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[clan chieftain]

If you go into your facebook and type in autoshite heaven Perthshire abandoned cars there is a garden in Perthshire with hundreds of abandoned cars but I dont know how to put it on the forum if someone can help. I wouldnt mind going up there for a rake about.
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[Rick]

Tried searching for that but no joy, will have another go in the morning - sounds interesting

RJ
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[colwyn500]

This must be it...

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.469583859754689.100106.285839238129153&type=3

[clan chieftain]

Thanks Peter ..well done. It looks great doesnt it. Not that far from both of us. There are more abandoned cars in the Ardennes forest under pinterest .com abandoned cars if you can find that.
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[colwyn500]

Larry, it's not all that long ago when there were quite a few scrap-yards that had a similar sort of look about them around the edges. I am surprised that someone from the Environment Agency or similar hasn't started bossing the owner of the field about.

[Rick]

Several proper oldies in there, all only suitable for parts though which is a shame. I'm surprised the splitscreen VW Pickup is still there.

RJ
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[clan chieftain]

There is a Marina TC Coupe in there as well but as you say Rick most are spares only by the look of it.
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[baconsdozen]

There used to be two massive scrapyards in Norfolk both full of cars from 50's onwards,Medlers and Dawsons.
Both sites were cleared and the cars crushed.I remember going to one of the yards and trying to persuade the people clearing it to sell me one particular car but they simply didn't want to know and dropped it into the crusher right in front of me.
Can anyone remember these yards?

[clan chieftain]

Yes there were plenty in this area at one time especially at Alan Gray in Carluke. It has been gone for years now and I was friendly with Alan years ago through the GPO. The yard covered both sides of the main road at Braidwood. I had been through his sheds and there were dozens of old cars from the 20s and 30s in them and plenty old stuff lying around. The one that always stuck in my mind was a 1920s Lincloln Council lighting department lorry with solid tyres and a tower unit built on to the back of it. He used to send old lorries to India with the tyres stuffed full of old rags.He must have died because years later when I drove past they were all gone. Now there is a petrol station and new houses on the site. But now most of these yards are gone as the cars were weighed in when scrap was nearly £200 a ton......shame really.
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[Billf]

There used to be a great Scrap Yard just outside Carlisle Cumbria. called Ron Mortons.

Spent hours in there when i was younger, getting bits to keep my cars on the road.

One of the guys used to lift the car you wanted the bits off with a Fork Lift, then left you to carry on. No Elf n Safety then.

This yard used to be packed all over the weekend.

I also got a few bits for my A40 Somerset from Albert Looms Derby When i lived there.

[exbmc]

Billf, Albert Looms is still going strong. They have had to tighten up on removing fluids from "scrappers" etc, and the yard is tidier, all to do with elf 'an safety of course. Still a good spares source, although not a lot in stock to interest most of the members on here.

[baconsdozen]

Medlers yard used to have a giant pig roaming around and the odd cow or two might pop up as you removed bits from the cars.
Dawsons was a treasure trove with a huge variety of items.If you were took short half way through removing an engine,at the bottom of one of the fields next to a few Field Marshall tractors were dozens of ex army portable loos on metal wheels.

[Mog]

There was a local VW Wrecker, he had a remote control fitted to his fork lift. He could stand on a pallet and go up the rack, grab the part and come down again !!!

[Churchill Johnson]

If any local's to me know of kirby's at Rochford still trading but have been bought out and when i was over there last week i found all of the old car's have been crushed not that much on them but thing's like rear and front axle's steering box's and some with screen's still in, when i asked why was told can't keep old s--t.

[Richard H]