Retro junkyards

[Bioshock]

Fascinating stuff,some real rarity's

www.icmesa.com/tinhunter/Houthalen/THAHouthalen.htm

[Nathan]

There is one of these field near me but the cars only date back to about 1980

[Snoozin]

Stay tuned for some junkyard photo's, as soon I'm going to a place called Horopito Wreckers, probably one of NZ's biggest yards, and full of stuff dating back to the 50's at least.... it featured in the film "Smash Palace" and also briefly in "Goodbye Pork Pie," a couple of NZ films you really should see if you can!

That site ^^^^^ is cool, I've looked through it several times, after I got linked to it after Google Image searching "Alfasud" and that sad photo of the rusty 4dr came up...

[Bioshock]

Always amazes me how cars like this end up in scrappers?
is it the often heard tale of "No its not for sale ,I plan to do it up"
Then 5,10,15 years down the line it ends up as an un economical to restore garden ornament ,until the missus says its got to go?
about 15 years ago my best mate was after a MKI Cortina,we had talked about this over many nights in the pub.lo and behold some bloke came up saying he had heard us talking about Cortinas and he had one in his garden.

usual tales followed about how it had been in the family for years and that it only had to go to someone who apprieciated it.
Cut a long story short,it was a shell with a medium sized apple tree growing out of where the windscreen used to be-fubar!
the mad thing was he wanted £300 for it,not a lot now granted,but fifteen years ago found out six months later it had gone to the scrappers-By the way it was a two door GT with less than 25,000 on the clock.head gasket had gone and it had sat in the buggers garden ever since,just rotting away...........



The weller type wheels probably say a lot about the owner