My Office 21 years ago ( Warning Scrapyard Pictures )

[Stixy]

Found these old pics of where i worked 21 years ago July 1996 

 

I worked here from 1986-2000  when the yard closed 

 

Back then we had proper rubbish and scrap cars generally looked like scrap cars 

[HMC]

Love these sort of pics. Interesting to see the spread of ages and what's already been picked off some cars. Got any more?

[HMC]

T boned Capri 2.8 - someone ran out of skills coming off a roundabout

[binbag]

That looks like autoshite heaven and a decent looking white Escort van in the middle photo.

 

It was always sunny in the good old days lol.

[castros_bro]

************ Warning Warning **************************

 

This will transmogrify into an autoshite  "name all them cars" competition.

[Datsuncog]

Those are brilliant pics. It's a nice tidy yard, too! I must look out and scan a load of snaps I took in August '96 of a yard near me, where the cars were basically heaped into a small mountain for penniless twerps like me to scramble over for bits of Cortina...

[kinkersaab]

Not wanting to hijack thread, i found these in my office drawer from a similar time... car at theother end of the spectrum from your shots.   all now gone too...

 

[Talbot]

I remember spending too many hours in breakers yards that looked just like that, at just about the same time (mid-late 90's).

 

Quite odd to think that most of the vehicles shown, even in the condition they were taken in to the breakers, would now be repaired and worth reasonable cash.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

T boned Capri 2.8 - someone ran out of skills coming off a roundabout

It seemed that every scrapyard had at least one Capri with damage like that in the 80's.

[jonny69]

Mind if I join in?

 

Stewart Grand Prix. My office if I was here in 1996.

 

[Zelandeth]

Bedford Midi...when the heck did anyone last see one of them?

[timolloyd]

I guess I first started trawling scrappies in the mid to late 90s. Mainly Bridges just off the M23.

 

On my first visits I remember seeing almost 50 years' worth: early Heralds right through to seriously crashed Mercs less than a year old. There was even a Scimitar at the back of the yard, for ages.

[mercrocker]

 

It was always sunny in the good old days lol.

 

Well, yes it was....but sunny days were also the only days that cameras worked.

[Stixy]

  I have some more pics but most are on paper 

 

Back then i diddnt take lots of pics because i thought things would always be the same , i was only in my 20s then and had no real concept of time but generally people dont at that age 

 

The Yard was Cuttler's  near  Tamworth

 

Last pic was  summer 87

[Stixy]

 

 

Quite odd to think that most of the vehicles shown, even in the condition they were taken in to the breakers, would now be repaired and worth reasonable cash.

 

Nearly all  of them were scrap because of rust  or accident damage   , it was rare to get a good car in because of mechanical failure as people repaired more back then 

[fordperv]

I loved the older days of scrap yards, my earliest memory of being in one is my dad taking me to mcguinnesses around 1990-1991 ish when I was around 6/7 years old, we used to regularly go together after that stripping bits out of various motors, when I was at college in 2001 me and 2 mates who were at a loose ends on Friday mid mornings used to go up every week to see what they had in and to watch the cars get squished by the digger dropping the big weight on them we used to have little bets on how many drops it would take to squish certain cars.

[Yoss]

What strikes me in this one

is that SD1. Someone's managed to get a headlight out but the bonnet is forward hinged and it doesn't look like there's room to open it. That was the first thing I noticed. Being a Triumph licker I've had that problem in scrappies before.

[HMC]

I wasn't sure what LAA884Y was on top of the SD1. Turns out it's a mk2 cav 1600 but the crooked front end and the perspective compared to the metros next door put my shite spotting skills off.

[Stixy]

sometime in 1989 

[Stixy]

Back to 96 again 

[Stixy]

In summer 1994 the monster trucks came to Tamworth castle grounds and Pingle leisure centre in Nuneaton  and we supplied the cars to get mashed  here is an Ital just after i had stencilled our number on the side 

 

Marina's Ital's Maxi's allegro's  Mk2 Granada's mk2 Escorts Cortina's    wish i had them now 

[Stixy]

My motor in 94 

[Stixy]

What strikes me in this one

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is that SD1. Someone's managed to get a headlight out but the bonnet is forward hinged and it doesn't look like there's room to open it. That was the first thing I noticed. Being a Triumph licker I've had that problem in scrappies before.

 

We would have moved the top car if somebody wanted something off a bottom car 

[HMC]

SOLID GOLD

 

I recon the swinging Sherpa and the sign written ital are top drawer material for the calendar.

[TRW]

My motor in 94 

 

Saved from the yard?

[Stixy]

Saved from the yard?

 

Yes  swapped the pinto for a 2.3 V6 and resprayed it blue  

[HMC]

Top effort, sprayed the engine bay, and finished it off with a 2.3 on the boot lid.

[bunglebus]

You even changed the badge!

[Stixy]

Top effort, sprayed the engine bay, and finished it off its a 2.3 on the boot lid.

 

It got a proper low bake respray  and  a GL interior too

 

Back then a roll of camera film and developing cost about the same as 2 gallon of 4 star  so unfortunatly diddnt take many pics of it 

[junkyarddog]

I spent 20+ years of my existence on this earth as a spanner monkey in similar establishments,

started my "career" in the early 90's.

 

Enjoying your photos and memories very much.

 

Thank you.