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The Ultimate Breakers Yard

Post by Kevin »

Just a little TLC required :o
Number 127 looks famiiar

http://foto.blick.ch/album/CID-u0003196-147/
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Post by rayofleamington »

Wow! that's an awesome collection of scrap!
I'm jealous.

However as a scrap yard - I don't think it's the ultimate as they don't seem to sell much.
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Post by rob.hardy1 »

WOW,,,,,,, What a collection of pictures. Do you know the story behind the owner of the album?
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Post by Matt »

Pic 88 - A morris oxford :o
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Post by Onne »

What is photo 248? It looks BMCish
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Post by moggyminor16 »

would love to go there looks like all taped up is it the chez were plz tell me and my car transporter wanna go shore i could bring back all them cars one by one if they make it out the ground that is
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Post by FrankM83 »

That's a Morris Cowley van , very rare and looks still solid!

that's an impresive colleciton would love to read the history of every car!

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Post by Cam »

WOW! :o

The old storage problem. :( What a shame. Looks like most are completely knackered and trying to rot back into mother earth. :lol:

Some really nice cars there, shame they will never turn a wheel again. :(
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Post by iandromiskin »

:o Oh my god !!!! I didn't know whether to jump up and down in excitement or cry. Where is that place, its amazing. Is it a breakers yard ? Just looks like an eccentrics private collection almost.

What are the odd markings on the door of the Morris Van (248) does anyone know ?
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Gertie, 1962 Saloon, Milly, 1969 Traveller (ex APL 971H) and now KAS 1958 4 Door Saloon.
[img]http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t28/iandromiskin/DSC_0051-1.jpg[/img][img]http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t28/iandromiskin/Picture112.jpg[/img][img]http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t28/iandromiskin/Picture366.jpg[/img]

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Post by iandromiskin »

Now this is just weird. Same website, somewhere.

http://www.kameraarbeiten.ch/galerie_autofr_1.htm
Gertie, 1962 Saloon, Milly, 1969 Traveller (ex APL 971H) and now KAS 1958 4 Door Saloon.
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Post by iandromiskin »

Its in Switzerland. Go to Google Earth and type in Kaufdorf and its lower right. Think I may have seen this on here earlier, though that could easily have been a different scrap yard in the UK.

http://map.search.ch/3126-kaufdorf/moosstr.46
Gertie, 1962 Saloon, Milly, 1969 Traveller (ex APL 971H) and now KAS 1958 4 Door Saloon.
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Post by iandromiskin »

Are these Minors too ?

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And this ? Looks like one, but not sure.

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Same place, but different photographer.
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Post by Dean »

iandromiskin wrote:Are these Minors too ?

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I think the nearest one is a Vauxhall Velox, similar to the one below maybe?

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Post by polo2k »

iirc I read about this place in practical classics (the one with the soda derusting how to in it) and It was a private collection and the local government want it shut down but the local enviromentalists want it to be left alone as a nature reserve!!!
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Post by rayofleamington »

the local enviromentalists want it to be left alone
Crikey! Over here the Environment(al) agency would have shut it down and locked up the owner decades ago!
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Post by Luxobarge »

polo2k wrote:iirc I read about this place in practical classics (the one with the soda derusting how to in it) and It was a private collection and the local government want it shut down but the local enviromentalists want it to be left alone as a nature reserve!!!
Correct, that's the same place as in PC mag.

Great! :D
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