Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[colwyn500]

Just an excuse to post an old photo I found.

My Cinq wiring burned out at 150,000 miles.

I wanted bits off it so ended up cutting it up on the driveway in our very nice suburban estate.
I had done it before with a Mini Metro and even with an Austin Ten; I will look for the photos.


Backyard scrapyard by peterthompson, on Flickr

[Mog]

I cut up a Fiat 600 that I had got for spares, in the drive way. With an arc welder.... Got nothing else.

[bob2]

I cut up a mini clubman estate for parts and a 77 round nose mini 998!!
I now feel guilty for doing so cause both were saveable and clubman estates are getting pretty rare over here whilst the other mini was an orange mini just as my daughter wants it!!
Not that she'll be able to drive very soon but I could have remedied to that part!!

Lately I was told about a hillman hunter just like mine but fitted with a bmc diesel for 150 euros. Could have yielded lots of parts but I had nowhere to keep it for dismantling it so I skipped that offer.

[badhuis]

In the next months I will be cutting up two Hillman Imps. Both from 1969/1970, very rotten and been standing since the late eighties.
I'll keep the mechanics or give them away to others, someone wants the interiors. I feel a bit ashamed about sending in the registration docs - there are not too many surviving original Dutch registered Imps. But no-one's interested in keeping them and they take up valuable under cover space.

I cut up the first car I had twenty years ago, somehow I still regret that even though it was too rotten to repair (as I thought then, maybe would think otherwise now).

Scrapping classics is not something I like to do. I am too sentimental for that I suppose

[Rick]

I broke a freebie A35 for parts once, but it was as rotten as a pear and donated parts to the A30 that 'erindoors was running at the time. I probably still have a few parts, in my A40 spares pile.

A red Volvo 120 was also broken up where I found it (and the shell disposed of by the land owner), the engine went into my blue 121, while another blue 121 was broken a few years later, donating parts to the green 122S I had.

I scrapped a Vauxhall Carlton estate too, I bought it thinking that, with a replacement engine installed to replace the duff unit in it, it'd be a useful load-lugger. The engine swap didn't go to plan and the whole lot went for scrap, I was glad to see the back of that old heap.

RJ
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[Kelsham]

Are you still allowed to break cars at home? I seem to recall the DVLA were about to insist they were disposed of through authorised breakers only.
I rushed through breaking a Rover 100 to avoid the regulation.

Kels

[pigtin]

How things have changed. The photo shows me and my brother posing alongside my donor 1947 Austin 8 van. It was suspected of having a dodgy back axle so I bought it for a few quid and dismantled it for the radiator and engine, on a piece of waste land opposite my house. As far as I remember there was no sign of rust anywhere on it. If I had half a brain in those days I'd have found an axle from the breakers and repaired it.
The photo was taken around 1959. The p*key came and took the remains away free of charge; they had their uses in those days.

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[clan chieftain]

Are you on the left or right.?
I have broken plenty marinas in my runway. They really were rotten.
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[baconsdozen]

I think I might have posted this before but forgive me if I have...........
I cut up the chassis of an old landrover and buried it under a chicken run.
A few years later a couple of guys turned up and asked me if I had any spares for old LRs.
I told them about the cut up chassis and was amazed when they asked how much I wanted for it.
I told them aslong as they left things tidy (and didn't hurt the chickens) they could have it.
Next day they turned up with shovels,dug it up,flattened the ground and went away as happy as Larry (who ever he is or was).

[Rick]

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[Ellis]

I had to have a long think as to how many cars of my own I have scrapped over the years and was surprised that the number is only two. I thought it was more than that but the others I helped scrap/dismantle all belonged to friends

The first was my 105E Anglia in 1993 when rusty floors and sills rendered it beyond repair. I and a friend used a Stihl Saw to chop it up but I salvaged the best parts and kept them. The steering box was sought after by a number of people. I eventually sold the lot to another 105E owner for £100 in 1995.

The second was my 1977 S3 Land Rover 88" last year. It was a "parts only" purchase for £50 in 2006 but yielded a rebuilt 2286cc diesel engine and numerous spares. I weighed the remains in for scrap.

I now cringe at the memory of helping a friend dismantle a good, low mileage early MG 1100 in the early 1970s for it's engine to fit in his Morris 1100. I had a hand in dismantling a 1071cc Cooper S in 1974 as well.

I think I will stop there because there were so many now desirable classics.
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[Phil - Nottingham]

My first was a Goggomobile TS300 in about 1971 then a Auto Union 1000 Universal (Estate) in about 1974 and then a Auto Union 1000 Coupe in 1979.

All 3 of these were rare then and almost unheard of now

Also did a Metro 1000 and a Clubman estate in the 1990's a Rover P5B sallon and P5 3 Litre Coupe in the 2000's with a P4 100 and a S2 LR and another P5B saloon in 2011

All were for parts to keep past and even current fleet going
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[Ellis]

Further to my earlier post, another example of classic car vandalism of the early 1970s was one I also took part in.

A friend had been given his uncle's 1957 (I think) Hillman Minx, a beige coloured one IIRC in October 1972 after he passed his test. With the tendency of young men to drive too fast he soon had the main bearings rumbling and the oil pressure low. He also wanted something faster!

He couldn't afford to buy anything better but his sister's boyfriend, an apprentice mechanic, knew of an "old" Minx laid up in elderly gentleman's garage on the North Wales coast. The "old" Minx turned out to be an early Sunbeam Rapier Series 1 in two tone cream and blue without an MOT and with flat worn tyres.

My friend thought of MOTing it but his uncle and father point blank refused to allow him to drive it under his uncle's "all driver's" insurance policy. The uncle worked abroad for much of the year - it's a long story............
Plan B then.

Out came the engine of the Rapier and into the Minx We all lent a hand one weekend. The overdrive gearbox was left where it was and he arranged for the scrap man to collect the otherwise complete and quite good condition Rapier for the sum of £5.

He put the Minx into a ditch just before Christmas - totalled.

I grimaced tonight at the memory.


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[ukdave2002]

I have scrapped a couple of Mini's, an MGB GT, a solid Avenger and a Morris 8 Series E (spares car it had no ID).

If a vehicle is scrapped at home, and it has one of the new V5C docs, you have to return the V5C with a covering letter to the DVLA, why they removed the simple "Scrapped" tick box I dont know

Dave