Although i think its a noble idea to save ek9's from being broken i dont really agree with it as its only the owner thats at a serious financial disadvantage here when you think about it. Unfortunately the ek9 has a small niche market and even more so with a heavily modified one and so the only option that makes sense is breaking it for parts. Using myself as an example i could have probably got around £7-7.5k for my ek9 if i was lucky and it would have probably taken me a few months and countless tyre kickers/test pilots to get it shifted, however with breaking it, it took me about a month to break the whole car, sell 95% of the parts and clear £11k in my bank. I think when you look at it that way and from the owners prospective you can begin to understand why it gets done as much as it pains us.
I feel as long as the shell is rescued and returned back on the road then its not so bad. its only when a good shell gets scrapped that i feel we are truly killing off a rare breed of cars thats we will never see again on the production lines. Thats my opinion anyway.
I feel as long as the shell is rescued and returned back on the road then its not so bad. its only when a good shell gets scrapped that i feel we are truly killing off a rare breed of cars thats we will never see again on the production lines. Thats my opinion anyway.