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I realize this video is hardly brand new, but it’s one of the more jarringly tragic car videos I’ve seen since Cash for Clunkers ended. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust… classic 2002 to its of scrap. Every time I see a video like this, I remember why photos of non-restored classics on the street or in the junkyard are so cool: these cars won’t be around forever.
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How to alienate autophiles around the globe: put a classic in the shredder.
Aye, its enough to make you weep.
This is the saddest thing I’ve seen in a long, long time! For the love of all that is right with the world of classic cars, say it isn’t so!
Since the BMW was interesting enough to have people standing around with video cameras while it was being crushed, I suspect the owning scrapyard did the math on sales potential vs. scrap metal value.
Since the newest 2002s are closing in on 35 years, I’m guessing that the people who want to own a restored model already do.
What a sad view. I was cheering: Choke, you bastard!
Unless that 2002 had terminal rust cancer, it’d be a good candidate for an M42 or M20 swap.
Apart from anything else about this video I was amazed at how poor at its job the crushing / shredding machine was.
It took about three minutes to do the job with exraneous bits of old car flying about the place and the whole machine seemed to bog down a few times.
And the old BMW looked like it was about to jump out of the hopper a few times too.
Unfortunately, there have been many instances where the owners tried to sell the vintage classics for long time but received no bids or interests.
A hapless guy wanted to unload his 1970 Cadillac Eldorado for long time. With no buyers queuing up for that land yacht, he took the Cadillac to the junkyard to qualify for the $500 voucher toward the purchase of newer vehicles. When the stingy buyers got wind of it, they magically appeared with lot of cash to rescue the Eldorado from the gnawing teeth.
So the moral of the stoy: if you truly care about the vintage classics, snap them up as soon as they get listed in the classified ads.
I am having trouble with what the problem is with this video?? One of the ugliest B’mer’s I can recall in decades hands down…I’d put the pieces back in the shredder to make em even smaller personally…
i’d pay $12-14K for brand new basic 2002. that would be so hot.
The 2002 is a classic; but that example looked a bit worse for wear. Sure, it would be great if every valued model could be carefully disassembled for parts; but the costs, the warehousing and labor, are often prohibitive. And how many 2002s are even left? The odds of anyone owning that one, finding a buyer for a door or trunk lid, is pretty low.
That’s the paradox of cars-as-art. If you use them, they wear and eventually are fully depreciated…worn out. If you don’t use them, the money spent on them is wasted. So a car as a love-object is bound to disappoint.