kevfromwales
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well, where to start with this one a few years ago I took a trip out to a nearby breakers yard - david kelly car dismantlers of legacy, rhosllanerchugog (near wrexham) - he's a jag breaker in the main, but he always has heaps of old toot lying about now, at the moment I'm trying to get my nissan laurel C32 back on the road, but with a slam and some 'non too subtle' mods - only problem is slamming a laurel is tricky due to the lack of coils on the front. So, while at the ace for the awards night, I remembered to ask will (datman) if he had any c32 front struts - he didn't, but he revealed that S12 silvia struts would go on - now, where had I last seen a silvia....  coming back from area 52 the following weekend I popped in, and the silvia was still there, and it's struts were still on, so I arranged to pop back when I had more time fast forward a week or so, and my old man reminded me that dean in wrexham had some transfer boxes for him, so off we went on a mini tat mission I took some pictures last time, and they seemed to go down well, so here's another batch  the object of the mornings operations, a slightly crusty S12 - turbo already gone sadly  here's the bits I was after, struts, complete with TCA's and brakes, as it was too cold to be messing about completely stripping it   sorted! - note the ice on the strut bodies, and also the huge sheet of lexan we found under the boot carpet while looking for the nissan toolkit also notice the pop rear window - I found this in the undergrowth while having a pee, and found myself piddling on the almost totally overgrown (and borked) shell of a ford pop! |
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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kevfromwales
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after digging all that tat off the nissan, it was time to commence the other part of the tat mission, finding a wiper arm for jrevilug - as some traveller twunt had corkscrewed his while he was parked in a street by area 52 - luckily it was shared with a rover p6, and guess what there was round the corner  no, not the HC estate - under it  I sent pops in to get that off, as tbh I didn't fancy a 'viva-hat' next thing was a trailer I'd seen which seemed to have 16" austin devon wheels on it - which as you should know by now are ford pattern, and very handy things to have  unfortunately to say that it was buried was an understatement, so after 15 mins of lifting stupidly heavy things off it, we gave up - ever lifted a whole jag IRS and crossmember? - I have!! so, I grabbed the camera, and set off on a quick yard tour before we headed home |
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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kevfromwales
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the conrod's REALLY out the block now!
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you want moar crusty tat?? - we have moar crusty tat for you!  |
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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VWPowered
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XJ6 Coupe omgz
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81 Bedford CF 2.3D Cavalier Coachman Stratus
86 Volkswagen Polo Mk2 1.6 8v
87 Austin Montego 1.6HL 'Daily'
91 Rover Montego 2.0TD Countryman Estate
93 Rover Montego 2.0LXi Estate
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Raoul Duke
Part of things
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kev's scrapyard frolicsRaoul Duke
@raoulduke
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Thanks for that........ I now have a deeply unnatural lust for an Astramax popemobile a la that blue one in the foreground.   |
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...a redder shade of neck on a whiter shade of trash...
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dungbug
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'Ooligan!
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Past: 13 VW Beetles from 1967 - 1974
Bay Window Campers (1973 & 1974)
Mini's (1992 Cooper lookalike & 1984 '25 Anniversary)
MK2 Polo Coupe S (1984 & 1986)
MK2 Polo Breadvan (1981 & 1984)
MK4 Escort (1989)
MK2 Granada Based Hearse (seriously)
Fiat Uno 60S (1986) Punto 60S (1998) Cinq (1997)
1998 Yamaha YZF600R Thundercat
2003 Ford KA
Current: 2004 Ford Focus (barely alive)
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kevfromwales
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hang on, we aren't even half way yet and my pc has just spaffed it's load - fingers crossed wanky old photobucket won't cause the same problem twice or I'll have to kick my pc down the street!! the jag above looked like the forklift had found a weakspot in the A pillars somewhat...  random yard shot  robinxr4i spec omega - potential drifftorz project   fatha kev considers the mk2 golf  but then thinks he's struck the SU carb goldmine with a maestro van - sadly not   tyred looking MGB (groan)  landy may possibly have been the yard mule the last time I went in  moar coming!! |
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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kevfromwales
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the conrod's REALLY out the block now!
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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kevfromwales
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 panda by the boundary fence, in front of a very wrecked hunter variant, which I had the (dis) pleasure of removing the pedalbox from a while back |
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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And they allow you to take pics? the one i go they get funny and have a moan at me lol esp if they turn up on here
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www.dicedustcaps.co.uk1992 polo breadvan 1988 polo breadvan 1986 Mk1 caddy 1989 Mk1 caddy 1999 Passat estate 1982 Mk1 Golf Cabby
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Kev, if photo bucket is causing issues, try imgur: www.imgur.com Bootiful yard, that auntie rover gives me an idea for some hotrod style roofchopped wondermobile, wonder how long it'll be before scrapyards are a rare sight. |
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kevfromwales
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the guy is a classic buff himself, think the yards been in craptical plastics years ago too I'm getting royally hacked off with p/bucket and or my pc, which keeps freezing and crashing - but we shall prevail, even if it takes all night - which it may!  one for the autoshite massive - restecp yo!!  complete niva was not available for breaking - dave wants to sell complete for 350 beans if anyone's tempted - shame as I wanted the locking rear diff   pre 68 is coming?? ;D  ovlov wagon also looked tidy, and may have been saveable - forgot to ask |
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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Really nice yard. I wish I knew about similar places closer to me... It's like a true gold mine!
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kevfromwales
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 cool 15" compomotives on this jag - must resist buying more wheels!! |
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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kevfromwales
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 hmmm, you know I was after a scimitar....  yes, we have a n/s/r door for a series 1 allegro, I think it's just past the 4th tree on the left... |
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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kevfromwales
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 lastly for tonight, a pair of mk2 trannys for fred, and a CF iirc |
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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Kev, next time yr down our way visiting Ginty's - chuck these coords into google:
53.088899 -2.180745
Yummy cheap old scrap - turnover about 10 years.
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'83 GTM Coupe. 4A-GE Powered
'00 GTM Libra Auto. Ick.
'71 Detomaso Pantera. Current Resto
'89 GMC Safari Tow/Kip bus
'05 SAAB 9-3 Daily
'71 Siva Moonbug. Not even contemplating resto yet.
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kevfromwales
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thanks pantera, I'll check that out - need to get down to mcginto's too, not been for a while
I'll finish tagging these piccys, then try to upload the rest toorrow - stay tuned chaps!!
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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skinnylew
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crikey Kev that green car in the background looks like a Renault 17  not many of them around and that one looks surprisingly intact, i would have expected the tin worm to be up to the trim line by now  |
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rtlkyuubi
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Low and Slow
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is that a sierra I spot? ;D if so would you mind looking to see if its a twink on injection the next time your down? I need a spare inlet mani to chop up ;D |
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not many of them around and that one looks surprisingly intact, i would have expected the tin worm to be up to the trim line by now 
Ax GTi Turbo
