Flynn's Wrecking Yard: Classic Restos - Series 49
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- Опубліковано 2 гру 2024
- For restorers and repairers of older cars and classics, a 20-acre wrecking yard is a field of dreams. Fletch travels to Flynn's Wrecking Yard in Cooma, NSW - a family business that dates back to 1955 and reported to be the biggest wrecking yard in the southern hemisphere. With 4,000 vehicles spread across the property and a wide choice of makes and models from as far back as 1930.
Wayne tells how his father Flynn began the wrecking business as a sideline while an apprentice motor mechanic in Cooma. Over time he progressively accumulated more and more vehicles before acquiring the 20 acres of land just outside Cooma that is now Flynn's Wrecking Yard.
Today apart from the endless trail of motoring enthusiast restorers and repairers who spend their time combing through the yard, tourists also enjoy the adventure it offers. It's a travel back in time, rediscovering vehicles and great memories of earlier times.
After 75 years as a family business, Wayne says "times up". He is looking to retire and plans to sell the business, hoping to find another like-minded individual or group to take it on into the future. The alternative is the crushers, and that for Wayne is the last resort because once they are gone, they're gone forever. Cooma is a great location to live, and the business attracts purchasers from around Australia and overseas.
There is a story or a soul behind every car in the yard. As Fletch puts it, "they would rather see a tree grow through a vehicle out here than put through the crusher". Wayne credits his wife Vicki for lots of the hard work in keeping the family business going and says, "behind every good man is a great woman."
We wish Wayne and Vicki the best of luck finding a new owner to keep Flynn's Wrecking Yard on the map.
Fletch loves wrecking yards, and Flynn's brings back great memories of the wrecking yards they visited on his US trips, one in particular in Denver, Colorado, and he takes us back there to recount some great memories.
Congratulations, Fletch, on this your 700th episode. Keep them coming.
I really wished you could have also included Dad in the Flynn’s interview
His 92 & would tell you a story or two …. Our times in the Yard were very memorable… good work Wayne & Vicki let’s hope it stays a complete Yard for many years to come
Annie Flynn. I have to say i have had the honour of meeting your father and i remember him driving his stock car at Moruya speedway
If I had the money, I'd pack my spanners and be there in a flash! Great vid Fletch
Well done Fletch on 700 episodes. Just the beginning for you I hope :)
Good for you wow 700 episodes . Never get tired of your shows. Your a genuine polite and humerus person and it comes across on the screen. Many more
Bill in Fort Wayne Indiana USA
Proud to have been watching since number 1!,🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🚗🚚🏍
Congrats FLETCH AND CREW! ! !
Cadogan is a poor no...... to you and your productions showing great respect to all 100% of the time.
LONG LIVE FLETCH! ! !
Well done the Flynn's!
He seems like such a nice man.
Congratulation Fletch and thanks for giving us the show for so many years!!
Astonishing achievement!
When I was a kid we used to boat race. Old Jimmy Flynn was one of the blokes we used to race against. Have also bought cars and from the wrecking yard back in the early 90's
700 shows wow and fletch doesn’t look a day over sixty
Well done 👍👍👍
Very good Fletch. I miss those US wrecking yards. We are overdue for another visit.
Brings back memories of growing up in A&A wreckers thanks Fletch and the crew 700 wow 👌
Thanks Fletch. I never new this yard existed, it's like a grown mans playground, the magic feeling you get when walking around there would give me goosebumps!
another great episode!
Happy 700th, Fletch, well done, looking forward to the
next 700.
What a dream it would be to own such a business as Flynn's.
If I had kept every car I bought, I'd be fairly close.
CONGRATS Fletch, looking forward to 700 more episodes! 🚙 💨
that aussi wreckers was the best, good work fletch great show, i been watching for years
Love Flynn's , used to purchase parts in the 80s
I was there about 15 years ago, stayed at the Alpine Hotel in Cooma, loved it, really want to go back one day for another walk around.
Good on yu sport watched nearly every one of em lived every one of em
I was in cooma one winter years ago' I never imagined anywhere in Australia could be that cold.
I learnt to drive in that yard in 1963 Jim and Betty my uncle and aunt.
Great episode!
Congratulations Fletch. Awesome achievement mate. Keep up the great work😊👌
There's still a few left in Oz, I'm originally from the mid North of SA, the old car yard in Terowie is worth a visit
700 episodes
Wow still remember watching the first episode on the community channel
Go itchy butt productions 😆
Ps hope Wayne finds a buyer to continue the passion
There you go Fletch, what an opportunity. Go to your bank and take a loan to by this gold mine of automobile history.
Jim Flynn was an Apprentice at My Grandfather's garage .. Norris Garage in Vale St Cooma .. Wayne is a decent bloke ..
Well done Fletch and a big thank you to the Flynn family,
real salt of the earth people by the sounds of it.
I hope to get my act together and pay the yard a visit before they sell.
Just as you say Fletch, at some point a very proud and excited man or woman,
put down their hard earned and were handed the keys to these cars,
driving them home to an excited waiting family perhaps?
In this throw away society, we need to take the time to think about this,
who owned them?
Who put the finishing touches on them as they rolled off the assembly line?
There are many peoples lives attached in some way or another to each and
everyone of these old cars, if only they could talk.
Geez, I am starting to sound like a sixty year old man,
Congrats on 700! Great show
Boy wouldn't that be a great place to spend a few weeks
Jimmy had the first kombi in Cooma & his old boss was the distributor for the Tempo Matador. Jimmy had to pick up a Matador in Sydney & drive it back to Cooma to deliver it to a customer. 1100cc on that old road.
I remember watching the street machine blokes go around the the yard from what it was it now the cars were a lot more closer to being put back on the road now there mostly shells and that was 2014 or 2013
Looks like a wreckers I went to at Exeter Tasmania a few months ago
Flynn’s yard looks a bit snaky! Congrats on the 700th episode, keep ‘em coming.
Good.on ya Fletcher
Damn those shoebox Ford's are cool.
Picked my r31 skyline wagon up from there
I guess some cars are needed as doner cars for other cars...........but it's depressing seeing all that automotive history deteriorating away on a paddock in the weather when there are people out there capable of restoring many of them.
At the very least, they could be cleaned up and placed into museums for people to view, where they wouldn't be exposed to the elements.
We don't build cars here anymore, so should rebuild what we had.
Is that Uncle Bucks car @ 18:44?
Fletch says hope Flynn will sell it, an idiot if Fletch lets it go. Surly Fletch can see this opportunity. Maybe Fletch is satisfied with his TV sales, however, this property is an opportunity to create a historic car sale yard. Selling fully restored vehicle.
such a shame i have mental issues that'd stop me getting a huge loan... i'd buy it in a heartbeat, i live only an hour down the road and i've stopped by flynns every time i go to cooma, just to gawk at the beautiful cars over his fence. wrecking yards are literally my favourite place in the whole world and if i had to pick a favorite...? flynns without a doubt. the place is like disneyland to me. well i hope you sell to somebody who lets me in.... lol
I'm just wondering if that place has been known to have things happen there that can't be explained away cause the reason I ask this is cause where I live it used to be a junk yard like that with lots of old cars & the man that started pulling them in here had just bought himself a wrecker cause a interstate section was coming thru so he would go get all the wrecks & some hid been in bad wrecks where not all survived so I've saw & heard lots of things happen here & I do believe having all those old cars here does have an impact on some of it . My driveway is still gravel & long to get up the hill to my home & lots of people will tell you of hearing alot of times cars coming up & dorrs closing but when you look nobody is ever here .
Any Borgward / Goliath /Lloyd cars there...?
Congrats on 700 Fletch, what is the name of the yard in Denver?
A lot to be said for car enthusiasts
How much is the place selling for,does anyone know?
It's a Vauxhall Cresta, Fletch. I thought you were a car man.
The owners are looking like
The Living Dead....
I can say that because I'm old 😂
Which town is the Turners wrecking yards at? Is that in Cooma also?
It’s in the US
@@fugawiaus Bakersfield, California I think?
@@markbehr88 at 18:20 he says just outside of Denver, Colorado.
I thought he said it and had to go back through to find it. Hehe😃
Yes. That is the first US wrecking yard. That is in Denver.
$?
Be nice to get a couple of Mil and take it on...
Lol.... 😂😂😂😂
Can someone tell me where my "Holden 🦘 certified centre" is in Hobart????
Fuck. We lost our brand 🦘💰🤦🤷🏻
I've been there many times over the years. If its just a walk around that you want, then its a great place.
If you want parts, well that's entirely different. Wayne is known to be very tight fisted when it comes to selling and when he does, its big $$$