SCRAPYARD PICS, 1975 AND 1998

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Black and whites are London area, 1998 is just outside Abingdon. 

 

I'm old enough (just) to remember seventies scrapyards. Oh for a time machine!

[Richard]

I was working in a yard like the seventies one only yesterday. The stacked cars were modern but they did a few older commercials.

[oldcars]

Good few Rover 213/216 in the first photo. The J plate Granada didn't last long.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The J plate Granada didn't last long.

 

It didn't, but the blue Rootes Minx that you can just see behind it certainly did. I used this yard a few times, was in Wooton iirc. I think its gone now.

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

My local still stacks only 2 high mind you ooo errr

 

I presume most places have it on racking now?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Angel Autos near Dorchester used to have what was basically a field rammed full of old and interesting chod when I lived in the area 15 years ago. Loads of 70's and 80's motors, many almost complete (but half rotten) and it was very unusual at the time. I just googled it and can't find any 'in the day' photos unfortunately. I can only assume it's gone all 'elf and safety.

[tooSavvy]

When I visited Pringles yesterday I got a hard hat + hiviz.

 

Also a sign in sheet.

 

Maxxed out with Pug/VW & Ford. Stack 'em High, mind!

 

I remember 2000pi's and Fiat 131 Regatta hidden in 'the big shed', back in the day, but couldn't see any $hiters at all

 

 

TS

[Negative Creep]

What's that between the Volvo 340 and Mini van on the left? Early Colt maybe?

[HMC]

Love old scrapyard pics, I remember being out at Campbell's yard in Bolton when I was 10, about 1990. My first visit to a scrapyard. Wish I'd taken a camera but it made such an impression on me that I can remember the what cars there were and where they were in the yard. It still exists, I think not far from metro breakers where that Scrappers series was filmed

[Sheefag]

Great thread Reverend.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Good few Rover 213/216 in the first photo. The J plate Granada didn't last long.

 

Engine bay fire by the looks of it. 

[chaseracer]

What's that between the Volvo 340 and Mini van on the left? Early Colt maybe?

 

Toyota Starlet.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Black and whites are London area, 1998 is just outside Abingdon. 

 

I'm old enough (just) to remember seventies scrapyards. Oh for a time machine!

That vw pickup in the last photo is proper stanced and pineappled.

[dugong]

THESE ARE EXCELLENT PIC'S, THANKZ

[AnthonyG]

I hate to think of the Mini that got 'repaired' with the front quarter of the one on the right of top of the 1975 stack!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I hate to think of the Mini that got 'repaired' with the front quarter of the one on the right of top of the 1975 stack!

 

 

As a Mark 1 Mini traveller, it'd be worth a bloody fortune now. Minis didn't half rot, bloody terrible. The Anglia and one Herald looks grim, but they were 10 years old.  Loads of 10 year stuff in yards now.

[Negative Creep]

Toyota Starlet.

 

 

Which today would be worth loads even in that condition, because of OMG RWD JDM DRIFT YO

[Ben_O]

I miss scrapyards.

 

We had 2 here on IOW until fairly recently but both are no longer open but both full of scrap cars.

 

I'm not sure why, i heard something to do with H&S

[stormee]

That vw pickup in the last photo is proper stanced and pineappled.

It even has junk on the roof as well!

[simmo]

Great thread and a chance to air some old photos of Parry's Metals (Metal yard not breakers).  My Dad had a Breaker's Yard in Brentford in the seventies if I can find them and a scanner I will add them.  Not many cars in the last one but the one with the name on it was mine and stayed there for months.

 

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[Lankytim]

Something for everyone in these pics, Brilliant!

[Captain Mainwaring]

I wonder if the owner of that scrapyard in the bottom pic of the OP would dump an old Farina on the roof of that splitty pickup if he knew how much the dub crowd would pay for it a few decades later...

Mind you, he's probably popped it now.

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

Op sorry if a bit of a thread hijack

 

But this popped into my head some on here might have seen if not well.. Deffo no elf and safety watch the method they use for ''firing'' the cars.

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-f1mssUeI

[Tetleysmooth]

Where I live in Rainham, Essex, Ferry Lane used to be the mecca for scrapyards. Both sides of the road.

 

When the new rules started coming in, a lot of them caught fire 'accidentally'.

 

It seemed like every week there was a great pall of black smoke over Rainham.

 

They're virtually all gone now, what are left are very sanitised.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I guess it's always the same with old scrapyard photos, but I tend to look at them with a mixture of nostalgia and surprise. It's instinctive to look at the splitty and Mini pickups, Mk1 'Tina and Starlet and think, 'if only they knew what they'd potentially be worth in the future'. Thing is, is I really struggle to look at anything modern, and visualise it being fondly remembered in thirty years time!

[doubleyeller]

I guess it's always the same with old scrapyard photos, but I tend to look at them with a mixture of nostalgia and surprise. It's instinctive to look at the splitty and Mini pickups, Mk1 'Tina and Starlet and think, 'if only they knew what they'd potentially be worth in the future'. Thing is, is I really struggle to look at anything modern, and visualise it being fondly remembered in thirty years time!

 

I think you can only look at these things objectively - why are they worth real money now? Because so many were scrapped that they became rare!

I often think about some of the cars my parents scrapped when faults set in - three MK1 Accord saloons, an R20tx, a R16TS, a Maxi, and a Morris Minor..........I could go on! I suppose the 16 would be the most sought after now, followed by the Accords - but none were good examples (ie rust). How much would it have cost to keep them roadworthy in all the time that has passed?

[danthecapriman]

I guess it's always the same with old scrapyard photos, but I tend to look at them with a mixture of nostalgia and surprise. It's instinctive to look at the splitty and Mini pickups, Mk1 'Tina and Starlet and think, 'if only they knew what they'd potentially be worth in the future'. Thing is, is I really struggle to look at anything modern, and visualise it being fondly remembered in thirty years time!

Same here. I remember cars like mk3,4,5 Cortina's etc being in scrap yards. They were common then but even then I liked them and wanted one! Now in my local yard it's full of mk3,4 Mondeo's and similar age stuff I really couldn't give a shit. They just hold absolutely no interest for me at all.

Trouble is I suppose, you can't keep things forever based on what you think it might be worth in the future. At the time it's worth is as scrap metal. Today's cars will be the same. It won't be me thinking it but in 20 years time someone might see a pic of a scrap yard of 2016 and think 'shit! They were scrapping mk4 Mondeo's and Vectra's, there's none left now and I'd love to restore one'.

 

 

One thing that is funny though is that given the advances in technology since those pics above, cars are still going for scrap at the same sort of ages. My local yard is packed with 5 -15 year old stuff, much older and you'd be able to count them on one hand.

The only difference I suppose is what kills the car. It was rust, now it's expensive repairs making them uneconomical for most people to bother fixing. I bet the average mileages on the cars are significantly higher nowadays though.

[mercrocker]

Angel Autos near Dorchester used to have what was basically a field rammed full of old and interesting chod when I lived in the area 15 years ago. Loads of 70's and 80's motors, many almost complete (but half rotten) and it was very unusual at the time. I just googled it and can't find any 'in the day' photos unfortunately. I can only assume it's gone all 'elf and safety.

 

I presume it has indeed gone but I will look next time I am down that way.   I have a few photos I took around the same time as you lived there - must try and scan them onto here. 

  

It was probably the last old school yard I used to be able to amble around with a camera.....

[mercrocker]

I wonder if the owner of that scrapyard in the bottom pic of the OP would dump an old Farina on the roof of that splitty pickup if he knew how much the dub crowd would pay for it a few decades later...

Mind you, he's probably popped it now.

 

Its probably also safe to assume the Transporter roof panel had a lot more structural integrity than the underside of the average Cambridge!

[lisbon_road]

Mr Mercrocker, have you been to G&R Harris?  It is an old style yard - and very friendly and helpful - though the oldest cars are around 25 years, not more.  But worth a visit if you need anything (and the owner told me that they are struggling due to the price of steel, so we should try and buy from them what we can).