Scrapyards….

[Dave Knight]

You don’t see many these days.
I was never out of my dad’s mates yard in Gorton, Manchester, 1977-1980.   He had the obligatory rabid Alsatian, muddy oily underfoot conditions and a crusty toilet. 
 

My dad and  him used to sit there, drinking tea and smoking. I’d be nicking badges, cig lighters and lenses.🤣 

I burnt my thumb on a NSU cig lighter, never forgot that. Happy days. 
 

Great days. 

[PeteRS8084]

Ditto mate, happy days!

[Jerrytom161]

Good old scrapyards , the days of no health and safety and you could scramble over all the cars  looking for that part that was gonna get you out of the  s**t that week for sensible money . Good old days 

[Mk2Neil]

Loved going to scrapyards in the 80s and 90s, there were 7 or 8 in Peterborough full of 60s and 70s cars. Used to climb in and out of them as a kid, all models with their own history. I got my first mk2 Escort on the road in 1993 when i was 17 and remember a gold 1300E 2 door mk1 just being taken to a scrappy on a Friday afternoon (i was there getting something with work). I went there first thing the next morning (12pm as a 17 year old) and there were about 8 blokes stripping it. 6 pod dash, interior, lights all sorts. Nothing like that these days, although modern cars dont interest me in the slightest.

[Dave Knight]

Agreed about modern crap. 

[accord83]

Ah, the joys of taking a pair of Strombergs plus manifold off an HC Viva in the rain. Top car in a stack of 3 that was bobbing up and down like a hooker when the fleets in town. The security wandering up and down beneath me, occasionally stopping to lick its nuts and growl. 18 and didn't care. Happy Days!

[Rally Pack 2000]

[Dave Knight]

Kin ell, a few quid nowadays in those photos in part alone.

Scrapyard porn 🤣🤣

[Xp197777]

My dad used to have a scrap yard in the 80s me and my mates used to drive anything that ran around the fields banger racing it was great and the best banger we couldn’t kill your never guess was a Renault 4 it went on like Ariston 😆

[accord83]

19 hours ago, Xp197777 said:

My dad used to have a scrap yard in the 80s me and my mates used to drive anything that ran around the fields banger racing it was great and the best banger we couldn’t kill your never guess was a Renault 4 it went on like Ariston 😆

Renault 4's were brilliant little machines, if you could weld faster than they could rust. Would go almost anywhere like a mountain goat, mad gearshift and wheelbase longer on one side than the other, typical old school French. I'd have one again but getting expensive now.

[Dave Knight]

Great cars. Gear stick on the dash board if I remember rightly. 

[Miniliteman]

A guy who I went to school with bought a new Renault 4 after he got an inheretance from his gran. It had those folding "camping" chairs ... 2 years on and when he demonstrated how easy the seats could be taken out to a teacher he not only removed the passenger-seat but also a part of the floor, rotten away in 2 years 😮

[Xp197777]

Yep column change it eventually ended up in the lake😆

[Xp197777]

Can’t be many of them left I wouldn’t of thought

[BaileyMex]

Ah man, yes the good old days of risking life to take MK2 Escort bonnets off three cars high in the rain and (cough) finding bits in your tool box at home that you "forgot" to pay for.😁

Atkinson's in Wimbledon, Bridges in Crawley and some other ones in Mitcham who's names I cant remember.

I can smell them now......

[Nige65]

I have too many scrapyard adventure stories to tell but not the time although one still gives me a constant reminder, I was climbing a stack of cars that were in rows 4 high using the old fashioned style door handles for footings, it was raining and my shoes were caked in the obligatory water/soil/oil mixture, I got to the top car gripping the door handle with my right hand when both feet slipped leaving me hanging by my right arm, I actually heard my shoulder pop out and had to lower myself down carefully left handed until I reached terra firma, a quick roll of arm saw the shoulder ‘clunk’ back in but it has been an aching nuisance ever since!

Yes, items finding their way out of the scrapyard mysteriously without payment was a given! I’d had a run in with the bloke that ran the establishment, so was pretty cheeses off but my revenge was to source an identical front light for my Mk1 Mexico that was cracked from a DAF Daffodil 55, fitted down the front of my strides and a bit of breathing in saw me walk out and take my revenge!

Happy days 😁

[Dave Knight]

What a memory right there, climbing on the door handles lol. Bloody hell, a Daf 55! You’re right about a stacked set of old scrappers rocking 🤣
 

I used to be to collect anything Ford, badges, door handles. We’d all be retired now if we’d kept the unpaid swag.