1000s OF RARE CLASSIC CARS LEFT TO ROT (scrappage scheme graveyard) 2018
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2018
- as promised here is the UK scrappage scheme video!!! let me first start off by saying this was very hard to walk away from. Being a classic car enthusiast it was pretty heartbreaking to see all that potential Saturday to rot in eventually become complete scrap. Why are we still here? I have no idea it's something I would love to find out maybe the government knew these ones were going to be valuable in a few years or maybe they're just the last one's to go through the crusher, let me know what you think in the comments below.
A car scappage scheme was introduced in Germany on 13 February 1999 and then in France and Italy. Following a record fall in car sales in the UK and associated redundancies accompanied by lobbying by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders on behalf of UK car manufacturers with support from the UK scheme was introduced in the 2009 United Kingdom Budget on 22 April 2009 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling. The scheme was supported by Lord Mandelson, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Geoff Hoon, the Secretary of State for Transport.
In September 2009 a further £100m was made available to the scheme which was extended until the end of February 2010.
The scheme had been due to run out of money during October and varies bodies including Engineering Employers' Federation, Uniteand the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders had lobbied for an extension which was announced by Lord Mandelson at the Labour party conference.
On 5 February 2010 the scheme was extended by a month to run until the end of March 2010 or until the funds were exhausted. In the same month the government announced a £230m 'Plug-in car Grant' scheme to provide a £5,000 grant towards the purchase of plug-in electric cars - the scheme will start in January 2011. A separate scheme, 'Plugged-In Places' will provide some 11,000 charging points in selected cities over the next three years.
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Nice old cars I can understand ready for scrapyard but new cars Mercedes etc ? Unless there’s a conspiracy going on to keep prices high?
There's no way I could leave those cars sitting like that. I am a law abiding citizen but these cars deserve better than this. It's probably a pick n pull parts place but the bodies on these cars look like they are ready for restoration. If I could win the lottery it wouldn't pay me to find a place like this because I'd buy everything, even the property.
Does anybody know who owns these cars I would like to purchase at least 12 Of them that I seen please comment back
but is there any rs2000?????????????
It must be generational but I can't believe you've passed loads of classic triumphs ✌️
Not generational I’m 14 and I love them so much
Our first car was a triumph 1500
@@freddieparrydrums24, and I love them as well!
I also love all the old Land rovers in Mercedes that they passed.
Those are way too valuable and desirable to be scrapped!
This is insane- many of those classics like the land rovers are in huge demand used and valuable.
Our throwaway society gone nuts
Seems.... They needed to reduce our supply so that there'd be artificially increased demand. The automakers make money on the inflated vehicle prices (less competition because less available cars in the market).....and they also make money by the gov shelling out the taxpayer money.... too big to fail,,,,,,,, why don't us taxpayers get some of our own lobbyists. damn
Dont sit there any think all these got scrapped, they found their way back onto the market trust me, someone made a lot of money
@@mikejennings7779 except they didnt. This isnt some snapshot in time. Thise pile of cars is years old and still there.
None of these cars could ever be made road legal ever again. Maybe if they were exported or something, idk.
@@Nbomber well if you look into it a lot got parted out, some were sold......
I'm crying there's so many classics like a 1940 MG I saw, all desting to be scraped.. 😕😕
Misguided scrappage scheme: scrap a frugal lightweight old car that does 45mpg and buy a new bloated SUV that has lower emissions on paper based on cheating the standard tests, but in use is far worse.
how very true
Just like in the USA, the only reason these schemes were made is for billionaires to profit and the economy to rise. Just like in America, the people buying these new cars at inflated interest loans could not afford them and defaulted on the loans and the cars got repossessed anyway, leading them back to the used car market. All it did was make common cars exceedingly rare and more expensive.
These types of vehicles that are manufactured and is waiting to be sold, purchased by buyers, needs to be computed, inventory management should be conducted/performed in order for them to be sold, by their respective manufacturers, and to clear up space. They are created/manufactured to provide employment, and all the necessary procedures needs to be completed for them not to be declared a loss, since it is too costly for those to be declared a loss. It should be sold as is where is, and declared with proper documentation for further details for claims, insurance by the insurers. Those are to be liquidated for them to be cleared in their respective company makers books.
Well done guys, this is the sort of stuff that needs to be made public.
What needs making public
@@mimik5856 the fact that these cars get destroyed without any second chances for them to be restored by enthusiasts
@@HarryZ37000axd surely the original owners decided their fate...
Can't believe you walked straight past a MK1 Triumph 2000 and a Rover P4, a Triumph 1300 FWD, Reliant SS1 and a 3.5 Rover SD1, thems is proper classic cars and that Monza next to the Escort is a fairly rare motor over here with the digi dash and Recaro interior and a big whopping 3.0 litre engine too O.o
Ian Watson
Obviously only interested in 80`s and 90`s Shiite not real old shite
More interested in foreign stuff than British cars too, which is a real shame as he's British himself.
as much as i agree with you fella ..the car you think and so do a few others is a monza next to the escort is not A monza at all ..I have one in bronze ..if you look close at the grill badge you will see its a pontiac not an Opel badge who made Monzas ( vaxuall didnt ) also as he goes around the rear of the car you can see the name of the car on the bumper lower right corner but i carnt quite make it out ..The Monza GSE was the fast Back And the Vauxall senator saloon almost the same car ...the traffic police in the UK used the senator and Rover SD1 back in the good old days seems like this lad was only interested in jap crap and beemers
Yonni Bengurion there is a vauxhall Monza, because there used to be one for sale on auto trader UK.
vauxall Royalle -opel senator (even tho they where badged as vauxall ) and opel monza ..the royalle was a posh saloon ..the senator as we all know was also a saloon and the monza gse is a fast back...all 3 where made in germany by opel with the base saloons going to vauxall Luton to be finished to british spec i have a monza and if the guy on auto trader is selling a monza then its a opel trust me ..do you have the ad details ? id be very interested in it
I can't believe the classic car lobby, the magazines etc haven't got on to this and appealed to have these cars released so they can be purchased, up-cycled, restored and whatever (imagine prisoners being put to work on them for example or a start up scheme for the unemployed?) The UK Scrappage Scheme was a total con funded by the big business giants behind the market in new cars. It's ridiculous that there's million of pounds worth of vehicles there waiting to be crushed which could be re-used whilst at the same time we, the general public, are badgered in to recycling food scraps and 5p plastic bags.........nothing makes sense in this world any longer, it's such a shame.
It's absolutely absurd! Ludicrous!
Wanna buy some legally 😅
@@beautifulcatastrophe Wanna buy some what legally? Please explain........
Just for info... the really old cars at 17:58 are a pair of Daimler Conquest's .. made from 1953 to 1958 - classic old English fodder... very rare now
That was INSANE to see all those vehicles simply going to waste. And a lot of them could still be used too. What a shame.
nothing feels better then saving a classic car
Walked past lots of genuine classic cars and got all excited by a base model Escort with a boy racer paint job? Odd
Was a genuine RS. An RS2000 to be precise.
@boostedsil40 They were 150bhp and while not the fastest car around they were an underrated car and a decent drive. Some purists would say it wasn't a 'proper' RS though.
Even the Chevrolet beretta sitting beside that escort was better lol
Chilli Sauce no it was not at all, it was a replica; the exhaust was from a 1.4 or 1.6lt car and not a genuine RS. Also genuine RS’s didn’t have a sunroof.
No just a petrolhead
Finally, i came across a real live well filmed new/classic car graveyard Great Job!!
Yesss! The 300 Zx is one of my favorites as well. The ass end looks so good lol
I heard that some main dealers are now at least offering certain classics for parts to car clubs or heritage groups that come in under the scrappage scheme before they are actually crushed. As a petrol head myself this video was heartbreaking.
He knows what he likes, just cuz he passed what you like doesn't mean you should bag him. Thanks for the vid, very cool.
1988 RX-7 Red was ignored while screaming look its Volkswagen golf convertible
i know right who gives a fuck about Peugeot and vw ford
88 rx7 was my first car.
And an S14a
Brapbrapbrap
yeah i noticied that one too, that the best one or the 300ZX
The goverment needs to introduce a save the old car scheme. All those old cars can be then auctioned off and restored. Scrap all the new ones they all look the same anyway lol
That will not happen till the restorer market can out bribe the new car manufacturers.
could"t agree more, to hell with modern cars in this era. its a damn shame to scrap great classic cars from 50-90 to amazing to be destroy, and they could be worth thousands of £ if restored. people who are passionate about very old cars can earn a fortune on them.
Walks right past two rolls-royce's while freaking out about a escort?
brian perry - rolls Royce’s ? Do you mean the two Daimler’s? I believe them to be circa 1953 Conquests
@@iamthebroker - I could be wrong but they looked like a Roles Royce when I saw it,either way it is a classic luxury car and probably worth a few more pounds than the others ...still a great video
Yep. Daimlers.
Old ford's never die
Those definitely weren't Rollers
Went last year and got arrested. Dogs everywhere when we went. Crazy how you can just walk in after doing a bit of research on the site. They have around 4 dog handlers onsite at 1 time. 24hour CCTV being watched from the cabin up at the entrance. Unfortunately we didn't get all the way down to some of the classics but what a place. Great video:)
Whrre is this place?
@@TheFeroza Bedford. Put Thurleigh Vehicle Storage into Google maps and turn on satellite view.
The security people are mostly not that bothered about people just looking around but I bet if anyone tried to remove any parts from the cars they would be out of there vans and after you in a flash I walk my dog on an old RAF camp and sometimes we bump in to a guard with a dog and they do not mind us walking around as if we see anyone smashing something up we will let them now.
Having owned classic minis, a Beetle and a Land rover it's sad to see then slowly deteriorating. However one other thing I find sad is that there is a whole generation of cars that have disappeared from our roads. There are now probably less Mk1 & 2 Mondeos, Cavaliers, Sierras etc than road worthy classic Beetles, Golfs, MGBs etc. In 30 years time we may regard an early Mondeo as a classic and they will be rare! Boring maybe, but then so were Cortinas & Escorts 25 years ago.
to true, i drive an EP81 Toyota Starlet, common as much once, now less than 200 are road registered
Yes! You've hit the nail on the head. I've a classic mid60s bug and an early 00s polo. I'm reckoning my polo will be rarer than my bug because of this govt nonsense and staffing away taxpayer cash.
Whole green/clean b.s. just isn't economical, only benefits a few folk/companies.
Banger racing has mostly used mk1 mondeos
I drive a 1972 Hillman Avenger. Once they were everywhere. Not your "obvious" classic, but it really gets noticed.
Storm The Scrappage Scheme Graveyard, They Can't Stop All Of Us!
theft not good
@@spacexvanityprojectslimite3315 its just big bin diving
@@spacexvanityprojectslimite3315 How do you think the scum in government got them all in the first instance? Certainly wasn't by being honest & truthful with the people, because according to those scummy gits, all those "scrappage" vehicles were meant to be completely destroyed and the metal recycled, so when someone takes back something that was originally taken from them, it can hardly be called theft ya drongo!
I say also storm it!!!!!!!
@@1t_wasnt_me exactly well said
What a shame you ignored so many classics of the 60's & 70's.
And 40s!
P6 and SD1
That was amazing! Would have loved to explore that place with my drone.
Thanks for sharing sir! 👍
I'm very interested, whilst many of those older cars were to be scrapped, whilst watching the beginning 1:11 and the end of the video at 20:50, after going onto check the MOT website, many of those brand new (diesel) cars filmed there have since had their first MOT's and are back on the road so they would of been presumably temporarily stored there, not waiting to be scrapped - that would of been one reason security was so high there lol
My hubby's been there driving a car transporter picking up cars.
I love all the old cars and the defenders. Loads of money in them 😀
Mk 5 rs 2000 dude! That is criminal-so many classic cars left there to rot, such a shame. Great vid though guys👌
Mike Dowland its not a cosworth so calm down
@@karlhollywood453it's still a mk 5 rs2000
When's the last time you've seen one drive past you
The whole scrapage scheme is a farce and there isn't any scientific evidence that shows it benefits the environment. A new car will use the equivalent to 50 barrels of oil (at 35 gallons per barrel) which would keep my 30 year old land rover defender (470,000 miles on the clock) in diesel for nearly 4 years (at 15000 miles per year). The intended design life for nearly all European cars is only 8 years and we produce over 17 million of them every year. You also have to take in to consideration that modern cars are harder to recycle with complex alloys and carbon steels as well as huge amounts of plastics and non recyclables . Just think of all those touch screens, soft close door automated tailgaters 20 speaker entertainment systems, air bags and whole host of other pointless (may be not the air bags) crap that that increase the carbon footprint of modern vehicles !
Half of those cars weren't even part of the scrappage scheme as the value of the cars such as the 1.6gti's would at the time have far outstripped that of the scrappage scheme offer.
Totally agree, it’s all just about money making not the environment
It was likely to help bring money in during the height of the recession.
Funny thing about it, is that the cars that these were chucked in for, are now in getting scrapped now. So that 08 /09 plater focus that replaced a R reg escort. 10 years later that 08 /09 plater focus will be now sitting on a racking in a scrap yard or even bailed. While the escort it replaced is still here in the field.
But you know where is this place pls help me to find it
On so many levels, scrappage was a scandal. If you remember, cars were legally required to be roadworthy at the point of trading in to qualify for the scheme and around 400,000 went through the scheme. The vast majority of these would have made perfectly respectable used cars. I remember a 2 year period back then when my local scrapyard was chock full of good roadworthy cars, a lot of them with in-date tax discs.
Also, for a man who claims an entusiasm for JDM imports, he ignored and walked past a Toyota Sera, a pretty little car whose gullwing(ish) doors were the direct inspiration for those on Gordon Murray's McLaren F1, without even mentioning it. Only around 15,000 were ever produced over a 6 year period and they are now incredibly rare.
I'm almost crying at this all those classics 😪
The cars you're ignoring are much more interesting.
My thoughts exactly. Just walked past a Toyota Sera,Triumph 2000, Reliant Scimitar SS1 yet getting a hard on at the sight of an Escort mkIV.
@@MajorKlanga exactly, spunked up on a bloody escort lol....
@@MajorKlanga I know! I'm jumping up and down "OVER THERE!!" "LOOK BEHIND YOU!!!"
So true! There are literally 100's of rare and unusual cars there but these guys are getting all heated up over Porsche 944's, Beetles, BMW's, and an Escort.
Beetles should have went right straight to the crusher, the 944's right behind them.l
I'm a fairly new car enthusiast and it hurts seeing all those cars just sit there... So much potential there.
The amount of Mg’s and Land rovers there is so sad 😞
I know this video is 2 years old now but that is a Manheim Auction site which is why all those nearly new cars are there. I recognised the site as my brother used to work for Manheim at this site.
I expect all of those new German cars were part of the Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal.
I dont know why but i wanna steal these cars
I too
its common to want to, its just millions of pounds just sat there.
me toooooooo
Me too and I’m sure no one would know they are missing
you and a line of people
I don't even have a car ...😶😶 watching this make me sad😭😭
This is absolute madness!!! What are they doing letting these things rust
THE OLD CARS ARE BETTER THAN THE CRAP BEING MADE NOW 👍
Carl Wakeling agreed and the Pontiac as well, reminds me of knight rider
So true
You’ve clearly never driven in a VW Beetle!
Yeah all the new cars are very predictable and boring, to be honest I rather have a slight unreliable car than a reliable one
SirDerpkins damn right. An old car is exciting, something you look after; every journey is an adventure. Can’t think of anything more boring than getting a new car. Let’s not forget a complete waste of money in depreciation
Oh, those Rover P6s and the 3500. That's our motoring heritage there, rotting away on an abandoned airport :( To think these classic British beauties were most likely traded in for Hyundai i10s and Kias that are themselves now probably one expensive repair away from the crusher. I have an '82 Volvo 240 - apparently almost a thousand of those were surrendered during the scrappage scheme, but I guess from this footage they've all long ago been crushed :( JFC we're a wasteful species.
A restorer's paradise. Not only one, but several old Minis. This clip will have most certainly given a whole lot of free publicity.
Really cool video... Literally can't believe all those cars were left there!!!
I was never even aware of this . It shocks & disgusts me to see so much wastage. More exposure is needed
Can u buy out bud?
It's nothing to do with scrappage scheme - the site is at Thurleigh Airfield in Bedofrd - it's massive logistics hub for Paragon Automotive. The new cars are ready for distribution, the 1-3 year old cars are ex-fleet/lease and the older vehicles are from CoPart salvage.
I'm there once a month as part of the fleet I manage to inspect end of lease vehicles.
Mk1 golfs..... trans am...... 300zx...... old fleet cars 😂😂😂 don't talk wet. Search tops gear scrappage scheme they were here back in 2010.
@@granto6738 you cant buy anything there they are technically scrapped
Shocking 🤯
Broke my heart this vid! wot a wast!.
So sad to see all these classics of my youth just rotting away. Each has a story to tell, once somebody's "Pride & Joy" with happy memories attached to them. Probably they became too uneconomical to repair by their last owners.
It was quite amusing to observe his excitement over GTI’s and Escorts when there were so many other classics in that lot. Oh well, to each his own !
Brought a tear to my eye :(
It's a shame seeing all those incredible classics going to waste.
I'm quite surprised there's a bunch of 17 plate cars on there, surely they could be sold on the 2nd hand market
I have to ask, where is it
That is pretty heartbreaking! So much waste, so many classic cars I would love and can't afford or find. And they are just left to rott.
Between insurance and such, I was forced to let a perfect car go. Got an absurd renewal for no reason and then because of the age of the car could not find anyone to insure it or they would give me a stupid quote to walk.
It's a right shame and seeing that genuinely makes me feel sad and sick. What a f**king waste of history in some cases
Some great work here boys, even if some of your definitions of classic differ to mine.
What price the carbon footprint scrapping many of these vehicles that have loads of life left in them.
Shame on HMG for the scheme & even more shame on some of the previus owners.
Such a waste of precious metal. They tried that here in America years ago, and called it "cash for clunkers". Many a good machine went to waste back then because of government B.S. They made sure none of them ever ran again by pouring some sort of acid into the engine to permanently disable it. Truly a sad time in auto history.
Valen Greymoon I remember that, you couldn't even get parts off before they crushed them....
Yep, just a pathetic attempt at getting rid of good old cars for economic crap.
yep and this is what's left, there was a few comments in a few classic car mags might see this site filling up more with stupid MOT laws now
Seems they don't want people to restore / drive classic cars.
Valen I remember that scheme here in the States. Bringing in gas guzzlers so people could "clean the air AND save gas." Such a waste of beautiful autos.
Didn’t know there were so many scrappage scheme gems at Bedford autodrome!
I worked at a BMW main dealer during the scrappage period. I was discussed at some of the cars traded in.
I always thought I bet some of the nicer stuff didn’t get scrapped. So people must have done well out of that deal back then.
jesus christ this absolutely hurts my heart as a jdm fan to see all these z32's, silvia's, s13's and that rx-7 just staying the for who knows how long under the sun. s13 180/200/240sx is one of my dream cars and seeing any just rotting away somewhere completely abandoned is so sad and depressing especially after looking up how much these cost today even in bad shape. i really wish i was born like 10 years sooner so i could grab one at a neat price back in early 2010's.
If someone can tell me where this place is exactly then I will start a petition to have the classics saved
I think someone said RAF thurleigh
I can watch blood guts and Gore but I can't bring myself to watch this video!
Me neither... I'm just reading comments
Well done and thank you for exposing all this. Would be lovely to get somebody who knows something about classic cars to do a voice-over.
Amazing place. Some great old classics out there.
Amazing ..beautiful classic cars ..loved watching it ..brill
This is Absolute Sacralige.
So Wrong, What the Hell were the Government thinking of?
This is our Heritage for Lords Sake 👏
Thanks big time Guy's, for Highlighting this
The "government" is run by parasites, it's all they know.
Why not auction the cars? Under certain conditions:
- 100% Road legal Restauration by x date.
- Only to be sold in parts.
- Only for export. Imagine how many foreign collectors or dealers would be dying to get their hands on some of the cars/ parts. US dealers make tons of money annually exporting used cars to Lain America and Africa!
That inventory should be worth millions in spare parts!!!
Governments and their "odd" decisions To phrase it nicely...
since most of that cars are right steers foreign collectors could do a shite with them
Freddy Chale
bwexit loons in power shaking up the country for their own ends. 'Odd' decisions again!
Just up from the boy raced escort that was made to look like an RS was a Alfa Romeo spider..and you didn't notice it!!..So much more desirable !!
Three Toyota soarer sitting there makes me cry😭😭😭
You will probibly find the security gards are stripping the old cars for extra cash
100% right
@Mookie Conster glorious leader of flipflopistan i cry when i see a mercy :(
Gaurds
Too right. My motto: No perk, no work.
yeah that's a inside job that.
The way these corporations run things is sick & criminal.
Bruntingthorpe Airfield nr Lutterworth is also used for storing 1,000's of cars!!
@Abraham Shekelbergstien It's capitalism because the main beneficiaries were International Corporation's. Socialism is when the main beneficiary is meant to be the people.
@@plottwist1733 ppppp
" Roll up , roll up, take your pick guys " !! 🤣
Your Talking about run of the mill golfs and escorts and miss the 40’s MG and TR6, MGB. My car is the one you wanted to see is an E30 325i convertible in Brozit 😎
There are some serious monsters out there, how could you kill most of these cars :(
This video made me cry. Sad sad sad. It's shocking the amount of decent (if old) cars just left to rot.
While out there some people don't have cars
I enjoyed this thanks for uploading
I started looking up some of these number plates on a "car check " website .
The first 5 or 6 came back as "no vehicle found", which makes sense as they've been classed as scrapped (but they haven't been!), But then I typed in ytd 728 (@4.20) and found it still registered .
it had passed all 3 recorded m.o.t's between 5/07 and 7/10, but had no tax data.
Amazingly, after first being registered in 1970, it only had done 9920 miles before the 07 m.o.t and 10717 at It's last.
Why is it here?
@Brett Ellis and now 2 years after your post this car (YTD 728) also comes up as "Vehicle details could not be found"
@@thestarmusic thanks for the update after all this time. It's weird how/why things like this happen.
@@Buffalo31 it's still there, YTD 728H, you missed off the H but it's still on DVLA site
That’s unbelievable if I lived near there would be a lot less cars sitting about
cootersmy19 Seconds That 😂😂👊🏻
SUBLOW SUBSTEP I'll give u guys a hand moving some cars
Let’s All Do It ... What’s The Worst That Could Happen 🤷🏻♂️🙂
cootersmy19 i agree mate.
cootersmy19 where is the place send me the postcode if you can mate..
3:46 Very rare JDM Toyota Sera
Nachowskip 8632 how much ya wanna bet it still runs 😂👌
@@abrahamestrada2206 Toyota's never die fam...
Good catch!
the motors are out tho
Loved my Sera. Back in 98 there were many times cosworth owners would get salty when I popped the doors open. Projection headlamps, gullwing doors front bucket seats, 10 speaker surround sound system from factory. Aircon. Even had the 'new' feature of turning on the fog light on the side that you were indicating of at slow speed.
Shame the 1.5l engine wasn't the most powerful, although some owners swapped this out for a turbo
I remember watching this when you first dropped it.. May have seen couple other sightings of it a while back... Does anyone know if its still exactly like this now or if they've done anything with them yet? Absolutely madness tbh! Alot of scrap there let's be honest but a few absolute gems there too! Shame if they never see the road again. Let me know what it's like now 2 years on from this video????
Honestly, why cant you just take one? Theyre just sitting there. Surely by taking them, youre recycling them and helping the government
That would be stealing.
These have also been noted down as scrapped. Meaning they are not allowed on the rod anymore
Great video. I think we share similar views on cars with the sounds of it, I bet you'd be great to have a drink with and chat cars. My first car was a white Vauxhall Nova SR, an old 'D' reg, was 12 years old when I bought it. I then bought a Nova that was originally a 1.2 but previous owners put in a 1.6 astra engine, that thing absolutely flew (oddly it had a 4 speed gearbox and I think it was dangerous as well), you could set off in 3rd lol. Man it was different times back then, cars had more character. I also had a 309 GTi 1.9. That was the fastest thing I'd ever driven at that time, was like a missile and remember paying something stupid like 2 grand to insure it. I bought it when it had already done over 120,000 miles and one day I floored it out of the local bowling alley car park and got a box full of neutrals and bits of the gearbox falling out on the road, and that was the end of that as I sold it for peanuts to someone who towed it away, RIP. I don't know what I was thinking but I bought a Ford Ka after that. I later owned a Saxo VTR, a 206 GTi and a Clio Sport 172 Cup but they were like the cars at the beginning of a new age of car ownership and they didn't really have that same feel as the oldies, although the Clio had an edgy rawness to it. My dad also owned a mk5 Escort XR3i which was boss, that RS (was it a real RS? it had that replica feel to it but could be wrong, guess you wouldn't know without popping the bonnet, if an engine is even still in it) but yeah that reminded me of it. Good times.
It's crazy how much these classic cars are worth now, you sometimes see old mk 1 Golf GTi's for sale for close to £30,000. I saw a Nova GSi on Auto Trader a few months back and that was close to £10,000.
I never owned a German car until about 5 years ago when I bought an Audi A3 and that reignited my love for proper cars again. Something about the German build quality grabbed me again, stirred that passion I had back in the Nova and Peugeot GTi days so last year I thought what the hell and bought myself a new mk 7 Golf 'R', which is a proper weapon. Owning a Golf after owning all those other cars makes me wonder if I'd just bought a mk1 or mk2 Golf back at the start, would I ever have driven anything else? VW/Audi for life now!
So I've just re-read what I posted above and realised I wrote a bit of an essay, hope you didn't mind. Seeing all those cars just got me thinking and reminiscing. I'd love to buy an old mk1 Golf now and do it up, drive it on weekends. Ahh, cars hey. What we gonna do when they ban petrol and diesel!?
Cheers, Malc.
this may be the most depressing thing i have ever seen
More depressing than the last few days of summer
More depressing than the sight of Theresa May
More depressing than running out of weed
i was 13 in 2009 when this scheme was announced and i remember it being heart breaking seeing the images of all these cars awaiting theyre doom. i remember someone saying "a 205 gti?" while i was focused on the escorts and silvias as the camera panned around. i was familiar with the late 90s and early 00s cars and didnt realise how special those peugeots were. there are so many that cars would be worth a fortune if they could be saved.
That's so sad bro. I would so much save them all but I know it's impossible and a lot of them will just sit there until they'll be scraped 😭
I haven't read all the comments, or watched the whole video, but it doesn't look like a random selection of cars waiting to be scrapped. It seems the more notable vehicles have been quite carefully grouped by manufacturer and model, presumably for the purposes of salvage and reclaim, surely?
Awesome, loved this one. Thanks for sharing :o)
This is heart breaking to see all these classic 60s, 70s and 80s motors going to pot.
Now this is an interesting video upload, well done sir.
Even in 1999 some of those cars would have already been desirable classics and probably worth more than the scrap value. Many of the "new" cars that replaced them have themselves probably been scrapped.
Not 1999. 2009/10. Nobody would have scrapped an e38 in 1999 lol.
The scrappage scheme was an awful idea that got rid of a lot of retro gems that people didn’t realise what they had, they released a list a few years back of what was scrapped and it was heartbreaking.
I think those ones left are definitely being stripped for spares, I would bet others were too before being crushed.
It's a strange one really. It was good in a way, it definitely gave a boost to the UK car industry. Of course the downside is these classics but you have to ask if they had stayed on the road would they have survived this long anyway? Most of them perhaps would have just ended up at a scrapyard anyway. In a strange way, by placing them in the scrappage scheme they have oddly saved them as a time capsule of sorts. If only they could be restored. I bet they'd sell them easy enough if they held an auction. But the VIN's will be wiped now and down as officially scrapped so I guess that isn't going to happen.
Diesel cars also became much more popular after the scrappage scheme and now they have decided diesel is the devil. So maybe we'd have been better off with all those petrols on the road instead.
I’d rather they get looted for parts or striped by who ever owns them , rather than just crushed for metal
Malc Walker whats funny about that is, one of the country’s that banned diesel already, had test done and it turns out pollution raised 😂
Do one i have a feeling that is the case but now the cars dont belong to the gov as the scheme ended in 2010, the scrap company’s that own the cars have the only say when it comes to putting any of the cars on the road. Chances are they would rather crush them for metal(to make there money) rather then sell the cars for less then what they would make out of them.
kieran farrell the crushed cars are only worth a few hundred dollars 500 at the most for the heaviest. Most of those cars were worth far more sold for parts then crushed.
nahhh those s13 and s14 200sx's are so sad, they could be easily sold off and used for track use
This is Brian Keenan. The u.s. had a program similar to this during the Obama era. It was called "Cars For Cash" . Government installed and sanctioned program that offered about 2000 dollars (If my memory serves me), off on the purchase of a new car on any trade in. Many people took classic cars in to buy new cars. Nobody realized until it was too late , But the dealerships were instructed to pour something into the gas tanks and permanently ruin these classic trade ins. The junkyards were purged of cars and probably sent them to China or someplace to be made into metal for cars, etc. This same thing happened after WW2, we sent scrap metal to Japan to spark their economy. The recent Cars for Cash gimmick ruined the availability of parts for classic cars and drove remaining collected car prices through the ceiling. So, Now Joe Biden's 67 corvette is worth much much more money. Thanks for posting this.
Just done a reg check on some of the cars that you can see in the video, and some are showing taxed and mot'd, some done within the last few weeks of me writing this comment (28/03/2020)
Some cars must be there for storage
Fair play
sure for storage,,,,,,,,,,,,,,forever storage!
I trued to check a couple of the older cars like the daimer and the mg and a couple more, but it always said: "vehicle etails could not be found" I wonder why.
I have done the same with a few of the vans, one just had an MOT a few month ago.
Maybe been resold or the registration plates themselves
I feel sick watching that... how do we buy 1 back...
You don't, That was the point of the program.
Cough the dosh?
simply steal it
You don't, they just want you to suffer,, bitch!
all is sale`s some day but what are the condition that day...
This was hard to watch 😭
My parents had a Rabbit for some years when i was a kid in 90's. Absolutely STUNNING little rocket of a car, black with red vinyl seats. I was devastated when they sold it. The family that bought it from us have kept it in their family and refuse to sell it. I remind my parents periodically of the huge mistake they made. I will ONE DAY own another again.
wow !!! vw corrado"s in there !!! ive had 2 of them .. it brings a tear to my eye to see all them old classics going to waste !! but i didnt see any vw caddy pickup mk1"s in there pphheeww !!!
3:20 is a rubbish Mk5 Escort. You’re ignoring so many proper classics and drooling over crap.
- it’s still rubbish though my new golf gti would smoke it
Although Ken Blocks Escort is sick
@@jakebolton983 A brand new Golf GTI would smoke a 20 year old Escort? Well no shit Sherlock... You'd still have a lot more fun in the Escort though and it'll turn more heads.. I should know.. I own one 😉😉
That's an RS2000. Not the worst mk5 Escort.
It’s not about the proper cars!!! He’s went to the MK5 Escort because it was a classic when he was growing up. Seeing a MK5 Escort these days is every middle age mans dream!
Rs escort!!!!!
WE FOUND MORE ABANDONED CLASSIC RARE CARS HERE!!!
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are there any more tasty nissans there?
The escort is a mk5 rs2000
Said nothing about the soarer/sc300
It's criminal 90% seem very good Nick. ALL to sell you a new piece of shit or electric rubbish think if all the skill and craftmanship and the cost to build
these BEAUTIFUL MOTORS. I WONDER IF SOME ARE WHAT HAVE BEEN CONFISCATED FOR PARKING OR NO INSURANCE CASES .
I wonder is this a WW2 allied airstrip?
Just Brilliant, brings back memories being young and cool 😎 and sitting in these amazing now classics for a drive, such unique styles you don’t get these days, I love classics, and miss my old 1973 MGB GT, in Racing Green with chrome, that was my baby.
I watch alot of Exploring with Fighter's on my xbox always enjoy watching and even got afew of my friends into watching as well
The race car parts at the end are from the MSV experience centre which operates there. You can see the race circuit to the left of your drone shots. The front end was from the Palmer Jaguar, two seater open cockpit sports prototype. There was also a single seater nose cone, Formula Palmer Audi like an F3 car with an Audi engine. Couldn’t tell you about the quarter panel. My guess is the off road track was or s linked to that as some kind of off road experience.
Who in their bloody right mind would scrap a Land Rover, those defenders are worth £10k plus, that series 3 is worth £5k plus. Wtf.
toby topp maybe at the time they were scrapped they weren’t worth as much? I’m not too sure on the details of this scrappage scheme and when it started
They were forced I think
Yeah cupple of screw drivers a battery and a gal of red on the way ☺
All land rovers are scrap
@@temsbab1565 no they got 2k, no-one was forced, i never PXs my 90s fiesta
This is why another recession is guaranteed. All those scrappage cars would’ve been replaced with PCP deals. The 2015 cars are the returning PCPs that they can’t allow onto the market else risking a crash in the used car market. So a car is now pretty much unsellable once the PCP deal ends and the financial merry-go-round starts again. Madness. Great vid 👍🏻
Great vid. My dad was sickened watching this and all those cars going to waste
This is Thurleigh in Bedford. The newer cars are the lease cars that are then repaired/re painted and then sent to resale. Anyone buying a 1-3 year old car off a dealer is likely buying one of these.
Funny that you walked right by a Pontiac Firebird a car you do not see in the UK.
Not only a firebird...its a GTA trans Am........rare spoiler....probably a high optioned car....nice find....sad its rotting away
They had never seen one before. Look, It's what, a Pontiac!? I don't blame them, it's rare in Europe.
They shite
We don't see them cos we have corners!
Cos it’s a shitty Pontiac.
cool seeing the 91 pontiac firebird in the uk . i have a 94 pontiac firebird TA fun car. great video