Junkyard Jewels NI Easter Monday 2018

[Datsuncog]

And turning 90 degrees to our right...

That's right kids, more cars.

Note the comprehensive* approach to customer aftercare advertised.

Right at the back... a rather tragic-looking Rover P4, of uncertain identity and even more uncertain destiny.

In front, an Austin Cambridge Farina with frilly sills. Something tells me this might be the Banger Boys' favourite corner, this one.

DTC351E (Lancashire, June 1967)

And in front of that, a Ford Cortina Mk2 that looks like it may also be structurally challenged:

KDK974F, a March '68 car from Rochdale, now dropping various bits of itself on a Tyrone driveway.

Avid Cortina apologist though I am, even I reckon this one hangs in the balance. There's going to be a bit of structural welding needed here, from the looks of things.

At this point, I began my soggy trudge up the driveway back towards the main yard... oh yes, I haven't really mentioned that I haven't actually been into the main yard yet, have I? 

THIS IS ALL JUST THE STUFF ROUND THE SIDE.

I know.

*Faints*

[Datsuncog]

There was also a maroon Toyota Carina E...

A Morris Minor Convertible (HSJ192)...

...and an Austin A35 on the driveway which you can make out in some of the previous pics, all of which looked in reasonable fettle - but I didn't take any specific photos of them, hence these rubbish zooms.

I did, however, spot this going-green Singer Vogue estate parked up the side of the house:

Number plate is damaged: but I think this one is VSL512.

Further encouraging* and reassuring* signs:

And amusing* stickers, too (on a shagged Vauxhall Combo, beside the Zastava):

Right... more to follow, although I'd be lying if I said this was an easier task than I'd thought.

Cheers to everyone for their encouragement and comments, will answer them shortly!

[Amishtat]

Id love to be able to rehome that Cambridge

[lesapandre]

That Vogue is seriously rare. Imagine who ordered that new, what taste, what refinement! Sold - not surprised!

[loserone]

Jesus Christ, I can't keep up here.

 

My father had a 1300gt before I was born. "The daddy car" as it was called by "the kids" (my decade older brothers). A total lemon by all accounts.

[quicksilver]

A fantastic collection but a shame they're rotting away there. The fact Brendan Dooley hasn't scooped up that Maxi suggests it's a. fucked and/or b. overpriced.

 

Are those Denovo wheels and run-flat tyres on that P6? Pretty rare I'd imagine if so.

[Datsuncog]

On 4/4/2019 at 3:35 PM, LightBulbFun said:

been enjoying your write up of this lot

even if its sad as you see to see these cars rotting away

I agree that Yugo needs saving

(I too agree with you on the 1950s-1960s thing on car design, these days things have slowed down a lot more)

I wonder how the DVLA/DVLNI stuff was computerised back in the day

was it literally a team of people just manually reading off a shit load of V5s and typing it all up into a computer?...

interesting that cars moved to NI get slapped with an export marker, how does it work if you want to bring back to the UK?

Cheers dude - I'm hoping to get back over there in a few weeks, so will be interesting to see what's changed, what's gone, and what's arrived... fingers crossed for slightly better weather this time. I'd hope the Yugo's been rehomed.

I gather the DVLNI records computerisation was just that - a team of civil servants from the then-Department of the Environment up in County Hall in Coleraine, spending months typing in the details from paper records. Fun.

I think the export marker used to be cancelled if a car was brought back to GB and re-re-registered with DVLA - as an example, my old Viva (XRR689M) still shows on the DVLA site as last taxed in 1995 and with an export marker against it - someone brought it over to NI in '95 and registered it with DVLNI, I bought it in '97, sold it in 2005, and then it somehow ended up down in Tipperary direction where it became thoroughly rotten and was broken for parts, and hence no longer exists (though bits of it ended up in a Viva belonging to JunkyardDog of this parish, coincidentally).

Whereas my Cortina Estate (NJW605X) was brought over from Glasgow by me in 2008, registered with DVLNI (generating an export marker, I'd imagine), sold on locally in 2010, and then it seems to have gone back to GB - because it's now shown as having no export marker, and having been MOT'd up to 2013 (which wouldn't show up on the DVLA site for NI cars, since the two databases weren't merged until 2014)

Hey, it's hours of fun trying to get my head around all of this!

 

On 4/4/2019 at 4:07 PM, Cavcraft said:

Some class stuff in there, alright. Sadly, if that 1300GT is complete, it'll probably end up being bummed for the engine by one of the Mini brigade.

Tragically, going by the raised ride height at the front and the detached bonnet, I think that particular ship may have already sailed...

 

On 4/4/2019 at 4:12 PM, The_Equalizer said:

You might well know, but before the DVLA issued age related non-transferable plates they issued 1963 A registrations instead. So there was quite a number of pre-1963 cars running round on 1963 A registrations after they had been asset stripped of their original dateless registrations.

Yes, I'd thought that was the case - I remember seeing a few 50s cars at shows wearing A-suffix plates, and it just looks all kinds of wrong. I think there may be other peculiar reasons for it to be wearing an A reg - a personal import from a Commonwealth country in 1963, possibly - but without bothering my lazy arse to check whether it's a non-transferable registration, I'd say you're bang on the money here.

 

On 4/4/2019 at 4:42 PM, danthecapriman said:

Brilliant updates. I love those Vauxhall F types, they’re rare as fuck but such awesome looking cars. Like miniature yanks!

I always think it’s such a shame for cars of this age and type to end up in a scrap yard though, they’ve survived so long against the odds and yet they wind up in a right state and sitting in yards like this or going round the oval instead. It’s not like some 90’s or 00’s heap that’s just reached the end of its life.

Still, you can’t save them all and it does provide spares for others.

I was really surprised at how many Victor F types there were in this yard, I think there were four of them (in varying states of disrepair).

Yeah, there's certainly an air of tragedy about scrapyards which I find both sad and exhilarating at the same time - I think, deep down, some idiot part of me thinks that I could fix them up no matter how abjectly destroyed they are, so my inner optimist sees potential in all these nails, even though my realist self knows they're gone forever... but yes, at least there's more chance of them providing parts for others, and there's some cars which have had sizeable chops taken from them, presumably to repair crash/rust damage in others... so better here than at the metal recyclers.

But I love the patina of rusted metal, in a weird primeval way... years back, I put together a small gallery exhibition of some of my scrapyard pics. They didn't really sell, but I still like the photos... I took some in this place along the same lines.

 

On 4/4/2019 at 10:55 PM, lesapandre said:

That Vogue is seriously rare. Imagine who ordered that new, what taste, what refinement! Sold - not surprised!

I really hope it's found the home it deserves - I've never seen another, and probably never will!

 

On 4/5/2019 at 11:50 AM, quicksilver said:

A fantastic collection but a shame they're rotting away there. The fact Brendan Dooley hasn't scooped up that Maxi suggests it's a. fucked and/or b. overpriced.

Are those Denovo wheels and run-flat tyres on that P6? Pretty rare I'd imagine if so.

Heh, yes - I'd reckon it's both those factors!

I don't honestly know what those wheels are - any Googling doesn't seem to bring up anything quite like them. 

But I desire them.

[LightBulbFun]

Cheers dude - I'm hoping to get back over there in a few weeks, so will be interesting to see what's changed, what's gone, and what's arrived... fingers crossed for slightly better weather this time. I'd hope the Yugo's been rehomed.

 

I gather the DVLNI records computerisation was just that - a team of civil servants from the then-Department of the Environment up in County Hall in Coleraine, spending months typing in the details from paper records. Fun.

 

I think the export marker used to be cancelled if a car was brought back to GB and re-re-registered with DVLA - as an example, my old Viva (XRR689M) still shows on the DVLA site as last taxed in 1995 and with an export marker against it - someone brought it over to NI in '95 and registered it with DVLNI, I bought it in '97, sold it in 2005, and then it somehow ended up down in Tipperary direction where it became thoroughly rotten and was broken for parts, and hence no longer exists (though bits of it ended up in a Viva belonging to JunkyardDog of this parish, coincidentally).

 

XRR689M - Vauxhall Viva.png

 

Whereas my Cortina Estate (NJW605X) was brought over from Glasgow by me in 2008, registered with DVLNI (generating an export marker, I'd imagine), sold on locally in 2010, and then it seems to have gone back to GB - because it's now shown as having no export marker, and having been MOT'd up to 2013 (which wouldn't show up on the DVLA site for NI cars, since the two databases weren't merged until 2014)

 

NJW605X - Ford Cortina.png

 

Hey, it's hours of fun trying to get my head around all of this!

 

 

 

Tragically, going by the raised ride height at the front and the detached bonnet, I think that particular ship may have already sailed...

 

 

 

Yes, I'd thought that was the case - I remember seeing a few 50s cars at shows wearing A-suffix plates, and it just looks all kinds of wrong. I think there may be other peculiar reasons for it to be wearing an A reg - a personal import from a Commonwealth country in 1963, possibly - but without bothering my lazy arse to check whether it's a non-transferable registration, I'd say you're bang on the money here.

 

 

I was really surprised at how many Victor F types there were in this yard, I think there were four of them (in varying states of disrepair).

 

Yeah, there's certainly an air of tragedy about scrapyards which I find both sad and exhilarating at the same time - I think, deep down, some idiot part of me thinks that I could fix them up no matter how abjectly destroyed they are, so my inner optimist sees potential in all these nails, even though my realist self knows they're gone forever... but yes, at least there's more chance of them providing parts for others, and there's some cars which have had sizeable chops taken from them, presumably to repair crash/rust damage in others... so better here than at the metal recyclers.

 

But I love the patina of rusted metal, in a weird primeval way... years back, I put together a small gallery exhibition of some of my scrapyard pics. They didn't really sell, but I still like the photos... I took some in this place along the same lines.

 

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I really hope it's found the home it deserves - I've never seen another, and probably never will!

 

 

Heh, yes - I'd reckon it's both those factors!

 

I don't honestly know what those wheels are - any Googling doesn't seem to bring up anything quite like them. 

 

But I desire them.

 

interesting stuff, I too find it quite interesting and love trying to figure it all out

 

 

if it makes your "inner idiot" or optimist feel any better

 

this was TPA December 2017 

 

 

and here she is Feb 2019

 

 

(mind its a good thing fibre glass cant rust  ) 

[Datsuncog]

True, that... equally, Egg's Mk12 was looking pretty forlorn only a bare few weeks ago, yet now appears more and more like a car rather than a landscape feature. So who knows, maybe some of these will indeed live to drive another day?

If only it didn't rain so much over here; cars in Australian scrapyards tend to just look like they need a bit of a wash and the tyres pumped up...

[Datsuncog]

So then! ZONE 6!

This is the biggie. This is the old-school yard, the field of dreams bar none. Dream big, if you fancy taking on a car from here...

So. Imagine you're standing there in the gap between the fence panels.

Look left.

Look right.

Which row do you want to go down first, people?

(Seriously, suggest away - it's no odds to me, as I'm sifting hundreds of photos on the fly regardless)

[LightBulbFun]

I say go diagonally 

[quicksilver]

I spy TWO Consul Farnham estates!! Unbelievable...

[Datsuncog]

On 4/5/2019 at 3:37 PM, LightBulbFun said:

I say go diagonally 

I'm not climbing over that bloody Hillman Minx!

It's like Autoshite's very own text-based video game...

**SHITE HUNTER**

 

On 4/5/2019 at 3:39 PM, quicksilver said:

I spy TWO Consul Farnham estates!! Unbelievable...

You're quite correct... I could mosey on down that way, if you like?

[The_Equalizer]

Those wheel you like, and so do I, are Avon Safety Wheels. I saw a Bristol 411 with them for auction at Historics a little while back and think it looked magic:

Bristol 411 Series 4 - Historics Auction

 

Rover P6s have them too. Anyway, here is a nice period video:

 

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[The_Equalizer]

I give up. The editor is being funny! YouTube video here:

 

Avon Safety Wheels

[Datsuncog]

Cor, those wheels are even better now I've seen them on a non-scrapper... very tasty indeed, and not ones I recall noticing before. Great job, thanks!

[Datsuncog]

So, assuming we're going down the left hand side path (the path sinister, appropriately), then the first stop is another two ailing products of Morris Garages:

JWL216K on the blue car brings back zilch on the various plate-checking sites; the identity of the green rubber-bumper car (with epic paint peel) is sadly unknown.

Looking on down the line, then...

[Datsuncog]

DERELICTION.

JBK932P

This is one of those cars that's so far gone I could just stare at it for hours, drinking in the details.

[Datsuncog]

Living (dying?) next door to the big P6, we have another 100E:

2209DZ, a Co. Antrim car when new. A long time ago, that.

Again, the sort of rust-streaks that brings out my artistic side, mebbe. A bit.

Fun fact: while at school, I won a trip to the United States with a poem about a 100E in a scrapyard. True.

[Datsuncog]

Beside the l'il green Anglia, we have another Morris Minor:

This one is JZL131, an old-style Republic of Ireland number.

 

And perpendicular to that, we have a terminally broken Vauxhall Viva HB, in SL flavour.

I'd be reasonably confident that the term "totally fucking fucked m8" was coined for this particular vehicle.

No registration, but here's another badge anyway.

And between the Viva and the fence is another stablemate - the third F-type Victor I've stumbled across in this yard.

Which is possibly why I didn't take any more pics of it. Oops.

[lesapandre]

I think the SL was the sporty to of the range Viva excepting the Brabham. Desirable badge that.

[Vin]

Fantastic stuff DC!!

 

How come the Orion has an export marker against it??

[Datsuncog]

On 4/5/2019 at 7:32 PM, Vin said:

Fantastic stuff DC!

How come the Orion has an export marker against it??

Cheers man, glad you're enjoying the ride so far!

Not 100% sure about the Orion, but it's possible it's since been sold Down South to an ROI buyer, which would generate an export marker on its DVLA record. Here's hoping someone will give it some love, anyway!

[Vin]

Ah, I see...I'm forgetting these pics are 12 months old. Chances the Orion won't be there when you go back, are high then...

[Faker]

Most of these cars, if not all... will be in exactly the same spot as last year... That black Victor belonged to a fella I know. It was his daily. Owned it for years. Was driven there 3... maybe 4 years ago, with text on it.

[The_Equalizer]

Bit miffed that I am not about on Easter Monday as this looks to a gem of a scrapyard. As ever, a most interesting write-up Datsuncog. 

[Datsuncog]

Snuggled up close to the Viva, then, is a bit of a rarity - a Standard Vanguard Phase III estate.

Annoyingly plateless, these big lumps were massively over-engineered (to my recollection) and despite its assorted dings and frilly bonnet, it looks like the car most likely to drive out of this yard under its own steam.

Spilt tailgate is nice. I did actually go and look at one of these in about 1997; an Ensign estate version, but it was a bit out of my range at £800.

WOULD.

[Datsuncog]

Hiding behind the Vanguard's substantive bulk, is a distant cousin... a late model (1982) Triumph TR7 convertible, OIJ7507 - Co. Down registered, and quite possibly originally supplied by Kane of Comber, a big BL/Austin Rover dealership outside Belfast.

Rotten as the proverbial pear, I'm afraid.

[Datsuncog]

And, moving down further, we have this Triumph 2000 Mk1...

Not the best advert for Isopon.

Someone's set about the roof rather frantically with what appears to have been a junior hacksaw; I'm not quite sure whether they were after a Webasto full length sunroof, OR chopped out the tin to replace a leaky Webasto on their own 2000.

Either way, it's certainly very airy now.

The numberplate was attached to the rear slam panel, but I neglected to capture it legibly. Annoying.

[Datsuncog]

Adjacent to the Triumph: another bloody Minor. It's like an elephants' graveyard for Morry Thou's, this place.

This seems to be the only specific pic of this car - pretty far gone, it would seem. No plate.