The UK version of that Epic Irish Scrapyard

[michael t]

Remember that Mental Irish scrapyard that was widely accepted to be Autoshite Heaven? well I stumbled across these piccies on Facefuck yesterday, dunno if anyone on here knows anything about this place but I'm sure plenty haven't seen it, the pictures are from August 2013 so presumably much of the stuff is still there?? Anyhow, enjoy.........

 

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.352415748225510.1073741874.267242043409548&type=1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[FredTransit]

more pics? Linky?

[michael t]

There's loads more here.. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.352415748225510.1073741874.267242043409548&type=1

[Squire_Dawson]

All slowly going back to the Earth from whence they came. Rust In Peace.

[cms206]

Alan Gold's been up this month...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47381765@N04/12161566434/

 

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[Junkman]

OMGRATLUKHEVAN

[catsinthewelder]

I've never seen pics of a yard with all the shite I own in, top job

 

[Bren]

Surely some veedub tosser would pay good money for that microbus, even though it looks like it could be recovered with a vax.

[catsinthewelder]

I'd pay a few quid to strip the remaining glass and cut some repair panels for mine,  but I don't have a battery grinder and I strongly suspect that it's a good 300 miles north of here.

 

A naughty thought is that cutting the early lights, half moon grilles and ID tags off that pre 71 example.....

[mercrocker]

Theres one of each of mine in there!   I am sure one of the wings  fell off the Farina as I scrolled through the pics!   Nice to see but a shame stuff went that  far down rusty road to  hell.    There cannot be  many Series Minx Estates left, for example, and it looks like a lot of these have been stacked too...

[Wilko220]

 

 

 

 

 

YES.

 

I couldn't have put it any better myself...

[drum]

Presumably this in in scotchland given the number of Scottish plates. The grey sky is another pointer.

Wouldn't mind a wander round there myself.

 

What's this sporty number?

[catsinthewelder]

[ayrshirelad]

I d love to spend a few days in there! Wonder if you are allowed to savalage bits form the cars or if you get chased by mad angry farmer with gun aimed at your bum!!!!

[derskine]

These are something_awful's pictures I believe.

[jonny69]

More graveyard than scrapyard. Surely it's worth getting this lot cleared up and cashing in the £££ than letting it sit there and rot into your field? When you get £100 for a scrap shell even in town there's got to be a few grand sitting there in rubbish alone?

[Ratdat]

I'd love to go have a wander about this place but it's about 450 miles away  Bit far for a day out.

[Lacquer Peel]

More graveyard than scrapyard. Surely it's worth getting this lot cleared up and cashing in the £££ than letting it sit there and rot into your field? When you get £100 for a scrap shell even in town there's got to be a few grand sitting there in rubbish alone?

 

That's why people posting it all over the internet indiscriminately is a worry - it's remote and could be a tarmacing specialist or scrap metal enthusiast's wet dream.

[DodgyBastard]

These are my photos, there's already a thread on here with all of my photos of the place. I was just about to update it with the photos I took yesterday.

[DodgyBastard]

http://autoshite.com/topic/12847-autoshite-heaven-in-scotland/page-7

[Partridge]

I'm an eternal optimist. I see cars in scrapyards/graveyards and just think of all the parts people like us could use from that lot

[Negative Creep]

Have we had the Swedish version yet? (Yes I know it's the DM but this link is safe)

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551025/Swedens-classic-car-graveyard-1-000-automobiles-bygone-era-rusting-forest-worth-100-000.html#comments

[Lankytim]

I think many of these graveyards still exist because they are so remote that it's uneconomical to scrap then.

[AnthonyG]

I remember going to a place like this in Pembrokeshire, probably about 6/7 years ago. Was run by a couple of farmers, they just seemed to park things up in a field and leave them there, rarest was a Datsun '2000' estate (early Cedric I think) which I didn't think they even sold here. Was on a H plate. I've lost touch with the bloke I went to visit it with, got the distinct feeling you had to be 'known' to the owners to be allowed a mooch around. Was within a couple of miles' radius of a village called Crymch for the Google earthers out there.

[In The Pit]

I remember going to a place like this in Pembrokeshire, probably about 6/7 years ago. Was run by a couple of farmers, they just seemed to park things up in a field and leave them there, rarest was a Datsun '2000' estate (early Cedric I think) which I didn't think they even sold here. Was on a H plate. I've lost touch with the bloke I went to visit it with, got the distinct feeling you had to be 'known' to the owners to be allowed a mooch around. Was within a couple of miles' radius of a village called Crymch for the Google earthers out there.

There are lots of these types of places in West Wales as has been said due to nearly everywhere being remote its harder to gets things to a scrap yard also there’s a common tendency to hoard.

 

However this sounds like the place I visited in around 2006 it was a field full of cars it was two fields but one had been cleared I think he’d had some trouble with the council (apparently the sunlight was glaring off the many screens and said to be a risk to nearby road users, how true this bit is I have no idea).  I went there to have a look and also see if he had any parts for MKII Escorts. By his front door he had a huge pile of logs on an Austin Maxi he was abit wary but when he saw that I’d turned up in a MKII Escort he appeared to believe my story and led me into the field.  I didn’t get to see right round as he led me to where the MKII Escorts were I think I counted five also some MKI’s and Cortinas MKI/MKII/MKIII/MKIV but didn’t see any MKV’s I think they were too new.  I think the newest cars I could see were a 1980/81W reg Toyota Corolla, MKIII Capri, and a Morris Ital van, he proudly told me he had a lot older stuff on site also there were various lorries and plant there.  I wish I could get some photos but I don’t think he was comfortable with me being there really, he was very polite and had an interest in cars but as many welsh country people can be he was suspicious of strangers.  He made me laugh twice when he said “the problem with new cars is that they are so bloody ugly†also when the conversion went like this:

 

Me: “I recently bought a car off ebayâ€Â

Him: (blank look)

Me: “you know ebayâ€Â

Him: (blank look)

Me: “on the internetâ€Â

Him: (even more blank look)

Me: “on the computerâ€Â

Him “ooorrr don’t talk to me about computers I don’t know nothing about computersâ€Â