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Title: Bye Bye Old Girl
Post by: star_whites on 20 June 2011, 22:05:01

Well I finnally sent the old girl to the breaker to become a cube today and couldnt believe how they treated her. She was sat nicely on the truck minding her old business when a great big fork lift stuck its fork through thee drivers window and crushed her roof. They lifted her off and promply dropped her straight on hrt nose.

Almost brought a tear to my eye, well until they paid me lol

Couldnt believe what she weighed and I had already stripped her!

Title: Re: Bye Bye Old Girl
Post by: gstylebaby on 20 June 2011, 23:22:08

 :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( what a sad day for another omega to meet its end.

Title: Re: Bye Bye Old Girl
Post by: blackviper90210 on 21 June 2011, 07:29:11

Another one bites the dust   :'(

Title: Re: Bye Bye Old Girl
Post by: tunnie on 21 June 2011, 10:59:04

do get rather attached to these lumps of metal, not looking forward to day my faithful steed has to go  :'(

Title: Re: Bye Bye Old Girl
Post by: Lazydocker on 21 June 2011, 11:46:56

I must admit, I've never really been attached to a car (I rarely keep them longer than 18 months or so) but was rather sad to see my saloon drive off, even though I'm happy with it's replacement :y

Title: Re: Bye Bye Old Girl
Post by: Olympia5776 on 21 June 2011, 12:12:42

I hate it .I had company cars for +25 years and even those saddened me when they went.
I guess I'll be buried or burned in the Manta after 35 years with me ..... :)

Title: Re: Bye Bye Old Girl
Post by: star_whites on 21 June 2011, 15:31:25

It was a sad day as she has been a good car, except for breaking down on the way on and off holiday last year!.......will miss her but have my newer 2.6 elite to comfort me now.

Just can believe that I've got more money back breaking her than I got offered for her whole. Plus I've loads more stuff to sell. It's going to pay towards getting the newbie sorted so quite happy!

Title: Re: Bye Bye Old Girl
Post by: I_want_an_Omega on 22 June 2011, 02:33:06

I had the interesting experience recently of wanting a MFL cloth Elite interior. Couldn't find one so ..............

Bought a non-runner of ebay, towed it home, stripped it, sold loads of stuff and scrapped the shell. Ended up making a very decent profit and effectively got the interior for nothing!

Title: Re: Bye Bye Old Girl
Post by: VR4Dave on 22 June 2011, 06:40:24

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I had the interesting experience recently of wanting a MFL cloth Elite interior. Couldn't find one so ..............

Bought a non-runner of ebay, towed it home, stripped it, sold loads of stuff and scrapped the shell. Ended up making a very decent profit and effectively got the interior for nothing!

Lots of people make a living at it  :y

Title: Re: Bye Bye Old Girl
Post by: twiglet on 22 June 2011, 12:06:43

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I had the interesting experience recently of wanting a MFL cloth Elite interior. Couldn't find one so ..............

Bought a non-runner of ebay, towed it home, stripped it, sold loads of stuff and scrapped the shell. Ended up making a very decent profit and effectively got the interior for nothing!

Lots of people make a living at it  :y

One can only hope! See below...  ;)