Have you ever tried to trace what happened to your old Alfa (other brands available) after you sold it of traded it in?
I did exactly that this morning and the result is surprising and a bit disappointing. I bought my Alfa Mito in 2009, kept it serviced and together until I sold it in 2014. Sold it to a young chap who was going to learn to drive in it, his dad bought it for him. Warned them to check the oil regularly as it's an Alfa and did use a little oil, 'so just keep an eye on the oil level' I said.
Went to Gov.uk to find out it has not had an MOT since 2015! It was not SORNed either. Couldn't find any evidence of it being written off, quite glad about that! Then I paid £1.99 for a basic check and my heart sank as I read it was scrapped in early 2015
My theory is they didn't keep an eye on the oil and let it run dry, the engine went bang and they decided to scrap it.
I sometimes wonder what happened to my first GT, bought new in 2005. I had private plates on it though, and can't remember what the replacement was when I part-exchanged it. I suspect it's gone to the great car park in the sky now. My Alfetta GTV and 33 were both scrapped - something that made sense at the time but I bitterly regret now.
If I enter the reg of my old 916 GTV, I get a message saying the number I've entered is incorrect. I'm guessing it's either been scrapped or had a private plate put on it.
My old GTV's on SORN. It's not had a fresh MOT since the last one I had done...which expired in 2012!
It'd done 70-odd thousand miles when I sold it on.
It was in excellent condition, but not exactly a museum piece!
My September 2004 registered 156 2.0 JTS died in February 2013, aged 8.4 years. I suspect somebody got bored with replacing head gaskets, just as I had.
My S-type is half a mile away in the MoT man who bought it's workshop awaiting body repairs after a minor shunt. My Saab 900 gave its life to save others (mostly its bulletproof Saab not GM engine). That ancient Audi disappeared off the charts after a couple of years. I parted out my Alfa myself.
If anything else is still out there I'll eat my hat.
I had a Citroen BX 16 in the late eighties which I sold in about '89 and was still going in the mid nineties but that's been gone a long time now. All the cars I've ever owned except the one I currently own have disappeared! I'm like the Grim Reaper for second hand cars :lol:
My BMW R75/5 which I bought in 1974 and p ex'd for my R100s in 1979 is due to be taxed next month, no MoT data so I believe it has been registered as 'historic' so doesn't need one.
One of my Golfs is missing in action, while the other one has been SORN for yonks; awaiting a sympathetic restoration, I hope. The Alfa was written off in a crash (an absolute crying shame, that), the Polo has been scrapped, but the Clio, the mad 172, is still bombing about with 130k on it; probably coz I ran it in so well ?
My last Alfa (RE53PVJ) is the only one I've cared enough about to check up on - I even posted on here - I miss that car terribly, it never wanted for anything and was a great little car.
No trace of the registration on gov.uk site, so hoping it's had a new reg number on, rather than been binned/scrapped - seemed to have happened shortly after disappearing from the trader's website.
Still keeping an eye out for it on local breakers/salvage auctions/ebay etc.
An old E30 316i we had, which died after a cambelt snap when down in Devon was left for the local scrap man, was a b it worse for wear generally - surprised to find someone picked it up, and put it back on the road, just passed it's last MOT in March at 168,000mi, no advisories.
Most of my many have since gone to the big scrapyard in the sky.
I am in touch through messenger with the chap who bought my first Alfa and as it happens the last (same car) my old Spider. It's on a new engine and when I spoke to him a few weeks back it was almost ready for MOT.
My first Ferrari I was reacquainted with two years ago.
Mine too and what's more the only one of three I have owned that I drove before buying.
Most owners are not keen to let other folk drive them.
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