Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[Rick]

I visited Furbers at Prees a few times before it closed, I remember a really early car (a Phoenix I think, chain drive?) up on the racking inside one of the main buildings. Also, numerous NOS XJ Series 1 bonnets piled up, I wonder what happened to them? I think there were NOS bootlids too.

On my final visit, most of the cars for breaking outside had been cleared, although under a tree was the remains of a Delta Integrale, I often think I should have taken a closer look to see if it was worth rescuing.

I took photos outside on my first visit, but that was in the days of 640x480 digital photos and they aren't the best quality. There were quite a few old lorries dotted about too.

RJ
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[Ray White]

My fondest memories are of scrap yards in the Surrey area. When I was a cash strapped student I would always do the rounds of local yards if I needed anything for my A30. At that time many 1950s cars were being scrapped.

In particular, I would get through tyres in no time as the more powerful engine I had fitted would enable me to leave rubber the road in any gear except top! I would often find a scrap car with good part worn tyres and take home a wheel and tyre complete. The result was that after a while I had several piles of worn out wheels/tyres in the garden; much to the annoyance of my elders and betters.

I also remember the famous "Adverse" yard which was immortalised in the poetry of William Charnock. I believe a number of London to Brighton cars were rescued from there.

Before it closed, several Austin Sevens - among others - were rescued but what was lost was heartbreaking for Vintage car enthusiasts. I remember a shipping container almost filled to the top with pre War aluminium crankcases.

[peter scott]

http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk/new_page_37.htm#Driving
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[Bitumen Boy]

I remember many scrapyard visits with my dad back in the day, when I was very young it was Cyril Beckett's yard (spelling is a guess) in Nottinghamshire... Dad was good friends with Cyril and we seemed to spend a lot of time there hunting for obscure parts.

Later on after moving to Gloucestershire it was Dursley Autos yard where I found many Mini spares. Dad bought a Triumph Acclaim there, had cove sills welded on for the MOT and put something over 40k trouble free miles on it before the inner sills rusted out! Another one was Harry Buckland's yard just outside Cheltenham, I went past there back in the autumn and it looked like it might still be going. Dad used to go there looking for Acclaim parts when he was meant to be working, in those happy days before GPS tracking when you could get away with things like that...

It's funny but looking back on those scrapyard visits the weather always seems to have been wet and cold, it can't always have been like that but that's how I remember it for some reason.

[Ray White]

[peter scott]

[Ray White]

When I got it, my Isetta had a very worn rear axle/spindle. It was so worn that it determined the direction of travel.! Something has to be done; and on the cheap. My Dad took it to work with him and had someone metal spray it. He then turned down the spindle to the correct size.

I refitted the part and all seemed well for a few hundred miles ...then disaster! It snapped. Someone should have crack tested it, but as I say it was done on the cheap as a "homer".

I then did what I should have done in the first place and bought one from a scrapyard.!

As a small boy I was an avid collector of radiator badges and emblems filched from scrap yards. No one cared much. I remember having a fair sized collection; some quite rare examples. Unfortunately, I have no idea what happened to it.

(Mother probably threw it out when we moved house. "The Old Cottage" was a rambling country house that was falling apart at the seams. My care free days of scouring scrap yards came to an end with endless work on the old house including repointing a massive chimney stack and helping to re roof the place.

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[peter scott]

[Ray White]

[alastairq]

I'm trying to recall the name of a scrappie in Lewisham that I frequented between 1972 and 74?
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Cannon special [1996 registered. Built in 1950's]
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Ford Pop chassis, Ashley 1172 bodyshell, in pieces.

[Penman]

Does anyone remember this one?

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Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10

[Ray White]

I don't know the place...but is that a BMC J4 panel van next to the early Transit (being used as a recovery vehicle)?

[Rick]

[Ray White]

Seeing the J4 unceremoniously ousted by the Transit like that reminds me of just how - virtually overnight - the Ford swept aside all before it. It really was a sensation at the time.

[Penman]

Of course, we had the 400E and Germany had a Taunus Transit, how big an improvement was the First Gen?
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Bristols should always come in pairs.

Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10