is easier than putting it back? I am convinced there are folk out there who only take things apart. Sort of anti restorationists. Their mission is to take the viable, dismantle it and loose/break several vital parts before putting the car back on the market often with rubbish about how much the non transferable number could be worth or having lost the ID papers. Of course they expect a profit for their 'work'. So many good cars and projects have been totally wrecked by such people.
However it did allow for the stuff to be bought cheap once it was 'unsaleable' and enough of these sad remains could be formed into new complete projects to go back into the pot to be built by folk willing to collect them up and produce the opportunities. Grist to the mill. That only works if the price is bottom though. Very little seems cheap enough to do that these days but then I am not putting myself out there to do it.
It does pain when you know the car and its potential and see it has regressed though.
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