During a drive through northern France we saw this sign at a car breakdown yard. The other side of the deceased beetle was used for the other scrap yard that the French entrepreneur owned.
He said that veterans or true classics never appeared again in his region. That the French only kept their old stuff because they had room for it and did not want to take the trouble to clean up the mess.
The 'regret' that the French now have because all their classics have been bought. stolen! - because of the crushed 'Hollandais', a case is 'unfortunately peanut butter'.
Our demolitioner thought like a real Frenchman: a car must be as new and as large as possible, and only crazy British and Dutch people want to live in old authentic houses with neglected orchards and buildings.
For a Frenchman nothing beats a new sleek building with double glazing and a plastered façade and a garden decorated with grass and gravel ...
And a big recent car in the driveway