These Retro Rides Have Been Left To Rot Thanks To A Government Scheme
It’s no secret that we lost some incredible modern classic cars thanks to the UK government’s 2009 scrappage scheme. A full list of cars ‘killed’ by the initiative - which involved trading an older car for a £2000 discount off a new one - was published about four years ago, followed up by some sad-looking pictures from one of the storage sites used for the vehicles in Bedford.
Now, a group of urban explorers have gone to that same site to produce the video above, and the footage - we warn you - may produce actual tears. The site is now dominated by newer cars, but there is still a fairly large contingent of the scrappage cars here, and many of them are gems.
There are multiple Porsche 924 and 944s, a cluster of VW Beetles, several Peugeot 205 GTIs and a lot of Land Rover Defenders. There’s even a Pontiac Firebird, for Pete’s sake. Interestingly though, some of them have now been stripped of interior parts - this was previously thought to be impossible under the terms of the scheme.
Take a look through the video, and if you can stop sobbing for a moment, let us know which rotting modern classic upsets you the most…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Car guy for president
Daddy doug is the guy then
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If I had a place to put some of them and the money and the skill to fix them up I’d take them haha.
I would very gladly join you on that!
The UK government is the worst government for car guys change my mind
Singapore lol.
The US and its “Cash for Clunkers” luckily they ended the program. But only after destroying thousands of perfectly good cars and making used cars more expensive.
Cash for Clunkers in the U.S destroyed a genuine Buick GNX… mind changed yet?
Switzerland…
There’s a program like that in Portugal, and other countries…. i remember being in a scrap yard where they received cars that were scraped in the program and there were some cars like an BMW 2000…
Time to bust out the rollback and commit a government theft.
Can you please send one of them to me?
whyyy
Interestingly, I had a chat with my friend the other week about this; and she told me about her grandfather getting 2 Grand off a new BMW in return for his old car being scrapped. It was a Saab 9000 Turbo…
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Not the Saab’s!
It’s depressing to look at