MOTOR CARS £2 EACH

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3262, 3 February 1931, Page 3

MOTOR CARS £2 EACH

LONDON'S OPEN-AIR MARKET. Motor-cars are almost as cheap as mongrels if you know where to buy them. A car guaranteed to go may be picked up for a couple of pounds (writes James Dunn in the Daily Mail").

Warren Street, off Totenham Court Road, W., is the "dogs row," for decrepit cars that are lined up in the street like bargains on the stalls in Farringdon Road. Changing London is demonstrated by this open-air market of old motorcars. They supply a new street scene.

A car that cost £SOO not so very long ago can now be bought for £5.

Cars of all makes and models are lined up like tramps of the road. Battered in ' the bonnet, threadbare in the upholstery, scratched and bruised in the body, they still have a brave look.

I was offered for £6 a car that lookas if it had been on a regular beat from Land's End to John o' Groats and was perfectly fit and ready to start.

"Yes, we do a big business in sec-ond-hand cars," said a dealer. "They look at them in the morning and take them away at night. Secondhand cars make first-class trade."