<VV> Law moving thru the North Carolina legislature

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

> Perhaps, but so far, all I've heard about are TRUE junkers. Not classics

Most classics were 'junkers' once (how much was *any* Corvair worth in June 
1969?) and lots of today's 'junkers' will become classics.

Trouble is, we don't know until it is too late which junkers are going to 
turn into classics, so the best course of action is not to destroy them. But 
as far as our politicians are concerned, all cars are junkers. They have 
just brought in an ill-advised scrappage programme where the government pays 
you to scrap any car over 10 years old, and then they put a destruction 
order on it and give you a 2000 GBP cheque towards a new car (which has to 
be bought at a dealer, and it is really easy to get more than 2000 GBP off 
*without* scrappage, if you search around.

Predictably, although most of the cars being junked are not rare or 
valuable, I have already read a couple of horror stories about valuable cars 
that were in the hands of ignorant owners being traded in to be junked.

And like most laws, the politicians haven't written it well, and so there is 
no way the junked car can be bought out of the scrappage, even if it is 
priceless.

I had better stop typing now, because the anger is welling up inside me...

Cheers

Alan