Hyundai Saves Morris Minor From Crusher
The scrappage scheme has removed thousands of automotive eyesores from the road, but occasionally a car is offered that even the most hardened trader can’t bear to see go to the crusher.
This 1958 Morris Minor is just such a car. It was traded in by an enthusiastic buyer who used scrappage to get a discount of more than £6,000 on a Hyundai Coupe at the marque’s Gatwick dealership.
Once the deal was done and the car appeared however, it became clear that the Minor was far too good to go to the crusher – even if its value does not match the £6,000 given for it in exchange for the Coupe. With 36,494 miles on the clock, the black two-door Minor is described as being in ‘museum-quality’ condition by one independent expert.
So the Gatwick Hyundai and the Authorised Treatment Facility* G.W & G Bridges got together and decided to try and save the car from being cubed.
On the downside, the car can’t ever be put back on the road legally or exported as the DVLA has already issued a certificate of destruction. However this needn’t stop it from being used as a static display in a museum, for example.
The companies are inviting organisations who can put the car to good use to contact them with suggestions. The best and most worthy ‘proposal’ will get to use the car for free.
Proposals and questions can be sent to morris.minor@hyundai-car.co.uk before the end of October 2009.
*Authorised Treatment Facilities are scrapyards which are government-licensed to handle vehicle disposal.
