Failed restorations/rebuilds!

It wasn't really until the advent of eBay that it was obvious how many failed/stalled restoration/rebuilds there were out there doing the rounds. I only have to spend the odd hour or two trawling the Triumph's for sale, and the Triumph spares for sale to recognise our stuff (parts manufactured by us or for us) going back into the market. I wonder what the percentage is of the parts we sell actually getting used in a finished project, or come to that actually ever getting bolted to a car? I would hazard a guess that at least 20% of what we (and other traders come to that) sell dosn't get used by the original buyer? Its a shame but it seems that the number of project cars that actually hit the street is dwindling and that the shark's out there buying these projects to break is actually increasing. Witness the regulars on the Triumph spares for sale punting out the same old oily diff's, engine's, gearbox's, and so on from someone's once pride and joy.A car they (the original failed rebuilder) might once have spent thousands on before walking away and letting the proffesional asset stripers take over. I know its the law of the market, and inevitable, but 25 years since the last Triumph was manufactured means that Triumphs on the margin are slipping away faster than they ever did. One things for certain it can't go on for much longer, the core stock of project Triumph's doing the rounds won't be around for much longer if they continue to get stripped at the alarming rate they are at the moment.