When a car finally loses the battle with time, corrosion, or the consequences of an accident, the only final operation left is deregistration due to scrapping. It is worth recalling that this service is free of charge at the service centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but this is a one-way ticket: a scrapped car will never be able to return to the roads as a full-fledged vehicle.
In October, Ukrainians took advantage of this opportunity more than two thousand times. Most often, cars were sent to scrap metal — 1,638 units. Also, 367 trucks and 62 buses covered their last kilometers (although, more likely, just meters on a tow truck or with the help of a tow truck).
The list of candidates for remelting looks like a museum of the post-Soviet auto industry, where the exhibits have finally received permission to leave. The lionʼs share of the list is occupied by classic VAZs. Here is the "kopeck" VAZ 2101, which powered several generations, and VAZ 2106 with 2107 — cars that seemed eternal, but their resource has also run out.
GAZ Volga deserves special attention. Once the black "twenty-fourth" inspired awe among ordinary proletarians, and was an unattainable dream of middle-class officials and directors of vegetable depots. Today, this former symbol of power and prosperity has turned into an unnecessary burden, which is simply expensive to feed with gasoline.
No less nostalgic is the farewell to the "boyʼs dream" of the 90s — VAZ 2109 and 21099. Once this "chisel-shaped", "long wing" and "wet asphalt" were a pass to the world of cool guys in the district. Now these legends of the yard are giving way to new heroes.
Interestingly, the Daewoo Lanos has confidently joined the company of Soviet veterans. The "peopleʼs" car of independent Ukraine (although the people did not ask for it), which replaced the same "Zhiguli" as a taxi, is now also going to rest en masse, proving that nothing lasts forever under the Moon (and under a taxi driver). Also on the list are the ZAZ Tavria, Lada 110 and the irreplaceable workhorse GAZ Gazelle. True, at the end of its career this "antelope" was no longer distinguished by the speed or grace of its African namesake, but rather by its unique ability to generously sprinkle the road with red rust, trying to lose excess weight right on the go.
Oldest vehicle of the month
This time, the title of the most durable car that has lasted the longest in its life goes to a true legend of passenger transportation — the PAZ 672M bus, released back in 1962.
Yellow, with a voracious 4.3-liter gasoline engine and funny curved additional windows on top, this bus is a real time capsule. In the year it was born, the world froze on the brink of disaster during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Beatles released their first single, "Love Me Do," and Marilyn Monroe passed away.
But our hero was far from big politics and Hollywood dramas. His element was broken rural roads and district centers. During his 63 years of service, he saw everything: his cabin smelled of pies and gasoline, he drove collective farmers to harvest, and artists to village clubs for concerts. He witnessed hundreds of weddings, decorated with ribbons, and just as many farewells.
He knew every pothole on the way to remote villages and every sloping stop where he was waited for in the rain and snow. This PAZ honestly worked out its shift as long as a human life, becoming the oldest unit to officially leave the Ukrainian fleet in October.
Most of the culling is due to the age of the vehicles, which is confirmed by the average age of the vehicles that underwent this operation last month — 27 years for cars, 26 for trucks, and the same for buses.
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