Icelandic Scrapyard(?) Pics. EDIT - New Museum+Spot pics..

[Gompo]

Found these quite randomly, I dont think we've seen them before although some look familiar? There's another 15 or so I've not shown here. Link to gallery: http://www.opuszczone.com/galerie/is-ca ... hp?lang=en

 

 

Cheers..

[Station]

A lot of Saabs!

[AnthonyG]

Some interesting old chod there, like the Volvo PV, the FC Victor, the Austin Gypsy and the old Yanks. Some of it, like the Bronco and Series 1 Range Rover, look like you could just get in and turn the key!Also I spied an beige Aggro, for a time (very short ) they were amongst the best sellers in various random Scandinavian countries, they probably got the better built Belgian assembled ones.I read in the Times in Iceland there are stacks of Range Rovers, Lexus SUVs etc just all sitting around in compounds as finance repos and unsold dealer stock due to the financial implosion of a year ago. They will probably all end up in Russia or Eastern Europe sooner or later.

[Ratdat]

Holy moly a PMC Gloria!

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

whats a pmc gloria then?

[FredTransit]

4 X 4 hearse???

[Ratdat]

whats a pmc gloria then?

Prince Motor Company, later merged into Nissan. The Gloria was originally one of their designs which, post merger, became just a badge engineered Cedric in the Nissan line-up. These old Glorias were pretty sohpisticated for their day. They even had de-dion rear ends. I drove one a few years back in Norway. Probably not the best example as it was an ex-taxi from oslo with about 400,000 Km's on the clock but it was ace and I'd love one!

 

[Dead_E23]

I don't know what this is but it looks very useful, in a scary sort of way.

That's a Russian GAZ-69 with what looks like a locally built body. The blue Series 1 LR with the corrugated iron through the windscreen also seems to have a local body; I believe they're pretty rare and that they were extra well insulated to keep the Icelandic cold out.

[Guest]

 

Some interesting stuff there, that pink thing looks like a Green Goddess fire engine (Bedford chassis) which is a slightly improbable thing to find on Iceland.

[Dukestar25]

 

This is my favourite. Lada Niva , Ovlov 1 and 2-series and a Pug 305?

What was the bus-type thingy in the background??

 

That Saab looks good enough to take home and the Cedric behind it would be GR8 4 SENDIN 2 AFRICA

[barrett]

wow, there's some top old chod there! i love those glorias too, and there looks to be a couple of 70s 'bishis in there aswell.

 

there was a surprising amount of old tat about in iceland when i was there, mainly big yank stuff (this was pre-meltdown), i remember a lovely restored '65 galaxie 500 wagon in turquoise being the nicest thing i saw. couple of series 1-2 landys still being hammered about in the countryside as well.

 

oh, and i just found this

 

professional camera work by my drunken friend, this was about 6am after coming out of a club if i remember rightly. not sure why i'm posing like that.

[STUNO]

whats a pmc gloria then?

Prince Motor Company, later merged into Nissan. The Gloria was originally one of their designs which, post merger, became just a badge engineered Cedric in the Nissan line-up. These old Glorias were pretty sohpisticated for their day. They even had de-dion rear ends. I drove one a few years back in Norway. Probably not the best example as it was an ex-taxi from oslo with about 400,000 Km's on the clock but it was ace and I'd love one!

 

These Glorias were a straight copy of the contemporary Mercedes, and were one of the best Japanese cars of their day.

[Ratdat]

These Glorias were a straight copy of the contemporary Mercedes, and were one of the best Japanese cars of their day.

Nope, not true at all. i think the Mercs of that period ran swing axle rear ends and having compared engines in the flesh, they are similar in as much as they are both SOHC but the design is quite different. For a start the manifolds are on the opposite side! It's likely that Prince would have looked at other manufacturers products but you have to remember that the company originated from aircraft manufacturing so they were quite technically capable in their own right. You only have to look at the massive leap in technology at Nissan at the time of their takeover of PMC in '66. The Bluebird went from wishbones, leaf springs, single circuit drum brakes and Austin derived OHV engines in with the 411 model in 1966 to Macpherson struts, IRS, powered assisted, dual circuit discs and OHC engines on the 510 model in 1967! This Mercedes copy business stems from some urban legend just like the "Datsun built Austin Sevens", and the "Datsun A series is a copy of the BMC A series" story. Both of which are also bollocks! I blame the motoring media for their half arsed lazy research on these sort of subjects.

[RedSparrow]

I recon that bus thingy is a Barkas, they were sold in Holland as well as Eastern bloc.

[STUNO]

Nope, not true at all. This Mercedes copy business stems from half arsed lazy research

I stand well and truely corrected

[Milford Cubicle]

Nice breakdown of a few of the Japanese car copy myths Ratdat. Unfortunately the popular press like Practical Classics continue to propagate them. Is this someone's personal collection rather than a scrapyard? Most of the cars look in quite good condition and there's quite a variety.

[michiel]

Holy moly Gloria indeed! Here's proof they were sold in Holland (got some brochures and press shots too):

 

 

 

Yumz. They were at first sold as 'Nippon' Glorias, then PMC Gloria and I think the name Mikado was used too...

[Dukestar25]

I recon that bus thingy is a Barkas

Ah yes, those slow, noisy, basic eastern block thingys... possibly the only thing slower and noisier than a diesel Serena

[Gompo]

That Gloria does look good, I didnt really notice it as such before - guessed it was American!I thought this thread my resemble a lead ballon but I guess you can rely on Autoshite.Cheers..

[seth]

The Bluebird went from wishbones, leaf springs, single circuit drum brakes and Austin derived OHV engines in with the 411 model in 1966 to Macpherson struts, IRS, powered assisted, dual circuit discs and OHC engines on the 510 model in 1967!

You make it sound like the BMC type engineering was really backward!Oh, hang on......

[Speedman]

Haven't posted over her for ages, but after seeing the pics at the start of the thread I had a warm fuzzy feeling......I went to that yard on my honeymoon a few years ago. Well we went to Iceland and I found an advert for the oldest car museum in Iceland, when we got there there was the massive yard behind it, loads of Eastern European cars, plus quite a few American and British motors, infact Iceland is a hot bed for old cars, people don't like to throw anything out....ever!

 

Make way for a PB dump

 

 

 

 

 

[Speedman]

Inside the musuem

[Speedman]

The yard out back

[Speedman]

Few more from the trip

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mouseflakes]

Bloody Norberts! There's some top-drawer tat in Iceland!

[barrett]

wow that makes me nostalgic, shame i missed that museum when i was there.... had my hands full with the local ladies, and clubs that open at 1am were quite distracting too!

[Speedman]

Theres a website for the museum here

[FredTransit]

Theres a website for the museum here

For some reason that didn't work.....http://www.ystafell.is/default.asp?sid_ ... 001|&tId=2

[Gompo]

Great pics Speedman, I'll update the thread title.Cheers, Greg.