R.I.P. argenta (another one bites the dust)

[djape1977]

ex taxi. that's why it's yellow. working vehicle untill 2002. and than parked in a back yard, under a tree, and left to rot.
i bought it for 150e and drove it back to my place couple weeks ago. except wheels, there's also a engine from 132 1800cc in it which seems to be working fine. working power steering, noiseless diff and gearbox, heated windshield... there's some interesting stuff still on it.
sold the gearbox yesterday, and when i sell the body stripped of all usefull bits to scrappers, i'll make my money back, meaning that engine and rest of parts are free.

[djape1977]

it's interesting to dismantle old cars. despite it beeing a very dirty job, one can learn a lot. after dismantling a couple of these i could put one back together pretty much knowing what goes where. also, it gives a great insight in usual failure points of a specific model, making it easier to prevent problems in future repairs/restorations.

it also provides me with a bit of cash to redirect into my costly restoration projects and into salvaging rare models...

[Testament]

it's interesting to dismantle old cars. despite it beeing a very dirty job, one can learn a lot. after dismantling a couple of these i could put one back together pretty much knowing what goes where. also, it gives a great insight in usual failure points of a specific model, making it easier to prevent problems in future repairs/restorations.

it also provides me with a bit of cash to redirect into my costly restoration projects and into salvaging rare models...

Yeah I find it quite interesting, we have a chain of wrecking yards here called "pick a part" where you have to pull everything yourself and you would always learn something about how different manufactures put their cars together or trying to work out why some of the cars were getting wrecked when sometimes they looked like they were in quite good condition until they ended up in the yard.