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[gresham flyer]

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Here we have more photo`s of how scrap yards used to be.

On a saturday morning you and perhap`s a friend, would walk into the yard armed with your halfords toolbox dad had brought you for xmas.

Without any proper tool`s the like of what is available now ,you would set too and start to dismember a car for what was thought of as a cheap way to keep your vehicle on the road!!!

Hours would be spent under tottering heap`s of metal trying to undo stubborn bolts, hamering away at engine mounts,hacksawing your way through panels,lying in oil stained water on a piece of carpet if you were lucky.

No petrol disc cutters ,power tools,or pre stripped vehicles who`s parts are now neatly racked for the suited gent to purchase.
We had to endure a pack of alsatians and an ignorant chap with a fag in the corner of his mouth.

After half a day and as much as you could stuff in you halfords toolbox for free,you would approach the caravan office to pay for the privilege of dismantling a corsair or cortina.


With grazed and oily hands,oil stained faces,dressed in a boiler suit and bobble hat,and smoking a woodbine,and that was only the girls in the office,you would leave for home to fit your worn out purchases.

Funny enough I still do It!!!!!

[Brian M]

This takes me back almost 40 years when I broke the rear coil spring on my Alfa Romeo Guilia.
I had got a lot of small trim parts off a Guilia that was in a yard in Leyton, East London and having found that a new spring was £60 (the car was worth £200) decided that it was worth getting the spring off the breaker.
Of course the car was under two others and the yard couldn't get their fork lift anywhere near the pile.
All we needed to do was to lift the pile about two feet in the air and we could get the spring out. It took two whole days raising the back of the Alfa using an old scissor jack, putting bits of wood in the space created and then lifting it a bit more, more wood and so on until there was enough room to get the spring out. All the time expecting the stack to fall over.
Just as I was paying £3 at the office, their truck pulled in - with an identical Alfa on the back. Even the yard owner thought it was funny, and let me take both of the springs off the new arrival while it was held in the air by his fork lift.
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Brian
1970 Volvo Amazon and 1978 Safari 15-4 Caravan
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