FB breaking in ipswich

[brundish24]

hi ive found out that a local scrappy near me have got a FB i dont know much about FBs but it looks ok but i think they are breaking the whole thing it a uk model i belive they maybe able to sell as a whole car but not sure if anyone would like to know more there called whip street motors not sure what the number is but should be easy to find on the internet im short on cash and was thinking about saving one but cant so i thought that i make a post so some of you old school guys mite like to know.

[rossonza]

Great Whip Street
Ipswich IP2 8EY
01473 602  483
http://www.whipstreet.co.uk/

[David Nock (RIP)]

Thanks Guys. It has already been posted in the 1st Gen Section but please please keep looking out for any other FB\'s or SA\'s (SA is Series 1 1st Gen).
The car you\'ve found out about is an FB Series 2, registered 8/8/1981.

It has apparently done less than 70,000 and seems to be in the wreckers because it didn\'t sell on ebay in Suffolk in 2009.
The engine is out and is going to Holland.

If you ever get round to deciding to save one just ask and there\'ll be no end of help from the forum....to buy and to restore.

Cheers   Dave

[12at]

i should go purchase it as thats my birth date ahahaha

[captainbizzaro]

Today I embarked on a crusade to try and save this series 2 as it appears too be pretty tidy and as I\'ve expressed on other threads I feel a bit miffed that it\'s ended up here. Anyway I contacted the yard through ebay and he replied saying phone the yard, ask for James and he\'ll help me out. So I did just that today but unfortunately James wasn\'t there when I called and ended up having a special little discussion with one of they\'re other blokes who, in no uncertain terms said the only way that the shell is leaving this place is after it\'s been through the baler. I said he was welcome too keep the VIN plate so at least it can be used as a donor shell but he just didn\'t get it and i just as well have been talking too a chair.

So thats it so far.....



Tim

[Ian65]

I contacted them about some parts a few weeks back and they couldn\'t even be arsed to reply.

[captainbizzaro]

Tell me about it, I was literally just short of asking if he realised how few series 2\'s actually exist now but figured it\'d fall on deaf ears.

[Ian65]

they\'re not interested.... to us it\'s treasure, a rare classic car, to the scrapyard it\'s just a piece of rusting junk that they can make a few quid from. I hope he rips his new trousers on it!

[syebba]

I may be wrong,but once a cars been traded in for the scrappage scheme allowance,i don\'t think their allowed to release the car for resto,it\'s gotta be crushed.
ta stu..

[Ian65]

Your right Stu, it defeats the object otherwise.... doesn\'t stop them from having the courtesy to reply though does it?

[rossonza]

that it doesnt Ian....... I\'ve heard today off my grandad that hes seen "your car" as in an rx7 fb in a field of a farmer he knows....its white....so im going to go and have a look at it see if anythings worth having off it.

ill keep you all posted

[Ian65]

that it doesnt Ian....... I\'ve heard today off my grandad that hes seen "your car" as in an rx7 fb in a field of a farmer he knows....its white....so im going to go and have a look at it see if anythings worth having off it.

ill keep you all posted

Try and get the reg Ross

[rossonza]

will do mate, will probably pop over saturday/sunday so ill see what i can find out
thats if it is actually an rx7

[David Nock (RIP)]

Try and get the reg Ross

Ooh Yes Please, I can\'t see any white FB/SA complete cars that it might be.
(Assume your grandad is also in Worcs).
Nearest I\'ve got is an X Reg that was noted as \'probably scrapped\' a long time ago - near Redditch. It was a USA import that one, might have an LSD?
Get the VIN if you can, particularly if the plates are missing, \'cos I\'ve got the VIN for that car.

[rossonza]

I\'ll see what i can do. bets are my grandad mis-identified it (hope not anyway)
Its located in Pershore