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Morning all.
Fairly new to the forum so apologies if this has been covered before. I thought it would be a good idea to get a list going of some of the proper scrapyards left in the UK; the ones where you take a toolbox, have a good old forage, rip some cars apart and get some bargains.
I don't know of any locally to me (Redditch, Worcestershire).
Anyone got any they would like to share?
Cheers,
Ashley
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Copes of earlswood used to be good, haven't been there in the best part of 10 years though so it might have changed now www.copesofearlswood.co.uk |
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Great thanks guys will look into those. Keep them coming, don't have to be Midlands, anywhere in the UK.
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93fxdl
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Couple in Ayrshire
Devlins near Kilmarnock
Shewalton car spares near Irvine
Ttfn Glenn
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Deatons in Staveley - they tend to hang onto anything old/ interesting for a good while
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Windleys in tattershall Lincolnshire. www.windleysalvage.co.ukLoads of cars and plenty of older stuff too, waste a good few hours in there. |
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omegod
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GW Bridges in pease pottage, just off the A23 near crawley. Mostly newer stuff but the odd bit from the late 80s and 90s.
Chobham, the breakers on Staple Hill. Back in the day it was epic, now it's about a third of the size it used to be but still an old school scrappy. Since they got smaller there's a lot less old stuff but still a good selection.
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Some cracking suggestions here, good geographical spread too. All the ones I used to go to with my dad have long since closed.
I miss going scrapdiving, used to spend whole days doing it.
Keep 'em coming, hopefully helping others too?
Cheers
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willg
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Haynes of Challow, Oxfordshire. Happy to let you have a walk around, nice owners, good prices! Sadly not many retro cars anymore.
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Retro is best!
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hitman
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Deatons in Staveley - they tend to hang onto anything old/ interesting for a good while is that in chesterfield? |
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Still a fair few around birmingham. My favourites are hoppers autobreak and birmingham autobreak in Aston.
Also nelsons near Solihull is decent but mostly newer stuff and not as cheap.
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Deatons in Staveley - they tend to hang onto anything old/ interesting for a good while is that in chesterfield? Deatons Metal Centre Netherthorpe, Staveley Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S43 3PZ They had some stuff listed on ebay as well from time to time. Its an odd place to find as you go through the middle of a housing estate to get to it. Car spares is past the wooden hut/ chalet and into the nissan huts - wear shoes/ trousers and take a hi-vis if you don't want to borrow one covered in oil. |
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THE_Liam
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Brotherton's near Otley, West Yorkshire is pretty good, but with wildly inconsistent pricing - try to speak to one of the young lads, not the old fella (Arthur Brotherton) because he wants big money for everything.
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L.C.Hughes of Bicester
French's of Dunstable
Both happy as long as you put a high viz on, plenty of 90s stuff and usually some 80s (especially Hughes)
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Woodgate breakers Nr. Ashford in Kent TN26 3HX
Its been more tha 5 years since I have been there, but back then they had old stuff scattered around the hedgerows, inc a Dolomite & Avenger.
Its also the only breakers yard I have been to that has 2 duck ponds on it lol
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yeah I saw that recently, i remember taking petrol genie's into bucky's and tipping minis over on there side to cut floors out with a grinder |
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