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Lots of content from the scrap yard and breakers yard over the years plus I have written two books. One of autobiographical short stories about growing up in a rural south midlands suburb during the late seventies and eighties. The other about my life as a scrap metal dealer and vehicle dismantler. Some sections of which i wanted to feature in video format together with photos. All sorts of daft exploits. My Facebook page is also there for you to see extra content. m. profile.php/?id=61555181714536
Bedford TK troubles
Story from my autobiography " I wouldn't value it at that" about my time as a scrap metal dealer in the 1990s. This time i take in a long journey in the Bedford TK
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Cortina mk2 crashes the ash
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1990's scrap metal dealer stories again. This time i get inexplicably involved in a street fight with an ancient Cortina, an ashtray and a group of cow men. More from my autobiography "I wouldn't value it at that"
Ford Transit mk2 recovery truck
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In this story i purchase an elderly mk2 ford transit and find myself in various scrapes again. More from my autobiography "I wouldn't value it at that" from my time as a scrap metal dealer in the 1990s.
Ford A Series goes back in time
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Just before it's demise i take the old Ford to a small holding that was a true window to the past.
Motorcycle breaker on tour
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In this story from my autobiography from being a scrap metal dealer in the 1990s, i get roped into collecting some old motorbike spares only to then encounter West Mercia constabulary, again!
Ford cortina mk2 adventures
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Ford Cortina mk2 ownership stories from my autobiography "I wouldn't value it at that" More scrap metal dealer madness from the 1990s. This time i move out of my parents house and join the yfc too.
Ford Thames Trader.
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Farmer one cow has a clear out! Further stories from my autobiography of being a scrap metal dealer in the 1990s. Here i go and spend a summer clearing two farms of cars, lorries and junk in 1995.
Ford d series gives a piggy back.
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Autobiographical short story from my book "I wouldn't value it at that" about my exploits as a scrap metal dealer in the 1990s. This time i clear some lorries from an engineering workshops yard, getting into the usual daft scrapes.
Yamaha DT50mx gets a tune up
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Motorcycle interventions from my autobiography "I wouldn't value it at that" This time a help out a mate who is a bit under powered with the usual daft outcomes. More 1990s scrap metal dealer stories.
Ford A series recovery truck
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Carrying on the series of stories from my autobiography "I wouldn't value it at that". This time i decide a small recovery lorry would be a handy addition to the fleet.
Mini Mayfair blind date
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More from my autobiography "I wouldn't value it at that". This time a chance reading of a magazine leads to all sorts of daft situations. 1990s nostalgia from a scrap metal dealer.
Scrap yard nusance in a Lancia Delta
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Story from my autobiography of life as a scrap metal dealer in the 1990s. This time i get plagued by a local and end up in several scrapes.
Bedford TK gets demobbed
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Another offering from my autobiography of being a scrap metal dealer in the 1990s. This time i go crazy and get a "new" truck with all the usual daftness of viewing others first.
Fiat 127 on three wheels
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Recommended for a scrap clearance job things get complicated quite fast! Another story from my autobiography "I wouldn't value it at that"
Scrap dealer gets side tracked
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In this part from my autobiography "I wouldn't value it at that" I get completely side tracked by the promise of fast (!) money during the harvest but that notion quickly comes unstuck. More early 90s daftness with ancient vehicles and questionable characters.
Scrap yard van. Death of a Bedford HA
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Scrap yard van. Death of a Bedford HA
Scrap yard Morris Marina v Porsche 911
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Scrap yard Morris Marina v Porsche 911
Scrap yard Buccaneer twin axle caravan.
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Scrap yard Buccaneer twin axle caravan.
These stories are fantastic !, just found them and I can’t get enough !. Keep em coming, fella.
Bedford trucks are brilliant. We had TK cattle trucks. They are very reliable. The Tl is als a good bit of kit. I always wanted the big TM but never got round to getting one. Something i still regret! Interesting video thanks.
Evening. Cheers for taking a look at my video.
8.5 down to 7 stone dam that's light for a manual working chap
You can see from the last couple of photo's how thin i got, foolish really but was back working as soon as i could.
nearly missed this one,first ransid we got after the d series was a mk 3 with a body on but not fastened down,we didn't know this at time of purchase of course because everything looked fine,well to cut a long story short it did us proud with just like yours a di,we did have to fit a new headgasket in once and i straightened the rockers on a girder and it carried on another 2 years till it started breaking its back behind the cab,we parked it up and sold it to a bloke called spitting sid who said he was going to make it strong and use it ,next thing we heard was he had gone straight down to sheffield tax office taxed it as a recovery for £75 for the year so mot exempt and went off to pick a granada up,we heard it broke it back on its maiden voyage in his keep. Oh well coastguards problem then wasn't it not ours,sold as seen you seen it we sold it
Not a light car to put onboard, the old Granada. No wonder it finished it off!
thanks for the story, this is a story from my father, back in the early 2000s; he had a 1964 land rover series 2a short wheel base which he was modifying for off-roading. he was filling it up with diesel at tesco, there was a teenage in front of him putting petrol in a new bmw m5. the teenage did that & got back in, accidently putting it in reverse so the back of it slammed in to the front of the landy making the bmw a write off, the boy gets out & started yelling at my dad when the shop clerk came out & said "it's on the cameras". so the boy was in trouble because the bmw was his dad's car. so my dad called up the insurance company they asked him "what needs to be replaced ?" my dad said "he just knocked off more paint then i do in a month".
a barman?? sounds a recipe for disaster🤣🤣
For certain! All will be revealed next video :)
worst my cappers ever did was I would kick the cills of a car I had just welded up to show the customer how strong the car was again😂
I was always finding myself in these daft situations purely by accident!
Yep been there 😂😂
Would never believe i actually used to try and just keep my head down!
thanks for the story, i love your channel because it's like my dad's stories from the years he's been a live
Thank you for taking a look. Means a lot.
@@ColinWeaver-rs1yx you're welcome
You never disappoint allwaws wanted a late mk2 with Di first transit was mk4 all ways been a sherpa man had 90 odd out of 200 series perkins with pump wound out 😂❤🤠🛠️⚓️JB
I once had a mk2 Ford Granada with a 2.5 diesel in it and that was a pretty lively car, for a non turbo diesel
@@ColinWeaver-rs1yx so did i it was a 2.1 pug lump amimed at the cabbys vinal seats so you could wipe up the puke 🤢😂😂😂🤠
Beautiful job, thanks for sharing 👍
I am heartened to have stumbled across your channel. I and numerous friends had very similar experiences and adventures with almost identical equipment 20 - 30 years ago. Unfortunately we didn’t have the foresight to capture the images for the future, so a big thank you for awakening memories and bringing a smile.
Hello. Thank you for taking time to have a look at my videos, it's always appreciated. Your kind words mean a lot. I hoped i wasn't the only one to remember these days fondly. Take care
The A series, like a Transit on steroids. My dad knew someone with a recovery. Must of cost a bit to run, had the V6 petrol engine.
@@mervynsowman51 One of the garages I used to collect scrap cars from had a customer who ran an A series horse box and they did the 6 week "O" licence inspections for. Was a pillar box red colour with immaculate timber box. Often wonder what became of that truck. Was a V6 too.
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My a series woud only start if the bonnet was up against the house with 24 volt shoved up the starter and copious amount of start ya bastard (easy start ) to the rest of us 😂😂😂😂❤🤠JB
I think the word to describe em was recalcitrant!
@@user-sc8dh4vn4v you should have had the v6 petrol like mine,it loved petrol stations ,started on the button every time😀
I think you pretty much nail what it was like when you describe the big mad rush to turn barns into homes,i personally have yet to see one i would want to live in ,people don't have stories to tell now unless you are in a pub and lucky enough to get a conversation going,
Very rare to find anyone who has time to stand and chat now. Used to hear some hilarious stories whilst waiting in the queue to tip at the scrap yards.
That must have been an expensive van in its day when was it made 80s ish?
@@TheRustylungs good morning. Yes early to mid eighties. Lord knows what something of that quality would cost today if it were still made!
Fascinating, some of them old farms. We had a few country lads come in with tales like this one, and tons of rusty old iron.
That is the side of the job i miss the most, going off through someone's gates with no idea what will be lurking in a shed or under a hedge!
I wonder if the Blue A series at the video start is (was) the same one at Transitmania a couple of years ago???
@@douglasvick9703 good morning. I genuinely don't know 🤔
You never fail to make me 😂 ole mate igot clobberd by same traffick warden twice in one month wrong tax disc 😱😱🤠🛠️⚓️JB
In a weird twist that life throws up, i can drive around in cars without mot or tax that thirty years ago they would have nicked me in! Coppers actually wave if they see you in the battered to hell Vauxhall victor fe!
I used to hate trying to get a free months road tax by letting it run out between months as i was often driving through different counties but this was more the 80's
Been laughing along with your video's, taking me back to when i was 16 in1 982 and on the road with a knackered fs1e, i had to bump start as the kick start splines were shot. Are you still in the scrap business ?
Ello. I remember a little FS1E that i thought it was a good idea to paint the tank white and stencil in an ace of spades design. I was mad on the band "Motorhead" at the time. Very ill advised as it looked hideous. My mate's Dad grounded him from riding his bike by confiscating the gear lever. This didn't work as he rode around changing gear with a pair of mole grips! Take care.
Great story telling and added pics. Who didnt piss off on the first motorized thing they could get their hands on. I was 14 in '66, mum had a Honda 90 Stepthru. When she was at work I would dress up like a granny with a big scarf to hide my hairless chin and ride the thing for hours as far as I could get on .20c worth of petrol. Buying fuel in a country town was weird as they had never seen a Honda yet.When I was discovered, dad hid the key, so I learned how to hotwire it. Then when that came unstuck dad locked the shed so I had to figure out how to unbolt the whole lock off the shed door for even more riding. Finally got stopped when I punched a hole in the crankcase riding it thru a paddock. Dad had an old leather razor strop and I was persuaded after said application but I still have that urge to ride as I had back then as a young teeenager. Had bikes since I was 16.Cheers
@@romandybala thank you for having a watch of my videos 😀 everyone should have at least ridden a Honda C50/70/90 at some point in their life. If not, they have missed out I reckon. So much 😊. Take care.
You should have got a van,much more discreet and brilliant for getting mates into the usual banger racing and stock car meets cheaper as they laid down in the backn under my blankets😂
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Brillent i used do the same in a sherpa 🤠🛠️⚓️JB
One of the lads had a white Mk2 escort van he painted the rear out in a dreadful purple colour, put old caravan curtains across behind the seats and blacked out the back door glasses. Carpet inside and an old sleeping bag. Thing was so rotten though. he tried rebuilding the ns rear arch in fibre glass but got the angle of the curve a bit wrong! Looked well weird!
Another great story. Keep 'em coming.
Thank you for taking a look 👍
6:39 We once got the job of removing a fiat estate from an attached house garage in the early 90's,on opening the garage doors the fiat looked mint in its factory brown,we managed to get air in all its tyres with one of those plunger pumps that came with a new lada,anyway we pulled it out and thought jobs a good un a new ticket and we can sell this once we get it running,only problem was our winch was a big old manual one mounted on our petrol A series and our ramps were a ladder type which made winching hard I got under the car and put the howser round the crossmember and attached the winch wire and started winching,the howser cut through the crossmember like a piece of wire through cheese so that was quickly abandoned We did get the car on,i can't remember how but for a 7 year old dcar its was the rottenest thing i had ever seen underneath Looked round it for things to remove to sell and the best thing on it was a brand new 175x14 remould in the boot so we kept that and took the car straight to the bridge I knew at the time a 175x14 tyre especially a kingpin remouĺd was basically useless in the 1990's as only an austin 1800? Used them and so was the case because 2 years later it was still sat in the corner of the unit brand new looking, but neglected
Fiat Strada was another that rotted like that, dreadful. I found some rear light lens off of one in the shed a few months back and flogged them on Ebay. Amazed someone had found a non rotten one to require the parts! Take care.
Brilliant ,unique
Evening. Many thanks for taking a look and for your kind words.
Love it
Thank you. Going to try and get at least one video a week out over the summer if i can.
You remind me of my dad and the good times gone by when I was a boy so thank you for your great stories it brings back the good times for me.
@TheProdigy1982 Good morning. That is very kind of you to say, my friend. Take care 👍Please don't forget to take part in the channel t shirt design vote if you have yet to.
I had an '81 BMW 735i Mk1 facelift, bought it from a Turk (I know, lol) so it had probably been down to Istanbul a good few times. Lowered suspension and fat alloys, but still drove like a dream. I remember driving on the autobahn in a snow blizzard, in the rush hour, steady 100 clicks nose to tail... never felt so safe in my life, lol. Amazing experience. That red Passat (mk3?), I love them. I think they will be a future classic, especially in a nice metallic... a bit like the NSU Ro80. Gorgeous designs.
I have always liked German cars as workhorses. Had a Mercedes 190e that i will talk about later in the book but was very pleased with that one.
I bought a Marina van from some Gypsies (don't ask me why) and the windscreen shattered on the way home, lol. I reckon it must have been bent out of shape in a crash. So I drove it to work the next day, with no screen, I took a screen from a scrapper that came in, and fitted it after work. The soft lad who volunteered to help me (unasked), then reversed the van into a reinforced concrete wall in the car park, while I was up in the changing room taking a shower. Upon inspection of the damage, it seems he had dislodged a half hundredweight of filler from the nearside rear corner. The following week, after doing a masterful job of backfilling and painting, I noticed that the gear lever was all over the place and was a bit tricky in selecting the right gear, so rather than mess around, I just whipped a complete engine and gearbox out of another scrapper at work and swapped them over. After that I had a few good months out of it, albeit involving several run-ins with the law; (what is it with driving around in beaten up old vans late at night that attracts the plod?) the last of which resulted in me having to hand my licence back in for a bit. Apart from that, it was a lucky old van!
Good morning. Thank you for sharing that story. One of my old friends whom i sold a 1973 Marina van to in the late 90s still has it, albeit in out in the field condition now. Got many years out of it though. Not bad for a £60 scrappy purchase :) Take care.
@@ColinWeaver-rs1yx They are good motors. Mine was in British Racing Green (or thereabouts) and I fitted a grille from a TC and found a set of Rostyle wheels and fat tyres for it. Perks of the job ;) Cheers!
I will add a photo to the community section of myself with a coupe i owned complete with a very suspicious moustache at the time! BTW have you voted yet on the poll i have popped up on there? Cheers
I'm laughing as you recall your escapades. It reminds me of my own antics back in the 80s. You can't get away with anything like this now, keep the videos coming.
Evening. Thank you for taking time to have a look. That they make you smile means a lot. All the best.
Brilliant reminds me of my own cunning plans I used to get upto in the early 2000s. Can’t get away with half the stuff anymore. I remember needing to take a lorry into London that I’d sold and been paid to deliver no MOT so I went down to garret gree Dvla office and registered it as a recovery vehicle to tax it and run it into the back of portabello road. Can’t get away with that these days.
Good evening. Cheers for watching the video. Was a great way around things back then. Just fitting an ancient Harvey Frost to a vehicle got things sorted. Take care.
@@ColinWeaver-rs1yx I had an old Land Rover series 2a v8 with An Harvey frost on shed do about 9mpg with a car on the back. Great days. Take care
Our d series recovery kept failing the brake test on oval rear drums so we too decided to exempt it and put it on recovery tax at £75 a year i think,anyway a nice little mk3 ransid recovery turned up so we decided to sell the d so advertised it on autotrader for £500,we soon had a buyer and he told us it was off to africa ,soon after we found out the warn winch we let go with it that i had reconditioned with mini starter solenoids was worth more than £500 on its own Oh well life is a learning curve
I did something similar. Later on in the stories i will tell of an Iveco 55-10 lorry i had. That was fitted with a Ramsey electric winch which was pretty good. I foolishly sold the truck complete with the winch for less than the winch was really worth on it's own. As you say, we learn. Best winch i ever had i still have and that is a Pearce hydraulic one fitted to a tilt and slide body. In 20 years i never found any car or small commercial it would not drag. Biggest thing i ever loaded with it was a Belarus 4x4 tractor with flat tyres.
Lovely old job mind me tash 🤠🔧⚓ JB
Thank you.
Where you from in the UK?
Evening. My accent probably gives me away but Gloucestershire/Herefordshire border. Yourself?
first bike was DT 50 MX TSG691Y Black . and yes tried every thing , bigger sprocket , fresco pipe , 60cc kit etc ....... it did 50mph confirmed ( just ) great times .
Afternoon. Cheers for watching the video. Great feeling tinkering with your bike and it actually eeking out an extra few mph. One finger up to the authorities too :)
@@ColinWeaver-rs1yx true story , when i got the bike i thought it had an expansion chamber !!!! i was well pleased , turned out the chain was so slack it was hitting the swinging arm accelerating and slowing down .... the innocents of yoof 🤣😂
Short but sweet my frend had a lad years ago that ran his moblet moped on tvo tank ont the back with change over valve clock read 40 flat out i reckon it did 50 new piston every two weeks 🤠🔧⚓ JB
I read Guy Martin's autobiography and he reckons his first moped, a Kawasaki AR50 that he heavily modified, would go through pistons and bottom ends at ridiculous rates. He could make them last if not full throttle but got bored quickly so kept screaming them to death!
I had one with a box, I thought they were the bees but they were not, I bought a new Tranny in 74 with a Luton and found a trailer same size as the van body, earned a lot of money with it and sold it close to what I paid.
Good evening. The best A series i ever came across was one with a V6 3 litre in it. Guy who owned it had built a very smart timber horsebox body. Being the petrol engine it was thirsty but very reliable.
Great video my friend haven't seen an A series in years ❤
Ahh brilliant. Thanks for taking time to watch my video.
i also had an A series beaver in the 80s, rotten 1975 model, it was never without a fault it permanently had 5 cylinders [no4 inlet valve burnt, popping away all day], constantly died due to air in fuel, worst example, came home from london to newcastle at 23mph, and the best one, the front wheel-bearing collapsed and the front wheel/drum rolled down the road, flattening a chelsea pensioner on armistace day... and a tirfor hand winch to boot...
Hello there. Cheers for watching. My own experiences with the 6 cylinder York versions were not positive either. There is a story coming later on in the series about a tipper i was given(!) by a builder if i just "Got the bloody thing out of my garden" as he put it! Say's it all really. Take care.
@@ColinWeaver-rs1yx as soon there a frost get the tin of start ya bastard's out 🤠🔧⚓ JB
I have a dear friend who was a fitter all of his working life. Worked for many years in one of the local quarries. He once told me that come autumn time, his gaffer would send him to the local chemists to buy ether in bulk as it was far cheaper than tins of easy start! They would then use it on all the Rustons! 91 he is now and still driving his Morris Minor.
What's your issue with Mark Fowler, then eh? Poor bastard died of HIV... 'ave some respect! No, the Ford A Series was a dog, I remember a few lads had them. The tranny was a winner, though.... strange that. D series was good as well, but it was always outshone by the TK. Good format, great content... you had me creased up!
Good morning. Poor old Mark Fowler. He never had much luck! Even before he was Mark Fowler, as Tucker in Tuckers luck. His motorbike got nicked and ridden into the canal. See link. czcams.com/video/J5RChYzbvBo/video.html A tenuous stretch for the photo in my video but i loved the series so allow me that :) The Transit's biggest asset was it's engines. Who can fault the 2L Pinto or the Di? Not me. Always thought Bedford missed a trick not making the TK cab tip where Ford did. Cheers for watching and glad to make you smile. Take care.
At least the plod turnout the days all you get now is a crime number 🤠⚓🔧 JB
Not much help that is it
I love your videos, especially how much time you spend putting the photos to match the commentary. You should have loads more viewers. Touchwood it will happen.
Bless you. Thank you. I do the pictures like a word/mind association thing from my head back to the time i am remembering from. Hopefully it makes the autobiography flow better. I am just pleased people like to listen/watch. It's meant to feel like i am just a fella you have bumped into in the back room of a country pub, talking about years ago whilst the fire blazes and the ale flows :) Take care.