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Spotted a very nice (but very bent) MGB at HKS Scrapyard in Wrexham today that could have proved a treasure trove for someone (did take pics but can't find them atm) and it got me thinking about the best deals or finds I'd had. Admittedly to most it will seem rubbish but bagged a Vectra GSi gearknob and steering wheel for £5. What have you guys found that was rare or bought for a steal?
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steptoeshaw
Yorkshire and The Humber
4 Rover SD1 V8's and an MG Midget. The rest of my cars aren't retro yet
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A few years ago I found the most rotten triumph 1300 in a scrap yard, opened up the rusty doors and found a mint interior still covered in the factory plastic covering. I paid 50 quid for the seats and door cards, cleaned up what needed cleaning and doubled my money. I was glad it was saved and moved on to someone else who would benefit from it. And when I say doubled my my money I probably made 20 quid after traveling and cleaning etc but worth it to live on. I just couldnt leave it there
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A few years ago now, but when I had my Mini I found a Mini estate with 2 brand new, unpainted rear doors on it. One still had the BL part number sticker on it. They hadnt been on it for very long. From memory they cost me £10. I didnt need them as the rear doors on mine were perfect, so i sold them for many many times more than what I paid for them.
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Picked up a great condition ford rubber spoiler which is the same as a sierra rs500 lower but without the whaletail centre leg cutout and a c missing from the end of the part mumber (don't confuse with the xr4x4 shorter type) from a lhd 5 door sierra, paid £5 for it cut the correct v shape to fit around my spoiler, saved me a good few quid there as even the ones without the cutout were going for around £300 at the time on the bay
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Last Edit: Jan 7, 2018 18:25:54 GMT by fordperv
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Recently found a 1990 Honda Civic in a scrapyard as I'm after some bits for an 1989 Civic I'm getting soon and next to it was a 1980 something Nissan Bluebird. Also in that hard was something I don't recall ever seeing, a Nissan Prairie.
A couple of years ago I was offered a 1989 Subaru GL estate in a really nice metallic blue, with blue interior and it was a top of the range 1.8 2&4wd selectable with the nice graphics down the side for £150. Pretty sure that was first time I'd seen one of those (not seen one since either). I rang the yard up a couple of weeks later ready to buy it there and then but they told me they had crushed it the day before. That one really hurt.
And the best gem of a yard ever (near me) was called F A Brinkley. It's unfortunately closed and cleared a couple of years ago now but that had many Morris Minors, couple of old minis one of which I'm pretty sure was a cooper, V12 XJS, Peugeot 203, Rover P4s, 2.8i Capri, Allegro, Princess, Ford Corsair and MGBs, more modern stuff was loads of Polo Breadvans and Renault 5s as well as an Uno Turbo. As recent as 3/4 years ago and from the couple of times I went his stock often changed, would love to know where all the cars he used to get are going now.
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Picked up a great condition ford rubber spoiler which is the same as a sierra rs500 lower but without the whaletail centre leg cutout and a c missing from the end of the part mumber (don't confuse with the xr4x4 shorter type) from a lhd 5 door sierra, paid £5 for it cut the correct v shape to fit around my spoiler, saved me a good few quid there as even the ones without the cutout were going for around £300 at the time on the bay Remember end of the 90s my dad's mate worked in Ford Parts in Mochdre, my dad had a few Sierras and this guy brought home a hire van full to bursting of NOS Sierra parts that had been thrown in the skip to make room, including 3 of those rubber spoilers still in sealed bags. Not seen one since. |
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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Best Scrapyard Finds?Dez
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Once went to buy a s13 from a very dodgy yard in Romford, curse word it down with rain, found 500 quid in rolled twenties with an elastic band round them laying in the mud outside. The S13 was £300 😄
Memorable drive back up the A12 in my mates car with notes stuck in all the air vents to dry them!
Also ones found a leatherman wave pressed into the mud at my local yard where the forklift had run over it. 10+ years later I still have it.
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Last Edit: Jan 7, 2018 18:53:05 GMT by Dez
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Astranaught they were on the options list and iirc they were around £90+vat when new and available I didn't really see that many around back in the day
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Last Edit: Jan 7, 2018 18:49:46 GMT by fordperv
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When I used to be able to wander around my local scrapyard I recall quite a few bargains - it seemed like every few weeks someone would fit a new wing onto a Viva with a couple of tacks and then scrap the car. Got a couple like that, £5 each. I got a pair of Audi quattro front wings for a very reasonable price - car had been in a fire, wings had already been removed so I didn't even have to do that. Still got them, in case I ever give in to temptation and buy one. When I bought the new replacement Webasto roof when I restored the Firenza, they'd run out of sun visors so knocked £30 off. Next time I was at the yard, I found an MGB GT with the same roof, bought the whole thing including the visor for £20.
On the other side of the coin, I once spent ages removing the ZF gearbox from a CF van thinking I'd fit it into the Firenza (I had an 1800 then, with four-speed box). It wasn't until I'd spent hours getting the box almost out that I noticed the plate on the side that gives the gear ratios, which clearly showed it was a four-speed box. Not only that, even if it had been a five-speed, I didn't know at the time that the CF box doesn't fit in the cars - the gear lever is much too far forward, the ratios are all wrong and the output is wrong as well.
It's a pity in a way that they've now gone over to removing parts and not allowing access to the yard - there were times when I'd go to look for something, not find it, but find something on a different model or make that would do the job. That can't happen there now, sadly.
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HB Viva GT bonnet & grille for £25 from Albert Looms.  |
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Me and my brother had a full xr2 mk1 interior for £80 back in 96 from LC Hughes in Bicester . Really do not get any bargains around Oxfordshire especially there . You would have the manager quote you a reasonable price and then the owner would overhear , a chain smoking Bernie Eccelestone rayban wearing alike and he would triple it , miserable sod.
I see they sell things on ebay know and want about twice what you think might be reasonable and then more .
Did try to buy some 18" gold speedline alloys from Smiths of bloxham near banbury but they would nt sell them , they had to be scrapped as they were from Mr Mcraes impreza at prodrive.
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found an x german army bus in a plumbers yard , the mans son bought it stripped it ,left it , i heard about it ,i asked if it was for sale . he laughed , and said that ole thing what would ye do with it .restore it i said he just laughed , give me £150 take it away for me .i couldnt belive my luck , then he said what about all these bits in the shed .what bits , every new panel including new doors you could think of , new window rubbers and interior plus complete engine ,i asked much for them ,to which he said thems your mucker not mine i just want me shed back .lol
16 weeks later i had it done
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Once bought something from a scrap yard many years ago and it was no good so went back and explained this to the bloke who just fobbed me off so I went back that night and got myself a free Recaro interior, job done.well I say free he wouldn’t give me my £175 pounds back.
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scored a haul of bits for the mrs' bongo from our local yard a few years back. loads of bits of odd interior trims , centre consol , tailgate panel , door window deflectors , window/blind switches , headlights & grille , t.p.s , a full length stainless interior grab handle , plus loads of other odds 'n' sods..... all for a tenner , I do like a bargain!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating
'80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip
'97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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When I had my Mini about 20 years ago, me & a mate built a custom dash for it. I was snooping around Paper Mill Lane scrappy near Ipswich and saw an old single decker bus. Picked up one of the "Push Once" buttons and got it for a quid. That served as my new starter button!
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ll that a DONOR vehicle lol
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dazcapri
North East
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I had a mk2 Transit county and heard about a lwb van in the local scrappy luckily the owner wasn't in. I asked how much to take a few panels his dad said if you jump start my truck you can strip it for £60 and that's exactly what I did it was completely stripped when I left
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Mk3 Capri LS
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markm3
Part of things
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I bagged some e36 electric rear quarter pop outs ( pretty rare and £200+ on eBay when they come on) for £20 including switches/loom.
E36 xbrace from convertible for £5 for my coupe.
309 goodwood full leather interior for £50.
Complete and original J reg 205 gti which unfortunately I've just had to part with!
Also been stung a fair few times so it all balances out
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92 miami 205 gti6 / 1994 m3 coupe a/c extras/coilovers/carbon csl boot
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düdo
Part of things
wide as house
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Probably the steel sun visor for the Landcruiser. I'd visited or phoned probably forty scrapyards over a long period on the road. It was like that old Yellow Pages ad - that bloke endlessly asking : Do you have Fly Fishing by J.R Hartley? Til on the thousandth time he found one : Oh, you do?
I eventually found one in a yard out in the western suburbs of Sydney. Still chuffed with it.
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