The mystery of the vanishied classics.
I did actually spot one classic car in Vietnam – in a house in Hoi An I saw what looked to be a 1970′s Toyoata Corolla.
Lonely little Corolla
The reason for the lack of classics in both Vietnam and Cambodia is the high price of scrap metal in China. Any old bits of rust – including war detritus – has been foraged, fragmented and flogged across the northern border.
Our friend Nam told us that in impoverished parts of the country, peasants would collect unexploded ordnance from the fields, take it home and saw it open to remove the explosive. They would sell the shells for scrap and the explosives to the fishermen. What a job!