Los Angeles LRV to be preserved?

An article posted on Los Angeles Curbed.com suggests that LACMTA 100, the first light rail vehicle built for the new Blue Line to Long Beach back in 1989 when traction returned to the city, is going to be set aside for preservation. The car is a type referred to by LACMTA (Metro) as a P865 and was built in 1989 by Nippon-Sharyo. It's the oldest of the five classes of light rail cars currently in use on the Metro system. According to Trolleyville.com, with new P3010 class cars being delivered, the first of the 1989 cars was sent to scrap in June and retirements are continuing regularly with the goal of retiring the entire original series of cars during the coming year.

If car 100 is indeed preserved by the City of Long Beach as planned, and if any others of this series are likewise preserved by museums, it will be only the third type of light rail vehicle to enter preservation. Earlier types include the infamous Boeing-Vertol LRV, of which a handful of examples remain extant from both operators, Muni and MBTA; and the original 1981 Siemens U2 light rail cars built for San Diego which arguably ushered in the modern era of startup light rail systems, of which a handful have been preserved in California and Pennsylvania. Other early light rail cars, including the 1980 Bredas in Cleveland, the 1983 Tokyu cars in Buffalo, the 1985 Siemens cars in Pittsburgh, and the 1980 "K cars" in Philadelphia (though they're more streetcars than light rail cars), remain in daily service in their respective cities. Thus far I'm not aware that any series of light rail car has been retired without an example being preserved.