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One of the things that has often puzzled me is how many cut-and-shut cars must be around and still gettting through MOT tests (presumably) somehow.
I recall following a Citroen Saxo or Pug 106 (didn't pay much attention to which snce they are the same. ) 2 very young lads in it. Oldish car but not too tatty. Lowered of course. And crabbing for Britain. Front and rear axle alignment must have been at least 6 inches out.
Then you see the photos of the aftermath of a fatal accident where a small car has, apparently, been driven so badly that having hit something like a wall or a street sign the thing has split into two parts, often right down the middle with the roof attached to one to back or front (never both) and the parts of the car are separated by some distance. The reports often comment on people being thrown from the car , bodies strewn around the scene and so on.
Always the report finds someone who can definitiely state that the car was speeding before the accident and of course the thing being spread down the road clearly confirms that. Except maybe it doesn't. If the thing is a bodged repair, sold to a lad who, if insured, will be paying maybe 5 times more per annum for the insurance that he paid for the car, the chances are that it's a cut-and-shut. Maybe the accident could be attributed to that too, at least in part.
But the press never seems to pick up in that potential and one very rarely hears anything about dangerous vehicles these days, though there must be many more of those about and clocking up miles than there are badly checked pre-1960 classics.
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