Those figures will be well off, Scrapyards were notorious for for not sending logbooks to the DVLA when cars were scrapped, Some of the cars I've scrapped are still listed on the DVLA websites. One of them was scrapped over 25 years ago (CVC 739Y silver 1.5 Talbot Alpine) and lay in the scrapyard for months with doors and windows missing.
I'm surprised there were as many as 27 original Datsun Cherries left in the UK in 2015. They were very decent little cars, but they could teach Italian cars a lot about going rotten. I started my career off working for a FIAT main dealer back in '89 and one of our local customers, carried over through multiple changes of franchise, had an early Cherry. It came in one day for its annual MoT and service (it was their town runaround so it did very few miles) we put it on the lift to get stuck in, the body shell went up and left the engine, gearbox and front and rear sub-frames on the ground. It didn't pass, and they bought a new FIAT Uno Formula to replace it. I expect that's long gone to the great scrap yard in the sky now too, though there's no shame in that, the pushrod poverty model Uno was truly horrible, both to drive and to work on, compared to the FIRE-engine models and the larger engines which started off life in the early '60s...
The Mk1 Fiesta 1.1 Ghia at 5:22 looks superb, the paint and chrome is gleaming, and the person who scrapped it should feel ashamed of himself, especially if he took the scrapage scheme bribe. It has a Ziebart sticker on the back window which explains the lack of rust, for all the good it did it now.
I don't know why, but i have always been curious to live in the 60s/70s/80s/90s. I was born late 90s, but life seemed much simpler and worry free in the early days. And i love old cars! I've owned 3 and my newest was 1990. To see old cars get scrapped i hate that.
Tim, don't be deceived, the 'old' days were crap. Parents ruled, and had not much money to spend on you. Then, no portable phones, no cell phones, no internet, crappy TV, $2,500 for a video player, $25 for a tape. Crappy slow unreliable cars. (See above.) Then fuel shortages, service stations closed in the weekends, and 25% interest rates to buy a house. I lived through those times, and all I miss now is my youth, and my twenties/thirties. I spent more on gas in my Dodge in 1975 than I do today. ($40 per week.) My first computer cost $5,500 in 1996. 4GB. Too slow for video games. First printer cost $,1850, when my wages were $450 week. Still, the parties were good fun.
The old days were more simple. No mobiles. No internet. Basic home computers. None of this gender fluid rubbish either lol Parents didn't have much money but enough to get us by. RIP dads capri and cortina. Fond memories. It was great growing up in the and 80s. People seemed a lot tougher then than now.
I have to agree with you both, nowadays life is much easier. Although in the old days things were more simple, for example you would go to friends instead of texting them, Of course texting is an easy way to stay in contact, but these days everyone is on their phone instead of talking to each other. But anyway yeah some things are better now and some things were better then. And you shouldn't be living in the past.
Great video interesting variety of what were vehicles you grew up with and drove, 1st vehicle roc979y mk 2 Transit, very good choice in background music as well
That was a quick stroll down memory lane- thanks for the video. I had 2 Capris- both 1.6l GLs , so not exactly tarmac-rippers but I loved them- I'd have another if I had somewhere to keep it garaged. I had a Commer van (Post Office Telephones) and it got stuck in 1 inch of snow on level ground! ! had to get my (14 stone) colleague to stand on the back step and bounce up and down to get it off the driveway. Trouble was- he drove one as well and he was stuck in the same drive, so I had to return the favour (I was 9 stone, wet through!) Ah yes, the good old days. Now where did I put my rose-tinted spectacles....?
It is striking that I have a relationship with quite some cars in this video even though I'm not British! - Just before I passed my licence I was offered a Marina in beautiful marine blue and not too bad a condition, the price would have been ok but at the time I didn't have the space, tools and knowledge to fix her up, but I could still kick my own butt for letting her go. - My mom had a Cherry in bright yellow as her first car and I can still barely remember her as a very little boy. - My godfather had a Viva as his first car, he wasn't very lucky with her as she broke down a lot. I can't remember this car but I have seen her in photos. - I know a chap who restored a Dolomite Sprint just lately, it took him much longer than expected because just about everything that could go wrong went wrong. - When I was a language student in Cambridge I passed a purple Allegro every day on my way to school that was in pretty bad nick and had obviously been abandoned at the roadside. - My host mother there had an Orion. - My parents had a BX Break for about ten years and I learnt driving in her. I still think the road holding was second to no other car that size I've driven. - After I passed my amateur radio licence I got to know a chap thanks to whom I gained a foothold in the ham community and he had four Senators in a row of which I knew - and was given the occasional lift in - three. - My brother once was a Capri nut and still owns two, one of which a rare Turbo May. - Same brother once owned a 5, it was unbelievable how at some point all 5s have just vanished overnight. - My godfather had a Talbot, and I think it was a Sunbeam, after the Viva, and this one I remember. - I once owned a XR3i myself but unfortunately it was a bottomless pit in relation to the means I had at the time so was never able to finish her to roadworthiness. I like youngtimers but even me hasn't been able to keep most of the cars I would have liked to. Give me a huge barn and that will change from that moment on.
I have to agree. My 2nd car was a princess, which let me down several times, and was the biggest turd on 4 wheels. A lot of these cars won't be missed, except by the misguided.
I remember the local council driving around in those Commer vans. They were painted bright yellow with L.B.C (Llanelli Borough Council) written on the side.
My mum and dad have owned pretty much all of these and to think of the ones that survived the part exchange shit the cars will either be in a field rotting or in a garage not being driven
I don't miss any of them. Most were rot boxes with an inheritance of faults never to be cured. Best place for them. They kept me in work for many years
💔 Rip xr3i ! Sorry I wrote you off. Still love ya! 💔 Sorry Austin Metro I blew your Gearbox up. 💔 And My Beloved Orion 1.6ighia sorry I blew your box up too! Hope you all forgive me X
The problem with most if not all the cars in this list is they were built in a time before modern rust prebention. My dad got a brand new triumph 1500 front wheel drive in 1972 within 12 months it had started to rust. Dad's cousin baugt a 3.5 rover SD 1 Vanden Plas that started to rust after 8 months. My mate's dad had a Datson 180 after a year and a half the bottom 8 or so inches had roted completely away the Japanese made very reliable cars but like everyone else they had shit rust protection. One last thing the Lads became scarce when they were being snapped up by russians and were shipped home for eather use or spare parts. There was an artical on a news program showing hundreds of Ladas on the docks wating to be shipped home..
Same with a MK V Cortina my dad bought new in March 1981, failed its first MOT due to corrosion of chassis box sections..truly shocking! I had the car 3 years later and had to virtually rebuild the whole of the floor and chassis on it, even then it was off the road in approx 10 years. Now, cars hardly seem to rust at all..
All new cars from the 1970s and 80s rotted. If your car lasted 10 years you were doing well. I had various Fiats and Fords and they all crumbled away. Every other weekend it was out with the car filler and spray paint, or replacing water pump or alternators etc.or fixing whatever went wrong. That's why old Cortinas and Escorts are worth so much now, they will have been rebuilt at huge cost, or be rare barn-finds. Engines were usually reliable though, if you changed the oil and filter every 6 months.
Yes modern cars have massively improved as regards corrosion however death now occurs due to some supremely expensive electronic module failing whose replacement would cost far more then the value of the car. You see surprisingly late models with no rust sitting in the dismantlers. Anything with a DSG or Powershift gearbox has got one foot in the grave the second the manufacturers warranty expires.
Modern cars aren't much better with rust. Some of them, such as the Mazda MX -5 Mk2, have double skinned chassis components to improve safety if you have an accident. The downside is that over time, these trap moisture in, and this leads to chassis rust.
I havent seen a mk2 polo, mk2 polo breadvan in person a long time... I dont know where they disapeard but i see that mk3 polo is also geting kinda rare... Its prices even vent up! Ive got one. My dad got a mk1 transit Left hand drive. Thats also rare af i dont even know if there is more than 500 on the road of them... Hunting down just an engine that was in multiple types of cars and also in mk1 transit (ford v4) is very very hard.... And thats my favourite engine....
That Cortina makes me think of Onslow's car in Keeping up Appearances - his always backfired lol. Think Father Ted owned one too. Oh, and the Capri makes me think of Del Boy!
Was the scrappage scheme really worth it? If I recall correctly, on an old episode of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson said that it would actually cost less in the long run to keep an old car running rather than to scrap it and build a new one from scratch to replace it. Was it more to do with emissions or something?
No. It was a complete con by the government to supposedly reduce the amount of greenhouse gases being produced by older cars by taking them off the road. Instead it's increased the toxins in the air being spewed out by all the diesel vehicles that people were made to believe were greener than petrol vehicles. I couldn't afford a new car even with the scrappage scheme so I'm currently running a 2005 car and will have to try and keep it going for at least a couple more years. I'd buy another once this has become uneconomic to repair, but I'm not going to be forced into buying something I can't afford! We've lost so many decent cars through this scheme and there are videos on CZcams where people have visited sites full of the cars that were traded in.
I'm running a 1960 car, a 1981 car and a 2004 car. I'm afraid modern cars hold no interest for me. They are overly complicated and characterless. They do seem to be a bit more rust resistant though.
My first drive across London was in one of those Commer vans,the old 1725 revving hard under the middle seat. Handbrake lever on the right worked on the front wheels! It was 'the big van'.Replaced in 1982 by a mk. 2 Tranny.Luxury!
Some real classics in there! Owned or drove many of them and wish I still had some of them but some of those old layland cars can stay gone it's best for everyone!
An excellent film that actually reminds me how old I am as I have either seen or driven all the cars in this film except for the invacar that was banned. If only I could turn back the clock.....😁
It would be interesting to know how many of each make and model were made in order to contrast with how many remain. Interesting video, thanks for posting!
Great video and so nostalgic. Feel a little guilt about low numbers of bx's left... I killed a fair few Gti's for the 16v engine that fitted straight into my many 205's! My Dimma has a bx lump in it!
Parknest I'm not sure this is accurate at all....I personally have 2 SD1s in North America, and they only sent 1800 here in total. ....here they all got stripped of the V8 and LT77 5 speed to drop into MGBs.
As far as the SD1 is concerned, there are more than what is stated here. This website is not accurate at all because my mk1 Astra is not even recorded because it was last on the road back in 1993.
some bloke round the corner has a Quattro in his garage, it comes out in summer, there is an Austin Maxi in Mustard and a Mark II Transit in regular use, too! I had 4 Toyota Model F Space Cruisers but they came with ‘Rust Built In’ 🤔 they are all washing machines now, probably 😂
Simon Lowden - A brain dead Top Gear viewer I guess? Nothing wrong with Allegros - We had two in the family at the same time back then - my brothers and then my mothers 1978 Allegro 1500 LE the same green colour as the corgi Vanguards model and my 1980 Allegro 1750 Equipe OGB 477V which I would still have had today if it had not been written off in an accident. Excellent reliable cars and I know other friends and family that owned Allegros and think the same. Of course as I have said most people that slag off Allegros, Marinas etc never owned them and just spout what JOURNALISTS on Top Gear or the mainstream media tells them or they did own these cars and NEVER looked after them or serviced them regularly.
My all-agro. Terrible heap, it blew the head gasket doing 35mph, the mechanics wanted £500 to repair it, so I swapped it for a mini, guess who got the better half of that deal? lol
It is the Morris Minor that has more survivors than most classic cars of the same era. An old man near me uses one as his everyday car, and left in the street in whatever the weather is.
Particularly sad that there are also so many videos on CZcams that show classic cars like these rotting away in fields, barns and drives that the owners, for whatever reason, won't part with even though they have no intention of restoring them!
Not that long ago when i passed my test in 99 most of these especially xr3s were cheap n plentiful now nearly all gone apart from in museums. A real pity as i remember all these from my childhood and youth in 70s and 80s.😞
Sad sad video n it pains me to know that this is the truth about our trow away Society n that one day all the proper good cars will by gone......😓😔 But there's good people out there who are saving them n hopefully them cars will be around for years. So thank u to those people.
A year or two ago a well conserved FSO Polonez with vinyl roof was scrapped in UK... Only five existing cars of this version are known to be survived up to this day. Since much more Polonezes Coupe survived and they didn't make more than 350 it's possible that vinyl roof version was produced in even lower number. Sometimes people don't know what do they send to wrecking yards.
I don't think this one's square at all upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/FSO_Syrena_104_during_%E2%80%9EXXX_lat_motoryzacji_PRL%E2%80%9D_exhibition_at_Bonarka_City_Center_in_Krak%C3%B3w_2.JPG
I'm just about to drive one of the cars mentioned. Mine is a 1972 Hillman Avenger 1500 Super saloon. No mention of the MK2 Cavalier? A lovely car plagued by rust and chocolate camshafts.
Really shocked at how few Rover SD1s are knocking about. I had VDP EFi back in the day. Prob is most of the BL cars were so bad they would actually rust under warranty 😅
The SD1 was my favourite car when I was a kid. I hade a paper round for the local newsagent and he brought a brand new V8's, the green one with gold wheels, remember that one. Wow it was lovely. In around 1997 I got my first one. Found an ad in Loot magazine. Went to see the car at a private block of flats in a really swanky part of London. Met the lady and turned out the car was her husbands who had passed away. He was a pilot for BA. Went to see the car in the basement garage, and wow, time warp. Immaculate SD1 V8 Vitesse. Cant remember the mileage but it was nothing. Looked like it had just come off the line. I loved that car but in truth I couldn't afford to run it. Just to thirsty.
Busyboy 42 wow, forgot about the gold rim variant. Think that was officially classed as V8-S. I always remember getting depressed years later when u would see a vitesse badge on a Rover 200! 😅
In the february edition of Practical Performance Car magazine they mention a twin plenum Vitesse for sale in the Rover SD1 Club's magazine being up for sale at £21,000. It's a concours winning car with over 100,000 miles on the clock. They wonder if this means Sd1s are going to skyrocket in price, or 'is someone flying a kite?' They were nice cars back in their day. I had a much modified Mini that could spank the 2.6 SD1s and almost live with the 3.5. I miss my Minis...
I'm shocked too, my late father had a 1982 3500 SE from new in Australia - beautiful car, well made never rusted, only broke down twice. Was in the family for 12 years, they were nice but have long vanished here like all 80's cars.
speaking as someone who loves classic cars,having grown up in the seventies/eighties,there's a good reason not many of these cars survive, put simply they were crap get over them!!!!!
Always fancied a Talbot Rancho, virtually all gone now. I had an Orion, A98GLU, 1.6GL, red. One of the best cars I ever had but had the VV carb which was replaced with a webber and was a bit pokey after that.
2:18 we had a commer campervan when I was younger we went from south yardly birmingham uk Warwick castle😊 sounded like a hair dryer because of the mid engine
@@mr.slaphappy3794 the Volvo 340 was going to be the DAF 77, but then Volvo bought out DAF's car division. Some of the DAF lorries are made by Leyland Trucks for DAF.
Order Of Magnitude - The Paranormal & Personal who in the right mind would send a e30 alpina tourer on a scrapage scheme it will allways be worth more then that would give you
you can add Rover 214's to that list.. Isn't it amazing on how cars can just disappear almost overnight ... I remember seeing Montegos , Sierra and Cavaliers etc all the time ... then just suddenly they went ..like poof..gone!! and Focus's. Mondeos , Vectras and Xantias started appearing ..well they didn't gradually appear ..they sort of came in vast numbers overnight it seemed ..
Can't be many triumph TR7s about,my uncle worked for triumph and he told me they where parked up outside waiting for their first owners and some needed a respray before they where sold due to rust forming after just 6 months.
I was told Lada owners would take there cars to the port of Blyth in Northumberland in the early 90's where they were bought by Russian trawler crews , some were stripped for parts . My brother drive his Skoda to the Czech republic , Czech cops were always stopping it as never made a black with alloy wheels .
It's mad how you used to see thousands of these cars day in day out and they just... Disapear
All the cars of my youth, pretty much gone just like my youth...
Join the club!
Those figures will be well off, Scrapyards were notorious for for not sending logbooks to the DVLA when cars were scrapped, Some of the cars I've scrapped are still listed on the DVLA websites. One of them was scrapped over 25 years ago (CVC 739Y silver 1.5 Talbot Alpine) and lay in the scrapyard for months with doors and windows missing.
I'm surprised there were as many as 27 original Datsun Cherries left in the UK in 2015. They were very decent little cars, but they could teach Italian cars a lot about going rotten. I started my career off working for a FIAT main dealer back in '89 and one of our local customers, carried over through multiple changes of franchise, had an early Cherry. It came in one day for its annual MoT and service (it was their town runaround so it did very few miles) we put it on the lift to get stuck in, the body shell went up and left the engine, gearbox and front and rear sub-frames on the ground. It didn't pass, and they bought a new FIAT Uno Formula to replace it. I expect that's long gone to the great scrap yard in the sky now too, though there's no shame in that, the pushrod poverty model Uno was truly horrible, both to drive and to work on, compared to the FIRE-engine models and the larger engines which started off life in the early '60s...
The Mk1 Fiesta 1.1 Ghia at 5:22 looks superb, the paint and chrome is gleaming, and the person who scrapped it should feel ashamed of himself, especially if he took the scrapage scheme bribe. It has a Ziebart sticker on the back window which explains the lack of rust, for all the good it did it now.
Thought that myself.
This I sickening, will humans ever learn that once things are extinct they are gone forever. RIP
At least hubnut saved that that invacar called TUC well done! Ian.
TWC
@@willdatsun yes TUC! Sorry TWC. That means TUC. In speech! Sorry hubnut fan!
he's in Wales and bws is Welsh for bus for example and is pronounced similarly
@@RWL2012 so you Bwus?
I have a t-shirt with TUC on it haha
I don't know why, but i have always been curious to live in the 60s/70s/80s/90s. I was born late 90s, but life seemed much simpler and worry free in the early days. And i love old cars! I've owned 3 and my newest was 1990. To see old cars get scrapped i hate that.
Tim, don't be deceived, the 'old' days were crap. Parents ruled, and had not much money to spend on you. Then, no portable phones, no cell phones, no internet, crappy TV, $2,500 for a video player, $25 for a tape. Crappy slow unreliable cars. (See above.) Then fuel shortages, service stations closed in the weekends, and 25% interest rates to buy a house. I lived through those times, and all I miss now is my youth, and my twenties/thirties. I spent more on gas in my Dodge in 1975 than I do today. ($40 per week.) My first computer cost $5,500 in 1996. 4GB. Too slow for video games. First printer cost $,1850, when my wages were $450 week. Still, the parties were good fun.
The old days were more simple. No mobiles. No internet. Basic home computers. None of this gender fluid rubbish either lol Parents didn't have much money but enough to get us by. RIP dads capri and cortina. Fond memories. It was great growing up in the and 80s. People seemed a lot tougher then than now.
I have to agree with you both, nowadays life is much easier. Although in the old days things were more simple, for example you would go to friends instead of texting them, Of course texting is an easy way to stay in contact, but these days everyone is on their phone instead of talking to each other. But anyway yeah some things are better now and some things were better then. And you shouldn't be living in the past.
good ol' daze - blah blah.
we had a black & white tv in the 1970s. bloody thing kept breaking down. banging the top did not work!!
I'm a 90s kid I feel the exact same way!!
I have driven 23 of those and owned 10 at various times.
Loved this trip down that memory lane, thanks for posting.
Great video interesting variety of what were vehicles you grew up with and drove, 1st vehicle roc979y mk 2 Transit, very good choice in background music as well
Thank you John :)
I hope people that have these rare cars and trucks keep them running or they will be long forgotten I love them all good or bad
Is my Nissan bluebird worth saving with 41.on the clock E390YBW.
I love this video, but at the same time it's quite sad....I love cars
That was a quick stroll down memory lane- thanks for the video. I had 2 Capris- both 1.6l GLs , so not exactly tarmac-rippers but I loved them- I'd have another if I had somewhere to keep it garaged.
I had a Commer van (Post Office Telephones) and it got stuck in 1 inch of snow on level ground! ! had to get my (14 stone) colleague to stand on the back step and bounce up and down to get it off the driveway. Trouble was- he drove one as well and he was stuck in the same drive, so I had to return the favour (I was 9 stone, wet through!) Ah yes, the good old days. Now where did I put my rose-tinted spectacles....?
It is striking that I have a relationship with quite some cars in this video even though I'm not British!
- Just before I passed my licence I was offered a Marina in beautiful marine blue and not too bad a condition, the price would have been ok but at the time I didn't have the space, tools and knowledge to fix her up, but I could still kick my own butt for letting her go.
- My mom had a Cherry in bright yellow as her first car and I can still barely remember her as a very little boy.
- My godfather had a Viva as his first car, he wasn't very lucky with her as she broke down a lot. I can't remember this car but I have seen her in photos.
- I know a chap who restored a Dolomite Sprint just lately, it took him much longer than expected because just about everything that could go wrong went wrong.
- When I was a language student in Cambridge I passed a purple Allegro every day on my way to school that was in pretty bad nick and had obviously been abandoned at the roadside.
- My host mother there had an Orion.
- My parents had a BX Break for about ten years and I learnt driving in her. I still think the road holding was second to no other car that size I've driven.
- After I passed my amateur radio licence I got to know a chap thanks to whom I gained a foothold in the ham community and he had four Senators in a row of which I knew - and was given the occasional lift in - three.
- My brother once was a Capri nut and still owns two, one of which a rare Turbo May.
- Same brother once owned a 5, it was unbelievable how at some point all 5s have just vanished overnight.
- My godfather had a Talbot, and I think it was a Sunbeam, after the Viva, and this one I remember.
- I once owned a XR3i myself but unfortunately it was a bottomless pit in relation to the means I had at the time so was never able to finish her to roadworthiness.
I like youngtimers but even me hasn't been able to keep most of the cars I would have liked to. Give me a huge barn and that will change from that moment on.
Oh wow, she has a cherry? They are in massive danger here! Thanks for writing
Exellent vid! With good music, hope to see more :)
163 Princess survive! That's 163 too many!
Lol
I have to agree. My 2nd car was a princess, which let me down several times, and was the biggest turd on 4 wheels.
A lot of these cars won't be missed, except by the misguided.
There is still the ambassador to keep the numbers up!
Happy to report mine has just passed its MOT. Great car!
Retr0naut amazing, congrats!
3.0 SENATOR CD WAS A BEAST JUST SAYIN
I have 3 Austin Maxis , great cars
You get everywhere, Martin 8-)
I remember the local council driving around in those Commer vans. They were painted bright yellow with L.B.C (Llanelli Borough Council) written on the side.
Love it , and the massive attack soundtrack too
I had a few tracks to play but Massive Attack was the most haunting one :)
Absolute tradegy . :-(
Great video. Love a bit of Massive Attack!
What amazed me, is how many of these cars I owned at one point and I certainly remember how terrible most of them were.
I deliver around Nelson, Burnley and I kid you not I bet there's at least 1 of every vehicle featured on here still driving round up there 😂
love to hear it
@@ezzaaa6592 There’s a Talbot Alpine I’ve spotted, 2 tone grey and blue
@@Dan23_7 where i live it's all just corsas astra's
@@ezzaaa6592 I see a white 3 door N reg corsa too..... Opel Nova weren’t they ?
@@ezzaaa6592 One of my mates was bought a red M reg by his parents for his first car, no power steering either lol.
great video and music.
My mum and dad have owned pretty much all of these and to think of the ones that survived the part exchange shit the cars will either be in a field rotting or in a garage not being driven
My goodness loved this vid, had the a v reg chevette when i was 19, then Renault 5 mk 2 then j reg Nova SR loved the Nova.
I don't miss any of them. Most were rot boxes with an inheritance of faults never to be cured. Best place for them. They kept me in work for many years
Had a Datsun Cherry. Loved it.
💔 Rip xr3i ! Sorry I wrote you off. Still love ya!
💔 Sorry Austin Metro I blew your Gearbox up.
💔 And My Beloved Orion 1.6ighia sorry I blew your box up too!
Hope you all forgive me X
You're a clown.
Hahaha
The problem with most if not all the cars in this list is they were built in a time before modern rust prebention. My dad got a brand new triumph 1500 front wheel drive in 1972 within 12 months it had started to rust. Dad's cousin baugt a 3.5 rover SD 1 Vanden Plas that started to rust after 8 months. My mate's dad had a Datson 180 after a year and a half the bottom 8 or so inches had roted completely away the Japanese made very reliable cars but like everyone else they had shit rust protection. One last thing the Lads became scarce when they were being snapped up by russians and were shipped home for eather use or spare parts. There was an artical on a news program showing hundreds of Ladas on the docks wating to be shipped home..
Same with a MK V Cortina my dad bought new in March 1981, failed its first MOT due to corrosion of chassis box sections..truly shocking! I had the car 3 years later and had to virtually rebuild the whole of the floor and chassis on it, even then it was off the road in approx 10 years. Now, cars hardly seem to rust at all..
All new cars from the 1970s and 80s rotted. If your car lasted 10 years you were doing well. I had various Fiats and Fords and they all crumbled away. Every other weekend it was out with the car filler and spray paint, or replacing water pump or alternators etc.or fixing whatever went wrong. That's why old Cortinas and Escorts are worth so much now, they will have been rebuilt at huge cost, or be rare barn-finds. Engines were usually reliable though, if you changed the oil and filter every 6 months.
Yes modern cars have massively improved as regards corrosion however death now occurs due to some supremely expensive electronic module failing whose replacement would cost far more then the value of the car. You see surprisingly late models with no rust sitting in the dismantlers. Anything with a DSG or Powershift gearbox has got one foot in the grave the second the manufacturers warranty expires.
Modern cars aren't much better with rust. Some of them, such as the Mazda MX -5 Mk2, have double skinned chassis components to improve safety if you have an accident. The downside is that over time, these trap moisture in, and this leads to chassis rust.
Tom Mabon saw a load of them on the deck of a Russian tanker in a South Wales docks 25 years ago.
It is up to people to keep these peaces of history alive.
Great video 👍
Amazing just how many of these cars my family and I have owned over the years.
I havent seen a mk2 polo, mk2 polo breadvan in person a long time... I dont know where they disapeard but i see that mk3 polo is also geting kinda rare... Its prices even vent up! Ive got one. My dad got a mk1 transit Left hand drive. Thats also rare af i dont even know if there is more than 500 on the road of them... Hunting down just an engine that was in multiple types of cars and also in mk1 transit (ford v4) is very very hard.... And thats my favourite engine....
That Cortina makes me think of Onslow's car in Keeping up Appearances - his always backfired lol. Think Father Ted owned one too. Oh, and the Capri makes me think of Del Boy!
Was the scrappage scheme really worth it? If I recall correctly, on an old episode of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson said that it would actually cost less in the long run to keep an old car running rather than to scrap it and build a new one from scratch to replace it. Was it more to do with emissions or something?
No. It was a complete con by the government to supposedly reduce the amount of greenhouse gases being produced by older cars by taking them off the road. Instead it's increased the toxins in the air being spewed out by all the diesel vehicles that people were made to believe were greener than petrol vehicles. I couldn't afford a new car even with the scrappage scheme so I'm currently running a 2005 car and will have to try and keep it going for at least a couple more years. I'd buy another once this has become uneconomic to repair, but I'm not going to be forced into buying something I can't afford! We've lost so many decent cars through this scheme and there are videos on CZcams where people have visited sites full of the cars that were traded in.
I'm running a 1960 car, a 1981 car and a 2004 car. I'm afraid modern cars hold no interest for me. They are overly complicated and characterless. They do seem to be a bit more rust resistant though.
@@DavidSmith-ze2wi good on you, what are the three cars if you don’t mind me asking?
Well, I can happily say that I own one of the 675 mk2 transit !
We had A Allegro, probably one of the best cars ever in that era. That thing could pull a tank!
Nice to hear someone else appreciate them
Sad to see these old cars rotting away even though a fair few were pretty ugly. :(
My first drive across London was in one of those Commer vans,the old 1725 revving hard under the middle seat. Handbrake lever on the right worked on the front wheels! It was 'the big van'.Replaced in 1982 by a mk. 2 Tranny.Luxury!
would be interesting to do an up to date version to see what the difference in numbers is in 2022
Some real classics in there! Owned or drove many of them and wish I still had some of them but some of those old layland cars can stay gone it's best for everyone!
I miss my Fiesta Mk1 XR2
That was a great game and a few surprises
An excellent film that actually reminds me how old I am as I have either seen or driven all the cars in this film except for the invacar that was banned. If only I could turn back the clock.....😁
Shocked by the many Astra mk 1's left. Easy as to steal back in the day :-)
It would be interesting to know how many of each make and model were made in order to contrast with how many remain. Interesting video, thanks for posting!
Massive attack great choice
Great video and so nostalgic. Feel a little guilt about low numbers of bx's left... I killed a fair few Gti's for the 16v engine that fitted straight into my many 205's! My Dimma has a bx lump in it!
sad state of affairs as to the numbers! they have dropped dramatically in the past 20 years! Banger races have a lot to answer for :(
I've owned or driven a few of these models. Keep in mind that "howmanyleft" only accounts for cars in England & Wales so it isn't all that accurate.
Parknest I'm not sure this is accurate at all....I personally have 2 SD1s in North America, and they only sent 1800 here in total. ....here they all got stripped of the V8 and LT77 5 speed to drop into MGBs.
According to the site itself, from the end of 2014 onwards the figures refer to the whole UK.
Parknest Same here..
As far as the SD1 is concerned, there are more than what is stated here. This website is not accurate at all because my mk1 Astra is not even recorded because it was last on the road back in 1993.
Bloody Hell this has made me feel old.
some bloke round the corner has a Quattro in his garage, it comes out in summer, there is an Austin Maxi in Mustard and a Mark II Transit in regular use, too! I had 4 Toyota Model F Space Cruisers but they came with ‘Rust Built In’ 🤔 they are all washing machines now, probably 😂
Wow amazing!
I love that Imp!
We had a purple triumph dolomite with Crome trims. It had a 2.0 ford sierra engine. It won some small rally's around Ireland
A nice and easy informative video. I was however saddened to see that at least 172 Austin Allegros still survive.😆
cheers mate.... really really ow numbers now on them!
Simon Lowden - A brain dead Top Gear viewer I guess? Nothing wrong with Allegros - We had two in the family at the same time back then - my brothers and then my mothers 1978 Allegro 1500 LE the same green colour as the corgi Vanguards model and my 1980 Allegro 1750 Equipe OGB 477V which I would still have had today if it had not been written off in an accident. Excellent reliable cars and I know other friends and family that owned Allegros and think the same. Of course as I have said most people that slag off Allegros, Marinas etc never owned them and just spout what JOURNALISTS on Top Gear or the mainstream media tells them or they did own these cars and NEVER looked after them or serviced them regularly.
my friend has one.
My all-agro. Terrible heap, it blew the head gasket doing 35mph, the mechanics wanted £500 to repair it, so I swapped it for a mini, guess who got the better half of that deal? lol
bongodrumzz 😧 You got one up to 35?!!!!!!
Had red Vauxhall chevette hatchback for my first car in1987 UHG 232R was the rego number 96mph with a tailwind !
Ours was CUR415T - burnt metallic orange estate version
white van which dad hand painted black WRJ 483S
Felt tearful watching this.
Sierra xr4i a forgotten car now and far rarer than a Cosworth
Saw a rover sd1 today in Abingdon Oxfordshire an immaculate gold one.
It is the Morris Minor that has more survivors than most classic cars of the same era. An old man near me uses one as his everyday car, and left in the street in whatever the weather is.
what about Nissan bluebirds you dont see many them now on the road
Particularly sad that there are also so many videos on CZcams that show classic cars like these rotting away in fields, barns and drives that the owners, for whatever reason, won't part with even though they have no intention of restoring them!
I've had a few Hillman Imps. Sold my last one in 2009. The Maestro 2.0 EFI's where fast as fook
Not that long ago when i passed my test in 99 most of these especially xr3s were cheap n plentiful now nearly all gone apart from in museums. A real pity as i remember all these from my childhood and youth in 70s and 80s.😞
I have seen a few of these around
Sad sad video n it pains me to know that this is the truth about our trow away Society n that one day all the proper good cars will by gone......😓😔
But there's good people out there who are saving them n hopefully them cars will be around for years.
So thank u to those people.
It doesn't help that the manufacturers made them out of steel that dissolves in British weather.
A year or two ago a well conserved FSO Polonez with vinyl roof was scrapped in UK... Only five existing cars of this version are known to be survived up to this day. Since much more Polonezes Coupe survived and they didn't make more than 350 it's possible that vinyl roof version was produced in even lower number. Sometimes people don't know what do they send to wrecking yards.
Piotr Malewski There are in UK only 4 REGISTERED FSO Polonez cars.
In Poland there are only two known right-hand drive survivors, those maybe the only 6 existing RHDs.
FSO...= Foreign Square Object
I don't think this one's square at all
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I'm just about to drive one of the cars mentioned. Mine is a 1972 Hillman Avenger 1500 Super saloon.
No mention of the MK2 Cavalier? A lovely car plagued by rust and chocolate camshafts.
i loved my Avenger both me and my dad had them a very under appreciated car at the time
Really shocked at how few Rover SD1s are knocking about. I had VDP EFi back in the day. Prob is most of the BL cars were so bad they would actually rust under warranty 😅
The SD1 was my favourite car when I was a kid. I hade a paper round for the local newsagent and he brought a brand new V8's, the green one with gold wheels, remember that one. Wow it was lovely. In around 1997 I got my first one. Found an ad in Loot magazine. Went to see the car at a private block of flats in a really swanky part of London. Met the lady and turned out the car was her husbands who had passed away. He was a pilot for BA. Went to see the car in the basement garage, and wow, time warp. Immaculate SD1 V8 Vitesse. Cant remember the mileage but it was nothing. Looked like it had just come off the line. I loved that car but in truth I couldn't afford to run it. Just to thirsty.
Busyboy 42 wow, forgot about the gold rim variant. Think that was officially classed as V8-S. I always remember getting depressed years later when u would see a vitesse badge on a Rover 200! 😅
In the february edition of Practical Performance Car magazine they mention a twin plenum Vitesse for sale in the Rover SD1 Club's magazine being up for sale at £21,000.
It's a concours winning car with over 100,000 miles on the clock.
They wonder if this means Sd1s are going to skyrocket in price, or 'is someone flying a kite?'
They were nice cars back in their day. I had a much modified Mini that could spank the 2.6 SD1s and almost live with the 3.5.
I miss my Minis...
I'm shocked too, my late father had a 1982 3500 SE from new in Australia - beautiful car, well made never rusted, only broke down twice. Was in the family for 12 years, they were nice but have long vanished here like all 80's cars.
I have a sd1 2600s to this day it's still going strong have to keep on top of it rust size but no proplems
Omg i LOVED the Marina i owned 4 over the years one an American ‘export’ went like a rocket twin carbs! Would touch 130MPH!
Loco Krazy
Do you remember the Marina twin carb model with white pearlescent paint? Back in the day I thought they looked brilliant.
speaking as someone who loves classic cars,having grown up in the seventies/eighties,there's a good reason not many of these cars survive, put simply they were crap get over them!!!!!
Always fancied a Talbot Rancho, virtually all gone now. I had an Orion, A98GLU, 1.6GL, red. One of the best cars I ever had but had the VV carb which was replaced with a webber and was a bit pokey after that.
Terry Was your orion a red one with a 1.6? Was it untaxed in December 1999? Coz DVLA gave these details.
You have just given me a flash back on my registration chart.
1 to 100 on a count everywhere I went.
Don't think I got 98-100.😆
There’s a mk2 Transit near my grandads house that is in the worst possible shape you will see
I have not seen a Vauxhall Cavalier MK-1, Two door saloon, for many years, How many are left today in 2020 ?.
I have a '62 Vauxhall Victor. According to Dvla only 13 survive.
how did you find out...? did you call/email/write to them...?
@@RWL2012 No you can Google the Dvla register. Type in your make and model and it's all itemised
2:18 we had a commer campervan when I was younger we went from south yardly birmingham uk Warwick castle😊 sounded like a hair dryer because of the mid engine
I had a b plate xr3i .. 4 leaf clovers
The capris were an eye opener
Basically Rest in peaces British Leyland.((
There's a DAF 33 near where I live. I believe there's only three left in the UK.
I thought DAF only made lorrys, until recently I discovered that they made cars (in the 60s) as well.
@@mr.slaphappy3794 the Volvo 340 was going to be the DAF 77, but then Volvo bought out DAF's car division. Some of the DAF lorries are made by Leyland Trucks for DAF.
@@RWL2012 Thanks for the information.
@@mr.slaphappy3794 you're welcome :)
its a wonder some of them lasted 3 years - you had to dodge the rain
Tristísimo ver q exelentes máquinas en perfectas condiciones queden en el olvido expuestas al descuido y la corrosión... Saludos desde Argentina.
used to love my rover 220 coupe great to drive and look at. how many do you think are left?
I wonder if there's any Chrysler/ Talbot Alpines or Horizons with the crunchy gearbox left? 🤔
userwl2850 Talbots were notorious for their shitty gearboxes.
I used to buy and sell metros back in the day.
Second hand from dodgy car auctions,mg metros my fab,owed to sell between 400 and 800 quid,lol
Can you do a 2021 update?
Once upon a time my e30 alpina tourer was a scrapage scheme survivor!! ~ now someone else owns it and its only raced on track.
Order Of Magnitude - The Paranormal & Personal who in the right mind would send a e30 alpina tourer on a scrapage scheme it will allways be worth more then that would give you
317 marinas still survive? How is that even possible?
you can add Rover 214's to that list.. Isn't it amazing on how cars can just disappear almost overnight ... I remember seeing Montegos , Sierra and Cavaliers etc all the time ... then just suddenly they went ..like poof..gone!! and Focus's. Mondeos , Vectras and Xantias started appearing ..well they didn't gradually appear ..they sort of came in vast numbers overnight it seemed ..
Can't be many triumph TR7s about,my uncle worked for triumph and he told me they where parked up outside waiting for their first owners and some needed a respray before they where sold due to rust forming after just 6 months.
I've owned five of these and can honestly attest that some of them should be hunted down and be made extinct.
SORN, SAWN more like it.
I was told Lada owners would take there cars to the port of Blyth in Northumberland in the early 90's where they were bought by Russian trawler crews , some were stripped for parts . My brother drive his Skoda to the Czech republic , Czech cops were always stopping it as never made a black with alloy wheels .
I lived in Aberdeen. Any Russian ships would fill the deck space with MoT failure Ladas.
I was a panel beater at the time and hated working on them so pleased they took them back LOL .
You’ve missed the 2CV!
Hi Billy, I've just become the proud owner of a 2.2 petrol Fiat Croma
Any idea how rare they now are in U.K ?
Probably really rare
Very rare, only 800 survive, nice work on buying one though
I remember all these niw 50+ my uncle god rest.him had an austin 1100 a maxi 1750 a maestro 1.6 and a 1.3 marina on a k reg 1300 super. G8 memories.
I once had a 3 wheeler reliant robin and my youngest son put his football on the back shelf and this referee walked past and thought it was a whistle.
This video just showed my age. Thanks lol
Peugeot 505 4x4 was an awesome off road wagon Arab countries used them for years