British car treasure trove found!

I've been through something similar recently, with the added stress of time pressure on top of it. And honestly? Dealing with people is a nightmare, and going through all that stuff takes time, energy, and much more mental space than you'd initially expect. You could ebay or autojumble it, but autojumble season's passed now.
Selling as much as possible as a job lot makes the most sense, and scrapping stuff does as well. Christ, one of the things that I sent to the scrap was a 1962 JCB, which will have loads of folk weeping, but those folks never put their hands in their pockets, soooo...

Fairly limited market/not particularly high value parts, and difficult access means you’d be lucky to get someone to come clear it at all. Realistically even scrap value would be good going, as there’s a lot of work removing that lot then making it sellable.

This.

If they want to get some money back, the best way would be to list items on eBay - probably an auction for the complete car and 'buy it now' for the other items (as these will be slow sellers but will slowly sell one by one over the course of months). 

Fixed that for you.

Even if you do manage to find another person who thinks it's treasure, they will want to pay what it was worth to them about forty years ago, probably using the same banknotes they put aside for the purpose...

I would cherry pick as much as possible, stick it in a van, take it to an auto jumble, get best prices early in the day, then sell cheap, then everything a fiver, everything £2, then everything a quid, then just whatever you want for a quid. Then everything free. Anything that’s left just weigh it in.

Good way to get rid of everything and make a bit of cash.

It really is a nightmare - My Granddad died last April, and we are still sorting through all his stuff in a similar vein.  There is stuff we want to keep, stuff that belongs to some of the vehicles that are there, stuff that was bought for those vehicles but doesnt belong to them (of you see what I mean), NOS stuff from when he was a VW main dealer, stuff that even having messed with VWs for knocking on 30 years I don't know what it is etc etc etc.

We've been going at it fairly steadily for over 18 months, and its still full of stuff!  Luckily neither me or my brother are desperate to sell any of it instantly, so have the luxury of time to sort it, but even so, its getting on for 2 years since he died and sometimes it feels like the pile isnt getting any smaller!

Even with 'desirable' VW stuff, and trying to sell it for reasonable prices without scene tax so it goes quickly, its an absolute ballache dealing with (some) people, people who don't turn up, people who argue the toss, people who want stuff posting out even though you have said you cant etc etc etc.

If it wasnt my Granddads stuff, and if we werent 'interested' and if we werent trying to work out what projects etc we want to keep, from a purely monetary point of view, it just isnt worth it.  I'm not especially hugely paid, and I would be way better off doing a day at work than sorting through, taking pictures, listing for sale even the more valuable stuff to be honest 90% of the time.

I would say if you are going to do it, do it because you are interested in the stuff, because you want to help out fellow enthusiasts, because you want to avoid stuff getting junked or whatever other reason you want to - don't bother doing it for the 'money' because the odd very desirable thing/vehicle aside, its almost definitely not worth it!

 

In all honesty, that looks like a complete pain in the bum. Unless you’re getting paid for helping I would give it a wide berth.
 The property looks like it will have to go to auction, depending on who benefits from the sale will most likely decide if it's worth paying to clear it first or not.
 
 If the previous statements result in a we are going to sell stuff:
 Get a 8/10t skip and fill it with all the stuff that makes the most space quickly
 Bricks, you can always get rid of those quickly if they are free (done that before) 
 Clear a large dry space and sort parts as moving them to the newly created storage - list largest parts for sale now.
 Get another skip and clear more stuff (repeat until everything is cleared)
 Do a scrap run
 Get a scrap man to remove the Cav
 
 I have a good friend who is a builder so he get's me skips & I pay £200 per 8t skip (I have had more than 20 of those over 3 house renovations)
 At a guess, your going to need 5+ skips.
 
 Or
 
 Get a van, fill it with anything that looks like it has value & send the house to auction as is & let the developer worry about the rest.
 
Sorry if that sounds a bit blunt, but unless there is a sentimental reason to spend ages going through everything then the monetary value of doing it has to come first.
Remember every month the property is sat, someone will have bills to pay. You also have those lovely little vandals to consider.
Don’t even get me started on benefactors of deceased estates lol. 



 

Thanks for all the input guys - to clarify, I'm just trying to sort the car stuff for her. She's already scrapped lots of old Cav parts apparently (including 6 cars). She just doesn't know what she's looking at and doesn't want to be too out of pocket with it all considering the bills that need paying. She also feels bad scrapping classic car parts.

I reckon the stuff I could list on eBay includes:

Herald chassis

Bond Equip front end

Triumph Spitfire bonnet

Spitfire doors and glass

Sand blasted steelies

Pairs of seats

Body of panels

Then the rest could be car specific job lots as I know there's a lot of Herald and Spitfire parts.

Thanks for all the suggestions - tricky situation!