Originally Posted by Turbo-Beal

I often have a look around my local scrapyard looking for bits for my car but have you noticed how hard it is to find the old mk3 mk4 escorts nowadays. It seems that if a scrappy round my erea gets hold one they automatically crush them I recently found an old xr3i and had a couple of bits off it then when i came back to get some more they had already crushed it I realy think it criminal doing that! parts are getting harder and harder to get hold of nowadays and all them pefectly good bits have now gone forever This car had an almost pefect gun metal grey body shell with no visible rust i could see! the reason it was in the scrappy was the engine had overheated and probably killed it. It realy makes me sad that alot of scrappys dont see the worth in keeping them anymore.