LP's day out - a Scottish scrapyard

[Lacquer Peel]

Supernaut offered some parts to help finish off my Berlingo TD so I headed Aberdeen bound, on a whim I decided to visit my favourite scrapyard, Sharpewood Spares near Huntly. It's great, the guy's a bit of a hoarder but friendly and not greedy (I don't think I've ever spent more than a tenner there), I didn't buy much but spent hours finding paths through the piles of cars, a lot of which you would never see at the typical high turnover scrapyards.

 

 

Rusty Panda 4x4.

 

 

Ex-British Airways Mk3 Fiesta van

 

 

ratluk

 

 

Overview of a small part of the yard

 

 

Spotted some Talento.

 

 

XM sandwich.

 

 

They've rebadged it you fool.

 

 

Some impressive patina on the cars at the back of the yard, moss, lichen and weeds growing out of them.

 

 

Not in the Prima of its life

 

 

One of two Mk1 MR2s

 

 

I wonder how the original owner of this Corsa B funded their purchase.

 

 

Racism dispenser (into the scrapyard overspill now)

 

 

A series Maestro with an excellent sunroof repair, a sheet of metal and self tappers.

 

 

Dead brand

 

 

A spot on the way home from Aberdeen, the roughest Hilux I've seen on the road, it must be registered as an agricultural vehicle

 

 

Large American cars dwarf small Moray town.

 

Good to meet Supernaut and thanks for the bits.

[Dave_Q]

Nice, thanks for sharing.

 

Looks like the owner is going for the "return to nature" plan for the shells - suppose you never have to bother moving them to weigh them in if you just let them decompose naturally over 30 years or so.

[Lacquer Peel]

Nice, thanks for sharing.

 

Looks like the owner is going for the "return to nature" plan for the shells - suppose you never have to bother moving them to weigh them in if you just let them decompose naturally over 30 years or so.

 

I've been going there for the best part of a decade and a lot of the stock has been there that long. He mentioned not wanting to weigh stuff in because the moment he does someone wants parts for that car. Sound.

[dave21478]

I like that place.
When I was a Mini licker my friend Brian and I used to regularly go there and kick the rotten front end of an MG Metro or a Vanden Plas, drop the 1275 onto the ground and drag it out the yard. The guy never asked more than 40 quid or so. There was usually at least 5 or 6 to choose from.

One time we spotted a load of MG Metro pepperpot alloys....we ended up bagging 20 of them to flog on in the ScotAds after a quick "refurb" with a few cans of Halfords wheel paint.

 

Right at the back amongst the trees it faded from merely old stuff to properly ancient and even a few pre-war things which were unidentifiably fucked even back then and probably just a smear of powder for future alien archeologists to ponder over now.

 

It was an old boy back then and I think his son, but thats probably 20 years back now....Wonder if the old guy is still around?

[Lacquer Peel]

It might be his son in charge now.

[Lacquer Peel]

Get it bought!

 

https://www.aspc.co.uk/search/property/285250/Sharpewood-Spares--Kinnoir-Wood/Huntly/

 

I wish I could.

[chodweaver]

"Features:

Parking"

 

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[Cavcraft]

Love proper scrappies like me this, sadly disappearing quickly now.

[Hendry]

Jesus christ! I could easily spend days in there!! 

 

There are some yards round here than extend into trees, quarries, foresty kinda areas and with some motors lying for ages, but nothing even remotely like this.

 

Wonder if he will begin crushing stuff when he runs out of space, I never understand when scrappies dont make the most of their space by organising them to fit as much in as possible, that yard from the pics just looks like stuff has just been chucked randomly on the ground. 

[Datsuncog]

Cracking pics. I have a massive fondness for 'traditional' scrappies, which are all too rare now. An afternoon spent wandering around the legendary Flynn's yard outside Cooma in NSW is still probably the highlight of my life so far.

 

[brickwall]

Nice. Some interesting things tucked away there.

[chaseracer]

The number on that XM looks oddly familiar.  Ex-CCC, maybe...

[somewhatfoolish]

Get it bought!

 

https://www.aspc.co.uk/search/property/285250/Sharpewood-Spares--Kinnoir-Wood/Huntly/

 

I wish I could.

Area 52 North? Who's for a whipround?

[worldofceri]

I'd chuck in £4.25 for a 1/100,000 share in an Aberdeenshire scrap yard.

[Lankytim]

The number on that XM looks oddly familiar. Ex-CCC, maybe...

My XM was P232 PWP.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

The number on that XM looks oddly familiar. Ex-CCC, maybe...

I wonder does it still have the suspension height controller switch

 

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[chaseracer]

My XM was P232 PWP.

 

D'oh!

 

Of course...

[bunglebus]

 

 

Wow, two 5s! I see the "TADTS" rust along the right rear window lip is present and correct too.

[twosmoke300]

You NE scots guys might know - is Leslie Fairfowls ( not sure of spelling ) place still open / he still alive ?

He had a similar place near Maud and I used to live about 3 miles away from there .

He used to go to all the farm sales and buy all the 20p lots at the time . Lovely bloke but a bit weird too .

[twosmoke300]

That's the one

[fiatdaft]

Link no worky.

 

 

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[Lacquer Peel]

Wow, two 5s! I see the "TADTS" rust along the right rear window lip is present and correct too.

The other 5.

[bunglebus]

Looks pretty high-spec, colour coded door bottoms, mirrors and C pillar trim, opening rear quarter windows.

[Lacquer Peel]

MOAR.

 

Kelisa on top

 

 

Van blanc et rouillé

 

This 100 has been here for years, hardly any parts are missing and it gets shunted about now and again. The scrapyard owner must approve of 1980s aerodynamic styling.

 

 

Guess the tailgate
 

 

 

The Talento's weird appearance still makes me LOL when I see it.

 

 

Freddie from Psychoville checking a Honda Accord's brake fluid levels.

 

 

RIP in peace Powered by Fairy Dust

 

 

 

These "last of the real Citroens" were hiding behind a pile of Berlingos and assorted hatchbacks.

[Heidel_Kakao]

What are the opening times of this place? XM's are oddly alluring for some reason.

[robinmasters]

Get it bought!

 

https://www.aspc.co.uk/search/property/285250/Sharpewood-Spares--Kinnoir-Wood/Huntly/

 

I wish I could.

 

Shirley keeping scrap cars on uncovered earth isn't legal anymore? I thought that (with the help of H&S worries about big piles of cars) is why places like this have died out?

[M'coli]

Tailgate looks like a B1 Passat but more likely an Audi 100 Avant.

[Fat_Pirate]

Tailgate is Renault 20/30, I reckon.

[Lacquer Peel]

What are the opening times of this place? XM's are oddly alluring for some reason.

Roughly 8am-6pm I think but it's nowhere near the SVM meet. The front end of the XM looks like this

[Heidel_Kakao]

Ah less alluring now if the engine is not present. I wanted the plastic engine cover off the 2.5TD.