Scrap, Ruins & Wrecks

[calster17]

In short, share your photos of Scrap, ruins & wrecks here!

 

From old, interesting cars at the local scrappy. Buildings in ruin or old wrecks.

 

If you don't have photos then some info, or if you've been somewhere that's famous(infamous?) for the wreck/ruin. Photo's/story's don't have to be recent. But please don't go making anything up.

 

I've got some pictures from my local scrappy of stuff I've seen, as well as some old pictures from when me & my dad went to an abandoned Cornish tin mine(half the effort was getting to it), and some of old military plane wrecks from the Scottish mountains. I'll make sure to get them up soon as there on one of the external HDD's.

 

So share your experiences.

[The Compensator]

Nope, never came across a scrapyard or a wreck, even abroad. :hmmm:

[calster17]

not even a scrap yard for cars? Where you can get parts and such?

 

Or am I the only one who does that because my cars are always about 10+ years old? :lol:

[The Compensator]

Or am I the only one who does that because my cars are always about 10+ years old? :lol:

 

:nods:

 

But honestly, you don't buy new car parts for your car or you just go to the local junkyard?

[calster17]

:nods:

 

But honestly, you don't buy new car parts for your car or you just go to the local junkyard?

 

Depends on what. Mechanical parts I get new, or at least from a trusted source.(only a few things, such as sensors which i can put in my pocket and such i use, as gives and idea if the current one is dead or not) Stuff like body parts, lights, interior stuff, etc i get from the scrappy.

I mean, why pay £50 for 1 rear headlamp, when I can get two that are fine for £20? (mate found out the hard way for his Fabia)

 

Anyway, this is't just for scraped cars. Stuff like abandoned buildings and that count, so if you do a bit of urban exploring and such!

 

Or if you arnt the adventurous type, then links to such things you found on the net.

 

Anyway though i'd kick the photos off with somthing I found back in March...

 

I'll find some older photos from the Cornish Tin mine when I get the chance, as where we were for that was't a tour. We just found an old mine and whent in it(getting to it was half the fun, had to go down some very steep Cornish cliffs!)

[calster17]

:bump:

 

Epic bump/Duble post combo.

 

Anyway when hunting for parts for the Clio & Civic I came across this...

 

A Austin/Rover Maestro with the grill from the MG. Was a Perkings diesel engined one as well.

 

 

 

 

And some engine porn of it...

 

Other guy in the pictures is another forum user from here. :lol:

[RobikV3]

That Savannah :cry: How can you send such nice car to scrapyard?? I hope somebody will save her before its too late...

 

From the scrapyards i have been to only interesting thing was an 1UZ -FE engine from Lexus LS400, oh and at the place were i worked for month there was a RB25DET engine, it wasnt scrapyard though

[calster17]

That RX7 was about a year ago...it's now very likely to be part of a Chinese made car now or a can of beans. :(

 

Often find a few classic,retro & odd things in the scrap yards around where I live. Today I saw the Maestro which I got pictures of, as well as a AW11 MR2(in another yard) and a old Jaguar XJ. With a ton of other cars.

 

I dunno what it is, but I like to wounder round the yards, it's interesting and at the same time usefull! But Personally want to do a bit of urban exploring soon...but nowhere near me for that really. :lol:

[Kaoclya]

I was thinking of your statement regarding it possible being part of a car made in China and I myself was wondering what cars they made over there cause I really have never heard of any and I saw this on Wikipedia and now I feel really dumb... "The automotive industry in China has been the largest in the world measured by automobile unit production since 2008"

 

(Yes, I know Wiki is usually a bad source for information)

[calster17]

Chinas an odd one, as theres a ton of home grown manufactures who make there own cars based on there own designs, otheres make old cars and otheres make a re-hash of stuff. (Useing chassis & engines from british cars made in the 80's but with the body made to mimic an Audi A6 for example, which is an actual car)

Also if foreign makers want to sell cars in large amounts, They have to team up with a local manufacture...so alot of Audis, Mercs, BMW's, Hondas, etc are actually made locally in China for the China market!

 

But enough of global manufacturing & industrial & how China is beating us at it all. :lol:

 

As i said in the original post:

 

From old, interesting cars at the local scrappy. Buildings in ruin or old wrecks. :D

[carlos_69]

In corsega i saw a Dodge Ram abandoned with the interior partially striped i think since i only saw it from a 3rd floor window and it was in someones backyard with the back doors opened and missing the door panels and i can tel it wasn't a old one maybe a 3rd gen by the badges on the tailgate. when i go again to corsega visit my parents i'll take a few pics if its still there.

[Huggy94]

When I was at school we would sneak down to this old abandoned factory/ mushroom farm that was being used as a car graveyard. I have no pics, but I remember a tired Jag XJS with an immaculate, original interior, a Porsche 944 that had completely flat tires, seized up parts, was very tired etc, an original Mercedes CLK with tatty BLUE leather interior and smashed glass, numerous old Mitsubishi Shogun things that had seen better days and loads of other cars from the 80s/90s (mainly Vauxhall Fronteras & Cavaliers, Rovers, MGS, Suzukis etc) . Was such a sad but interesting place!

[GTAMADDOG]

So you're telling me there's an Maestro that hasn't rusted? Either that or rust has found a way of forming the shape of a car and choosing the colour it wants to be :p

 

My step-dad was going to put a Perkins diesel in his Land Rover Series 2 before he decided it would probably be (a lot) better to put a 200TDI from a Discovery in it. I think a guy from Poland drove over to England in a flat-bed to pick up the Perkins diesel when my step-dad sold it, I don't think they're that good to warrant that sort of traveling :lol:

 

I know my step-dad's cousin has a yard down the road from his house that has loads of old cars in it. Old American ones, a few old Mercedes, and a heck of a lot of old English stuff like Triumphs, Austins and much older cars from the 50s and 60s. They've probably been sat there at least 15 years doing nothing, they even still have their old tax discs in them. Another one of his relatives has quite a few old cars. I know for a fact that there's a couple of Vauxhall Carlton 24v GSIs there that haven't moved in a decade at least, those two always interested me the most (out of the newer stuff) despite my dislike of Vauxhall.