Mr A Lawrence Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 A thread where, if you spot something that would be of interest to people on here that you've found in scrapyards you can post it. Hunting round for Jaguars in Jacksons car spares, ewloe, north wales I spotted a Citroen BX that lookers largely intact so could provide useful spares for people on here. billyboy406v6, Twiggy and alcyonecorporation 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 There is now... Junkman, Twiggy and alcyonecorporation 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiatdaft Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Great idea Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssDeeWon Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 I would probably use the news 24 thread for something like that, but then I don't like starting new threads for everything Junkman and stephen01 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Lazy spotters? Or maybe a new thread, but with a proper title? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Have you bought it yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UmBongo Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 I think there was a scrapyard thread but it dropped off some time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 You mean the thread where cars being broken on eBay were listed?That didn't catch on despite it actullay sounds like a good idea. stephen01 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Saw a surprisingly solid Mk4 Escort in my local one a while back, was still there last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 An award for couching genuine requests in spam syntax? It's a good shout, in all seriousness. saaby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr A Lawrence Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 Have you bought it yet?Unfortunately not as.... A, I don't care much for Citroens.2, I have no room for it.iiv, I have no money,C, it has a car on its roof. Junkman and Dick Longbridge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Any complaints if we make this thread a 'scrapyard finds' one, Andy? stephen01, fiatdaft, Mr A Lawrence and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Im not that keen on crawling into cars that have stuff on the roof. I saw a someone taking the prop out of a Transit a bit back, it was held in the air by an assortment of bricks. Staring death in the face while you hammer away thinking this propshaft could be mine for £55. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conkerman Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 The ShiteHawk thread. Sent from my Vodafone Smart ultra 6 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overrun Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 I'm all for this thread! Maybe we should list what cars we are looking for parts for?That could get messy, mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengartside Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 I'm forever down me local scrapyard and I will always post interesting chod up if I see it. I know for a fact there is a MINTOLA 1996 405 Estate in Red that's just been weighed in, complete. I have a Flickr page that contains everything I've spotted....https://www.flickr.com/photos/24252872@N05/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 I stuck one up a while ago resulting in both Mr-Boll and rovamota getting some hard to find bit's so it's definately a worthwile thread fiatdaft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Im not that keen on crawling into cars that have stuff on the roof. I saw a someone taking the prop out of a Transit a bit back, it was held in the air by an assortment of bricks. Staring death in the face while you hammer away thinking this propshaft could be mine for £55.That's the whole point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Yeah but if you crush your legs and have them amputated, I reckon you've got some bargaining room on the price of the diff... Banger Kenny and Cavcraft 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_lihp Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 I found this sad looking SD1 2400 diesel in a scrapyard about 5 years ago - last time I got in to it around about 2003 the yard was a proper old-school wooded area, well overgrown, half-abandoned and crammed with chod stacked 3 or 4 high. A lot of the piles had collapsed as the ones at the bottom dissolved, I remember seeing a lot of very scarce, obscure old 70s tat in there, all long past redemption. The site was cleared several years ago for a housing development, I went and had a look before the building started and everything was gone bar this one car off to one side. I asked on a Rover forum at the time asking if anyone wanted parts, if there was then I was planning to ask if the developer was OK with me taking bits off it - the wheels, bumpers and some trim looked saveable - but no-one was interested and the general consensus was, at the time, that the SD1 diesel was rare for a good reason! This one got scrapped in 1996, so it survived for a while but was long past saving. Lord Sterling, Dick Longbridge and Cavcraft 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselassist Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Heres a Volvo 262c in a scrapyard located in 'the midlands' in Ireland here; Engine fire condemned it, recently Im told;someone's already had its clocks/cluster.... odd to see one of these at all here; especially in a scrapyard, 'almost complete'... Im hoping to bag its leather interior, but mate whos local to there, n snapped it; isn't back home till next next week, to ask on a price on said interior... if its reasonably priced, I'll take the front n back seats n make a 3 piece suite out of it, as I sometimes convert car seats into home furniture for the discerning 'wallet heavy' car 'enthuastiast.... If the front back seats are too 'rich' for me, n anyone on here wants its location, I'll reveal all in a week or so... Banger Kenny 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Honda Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Its doesn't look that charred and just up the road... Banger Kenny and dieselassist 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Flipped round it's easy to see how it ended up at the scrappers. Shame as on the surface it doesn't look that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 IIRC even the battery tray was ok. Probably been in some old giffers garage and some brainless relative has got the breakers to take it away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P304r5 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 This is still in my local scrapyard https://www.flickr.com/photos/carspottinguk/30160010424/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 ??A Marbella, surly it must be worth more sold on complete? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_lihp Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 That is a real shame, although I suppose it might be rotten underneath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legasoil96 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Genuine turkey shite Barn findPetrol mind- this one was savedI go here every week with my old man the scrapman there's often something.All the old bangers getting scrapped now are R reg to 54 plate usually. Mr Laurence 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Laurence Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Genuine turkey shite Barn findPetrol mind- this one was savedI go here every week with my old man the scrapman there's often something.All the old bangers getting scrapped now are R reg to 54 plate usually.I'm not the only one interested in that minty looking mk1 Mondeo in the background, am I? oldcars, warren t claim and Lord Sterling 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 With a full set of LX hubcaps! and decent bumpers!! oldcars 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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