Twat Scrap

[pbottomley]

Semi Rant, but his loss not mine.I went to a yard I haven't used for about two years and found a well rotten Viva. the same one I found there two years ago. Excellent I thinks, I need an alternator so out come the tools and I wander into the yard.Matey in yard says "no can do mate, cars are not for breaking only for selling as 'antique's' !"I recommend he thinks again as when he lifts the Viva off the roof of the car underneath its liable to fall in half, not exactly worth more than its value in metal. I also remind him I came two years ago and it was here then, so not exactly selling is it.He and his cohort fellow "rose coloured spectacle wearing" idiot both says its worth a fortune mate. If you want it its £350 now and we can deliver it in a week or so for another £100, "all it needs is floors wings and sills and it will be fine.This has got to be a first a yard thats not willing to sell parts off the rotten shells? Two years this car has sat there slowly bending in the middle getting more and more rotten and still they think it will sell as an "antique!".How they continue to make a living is beyond me. :shock:Not a problem, I now have a six pack of beer and a curry instead. Not a hard fucking choice isn't it when cash is in yea pocket and a curry house is a mile away.

[shite_meister]

Obviously students in the 'Its old so its worth shit-loads' school of thought.

[MrDuke]

I had a similar experience last week, except I was actually looking for a project car. As it happened, the owner wasn't there, but the 'deputy' informed me that one of the P4s I was eyeing up "stood the owner £2.5k, so won't be cheap... yeah, it had a nut & bolt resto 10 years ago, it's totally sound everywhere...". Right, well that doesn't explain the fact that the front valance is held on with pog (and I can see daylight through the join), there's epic overspray on the tyres, the inner wings feel like Golden Wonder's finest, and the interior's mostly varying shades of dark green through grey, and I haven't even given it a proper inspection. Oh yes, and I have it on the best authority that it's been parked halfway into this very same ditch for the past 3 years minimum.In fairness, he may have thought I was after some oval action, or just wanted to plate-rape it, and was trying to deter me. Oh well, I shall return and talk nicely to the owner, I was actually quite enamoured with it...

[autofive]

reminds of the 1.6 L Capri that was for sale for 100 quid (owner out of work, MOT running out the same day)i was asked, and declined, as it was totally rotten, and low specsomeone else bought it for 100 quid 2 minutes later, sold it within 10 minutes to a local scrapyard owner, who three days later told me it for sale whole, with docs., for 350 that was 8 months ago, and he still has it for sale, still refusing offers lower than 350

[Mr Lobster]

How they continue to make a living is beyond me

Scrapyard as front for money laundering operation ?

[Station]

Some can be OK, I'm picking up an MGF leather interior with red steering wheel for 65 quid, I've noticed that's less than a third of ebay price for red seats alone.

[vivapower]

Semi Rant, but his loss not mine.I went to a yard I haven't used for about two years and found a well rotten Viva. the same one I found there two years ago. Excellent I thinks, I need an alternator so out come the tools and I wander into the yard.Matey in yard says "no can do mate, cars are not for breaking only for selling as 'antique's' !"I recommend he thinks again as when he lifts the Viva off the roof of the car underneath its liable to fall in half, not exactly worth more than its value in metal. I also remind him I came two years ago and it was here then, so not exactly selling is it.He and his cohort fellow "rose coloured spectacle wearing" idiot both says its worth a fortune mate. If you want it its £350 now and we can deliver it in a week or so for another £100, "all it needs is floors wings and sills and it will be fine.This has got to be a first a yard thats not willing to sell parts off the rotten shells? Two years this car has sat there slowly bending in the middle getting more and more rotten and still they think it will sell as an "antique!".How they continue to make a living is beyond me. :shock:Not a problem, I now have a six pack of beer and a curry instead. Not a hard fucking choice isn't it when cash is in yea pocket and a curry house is a mile away.

what yard was this?.

[pbottomley]

what yard was this?.

Place called "BARRIE MILLS"

[Minimad5]

Station were is the place you are getting your MGF stuff from ?

[Guest]

Hey PB was it Barrie Mills by any chance?

[vivapower]

what yard was this?.

Place called "BARRIE MILLS"

not heard of that one. where is it?. is there just one viva there?.

[Guest]

Did not notice he had put Barrie Mills in his replyBARRIE MILLSSTATION YARD, EARL SHILTON, ELMESTHORPE LE9 7SG LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIREPhone: 01455 842506 Dont know how many Viva's but quite a few "terminal" wrecks at £300 / £400

[vivapower]

I managed to get a rot free viva estate from a local scrapyard (someone already raded the engine and most of the interior) for £325. amazingly it had not bee there long unlike some of the other complete wrecks they still have sitting there.

[Station]

Station were is the place you are getting your MGF stuff from ?

Let's just say it isn't that place on the corner of Neptune Street -

"£50 for a wheel mate"

Does that include the tyre

"Yeah, we'll put the tyre on for 25 quid".

 

[Minimad5]

haha tell me about it !That scrapyard is outrageousSo .... were ?haha

[Pillock]

all it needs is floors wings and sills and it will be fine.

So it's just the roof then, really....?I can't work out why scrappies are so obtuse... you go in looking for a whole car as a project, "sorry mate, parts only". Go in looking for parts, they'll only sell you a whole car. Just fucking do your job!

[pbottomley]

Hey PB was it Barrie Mills by any chance?

You been there as well then? Needless to say they will not see me again unless they change their attitudes.

[fotorabia]

Yikes...considering i paid 350squid for a rot free legal Viva with nr mint interior..you guys are really suffering..my local yard is quite cool..i melt over a faded but rust free lil Datsun Sunny..and Daryls like..Forget it mate..it aint worth it..they sell parts dirt cheap because the crusher pays $225 a car..the parts arent a big issue to them...and a really good mate who works in the biggest scrappie near Wellington stockpiles interesting bits and GIVES them to me to flog on the EvilBay...The whole 'its a classic worth a fortune' speculation is really backfiring here..Escorts and Chevettes can make good money....and from what i can see..the price I paid for the Viva is about the going rate and no more..unless its a Magnum n mint!

[Station]

haha tell me about it !That scrapyard is outrageousSo .... were ?haha

That LJ's place up the road on the corner.

[mattblack]

Can't belive 'millsy' is still going... was one scrapyard I would try to avoid using 'back in the day'. Someone told me a story involving a P5 Rover that he had in and someone ageed a price for the complete car, delivered, and paid up. When it arrived, all the glass and instuments were smashed....Anyone remember/used these other Leicestershire yards?Whites in Hinckley, down by Sketchleys. Gone now, run by and old boy (Bernard IIRC) and his 2 sons. Sound as a pound, I remember buying a petrol flap and window winder for my first MK3 Cortina for 50p from thereAutobreak in Earl Shilton. Run by the legendary 'Leaky' Lol Hopkins. Burnt down... Autospares of Withybrook. Another yard that's now disappeared and has houses on it now. Got quite a few bits from there, Renault 5 side windows, Triumph 2500 cylinder head, MK3 Cortina windscreen. Another good yard.Remember a lad that worked there ran cars he'd rescued from the yard. One I remember was a Fiat 124 Special T...

[Guest]

Years ago the best one near where I lived at the time was T.B.D Morris at Loughborough. Bought a few cars off Tony and sold a few when finished with. His dad Bernard had a "gypo" encampment set up one night on his land next to the scrapyard. He asked them to leave but they told him to f-off. He got a large collection of his skips and blocked them in-lock stock and barrell. He let them out a few days later when they had begged enough-funnily they never returned

[pbottomley]

Its daft when I lived in Harrogate there were half a dozen superb sites, one could wander around pay a fiver and fill a bag with bits, now I am down in Hinckley area its "too much like hard work mate" or "its worth zillions". Never mind ehh, the curry was such a better bye.

[M'coli]

Its daft when I lived in Harrogate there were half a dozen superb sites, one could wander around pay a fiver and fill a bag with bits, now I am down in Hinckley area its "too much like hard work mate" or "its worth zillions". Never mind ehh, the curry was such a better bye.

Did you ever visit Hebden's yard out a Killinghall?? A couple of guys I know have nicknamed it "Mystic's", for the way he seemed to look deep into your soul at how much you needed the part, look into the distance to consider it, and come up with a price!!!