Exploring an abandoned scrapyard in Wales - Epic finds!
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- čas přidán 29. 04. 2022
- Rusting hulks in this scrapyard include a 1969 Datsun Cedric 130 Wagon, an AC Model 70 (Invacar), many Maxis and BMC 1100s, a Renault 4 van, several Renault 5s, a Datsun Violet 160J, Volvo 245 and 345, Renault Trafic, Ford Transit Mk2s, Range Rover 2-door, Rover SD1s and even a Leyland Titan bus!
The site has now been cleared - we were allowed special access before the scrap wagons arrived. There will be a future video exploring the Datsun Cedric.
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Who'd have thought that a Morris Ital van would be one of the most intact and recognisable vehicles there. Probably one of the last vehicles to enter the yard.
Now Derek from Vice Grip Garage would have driven most of those out of the brambles after a day's tinkering...Ian's ability to identify vehicles from a couple of rusty panels is truly incredible though.😊
And drive it 600 miles home 😂
When I got my driving licence in the late 80s, I used to drive to scrap yards in my area in Ireland and spend literally hours just walking round and sometimes sitting in the cars and inhaling the unique smells each car had. Probably wierd but I remember those days with a smile 😊
Are you a character in a JG Ballard book?
I remember being in a taxi in (IIRC) Singapore which was a Nissan Cedric. The taxi driver asked me whether we had them in the UK and when I told him we didn't expressed surprise - "But Cedric is an English name isn't it?"
That is perfect
I always imagine the naming committee sitting down to come up with a name that epitomised the product and would be immediately familiar and comfortable with the British market. “I know! We will call it the Cedric”! Much nodding and then a particularly good lunch arrived 😂
I would suspect that there’s a half decent board game to be had for the Hubnut store just from stills taken in that yard. Name that car! I suspect that Ian would win every game though.
16/5 22. Driver asked us in Honalulu if Stonehenge was ever meant to have a roof.
@@peterallam6494 the lead time on the rsj’s would have been significant. Perhaps they are still waiting on delivery!
You can see where they were coming from though! The driver I mean and not the rsj’s!
Amazing how long everything has been there and so overgrown!To be honest, if I had inherited the site,I wouldn't be in a hurry to clear it so quickly, I'd be in my element sorting through. So glad that ERF found a good home for restoration. 👍
And me! Saving and cleaning up the parts that are saleable!
Keep expecting to see Albert Steptoe come wandering out…….
The expression “as a pear” comes to mind!
I have memories when I was about 10 of finding "dumped cars" whenever we went on caravan holidays. Armed with a screwdriver I'd remove the switches and dashboard instruments, and take them home to put in my "den" in the loft, alongside the rear numberplates for dad's various cars that had been needed for the caravan. I had a Ford Anglia speedo, a "kneecapping arm" (solid metal casing that protruded from steering column, with tabs switches for indicators, lights, wipers) from a Ford *Consul* Corsair (ie the very early version), an ignition switch from a Mini (with the key code embossed on it, so dad bought a key for it. I even rigged up a Meccano motor to the speedo cable of the Anglia so the gauge would read about 80 mph! The best "car dump" was a narrow ravine in Wensleydale where local people took unwanted cars and pushed them over the edge - one farmer turned up with a tractor and trailer one which was the Mini from which I took the igntision switch. I also nicked a switch panel from an old fire engine that had been placed on an adventure playground at Thorp Arch trading estate (along with an old wooden galleon) which was somewhere for the kids to play while the parents were looking at new sofas etc.
These things survived a house move a few years later, but then languished in a shed and disappeared when my parents had a clearout.
D'you know, that's not a million miles from my childhood - except bits of cars also got put on my go-kart!
@@HowardLeVert When I was at school around that age, the cross-country run route went along a muddy unmade road past a car-breakers yard. I was itching to get out my magic screwdriver...
I used to go behind a local garage in the 70s which had a load of old probably mot failed cars I guess dating back to the late 40s and prize off badges with a screwdriver for my collection. Sacrilege looking back.
I remember going to scrapyards with my dad back in the late 70s, & climbing around the cars & removing bits like switches, interior lights, bulbs, badges etc & filling the big pockets of an old coat, as long as dad paid for the bigger items he wanted, no one bothered to check what other stuff you might have squirreled away in your pockets! The good old days, you'd never get away with doing that nowadays!
Can remember playing on that Fire Truck are Thorpe Arch when I was a child in the early 80s
Amazing Ian, especially for the children, loved exploring scrap yards before everything became off the shelf.
So much entertainment poking around old motors and parts-spotting. Great to poke around before it all goes.
Love the line "Something very big and very dead". Classic!
25 years ago there were still many junkyards like this one. I bought lots of cheap parts for my car back then.
I have never seen cars rusting this bad before and I live in a salt state. This is incredible.
I love this sort of place. To think, all those were new once and brought so much pride to their new owners, all the people they have carried and things they have witnessed. Brilliant :)
I never fail to be amazed at Mother Natures capacity to heal everything...Those brambles almost seem to be breaking up and digesting the cars here. Maybe they like the iron or something.
Mother nature claims everything back eventually...even us.
It's both interesting and sad to see how this cars and things just can be out in the nature. It is scrap. I have lovely memories of that Ford Sierra estate.
What a brilliant video. I was astounded by what you found. A definite HubNut adventure if ever there was one. I'm 63 now and can identify many, if not most, of the cars in there but your detailed knowledge just amazes me when you start identifying individual components like wings, doors, light etc. Thanks for sharing Ian. God bless you and the family.
One of my favorite types of Hubnut videos! Nothing better on a Saturday morning than playing a bit of Forza Horizon and watching Ian and the gang tromp their way through rotting automobilia!
Incredible site and I really hope plenty of bits were saved! You'd be hard pressed to find another 929 grille going spare
Thank you for posting this video, Ian. So important to document these cars and so sad all those parts may not end up in the hands of enthusiasts. Keep up the awesome work.
Your son seems to like trampling the brambles with you while mom stays to common path lol. 👍
Finally, the mythical indicator fluid has been discovered in the wild!
I always used to love exploring this kind of place when I was wee. Both in the sense of being tangibly connected to history, and the beauty of being in the moment to notice it; but also being oddly comforted by how readily nature will retake a space after a few decades. If we all disappeared one day, nature would get-on with things just fine. I bet these brambles are a brilliant environment for all sorts of insects and little rodents!
Also some of your attempts at identification from tiny husks of once-whole cars really reminded me of archaeology. I know you gave the car-chaeology pun at the start but, wow. What will future generations retain about all these kinds of vehicles and the ways of life around them? Will there ever be a day when all we know of British Leyland is one piece of one engine they made?
I always wondered what kind of practices would lead to finding one corner of a plant pot in a forest, or a giant pile of one kind of artefact. I guess ancient peoples did this kind of thing too! Those piles of windscreens look like exactly the kind of thing which often ended up buried, after those brambles grew and grew and mulched away...
I hope someone took that TV home, the picture tube looked pretty intact. Even if the non-tube electronics didn't work, it's often a very simple component which died.
Great to see the kids having fun, I'd have been in my absolute element when I was their age! (And maybe even so now)
Fiesta wheel at 2:14. I can thank my childhood obsession with cars for that knowledge.
In the early eighties I did some work in a steel stockholders in Essex and next to it was a wooded area that was had dozens of cars dating back to the twenties in it. All of them were completely beyond restoration with trees growing through the roofs and many just a set of spoked wheels and heavy castings etc. The latest cars were probably of the early fifties, several of them being Jaguars and Humbers and one Ford Pilot. All the others were rotted beyond recognition. I think the area has long since been cleared with housing now on it.
I’d have loved that transit nice little winter project ! and the welder would keep me warm in the garage 🤣
That's going to take some clearing.hope some parts are salvaged to keep others alive.
It's nice to see all these 70s and some 80s cars all fondly remembered from my childhood.
I could've spent at least a day wandering round those cars - very glad some have yielded useful spares for other projects
Great video,, sad it's all being cleared , that place would be my heaven.just an old house with a bit of land filled with junk for another day.
The fiat van video was the first one of your videos i watched...since then iv'e been hooked
My father had one of those little 850 Fiat buses many years ago, leaping lena he called it because as you are sat directly above the front axel you get bounced up and down. We also had an Ami Super estate with the flat four engine later as well.
As a kid in the 70's our gang would meet up Saturday morning and head to a local dump. We would explore for hours. old cars, boats and a multitude of other stuff. It was an adventure, a treasure hunt for us. In this day and age we would probably have to be disinfected and quarantined for fear of bringing home a disease. It was great to grow up in that time for me. There's something sad that as i see this, and remember back all this treasure you are exploring will be gone.
Fascinating but somehow terrifying to watch too... I remember cars from in the 1970s being as rusty as that in the 1970s.
Love the truck…. Just watched the London to Brighton vintage commercial vehicle go past my house… awesome 🤘😎🤘
You are the David Attenborough of motor vehicle archaeology without doubt. Great video as always.
lol - except he doesn't invent a story around the cars - DA now can't just show you lions, he has to make-up a story to go with the pictures
Perhaps more David Bellamy than Attenborough - in a good way.
Save the BLMC 1100!!!!
My friend's father died leaving a place similar to this - it took us 2 years to clear. He was a heavy engine technician who drove and repaired combine harvesters, tractors, lorries, and buses (and frequently drove buses abroad for foreign trips). A massive, unsorted scrapyard was part of the uniform. The number of CZcams "scrapyard exploration" videos suggests he was archetypal; sadly, modern regulations means such sites will never develop again - once they're gone, they're gone. Friend still has his dad's recovery vehicle, based on a Comma 2-stroke diesel tractor unit from a 60s petrol tanker, with a world war 2 heavy winch attached to the back.
Great video, Ian. That place reminds of a salvage yard that was in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Minakers' did not crush cars. They were kept until noting was left. Being there one day my brother bursts out laughing. There was a car shaped hole in a row of cars that had been there since the 1930s when the yard opened. The outline of the car was still there along with ONE part from the former resident. All that had been left behind was the head gasket from some sort of inline 6 cylinder. Unfortunately the County changed the laws and all of the yards were forced to close. That was a crying shame, as there was another yard where the proprietor collected multiple examples of the same model and year and combined parts as necessary to produce one or two perfect examples which he then sold. I was in hog heaven there.
Splendid explore. I found myself imagining these vehicles when they were new and shiny… somebody’s pride and joy. Now the’ end nearly been reclaimed by the earth. Thanks! Enjoyed this one.
Those bean tins were a Lancia that someone was silly enough to leave outside in drizzly weather.
That ERF is sublime. Good to know it's been saved.
And with a Gardner engine
Thanks for keeping the Car-key-ology word going!
Cannot help but think back to times when those cars would have been delivered brand new from the showroom to the customer. The families pride and joy, being washed and waxed at the weekends. Now, many decades later they show little, if anything of their former selves. Quite sad to see really, reminds me that I am not getting any younger, especially when I think back to my childhood in the 70's when a lot of those cars were out running the roads of the UK. Certainly a field of memories!
Same. My parents bought one of the first Maxis new. IIRC it was in my first year of secondary school.
So many pieces of glass to be saved surely? Unobtanium stuff! Really interesting these kind of finds......Why?? How did that happen! Excellent stuff and thanks for getting cut and scratched to share you guys.
Great video mate. Thanks from South Australia.
Well I think those old cars are beyond restoration. Enjoyed the video.
Happy memories of wandering round the wreckers with my dad looking for parts. If you had a yard like that in Australia, the cars would all be full of redbacks and you would be running away from the snakes.
You'd be brave to do that in Australia. Redbacks would be everywhere and of course...snakes!
Love scrapyards dont see many of them now
Another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍
Wow that place is so interesting, a true time capsule right there amongst nature❤️
Thanks for the wonderful video! Great fun walking around in a yard like this and I appreciate your effort to show us this. In eastern Canada the rust doesn't really take any prisoners but most of our British cars rotted out while still on the road from the salt we have to use in winter however once they are parked the process seems to slow down and we can still find good candidates to restore. In the UK I can't believe how your cars seem to totally disintegrate when they are put out to pasture.
Cheers!
Ive always popped down the road to here and use to have a chat with Mansel in the static caravan he was living in. I didnt realise he had passed away. When i went to go see him on saturday to get a few parts for my rover I was sad to hear of his passing. I was surprised to see a 19ton digger with a scrap grab on parked in the field and a patch of cars gone forever :(
From what i have been told there use to be over 10 acres if cars and mansel and his brother didnt buy any, alot of them were driven in when they werent wanted anymore, and if you went over to the 2 field hedge line there is a load of 1930s/40s cars but in a very sad state, use to be chrome grills sticking up out of the ground!
Very sad to see it go, so much useful parts gone to waste, but hopefully a friend will save the invalid car.
Carcheology. Love it.
Good to see the Hublets education being expanded into the appreciation of old junk! The mystery wheeltrim looked rather Rootes to me.
I used to have a speedometer out of a mini, was fascinated by it as a child, and still have some number plates from France! Scrapyards are amazing places!
Great day out and cool you had the chance to have a look and catch the remnants of these crusty old classics and diverse, other collected relics. Big farm too. Thank you, fun!
Loved to have looked through this pile
Always interesting to me me to be escorted around scrap yards where you have damp weather. I live in Arizona in there desert southwest of the US ! Those cars sitting her would be in same shape they were parked in. No plants would grow around them here. There would be no paint on them and all the plastics and upholstery would be gone , but we have no rust here ! Just to watch for snakes and spiders . Thanks for the walkabout Ian !
I really enjoyed that. Many memories of these cars and traipsing around scrap yards as a child. I hope some of the parts will be salvaged. These are the ones that weren’t saved making the survivors more valuable, not just in monetary terms.
I have drove a few Leyland Olympians that were Gardener powered. Incredibly reliable engines that served on the front line of service work for almost 30 years.
A great insight into the undergrowth life of old vehicles as they are reclaimed by nature (brambles). It's nice to remember some of the ordinary vehicles lurking in the undergrowth. My old dad had a Maxi 1750 but as a kid I wanted him to get a MK1 Granada but feeding and watering us three kids put a stop to that. There must be so many memories of those old cars and I do admit it's sad that we can't save them. At least some survive and like you I hope the Invacar get's an new chance at life. Many thanks for sharing Ian.
Did all kids hate their dads Maxi?
Happy Tetanus shots to you all. Nice one, liked it
Parts value wise, Their '' Was '' a lot of value. Great video Ian by the way, Love these scrapyard walkies
nice to see the family enjoying the day out
Thank you for getting last record of this - was a regular customer buying spares in the mid 2000's and loved the chap that ran it - he had the most wonderful soft Welsh accent, and knew everything he had put into the site - he had a lovely expression for them when they terminally crumbled and say they were 'going flat' as cars lost structural integrity. Under the 60's & 70's cars there were older vehicles that had already flat packed themselves over time. Oldest one I remember seeing was a Dodge American style truck late 30's early 40's(?) The Invacar was there as had been very badly damaged by fire at the back end. If you stood at the front of the bus and looked forward, the next field in that direction had more of the 90's cars in. The owner wouldn't part with some things he really loved as would avoid selling parts, and insist was a complete project, but then wouldn't sell as a project, he obviously just loved them too much. He'd never part with shiny hubcaps either! Thank you again for capturing these, will figure out a way to drop you a line as have a few digi photos taken of site when I was visiting if you're interested. All the best, Kes.
Would love to see those, thanks. ian@hubnut.org
Me too lol
Would love to see photos or even a video of this in operation 😀
Was this Wrexham-ish way? I visited a scrap yard there which was very similar to this. I have a few photos too.
@@JonByrne No, South West Wales, Cardigan-ish ;-) Wrexham-ish one sounds ace too.
Oddly satisfying comes to mind. Just shows the way of this world. Everything goes back dust or dirt or what.
Really enjoyed this video, thank u
It was an incredible sight. Quite amazing how the bodywork rots to pieces so that the cars crumple into the ground. The only saveable car there was the Invacar.
Literally melting in to the ground , amazing.
What an amazing place 👍
I bet there's a fair few people weeping at seeing this graveyard. The amount of spare parts that are potentially saveable must be numbered in thousands
Wheel trim in caravan at 6.27 is a Rootes Group Hubcap, fitting Humber Hawk/Snipe/Super Snipe/Imperials etc and series 1/2/3/3A Sunbeam Rapiers
Thanks for sharing this, and probably sacrificing alot of your skin in the process! Would have loved a rummage in there!
Great incredible video and amazing abandoned cars
Brilliant video Ian 👍
I thought I was the only looney who could name light cluster. 😊
Some really interesting finds in there. Can’t believe you could identify some of those. I couldn’t see it even after you said it.
Always saddens me to see all of these simply rotting away. You'd have thought for the ones that couldn't be saved that they could have at least been used as donors for others rather than being left to dissolve. It does appear that there is a sad story to this whole site.
Many probably were used as donors, with cars in that state you can't really tell what parts were missing before they fell apart. the amount of loose parts is evidence that somebody long ago did some effort to harvest certain parts
All those spares and glass you prob can't get anymore thanks for sharing Ian all the best donny
I love places like this. Thank you for sharing pchooo!!!!
What a mess glad someone is doing the right thing and clearing it all up
Such fun and so much treasure! I would never of guessed your mystery car was a Peugeot.
Really enjoyed your carchaeology visits. Keep them up.
Couldnt help wondering who all the people were who drove those wrecks, and where they are now ,their pride and joy at the time 😞
Probably dead, these cars have been sat for about 40 years i reckon.
Nice one Ian and family, enjoyed it. Hope at least some of those cars get to live but wow they have rotted so badly.
Very interesting Ian, unlike some of these type of videos on you tube it's good that you can actually identify the cars, your knowledge is very impressive.
Wonderful, just amazing to think once they were all new and belonged to someone went places etc
Brilliant. Mate almost a slice of New Zealand there. Thanks for the tour. 🙂
That Adidas bag would probably make good money on EBay
This is so incredibly tragic. I wish there was a group who could organise to find places like this and strip all the useful parts off these cars before they get hauled away to become dishwashers.
You found an indicator lenses, still with some original blinker fluid in. What a find.
That was fantastic!
Sort of a cross between Gray's Elegy and Gray's Automotive Anatomy - but without doubt, thrillingly nerdacious!
A bittersweet video . So many vehicles there . Who knows what tales they once told ? Thanks for uploading nonetheless. 👍👍
The village where I grew up(Kent),had two "dump woods",which were woods which had a disused chalk pit(or similar),which had become the local dump.Everything was dumped there,including many cars.Another village,a few miles away,also had dump pits.They were all filled in,by late 1980's.As kids,we used to spend hours looking over these places.
Was the village called Minster? near Ramsgate?
@@stevenc5227 Nonington,Goodnestone and Adisham,all had dumps
What an amazing place. Although many were past saving I really hope they were offered for parts and not just sent for scrap.
Site is just being cleared now. This was an operating scrapyard for a time.
Reminds me of my childhood playground of the 70/80s... my father was in the motor trade from the early 60's and quiet a lot of the less usable family farmland ended up as car grave yards for the unsaleable. 50's Vauxhaulls, Hillmans, Ford Prefects & 100E's and old Austins of all shapes and sizes.
Amazing Ian you nerd knowing all those rear light clusters!!!
I worked with a guy who was probably on the autism spectrum and was certainly towards the maximum end of the nerd spectrum. As well as being a very accomplished and eminent C-programmer, he was also a walking lookup table for technical trivia. One of his party tricks was that if you gave him an STD code he could tell you all the places that had that code, together with the first few digits of each exchange's phone numbers. But the thing that's relevant to this thread is that he could recognise dashboard instruments "Ah yes, a Jaeger speedometer. That was used in the Ford Cortina Mark 1 until 1965 when they changed to the Smiths speedo, and on the Ford Corsair L and GL but not the GT. And a version calibrated up to 70 rather 90 mph was used on the Morris Oxford". (Fictional examples) He could have been bullshitting - but I bet he was right.
I hate living in a world that ridicules having knowledge on stuff that potentially becomes vital and important later on.
Why I'm a misanthrope.
The scrapyard ending up in a scrapyard, sad ending to once someones hard earned pride and joy, good video fella 👍🙂
Coincidentally we visited the scrapyard at Horopito for the first time last week. Fascinating place.
👍 what a great old place to roam about in!
Epic video amazing to see how they are slowly rusting in to the ground . There will be people watching going I need the trim etc lol even off what seems to be a total heap of rust