Scrapyard thread

[Datsuncog]

All the Commers seem to be wearing the same paint job, and I can just about make out 'Allerdale District Council' on the side of the nearest - so it looks like a fleet disposal.

I suppose Commers were often sold to fleet operators on their low low price, so possibly they were just driven into the ground and scrapped once the rust took hold - though apparently stripped for spares beforehand, with the doors, lights, windscreens and even seats apparently removed.

[bunglebus]

4 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

All the Commers seem to be wearing the same paint job, and I can just about make out 'Allerdale District Council' on the side of the nearest - so it looks like a fleet disposal

The caption on the picture says the local council had just scrapped their Commer fleet. Guy is mostly a train spotter but has also taken some interesting car/industrial shots

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Allerdale District Council had disposed of a small fleet of Commer vans sometime before I photographed this scrapyard adjacent to the railway at Workington on 14th October 1982

 

[bunglebus]

 

[chaseracer]

These photos support my observation at the time that all the ADO16s and mk2 Cortinas seemed to disappear one afternoon in late 1982...

[bunglebus]

1979

 

[bunglebus]

 

[bunglebus]

The good old days mountaineering up the pile to retrieve the bit you were after

 

[LightBulbFun]

no surprise as to why I have this one in my archives!  

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

no surprise as to why I have this one in my archives!  

VW 411?

[D.E]

The local scrappie here is still of the old fashioned sort: huge field full of wrecks, bring your own tools, be careful not to step in glass or worse, etc. A selection of some of the photos I took on several occasions:

[Rusty Pelican]

On 8/17/2019 at 2:05 PM, Amishtat said:

Somewhere in rural Dorset, 2003. 

Fairly certain i bought my Imp van from there - if its the one opposite a camp site

 

[chaseracer]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

1979

 

Peugeot 404, stage left.

What's that chrome, right-of-centre next to the PC Cresta?  I thought it was a DS, but there seem to be wheel arches.

[eifion]

2 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Peugeot 404, stage left.

What's that chrome, right-of-centre next to the PC Cresta?  I thought it was a DS, but there seem to be wheel arches.

You could well be right. That's a very DS-looking rear bumper. Could the 'arch' be the back wheel? The rear wings come off easily enough.

[bunglebus]

I've tried to clean the image up but still can't make it out very well

 

[chaseracer]

22 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I've tried to clean the image up but still can't make it out very well

 

Thanks, BB - defo a DS...

[bezzabsa]

whats the yellowy thing ??

[bunglebus]

I was going to ask the same. Has a hint of fibreglass about it for some reason

[adw1977]

Dutton Sierra?

[skoda_fan]

1 hour ago, adw1977 said:

Dutton Sierra?

Sure is. I used to dream about doing one as a way of transforming my rusty Escort. Couldn't afford the kit though. Note the Escort doors and screen.

[Amishtat]

12 hours ago, Rusty Pelican said:

Fairly certain i bought my Imp van from there - if its the one opposite a camp site

 

I can't remember what was opposite , but it was called Tyte's or Tate's. 

[junkyarddog]

8 hours ago, skoda_fan said:

Sure is. I used to dream about doing one as a way of transforming my rusty Escort. Couldn't afford the kit though. Note the Escort doors and screen.

Not Escort.

That one is Hillman hunter based.

[Rusty Pelican]

11 hours ago, Amishtat said:

I can't remember what was opposite , but it was called Tyte's or Tate's. 

Its Tites , run by  Cyril Tites and his Son Geoff , Cyril died a few years back so its just Geoff and his kids now , its still going AFAIK .

I bought this from there 

[Rusty Pelican]

Which eventually became this 

[crapcarcollector]

Wowzers. Great save.


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[D.E]

21 hours ago, bezzabsa said:

whats the yellowy thing ??

Ginetta GRS Tora, still on British plates iirc. 

[chaseracer]

There's a story there.  Alfa 166 beside it too.

[chaseracer]

Another mk2 bites the big one...

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/magazine/scrappage-scene/

[puddlethumper]

What's that underneath ?

[TataBobu]

On 10/12/2021 at 7:09 PM, bunglebus said:

1979

 

Was Fiat 850 sold over there?

[Steviemillar]

4 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

What's that underneath ?

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