Abandoned and VERY rusty Datsun Cedric 130 Wagon - what can we save?
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- čas přidán 30. 04. 2022
- I dig out a VERY rotten 1969 Datsun Cedric 130 Wagon, to see what, if anything, we can salvage. I also had a very serious battle with brambles and picked up quite a few injuries...
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It would be really interesting watching that whole scrap yard being cleared out
I thought that too! Wonder how theyd do it, bulldozer or bring a remote crusher with a claw depending on access. It is a shame but it has to happen either way so itd still be interesting to see
Digger with selector grab would be the best way in my opinion.
Time lapse would work well for that idea.
I'd watch it. Sounds like a good plan, ya man should have gone an done that.
I feel so sorry for the car. Let’s face it, it must have been one of the most reliable cars for sale at the time. Thanks Ian for salvaging what you can to help the other ones out there in better nick! 👍
Don’t feel sorry for the car. The car doesn’t care…..
Thanks Ian! That clock on the dash still works.. It's been displaying the correct time twice a day despite being abandoned to the elements decades ago! Are there going to be houses built on that land? People will be digging up sump plugs and wiper blade rubbers in their gardens for years!
Land will be sold. Not sure what the next owner will do.
@@HubNut if it was me i would most likely just keep them :D and/or part them out. And buy more cars. :D
I'm not sure what it says about me that I'd sooner watch someone choke on bramble dust whilst pulling pieces off of a car I've never heard of, than I would watch someone test drive any modern car.
It says more about most modern cars I think.
Well if your an odd one sounds like I am too keep your modern motors
My Dad bought a brand new Datsun 260c Estate in 1975, 2600cc, 4 speed manual, no PAS, 7 seater 2 rearward facing seats in the boot, only1 electric window, in the side window of the boot to allow shopping to be loaded without having to open the tailgate, he had a rear wash wipe fitted and Dinitrol rust proofing as his previous car a 1964 Ford Cortina 1200cc deluxe estate had rusted away at the edges. The Datsun lasted many many years & I learnt to drive in it
I went to a vintage car show here in Osaka last November. There were some absolutely beautiful examples of Cedric wagons. Sad to see this one completely gone.
Ur taking me back to memory lane. Back in Greece when I was 18 I passed my driving test on a Datshun 120Y four door. Loved it the way it drove.
Very very comfortable, with a very light steering wheel
I watch and really enjoy vice grip garage. It's amazing that in some parts of the world cars can sit out in fields for over 50 years and still run. Our maritime climate turns them into a pile of rust that barely resembles a car in no time.
Take a look at the cars on Watch Wes Work or Just Rolled In to see real American rust...
Parts of the US are called Rust Belt for a reason too. Eric of SMA and Wes of Watch Wes Work regularly get fairly new cars that are rotted to bits. Eric says in his part of NY cars usually last between 12 and 15 years. On the other hand, parts of the UK yield amazing finds - just think of Pete C's Cortina "Bramble" that sat in a field from 1983 to 2018 with brambles growing through the entire car, and now it's back on the road, even though with amazing amounts of welding.
My dad had a Datsun 2000 Deluxe 6 .VRN SKW 423J In a dark beige colour. It Looked exactly the same as that does, even the interior. He drove it for 8 years and took it all over France and Spain towing an old Thomson Glenalmond caravan. Memories 😊
Massive thumbs up for salvaging what you can from the Datsun, sad to see cars end up like that.
A great video Ian, so sad to see so many classics dissolving back into their component parts :(
Thoroughly absorbing 21 minutes, excellent work. This Cedric is definitely Deadric.
One of my most enjoyable of your vids so far this year.I wish you had hired a Stihl extendable hedge trimmer to make life so much easier!
The Sierra lights would make a nice gift for the guy next door to your barn
I know in these environmentally aware days we need fewer cars on the roads but seeing that these lovely old motors have been just left to rot saddens me.
Absolutely brilliant video Ian 👍 I bet that car was amazing back in the day love Datsun
This was a real labor of love. Thank you 🙏
I think the scars prove your dedication to the project. Thank you Ian.
Amazing how shiny the glass and brightwork is!
Great video, Ian, thanks very much. Hidden gems/tragedies like this are still out there. The salvage that you achieved was worth the hassle, although two additions to kit would have helped: Chunky sweatshirt (free, but mild heat stroke), and a brush cutter (hired £30), would have got you round the car in 5 minutes. The gloves looked decent, the 'fork' had decent comedy value.
Thanks for another great video Ian, and what fantastic place to explore. Its a shame that vehicles like the Cedric are rare being such interesting cars.
Such a rare car these days I think it's past economical repair but it might yield some useful parts for somebody who has a a decent one to keep theirs on the road
Another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍
Bravo for taking bits before its sent to car heaven.
I would love to see you do another "Will it start" video when you find the appropriate candidate. The fact you went to such effort to help others out speaks volumes!
Every one of those cars have a story to tell. From being proud purchases that people saved for years to buy, through being trusty (and loved) family transport to an ignominious end laying unwanted and rotting in a sodden Welsh paddock. What a wasteful society we have lived in for countless years… well done Ian for salvaging what you did! 🇦🇺
Loved the Vice grip reference! Derek impression was almost like he was there himself 😁.
My 10 year old grandson felt this was really sad as well. I do hope you managed to get as much as poss from it.
Great video it's like Groundforce meets Hubnut meets Car SOS, good that you managed to get a few things from the Cedric.
Wow, a Hubnut tidy up. This is a real first without the presence of Miss Hubnut 😁
From my time in North Wales it's a very Welsh thing to dump cars and motorcycles in fields and back gardens to rot.
And underground caves like that one full of dumped cars haha
@@hamstirrer6882 There's the fuselage of a small plane in one of the flooded slate quarries up off the Horseshoe Pass. An old friend of mine used to go diving on all of the nicked cars and such in the quarry years ago. True story...
@@PurityVendetta do u mean the cavern of lost souls in Gwynedd? Awesome, if I lived anywhere near it id have spent most of my time down there, wonder if any of the rotten husks had bodies in them? Almost certain a few of them will have been "disposed of" down there after questionable use
Finland mentioned, exciting times indeed, and a very nice video!
This was fascinating and relaxing viewing. Please go back and do the same thing with the SD1. It will be amazing to see how much of it has survived.
As Ian explained in the first instalment, all the cars had been hauled away for crushing by the time he uploaded the first video.
Brilliant. I see a series of visiting old overgrown yards and crowdfunding for a cordless strimmer.
Great second video. Very sad to see that station wagon in that bad of shape. The climate over there must be very damp and wet for that car to literally fall apart. I'll give you credit for all the work you did just to see the car up close. Great job.
So sad... :/ No trace of RRD36H on plate info bases, so it must rest there since 1983, at least.
Great bit of gardening Mr HubNut.
What a pity someone didn't drag that out about 20 years ago. Datsun can't have sold many of those in the UK.
Indeed not. We suspect only a handful.
I salvaged a 1973 Volvo 145 that had been parked in a garden for a similar amount of time. I was hoping to get many parts for my 145 but 99% of the components were absolutely destroyed. Engine was seized and frost cracked, interior eaten, bodywork had been converted into bran flakes. I did salvage the gearbox, rear axle and the steering gear which after a clean up and brief restoration is now fitted to my 145.
That's awesome, great you got some parts salvaged
I must say you have a very gentleman-like way to approach those brambles. I would have fired up my flame-thrower a long time ago!
Never claimed to be a gentleman...
Well I never thought I'd see Ian gardening....let alone a Triangle of Doom in the process!
New tv series. Bramble foraging . This week the 2 teams are from gardeners worlds and scrape heap challenge hosted by Ian Hubnut and secateurs
It's all very sad to see what was at some point someone's pride and joy returning to nature, but so much was learned from making these old cars such that the cars of today or even yesterday improved in many ways (not in others) from the cars of last week. I hope the injuries from the brambles heal soon Ian. You worked very hard to bring us this video.
I can remember back in the early 80's seeing quite a few early-mid 70's Datsuns around (why were so many of them painted red?) and most were already looking pretty frilly around the edges of doors and boot lids etc before they got to 10 years old. The British climate takes no prisoners with poorly rustproofed cars made out of thin sheet steel.
Absolutely brilliant! Thanks for the video!
My first ever proper car was a 1974 datsun 100a, so the name has great sentimental value for me 👍
Very interesting and enjoyed it mate I am glad you saved a few bits off the Datson. 👍
More like this, fantastic that even a few unobtainium parts were saved.
Ashes to ashes
Rust to rust
A Marque to save
I must, I must.
Valiant effort Ian.
Furious gardening...oh. Hang on. Wrong channel, sorry 🤭
Great effort Ian. Shame more parts can't have been saved from the other cars.
…when nature takes over! Thanks for this marvellous images of this particular place.
Love videos like this, that Datsun is very rotten... Not that they were very resisliant in the first place
I can't say I've ever seen one of these in the flesh.
Blooming heck ! I thought I'd stumbled on the new HubNut gardening channel 😆
That was very interesting and enjoyable. Would love a paddock like that! I hope you saved the wiper arms too.
It's sad to see the state of all those cars but especially this one. Oh, and thanks for covering your triangle of doom 😆 much appreciated
To be honest I'm surprised there was anything left we all know Datsuns rusted anyway let alone being sat in a field for years interesting to watch and as you say a shame that ended up like that 👍👍👍
Yea. I had a 120Y, it dissolved before my eyes
Great effort there, and at least a few parts to salvage! The complete VGG intro would be, "...today, we're gonna get this (1969 Cedric) that's been sitting for 30 years (in a bramble patch) running, and then drive it 700 miles back to Tennessee...great idea...Nope."
There's a little bit of surface rust but we'll just do the right thing and ignore it. That's fine...
Memories of about forty years ago, salvaging the heater unit from a Ford Prefect 107e, which was on it's side, in a ditch at the back of a scrapyard. It took a whole morning to access the car and remove the heater. Somewhat insultingly, the floor was less rusty than the car we were repairing! The only other item we could salvage was the aluminium trim behind the switches. Happy days...
That is very sad, but at the same time, very fascinating from the point of view of how rotted a modernish car can get before it implodes - especially compared to the likes of the younger SD1 or similarly aged ADO16s (or older BMC A-series) sitting nearby. Even seeing WHAT bits rot and which bits go first is something you rarely get to see. Whether (as you suggested in the last video) the brambles had anything to do with it is another interesting point, but it certainly does suggest that Mother Nature reclaims her own and everything of the soil - if given long enough - will return to the soil.
I did like your novel use of the bonnet and I believe you may be on to a new sport there. In the spirit of the Gumboot Capital of the World - Taihape's - yearly festival celebrating the distance one can hurl a gumboot, Ian "HubNut" Seabrook presents the inaugural Welsh Bramble Spectacular of Tank Tossing! Soon to be held at an overgrown acreage in your area!. BYOT (Bring Your Own Tank). Points awarded for largest tank, hurling style, distance and effectiveness against brambles! Please note we are referring to empty fuel tanks and not water tanks, jerry cans or the tank you may have driven in Her Majesty's Service.....as although the last may be the most effective on brambles, it does have a whiff of cheating about it and therefore is not entirely sporting.
Hope that gave you a laugh, mate. You're a glutton for punishment in regard to your passion - that's for sure - not only braving the brambles, but arming yourself with one small set of secateurs where others would have gone in with the loppers, shears, a battery powered hedge trimmer or a chainsaw! Then again, that wouldn't have been sporting either, would it? Either way, it was a very satisfying video, so I thank you for your efforts - as I expect your friend with the Cedric will when you hand him the spares. All the best!
Man, i cant believe the way all of those cars simply collapse. Unbelievable
I live in Orkney, it only takes about five years for a vehicle to rust like that here.
I parked a smiley Transit outside and within a few years it had virtually disappeared.
Jonny Smith would be proud of your carchology Ian 👍😎
Great video keep up with the good work 👍
Love the new word "carchaeology" very HubNut. An interesting video too.
I think Smith & Sniff first used it, but as they and Ian have a Rancho thing I don't think there is any problem there 😃
Never even heard about this older series of Cedric, let alone a wagon version... I imagine there can't be more than half a dozen of it on UK roads. Too bad the cars on this field are waaay too gone for any sane person...
Anyway, great job for fighting the thorns of Nature embracing the cars back to earth... and saving what little you could. Although a bit of a shame for the lower left corner of the dash panel to be broken off...
Great follow-up video Ian - shame for the Cedric, but glad you salvaged what you could - was screaming at the screen for you to simply, but carefully ‘push’ the windscreen out - I guess the secateurs will ow go in pride of place in the workshop, together with the number plates????
Keep ‘em comin, once you’ve had time to heal from all that bramble battering !
JCHK
Nice to see that "factory fresh" SD1 too! ;)
Fantastic content.
Thanks
Very few cedrics left now,most either rotted away,or were exported but i think most ended up on the banger track as they were a very tough car just like the big Toyota crowns.Its surprising that some still turn up at the Banger unlimited meetings.Thanks for posting a very interesting vid.
One heck of a project!! Salt really is a killer of cars - here in rural Portugal there are still loads of old Datsuns running about...perhaps a visit?
You’re either extremely determined or certifiable 😂for some reason when I got a new iPad my subscription didn’t transfer, so I’ll subscribe for more. Mental 😂
Love the line Öh yeah that is very crusty", then CRUNCH!!
So many windows, lamp clusters, fascias.... a parts recycler's dream.
Nice try Ian. That was quite a bush. Good to have two clock removal options. Unscrew or, just rip it out along with the dash panel.
The video just goes to show that the UK is the harshest climate for car to be in. Meanwhile here in Virginia I picked a Plymouth Cricket wagon (Hillman Avenger estate!) that had been sitting for nearly 40 years in a wreaking yard out for restoration, and while it needs quite a bit of work it can be revived.
Hubnut breaking in cars now lol Great video
What you needed was a nice sharp gardening shovel... 10 out of 10 for effort though. Its like the brambles are eating the cars.
I had for a short while in the 80s a silver Datsun 280c estate which had an electric shopping window and twin rear wipers. It was quite old when I got it but that straight six engine was sweet and there was a light under the bonnet to see at night. I loaned it to a friend to move stuff around as it was a huge car only for the rear gearbox oil seal to give up the ghost and he managed to wreck the gearbox. The only others I could find at the time were automatics and mine was a manual so it was sold off for spares. I have a photo of it somewhere in the loft.
Serious gardenin no G (at the end😃) Sad to see the Datsun and the others rotting away
Used to see one of these round Fishguard years ago!
Yes I remember you occasionally saw something like RFX 5N
So around ‘75 they were occasionally doing that
"Have you been injured in a bramble-related rural scrapyard accident that was your fault?" ...asked the advert ;-)
The brambles will always have the last laugh !
A sad ending for a great car. I absolutely loved my 260c!
I wish you could have filmed the clean up of all those cars, that would have been awesome.
So do I! Not to be sadly.
I'm glad you didn't show the wipers for THAT triangle of doom that you tried to cover up! ;-)
Even that seized engine would make a desirable static display.
Good video 🤓👍
we got the 31 and 130 series cedrics in Canada in very small numbers.. I own 3 31 series sedans. We got them both in wagon as well.
Fair play Ian for salvaging anything at all from that pile of rust, a shame with it being so rare, but even the almighty would have problems bringing that back to life! I reckon Marky boy at Baxenden would bring it back to life though..
boss amazing vid , sad though to see some very rare classics just in piles of rust
What a shame to see such a rare car in that shape. I hope that when you went back you nabbed the tailgate glass, as that is quite likely the hardest thing to find now. That and the tailgate trim, which looked quite restorable. On that Volvo 145, the tailgate glass is almost unobtainium. Both tailgate glasses for the 140/240/260 Estates are out of production. It took me three years of looking to find a larger one from 1990-1993.
I remember the video you did on the Cedric, and thought then what a great foundation for an Estate that would be. It certainly was a lovely car when new. I have a feeling that a lot of those cars will be leaving in pieces to go to the shredder. Not much left to save on most of them
She’ll be delighted to see you bring this home! 😳🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
More videos like this please!!
Nice video 📹 ian
That's just purrfect!
Great job on saving those parts - all valuable to someone at some point! Did you stop off at Boots on the way home to enquire about industrial strength Germolene?? 👍🏻
What a bloody shame. That was once such a cool car and now it'll probably be swept up and transported away in a number of bin bags. At least you managed to get some super-rare bits from it and by the looks of it you got pretty much everything that was of any use.
Some Cedric estates had the truly epic feature of roll down side windows in the rear cargo area. This one seems to lack those.
Didn't watch it all did you...
Datsun badge, grab it and make for the hills.
I would have loved to see more of the ford escort van but the datsun was amazing shame it was so rusted that you couldn't save more
'It's such a rare car and we're absolutely ruining it'....erm, i think that ship sailed a few decades ago 😂
Won't somebody think of the brambles! You should tell Time Team there's something interesting under all those cars and get them to de-bramble the field for you.