You may also remember the old ford laser Carla Zampatti edition. Great video down memory lane. These kinds of wreckers have always been my happy place.
Thought exactly they same... ive had a desire to do similar for an incredible amount of time, but havent thought there would be much point being aus, less vehicles made here/less vehicles in wreckers/less need for info or stuff like this...
Some of them old 70s Datsuns were shipped to Australia on the top deck of the ship itself, packing as many inside and out as they could, the ones on deck getting covered in saltwater waves for a couple of weeks, given a quick wash on the docks here and sent to dealers, and why they rusted like you pointed out, even on the roof. 200B’s being the worst affected
@@JyveKilla I can assure you it is 100% true. I remember vividly seeing images of Datsuns being shipped RoRo to Aus on the deck of the vessel, out in the open.
Pretty sure that the 200B was assembled in Aus. Mine was, according to the plate on the firewall. It wasn't a rustbox, but the engine was a bit shit, unlike my 910 Bluebirds.
18:20 - That definitely looks like a Bluebird dash, did 1000's of K's in my Grandpa's back in the day. The economy gauge was based on vacuum pressure, so the more beans you gave it, the less economy you got.
Love this video. These kind of breakers yards are absolute gems for those of us running properly old rare cars. Can easily spend hours doing just what you've done - walking round just looking at stuff! Those kind of sections at the bottom of the windscreen would be used in the UK due to rot at the bottom of the screen and in the front scuttle panel (common rust areas on anything up to late 90s). The other sections people have cut, they may not have cut/shut the other car the same extent, but it's easier/quicker to take the large section from the breakers and then pick apart the smaller panels you need when you're back home doing.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Benny. I used to get so many Volvo parts from there over the years. They also had so many Japanese cars there. I remember seeing a Datsun 240K there a good 15 years ago. They used to sell cars as well out the front. It's a shame that so many of these kinds of wrecking yards are gone now. I used to go to Pick and Payless as well for many many years.
Grew up like 10 minutes from there, both there and the Pick and Payless wreckers in Blacktown used to be absolute goldmines for parts and project cars back in the late 90's and early 2000's. So many cars I wish I'd bought as projects from both yards back in the day. The big one I remember was a XW Fairmont with a 302 Windsor that was pretty straight, rust free and complete.
After many months of waiting (not so patiently) the yard opened again about a fortnight ago. The business was bought by Clyde Auto Wreckers from Penrith. Their lease at Penrith runs out at the end of 2023 and then they will move to Northern Road. The business is now called New World Auto Wreckers. That's the good news! The bad news ... for all of us looking for small plastic pieces or trim, or a couple of bolts to replace project parts you can forget this yard. Firstly, they do not have insurance so it is no longer DIY or Pick Yourself - there is No Admittance to the yard. As it was explained to me they only do major items so if you need a plug or part of a wiring loom, you have to buy the whole loom. I suspect you also have to ring in advance. They will not get small items - "It's not worth our while" I was told. Also, and this will impact those of us with projects 30-40 years old, all the old stock will be removed and recycled, to make way for newer stock. I suspect that could be anywhere between 50-90% of what's there! I didn't ask about payment so I'm not sure how happy they would be if you asked for a gearbox and it turned out when you got there it was not the right one!
I love yards like that. its so handy if your not sure what you actually need. retrofitting a thermo fan on a car with a clutch fan? take your tape measure and find something that fits in the space you have.
G'day Benny i used to go to this wreckers most weekends when i was a young bloke to keep my old HR holden on the road and they used to sell the better cars in a yard out the front to the side which i did buy a couple of cars from them, loved seeing this, brings back a lot of great memories.
I used to go to Pick and Payless pretty much weekly as I had an EB Falcon XR6. I got a lot of genuine Ford parts from there. One week there was an immaculate XF S-Pack in the yard. The next week it was pretty much a bare shell.
I love these kind of videos, when I watch this it doesn't matter where you are in the world the junkyard is everywhere slowly disappearing .Here and there you can still see an old-fashioned scrap yard, but most of them have become modern car dismantling companies or simply disappeared. I spent hours wandering around the scrapyards in the area. Now my eldest son, 20 years old, has been working at a scrapyard for about 2 and a half years now. The most common complaint from him and his boss is exactly what you say. For a €2.50 switch, people would demolish more than €200 worth of dashboard and other parts. That is why he often goes on site for customers to dismantle the parts designated by them.Because he is the only mechanic who does this, customers regularly come to the site who demolish more than necessary.This makes it increasingly difficult for well-intentioned customers to find parts themselves. Here in the Netherlands we almost only see European and Japanese cars on the scrap yard.That's why I like seeing scrapyards in other countries.
Love your work Benny and been following for a few years now. You and I had a quick chat at Nats 33 at the dyno hall when you had the Cresta there. I remember a wrecking yard at Seven Hills down near the shale, there were near complete LJs back then amongst many other Aussie classics, Cheers Matt
ive taken many parts off the fairlanes and ltds from there over the last 5 years even scored a set of genuine xd falcon taillight lenses with ford logos for $75 about 2 years ago that was stashed away in the shed
Yip, it was the Vauxhall Caviler here in the UK Benny, my Dad had a SRi 130, 2.0-litre petrol 130bhp, hence the name, it was the one to have. You could get a wagon as well, or estate as we called them. There was even a convertible version, and a fancy Calibre model.
Not much gets past you mate. I could watch this content for days. Absolutely loved going to the scrappies with Dad as a kid. Scottish scrappies were lethal back in the day. Now you have to book a slot, get a high vis, all the cars are on racks, brought down by forklift.
Now your right up my ally! I did not expect this style of content and its awesome. Mate you are welcome out my neck of the world anytime to have a look around at some old rust.
I grew up just down the road from Dunkers U-Pull-It, so many weekend trips down there for a bit of trim or cheap ties or just anything for my old VH, sad to see these places go
Nice old school wrecking yard. speaking of brand collaborations the N13 Pulsar came equiped with the GM Family 2 16LE or 18LE. At a guess it had something to do with the Button Car Plan, Holden was using them in the Camira so it counted as local content at the time maybe. I had a Reebok as a first car and always dreamed of doing the CA18DET swap that was popular in the early 2000s. Anyway, I didnt know about this yard but it reminded me of Budgewoi Auto Wreckers on the north end of the Central Coast. I haven't been there in about ten years but they always had a gold mine of old school parts. The top end is concreted and stocked with the usual modern stuff, the dirt yard out the back had rows and rows of older stuff. They might still have a few rows of sigma/ aussie Mitsubishis. They still had rows of Torana's and Gemini's when i was last there.
Loved this place, such a shame its gone. Pulled some great parts for my EB2 Ghia outta here, left plenty of bits I now wish I grabbed, just never had a ute or help to do it. I've got a taillight lense out of that XK Falcon sitting on my parcel shelf as a bit of decoration lol
I learned how to drive there in an RB Gemini and a Diahatsu Delta when I was 14 😆 Mates old man used to be the manager so every school holidays we would go thrash shitboxes around. Good times
I have/ had 2 go to wreckers in qld 1 in Brisbane and 1 in Bundaberg Found they pulled the engines and boxes that worked and would put them in containers or the warehouse And just put the roller out in the paddock only times they left engines behind was if they were blown or seized
Paid $500 for my girlfriend/wife's Twin Cam Corolla back in high school and fixed it up with wreckers parts back in the day... Wreckers also kept my KE70 and Astina together for years...even had an accident in the Astina and repaired it all with a wreckers front cut. People just don't want to repair things like they used to. The space would be worth so much more money to development. Seeing that Z there got me wondering...
Brings back memories of my childhood, walking barefoot in the wreckers standing on surprisingly not sharp shattered window glass and helping dad get parts for the Kingswood.
Awesome work man. What a cornucopia of meta. I’m in Scotland, and there are millions of cars and vans throughout the UK that have been scraped!!!! There are some really good cars that have been abandoned on unused air strips. They cannot be stripped for parts and are just rusting away. Worth a look on UA-cam.
Hey bunny I can't belive that the northern wreckers are going I remember going there as a little kid and I'm a 39 year old man so sad 😢 😞 my pop used to live just round the corner of the wreckers so so sad
That poor 200b SSS. It would have had a vinyl roof originally or travelled on the top deck of the ship. That's why it's so damaged. The car you're talking about at 18:42 is a 280zx, Had an injected L28
Spot on Benny, I almost bought one but it got torched in the sellers yard. The car was a Vauxhall Cavalier est, where the tailgate went all the way below the bumper. Yeah, we had the Probe too, but didn't sell well . But now people are restoring them in the uk. We got Peogeot 205's with VANS,RIP CURL and the usual ones.
That Datsun you're talking about around the 18:30 mark is a 280ZX, from memory it's the S31 chassis. Should be an L28 motor. all around the world except US got the EFI L28 in that car, they got the S30 240Z/S260Z shell with a carby motor (some may have been EFI), the rest of the world got that same model with a 2.8l injected motor..
I think that was a Nissan 280ZX, a crossover between the S30 and the Z31 I think. Had a 2.8L. My 1st car was a Sportsgirl 1986 MB Holden Barina! Best times lol. It ended being wrecked locally to that yard so it's probably there. Wrecked circa 2002. You know it's mind because the Sportsgirl sticker was still in it but had been bleaced clear....
I remember getting a 98 cressida interior it was red with button velvet for my 1977 cressida think it cost me $100. Had so many good memories. When I was there I was able to get Subaru Outback foggys and some B pillar trim. Place will be missed.
I believe that the 200b coupes weren't meant for Australia, but were mistakenly in an Australian shipment. Datsun international said it was too much effort to take them back and sell them somewhere else so they were sold in Australia. And yes. I believe they did have IRS
@@LobbyDaLobster it was the IRS 200b sedans that accidentally got shipped. Australian made sedans were solid axle rear. All 200b coupes had irs and were jap imports.
Was at that very yard less than a week ago looking for some Toyota parts not suprised it’s closing it’s sad though been going there for years you need a good full day to walk around and take in some of the wrecks in there !!
In the States, the firewall and dash area contains the VIN, and can be useful when assembling a mongrel car. Some states will actually issue a title and license the vehicle, I believe.
Our wreckers do disassembly and inventory, so you can call up and ask if what you need is in stock or walk into a used parts store basically, gallerys of fenders doors etc. Prevents vandalism, death and even if someone takes the oil cap off an engine it wouldn´t rain into it.
There’a heaps of great dismantlers in Aus that are fully catalogued like ACM but when you’re building a car sometimes you don’t know what you need until it’s there in front of you. Or you can measure and check against multiple cars
Northern Auto Wreckers has been there a long time but the business actually started in Westmead and was known as Parramatta Spares. It was started by Roy Horne (1906-1981) and carried forward by one of his sons. The yard was on the corner of the Great Western Highway and Hawkesbury Road Westmead, dating back to 1943. The son, also Roy Horne, sold the Westmead yard for housing development and moved everything out to Northern Road about 10 years ago. Northern Road first appeared on aerial maps in the Seventies. The Westmead site had a lot of Datsuns - I lived around the corner and got all my race car spares (Datsun 1600) from there including engines out of 200Bs. Clyde Auto Wreckers based in Penrith have taken over the yard. Let's hope they do a better job than the previous owner as he let the yard deteriorate to a point where it was very difficult to get parts, and the pricing was so haphazard it really left you scratching your head. I'm sure the guy in the Office just pulled numbers out of the air! I'd hate to think what the snake population is in there, with all the tall grass growing up through many of the cars!
I love u pull yards! If you ever get a chance to show more I will watch. Or even any other yards you know of. A little surprised how bad the cars rust there.
The J-Car was a Caviler here in the U.S. as well. Came with a 2.5 Iron Duke or the 2.8 V6 to later grow to a 3.1 V6. The Ford Probe was planned to be the Mustang Fox Body replacement. But with the back lash that Ford got from the public. That Idea was scraped and the car was put out as the Probe on it's own. Very cool trip around the yard. Maybe there is a career in becoming a Australian version of Steve Magnante. Check out his channel for the American Junk Yard Crawl series he does.
What a great episode and step back in time. I used to hunt the scrappy for parts for my Honda 1.3S twin carb Civic back in the day, plus other gems. I think that was a Datsun 280ZX or similar, but hard to tell. Also saw lots of the Cavalier Estates in the UK. They were brought in as a late edition to compete with the Volvo and Sierra estates.
Re: Fiorelli Swift/Sporstgirl ... (I forget) Reebok Pulsar... made me think of the Carla Zampatti Ford Laser. Lol. Best of luck tracking down the Sportsgirl in the future
Funny how people think when they harvest parts. Bought a MK2 escort shell and the whole front clip had been cut off it. Sought after auto shell with no rust. Would have been a good car to build rather than cut up.
@17.17 There is an Alfa Romeo Sud! Sud = South in Italian It was built in the South of Italy to help the poorer parts of Italy... They have amazing road holding due to their "watts linkages" in the suspension, but sadly they were very well known for rusting due to frequent strikes and cars were sometimes left unpainted outside... Remarkable to find one in Australian wrecking yard! That Falcon in same part of video is amazing as well as the Austin I think at 16 mins into video! Those are very rare! I also never seen a Reebok also never heard of the swift Fiorelli, I Barely heard of the Ford Laser Zampati version! Thanks for the video I learned about a lot of trim levels I never even heard before!
those Camira's were indeed the vauxhall Cavalier in the UK (especially the estate) and the Gemini you showed was the vauxhall Chevette here in the UK at that time. its also a rare (here at least) 4 door saloon. as for the Frontera's, we got them in the UK too, and its probably not the same issue in Australia but they used to rot the arches out as fast as you like here in the UK and sadly Scrapyards in the UK are going the same way for insurance/safety reasons. you go and buy the parts from off the shelf and not salvage your own. i believe also in some parts of the UK at least, theft was an issue.
I remember going to a scrapyard where they piled the cars three-high. Of course, the one I needed parts from was in the middle, and when I grabbed the bonnet to pull myself up, the whole stack swayed and I thought for a second the top car was going to slide straight on to me. I let go carefully, then legged it, and went and found another car to grab parts from that wasn't so precarious. So, yeah, maybe there's something to be said for a little bit of safety ;)
Love me a great wreckers! I also seen a yellow mk1 golf in the background at 14:30 behind the 121 and the rusted corona. If you go again reckon you could see what other vws are there?
As far as I know in ireland pick and pulls are long gone. If we have to go to a scap yard we go into the reception and they tell the people working there to go pick the part you want.
I had two J car Vauxhall cavalier estates in the early nineties. Both 1.6 four cylinder. The mk 2 cavalier was very popular over here but all seemed to disappear by the mid 2000's. They were mainly bought by fleet operators that put big mileages on them in the first few years and by the time they reached ten or eleven years old they were pretty much worn out. Taxi companies also bought loads of them and I've heard of them hitting the 300k mark.
We had those Cavalier wagons in the US too, but it might have been a different body stamping - most of the US J-car exterior panels were unique and not shared with the Holden Camira or Vauxhall or Daewoo etc. My parents' Chevrolet Cavalier was one of the first cars I drove as a teenager. It was a heap compared to the Ford Escort we also had (like a KH/KF Laser).
Just wondering if you have looked at the silver and maroon XJ Jag that was behind you in the first scene? If it's the one i am thinking of it had a 308 conversion and a moroon vinyl roof. I don't know of many jags that colour, if it's the one i think it is my ex-stepmonster built the gearbox and the owner was a motor trimmer from crookwell.
Awesome mate! I actually reckon those long wheelbase Commo utes were a factory item, mainly made for the S.A. ambulance service. I could be wrong though.
In the usa most pick n pull juck yards have a car is on wheels like how they are there but to even get into the junkyard you have to sign a waiver so they aren't liable when you hurt yourself there
great video mate,sigma firewall removed for the vin stamping,camira was a pos- but the injected manuals would go pretty hard,memories of five ways wreckers in victoria ,they had impalas,desotos etc.
Could watch this all day long 👌🏻 Still love losing hours walking local junkyards looking for hidden gems.
L28E in the datto
You may also remember the old ford laser Carla Zampatti edition. Great video down memory lane. These kinds of wreckers have always been my happy place.
Benny channeling an Aussie Steve Magnante telling stories on all these old locally sold legends. Love it.
I did draw some inspiration for sure.
Thought exactly they same... ive had a desire to do similar for an incredible amount of time, but havent thought there would be much point being aus, less vehicles made here/less vehicles in wreckers/less need for info or stuff like this...
@@ADOS31 I think you should- plenty of wreckers about the countryside with some legendary Aussie Iron. Remember me when you’re famous.
Some of them old 70s Datsuns were shipped to Australia on the top deck of the ship itself, packing as many inside and out as they could, the ones on deck getting covered in saltwater waves for a couple of weeks, given a quick wash on the docks here and sent to dealers, and why they rusted like you pointed out, even on the roof. 200B’s being the worst affected
Thanks for the info, that makes total sense
Inside Shipping containers was still a new thing
i think this isnt true and just folk law. would like to see a photo to confirm
@@JyveKilla I can assure you it is 100% true. I remember vividly seeing images of Datsuns being shipped RoRo to Aus on the deck of the vessel, out in the open.
Pretty sure that the 200B was assembled in Aus.
Mine was, according to the plate on the firewall.
It wasn't a rustbox, but the engine was a bit shit, unlike my 910 Bluebirds.
Man, I love junkyards. They're like an amusement park for gearheads.
The Pulsar Reebok also came with a pair of Reebok's 👍There is actually one for sale on Gumtree complete with the shoes
I remember this from my childhood
18:20 - That definitely looks like a Bluebird dash, did 1000's of K's in my Grandpa's back in the day. The economy gauge was based on vacuum pressure, so the more beans you gave it, the less economy you got.
I'd watch an entire series if Benny just wandering through wrecking yards and giving knowledge dumps. This is beautiful automotive archaelology.
The 280zx would have had an L28E or L28TE, so you were pretty spot on with your guess.
Awesome. It is Junkyard Gold. And that is what is so good about driving in the country. Playing 'Spotto'.
Your knowledge or cars is amazing.
As someone who does still have a mini ute 100% those mu were cut up to be used on mini trucks
Love this video.
These kind of breakers yards are absolute gems for those of us running properly old rare cars. Can easily spend hours doing just what you've done - walking round just looking at stuff!
Those kind of sections at the bottom of the windscreen would be used in the UK due to rot at the bottom of the screen and in the front scuttle panel (common rust areas on anything up to late 90s).
The other sections people have cut, they may not have cut/shut the other car the same extent, but it's easier/quicker to take the large section from the breakers and then pick apart the smaller panels you need when you're back home doing.
I used to love walking around wreckers yards, that was freaking brilliant, cheers Benny
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Benny. I used to get so many Volvo parts from there over the years. They also had so many Japanese cars there. I remember seeing a Datsun 240K there a good 15 years ago. They used to sell cars as well out the front. It's a shame that so many of these kinds of wrecking yards are gone now. I used to go to Pick and Payless as well for many many years.
Grew up like 10 minutes from there, both there and the Pick and Payless wreckers in Blacktown used to be absolute goldmines for parts and project cars back in the late 90's and early 2000's. So many cars I wish I'd bought as projects from both yards back in the day. The big one I remember was a XW Fairmont with a 302 Windsor that was pretty straight, rust free and complete.
I once saw a 2 door LJ torana body shell at Pick and Payless for $900 back when they first opened. I didn’t have the money.
After many months of waiting (not so patiently) the yard opened again about a fortnight ago. The business was bought by Clyde Auto Wreckers from Penrith. Their lease at Penrith runs out at the end of 2023 and then they will move to Northern Road. The business is now called New World Auto Wreckers. That's the good news! The bad news ... for all of us looking for small plastic pieces or trim, or a couple of bolts to replace project parts you can forget this yard. Firstly, they do not have insurance so it is no longer DIY or Pick Yourself - there is No Admittance to the yard. As it was explained to me they only do major items so if you need a plug or part of a wiring loom, you have to buy the whole loom. I suspect you also have to ring in advance. They will not get small items - "It's not worth our while" I was told. Also, and this will impact those of us with projects 30-40 years old, all the old stock will be removed and recycled, to make way for newer stock. I suspect that could be anywhere between 50-90% of what's there! I didn't ask about payment so I'm not sure how happy they would be if you asked for a gearbox and it turned out when you got there it was not the right one!
I love yards like that. its so handy if your not sure what you actually need. retrofitting a thermo fan on a car with a clutch fan? take your tape measure and find something that fits in the space you have.
Not only that, but if its a part you've never removed or fitted before, its better to practice on a wreck first before having a go on your own car.
G'day Benny i used to go to this wreckers most weekends when i was a young bloke to keep my old HR holden on the road and they used to sell the better cars in a yard out the front to the side which i did buy a couple of cars from them, loved seeing this, brings back a lot of great memories.
I used to go to Pick and Payless pretty much weekly as I had an EB Falcon XR6. I got a lot of genuine Ford parts from there. One week there was an immaculate XF S-Pack in the yard. The next week it was pretty much a bare shell.
I love these kind of videos, when I watch this it doesn't matter where you are in the world the junkyard is everywhere slowly disappearing .Here and there you can still see an old-fashioned scrap yard, but most of them have become modern car dismantling companies or simply disappeared. I spent hours wandering around the scrapyards in the area.
Now my eldest son, 20 years old, has been working at a scrapyard for about 2 and a half years now. The most common complaint from him and his boss is exactly what you say. For a €2.50 switch, people would demolish more than €200 worth of dashboard and other parts. That is why he often goes on site for customers to dismantle the parts designated by them.Because he is the only mechanic who does this, customers regularly come to the site who demolish more than necessary.This makes it increasingly difficult for well-intentioned customers to find parts themselves.
Here in the Netherlands we almost only see European and Japanese cars on the scrap yard.That's why I like seeing scrapyards in other countries.
Love your work Benny and been following for a few years now.
You and I had a quick chat at Nats 33 at the dyno hall when you had the Cresta there.
I remember a wrecking yard at Seven Hills down near the shale, there were near complete LJs back then amongst many other Aussie classics,
Cheers
Matt
ive taken many parts off the fairlanes and ltds from there over the last 5 years even scored a set of genuine xd falcon taillight lenses with ford logos for $75 about 2 years ago that was stashed away in the shed
Ah that brings back some memories. Seeing all the old cars kinda feels like catching up with old mates!!
Thanks for this! I'm from the US so most of these cars were either completely new or only vaguely similar to stuff I've seen.
Yip, it was the Vauxhall Caviler here in the UK Benny, my Dad had a SRi 130, 2.0-litre petrol 130bhp, hence the name, it was the one to have. You could get a wagon as well, or estate as we called them. There was even a convertible version, and a fancy Calibre model.
Yep, we got Mk2 Cavalier estates same as that. My dad had one!
Not much gets past you mate.
I could watch this content for days. Absolutely loved going to the scrappies with Dad as a kid. Scottish scrappies were lethal back in the day.
Now you have to book a slot, get a high vis, all the cars are on racks, brought down by forklift.
I used to wander around there years ago when there were still 20s and 30s cars there!
It’s fun wandering around looking for gems in the prairies of Canada. Ours are covered in snow 7 months of the year though
Now your right up my ally! I did not expect this style of content and its awesome. Mate you are welcome out my neck of the world anytime to have a look around at some old rust.
How good was this?! So many epic cars. And, hey. Have fun in Canberra and the Summernats
I grew up just down the road from Dunkers U-Pull-It, so many weekend trips down there for a bit of trim or cheap ties or just anything for my old VH, sad to see these places go
Nice old school wrecking yard. speaking of brand collaborations the N13 Pulsar came equiped with the GM Family 2 16LE or 18LE. At a guess it had something to do with the Button Car Plan, Holden was using them in the Camira so it counted as local content at the time maybe. I had a Reebok as a first car and always dreamed of doing the CA18DET swap that was popular in the early 2000s.
Anyway, I didnt know about this yard but it reminded me of Budgewoi Auto Wreckers on the north end of the Central Coast. I haven't been there in about ten years but they always had a gold mine of old school parts. The top end is concreted and stocked with the usual modern stuff, the dirt yard out the back had rows and rows of older stuff. They might still have a few rows of sigma/ aussie Mitsubishis. They still had rows of Torana's and Gemini's when i was last there.
Loved this place, such a shame its gone. Pulled some great parts for my EB2 Ghia outta here, left plenty of bits I now wish I grabbed, just never had a ute or help to do it.
I've got a taillight lense out of that XK Falcon sitting on my parcel shelf as a bit of decoration lol
Love this wreckers, been going there since i was a kid, has helped me out with projects and repairs for a long time.
I learned how to drive there in an RB Gemini and a Diahatsu Delta when I was 14 😆 Mates old man used to be the manager so every school holidays we would go thrash shitboxes around. Good times
I have/ had 2 go to wreckers in qld 1 in Brisbane and 1 in Bundaberg
Found they pulled the engines and boxes that worked and would put them in containers or the warehouse
And just put the roller out in the paddock only times they left engines behind was if they were blown or seized
Pick and Payless was around locally for a very very long time had some great memories early 90s walking through picking parts
Paid $500 for my girlfriend/wife's Twin Cam Corolla back in high school and fixed it up with wreckers parts back in the day...
Wreckers also kept my KE70 and Astina together for years...even had an accident in the Astina and repaired it all with a wreckers front cut.
People just don't want to repair things like they used to. The space would be worth so much more money to development.
Seeing that Z there got me wondering...
Great episode Benny. So many memories. No Carla Zampatti Lasers?
Couldn’t find any. Those had the phone dial wheels from memory?
Brings back memories of my childhood, walking barefoot in the wreckers standing on surprisingly not sharp shattered window glass and helping dad get parts for the Kingswood.
Awesome work man.
What a cornucopia of meta.
I’m in Scotland, and there are millions of cars and vans throughout the UK that have been scraped!!!!
There are some really good cars that have been abandoned on unused air strips.
They cannot be stripped for parts and are just rusting away.
Worth a look on UA-cam.
Hey bunny I can't belive that the northern wreckers are going I remember going there as a little kid and I'm a 39 year old man so sad 😢 😞 my pop used to live just round the corner of the wreckers so so sad
Sad to loose all these old wrecking yards, thanks for walking through this one showing these old past relics.
Love it Benny! Brings back some good memories from back in the day! Next stop Flynn’s Wrecking yard at Cooma?!👌🏼
I love wandering the wrecking yard just to imagine the stories the cars could tell.
That poor 200b SSS. It would have had a vinyl roof originally or travelled on the top deck of the ship. That's why it's so damaged.
The car you're talking about at 18:42 is a 280zx, Had an injected L28
Spot on Benny, I almost bought one but it got torched in the sellers yard. The car was a Vauxhall Cavalier est, where the tailgate went all the way below the bumper.
Yeah, we had the Probe too, but didn't sell well .
But now people are restoring them in the uk.
We got Peogeot 205's with VANS,RIP CURL and the usual ones.
Well played mate thank you for sharing
That Datsun you're talking about around the 18:30 mark is a 280ZX, from memory it's the S31 chassis. Should be an L28 motor. all around the world except US got the EFI L28 in that car, they got the S30 240Z/S260Z shell with a carby motor (some may have been EFI), the rest of the world got that same model with a 2.8l injected motor..
I think that was a Nissan 280ZX, a crossover between the S30 and the Z31 I think. Had a 2.8L.
My 1st car was a Sportsgirl 1986 MB Holden Barina! Best times lol. It ended being wrecked locally to that yard so it's probably there. Wrecked circa 2002.
You know it's mind because the Sportsgirl sticker was still in it but had been bleaced clear....
I remember getting a 98 cressida interior it was red with button velvet for my 1977 cressida think it cost me $100. Had so many good memories. When I was there I was able to get Subaru Outback foggys and some B pillar trim. Place will be missed.
could watch you walk around all day, loved wreckers
As memory serves me the Datsun 810 was a fully imported SSS and should have independent rear suspension (ala 1600, 180B). The other was 280 2X2.
I believe that the 200b coupes weren't meant for Australia, but were mistakenly in an Australian shipment. Datsun international said it was too much effort to take them back and sell them somewhere else so they were sold in Australia. And yes. I believe they did have IRS
@@LobbyDaLobster probably bound for NZ originally.
@@LobbyDaLobster it was the IRS 200b sedans that accidentally got shipped. Australian made sedans were solid axle rear. All 200b coupes had irs and were jap imports.
Awesome video mate! Such a great yard. So many memories in that yard
Was at that very yard less than a week ago looking for some Toyota parts not suprised it’s closing it’s sad though been going there for years you need a good full day to walk around and take in some of the wrecks in there !!
In the States, the firewall and dash area contains the VIN, and can be useful when assembling a mongrel car. Some states will actually issue a title and license the vehicle, I believe.
Our wreckers do disassembly and inventory, so you can call up and ask if what you need is in stock or walk into a used parts store basically, gallerys of fenders doors etc. Prevents vandalism, death and even if someone takes the oil cap off an engine it wouldn´t rain into it.
There’a heaps of great dismantlers in Aus that are fully catalogued like ACM but when you’re building a car sometimes you don’t know what you need until it’s there in front of you. Or you can measure and check against multiple cars
good old northern yard love tht place
Northern Auto Wreckers has been there a long time but the business actually started in Westmead and was known as Parramatta Spares. It was started by Roy Horne (1906-1981) and carried forward by one of his sons. The yard was on the corner of the Great Western Highway and Hawkesbury Road Westmead, dating back to 1943. The son, also Roy Horne, sold the Westmead yard for housing development and moved everything out to Northern Road about 10 years ago. Northern Road first appeared on aerial maps in the Seventies. The Westmead site had a lot of Datsuns - I lived around the corner and got all my race car spares (Datsun 1600) from there including engines out of 200Bs. Clyde Auto Wreckers based in Penrith have taken over the yard. Let's hope they do a better job than the previous owner as he let the yard deteriorate to a point where it was very difficult to get parts, and the pricing was so haphazard it really left you scratching your head. I'm sure the guy in the Office just pulled numbers out of the air! I'd hate to think what the snake population is in there, with all the tall grass growing up through many of the cars!
Cool to see all of those old Aussie gems,
I love u pull yards! If you ever get a chance to show more I will watch. Or even any other yards you know of. A little surprised how bad the cars rust there.
The J-Car was a Caviler here in the U.S. as well. Came with a 2.5 Iron Duke or the 2.8 V6 to later grow to a 3.1 V6. The Ford Probe was planned to be the Mustang Fox Body replacement. But with the back lash that Ford got from the public. That Idea was scraped and the car was put out as the Probe on it's own. Very cool trip around the yard. Maybe there is a career in becoming a Australian version of Steve Magnante. Check out his channel for the American Junk Yard Crawl series he does.
What a great episode and step back in time. I used to hunt the scrappy for parts for my Honda 1.3S twin carb Civic back in the day, plus other gems. I think that was a Datsun 280ZX or similar, but hard to tell. Also saw lots of the Cavalier Estates in the UK. They were brought in as a late edition to compete with the Volvo and Sierra estates.
ABig Al. Yeah, that Datsun is a 280ZX - my dream car when I was about 13, hahahaha. Cheers!
Re: Fiorelli Swift/Sporstgirl ... (I forget) Reebok Pulsar... made me think of the Carla Zampatti Ford Laser. Lol. Best of luck tracking down the Sportsgirl in the future
Funny how people think when they harvest parts. Bought a MK2 escort shell and the whole front clip had been cut off it. Sought after auto shell with no rust. Would have been a good car to build rather than cut up.
@17.17 There is an Alfa Romeo Sud!
Sud = South in Italian
It was built in the South of Italy to help the poorer parts of Italy... They have amazing road holding due to their "watts linkages" in the suspension, but sadly they were very well known for rusting due to frequent strikes and cars were sometimes left unpainted outside...
Remarkable to find one in Australian wrecking yard!
That Falcon in same part of video is amazing as well as the Austin I think at 16 mins into video! Those are very rare! I also never seen a Reebok also never heard of the swift Fiorelli, I Barely heard of the Ford Laser Zampati version!
Thanks for the video I learned about a lot of trim levels I never even heard before!
That dash is absolutely from a bluebird. Series 3 with colour matched "aero" bumpers.
benny i love your channel but ive never understood the bcw cut screen and delaying it by a few seconds when its returns...
Omg! The sportsgirl!!
I had a Holden rodeo mini truck back in the day with the mux/frontera guards
Gold coupe is a 280zx. They came non turbo, turbo and injected with a L28.
No wonder my sisters ford Capri had so many issues, made in Australia! Very Cool to see something like this.
That Alfa sud didn’t even look rusty - If so, that’s truly amazing!
Shoot, never heard of this place! Pretty rare to see a bronco at the wreckers, no doubt I could've used something off it 😥
Wrecker runs are always great fun
I wish Brisbane still had one of those old style wreckers....
I spotted a first gen dodge neon, those jave to be pretty rare outside the US. They are getting rare here even.
That bus looks like the same model that was used in the original Italian Job
those Camira's were indeed the vauxhall Cavalier in the UK (especially the estate) and the Gemini you showed was the vauxhall Chevette here in the UK at that time. its also a rare (here at least) 4 door saloon.
as for the Frontera's, we got them in the UK too, and its probably not the same issue in Australia but they used to rot the arches out as fast as you like here in the UK
and sadly Scrapyards in the UK are going the same way for insurance/safety reasons. you go and buy the parts from off the shelf and not salvage your own. i believe also in some parts of the UK at least, theft was an issue.
I remember going to a scrapyard where they piled the cars three-high. Of course, the one I needed parts from was in the middle, and when I grabbed the bonnet to pull myself up, the whole stack swayed and I thought for a second the top car was going to slide straight on to me. I let go carefully, then legged it, and went and found another car to grab parts from that wasn't so precarious.
So, yeah, maybe there's something to be said for a little bit of safety ;)
i first went to Northerns in 1979 looking for parts for my mates hot EH wagon 👍👍
That Pulsar and the Holden Astra along with the Camry and Apollo, lexcen and commodore etc were a part of the Button plan back in the day.
Love me a great wreckers! I also seen a yellow mk1 golf in the background at 14:30 behind the 121 and the rusted corona. If you go again reckon you could see what other vws are there?
Another yard was dollar Wally’s at Lansvale in Sydney rebuilt my EJ Ute there in the 80’s….yes i am old
That yard is my absolute powerball fantasy…would need a fortune to keep and not return anything
But I still want it so bad
As far as I know in ireland pick and pulls are long gone. If we have to go to a scap yard we go into the reception and they tell the people working there to go pick the part you want.
I had two J car Vauxhall cavalier estates in the early nineties. Both 1.6 four cylinder. The mk 2 cavalier was very popular over here but all seemed to disappear by the mid 2000's. They were mainly bought by fleet operators that put big mileages on them in the first few years and by the time they reached ten or eleven years old they were pretty much worn out. Taxi companies also bought loads of them and I've heard of them hitting the 300k mark.
The early Falcon was an XK. Miss going to wreckers like this. It's always a good time to just have a wander around
I have the headlight surrounds off it, probably 4 years ago now..
You sure? I thought the XKs didnt get the tower supports, which is why the front ends used to collapse in them when new?
@MRMOPARMAN0426 yes it's is. The Xk was the only model that had the thiner pillars at the rear window.
We had a Cavalier wagon in the states. Even had a 3.1 v6 option w/ cowl induction😳
We had those Cavalier wagons in the US too, but it might have been a different body stamping - most of the US J-car exterior panels were unique and not shared with the Holden Camira or Vauxhall or Daewoo etc.
My parents' Chevrolet Cavalier was one of the first cars I drove as a teenager. It was a heap compared to the Ford Escort we also had (like a KH/KF Laser).
The Lasers, Capris, and Escorts were mostly Mazda 323 based cars.
Very interesting tour.
Love your work.
Got told I can't walk thru a wreakers and get my own parts 10+ years ago... Sad day!! Plus pay extra for their labour 😪😪
last time i was there they had a really clean is200 or 300. pretty sure it was silver but it was complete and manual they only wanted like $2k for it
Been shopping there since the 70's....That's when the real old stuff was there....The 300ZX had a 3.0 V6.
Moog hates Holden Camira's.... haha the 4cyl shorty VL Commodore.
Would of love to come got my transporter front car cut for a bumper as an apprentice it was like a field of dreams when you drove past
Just wondering if you have looked at the silver and maroon XJ Jag that was behind you in the first scene? If it's the one i am thinking of it had a 308 conversion and a moroon vinyl roof. I don't know of many jags that colour, if it's the one i think it is my ex-stepmonster built the gearbox and the owner was a motor trimmer from crookwell.
Awesome mate! I actually reckon those long wheelbase Commo utes were a factory item, mainly made for the S.A. ambulance service. I could be wrong though.
I thought they were extended by coach builders, i’m sure someone will know for sure. Jacab did the ambulance bodies from memory
My dad still has one and it has a jakab industries build plate on it. VR commodore model
In the usa most pick n pull juck yards have a car is on wheels like how they are there but to even get into the junkyard you have to sign a waiver so they aren't liable when you hurt yourself there
Love these types of vids Benny
great video mate,sigma firewall removed for the vin stamping,camira was a pos- but the injected manuals would go pretty hard,memories of five ways wreckers in victoria ,they had impalas,desotos etc.