Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

xkjag-nz · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 37 Location: auckland,NZ

smash palace was filmed here, acres of old stuff 40's to modern
125 pics so big old file
took hours to upload as i am right out in the sticks on dial up
there's dedication for you

http://picasaweb.google.com/xkjaguar/Cars03?authkey=Gv1sRgCM6jjfecudWO0gE#

xkjag-nz · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 37 Location: auckland,NZ

oh by the way the atmospheric black and white with only green highlights was a cock up on my part as i set the camera up for snowboarding and forgot to reset it

mikeC · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:17 am Post subject:

Wonderful set of photos - that's just how UK scrapyards were 40 years ago.
And don't apologise for the colour, I think it suits the subject very well Very Happy

victor 101 · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 446 Location: East Yorkshire

Great pic's, I don't think there is anywhere like this left in the UK, maybe small private lots, but all the big boys have to adhere to strict regulations, so it's a thing of the past unfortuneatly. Better than a week at Disneyland.

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

by gum that's a brilliant looking place, worth a flight to NZ just to have a look around (although the excess baggage £ on the return flight home might add up a bit!!!)

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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

A real time warp!

Thanks for posting,

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Richard H · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 2148 Location: Lincolnshire, UK

The four door A35 in picture 30 looks really solid and rust free. If that was in the UK it would be restored straight away.

Great pictures, thanks! Very Happy

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P3steve · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject:

OUTSTANDING I say guys cant we all get together and re-inport them, thanks for posting them

47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

Awesome...I feel another trip down under coming on Shocked

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snoozy · Joined: 05 Aug 2009 Posts: 1

Fantastic pictures. Could spend days wandering around a place like that. Used to enjoy nothing more than a trip to the scrappy. I don't know if it was the camera settings, but the cars looked "differently rusty" to what I would expect to see here. Maybe the climate? There seemed to be masses of lichen growing on some of the glass.

xkjag-nz · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 37 Location: auckland,NZ

to be honest most of the metalwork seemed pretty sound and lots of good chrome and mazek(?) fittings i stood on some cars and there were few really frilly bits it just seemed like surface rust

there are about 10 acres of it all told along with sheds and garages full of fittings/engines/axles etc

the place is about 4 hours drive from auckland or 5 hours from me
i just happened past it as i was offon a weeks snowboarding/team building and decided to go and take some pics as i wasn't very good on the snow!

there was another yard about an hour closer to me but didn't have time to visit, though i will probably take a drive down round xmas

Ray the rocker · Joined: 01 Aug 2008 Posts: 187 Location: south wales

What a fantastic graveyard of pure / prime engineering.If i ever made the trip over,i don`t think the missus would like my daily quest of visiting this unbelievable site...

Thank for the pictorial memories-----Cheers---Ray the Rocker.....