You know the drill. When your old car has finally bitten the dust, you take it to the scrappie and he gives you £100 for it.
Your pride and joy is dismantled for spares and the metal that gets left behind is crushed, and turned into 6,000 Fanta cans.
It's not the most dignified of endings. After all, you wouldn't take your great aunt Mavis to the scrappie when she's pegged it, would you?
Well Harry Ettling from Inwood, New York, had a different idea. His 1982 Honda Civic was finally beyond repair and, instead of callously sending it to the jaws of the crusher, Harry decided that the best thing to do was give the Civic a proper send-off.
Hundreds of people lined the streets of Inwood to pay tribute to 'Bluey' -- so called because of its sky blue paintwork, very little of which remains. A Dixieland band led the procession and Bluey was decorated with a wreath as it was driven through the streets of Inwood for the very last time.
Have you ever bid farewell to a car in an unusual way? Let us know below.
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