Very cool scrapyard down here in New Zealand called " smash palace " there's the cars for parts side then the peculiar cars for the display side, which is called the museum. Something very beautiful yet very sad seeing all these odd old girls left to rot. There's even a movie from 1982 based on the wreckers. maps.app.goo.gl/yQR9XuFd7yB4JVMs8
Yes 100%! I'd've happily of watched a good hour of that, it was absolutely brilliant. Well done Lads. Taylor is a fountain of knowledge & puts it across sooo well 😊
if you can please post an extended cut this was awesome. we dont care how bad the editing was hearing them nerd out over our american cars was awesome!
"Ford Explorers, they're cool" is not something I ever expected to hear on an automotive channel haha! Love the Vegas epis, hope you can more travel in future.
Explorers are cool but only in junkyards Things like 91-01 5.0 intake manifolds, V8s in general and the 8.8 irs/ live axle are nice to yank off an explorer or navigator
US scrap yards are awesome, especially out west. Most cares are there because they are either accident damaged, worn out or unable to meet emissions regs. On the east coast you get rust buckets too
Love a junkyard run That one is incredibly clean. No chains, belts, brakes, seats, bumpers or random motor components in the isles and, strangely enough, concrete floors instead of dirt and hardened motor oil
8:15 in the US if air suspension fails it’s extremely common to just replace the whole suspension with not-air suspension, so it may have had it originally
Some of my best days out in the US have been going to the local pick and pull with my father in law. Usually to get yet another bumper for his ram 1500 that rusts quicker than it accelerates.
As a kid I was fascinated with scrapyards, we used to have a couple in Dublin, all gone now though. Crashed cars were such an attraction to young me, I'd draw them endlessly. It probably helped my dad only had shitboxes growing up, rarely did we have a car that wasn't sporting some sort of damage!
At 8:50 those are called sidemarker lights (amber on the front side and red on the rear side) and they have been required on every car sold in the US since 1968. On some vehicles, they are built into the side of an existing light housing, but on other vehicles like the MINIs they are separate lights in the wheel arches.
One of my all time fav episodes tbh, I can see why it's maybe on the 2nd channel, but this is first channel content imo, I'd watch regular junkyard dives (extended or brief), it's be super cool to see how you could transform a car over time with only junk yard parts too (UK or special international episodes would be amazing too). Seeing you 2 (3 including Rory on the cam) getting excited over junk we all love too is great entertainment 100%
I could’ve watched this one for hours whilst you were all delving around in the scrapyard. Blimey, I used to spend hours in the scrapyards back home in England 🏴. Always a great time. Great video lads 👍
Love junkyards, found a previous project car at my local yard that was going to be scrapped because no one wanted it - 1978 Chrysler Scorpion. 2L inline 4 cylinder going through a manual transmission to the rear wheels, great fun while I had it!
Alex’s vocabulary for the whole episode “I bet this has lived a life” and “this is the boll*cks” 😂 in reality, you guys ARE living the life and ARE the boll*cks 👍🏻
I used to love my time in breakers yard's. Learning about car and spending time with my farther they are the best places to learn about cars. So sad they have gone and so sad that the new generation won't have these moments.
This looked fun I remember when I was on work experience in Spain this year. the guy I was working with we had to get an ecu for a hyundai accent.we wènt to a scrap yard I saw an old Mercedes there which was sad and a scania 124l 420 I was allowed to sit in it. Sadly I didn't think to buy something there to bring home tho I do have some Spanish tools. We went to lebrija for two weeks health and safety was way different but it was a great time. There was also a Renault 5 a Toyota hilux and a lada niva. Also, a bmw 3 series touring the reg was funny 0670 cnt ,2 seat marbellas. The Mercedes was a 350se like proper classic Mercedes. I'm glad I recorded some of that and had to get work photos. We also had a mk2 focus sttd in which was a let down being a diesel not a 2.5 but yeah saw a few around plus made a seat chair out of a kangoo seat which was an mot fail it was worn down to bare metal
This reminds me of the scrap yard that was around the corner from my house in Tanygroes in West Wales when I was about 17/18 You could go around the yard and grab any bits that took your fancy and they old boy behind the desk would usually let you have a few little bits for free if your over all bill was above £50 or so. I used to enjoy going there after college to see if they had any performance parts for my saxo vtr 😅 and me and a couple of mates got friendly with some of the guys who worked there. They’d call us if anything came in that they thought we’d be interested in. Sadly due to HSE places like that aren’t easy to come by these days
I did the same when I lived in So Cal, it's brilliant how all the makes are separated & a clean concrete car park covered in cool shit . We need another longer episode of a USA scrapyard challenge .Who can get the best shit for $200 in 4 hours :) .
Hey i am a american and here in the USA alot of people swap the air suspension out with struts cause it's cheaper and the air suspension have lots of issue
Pick and Pull yards are great. My LS swap Cadillac has a junkyard LS and transmission. It was cheaper to pull the engine, a couple of transmissions and some other stuff, crate it up and ship it to Europe than to buy just the engine in Europe. I also included all the small things I needed for the swap and saved a ton there. For what I spent on engine, transmissions, amazon parts and shipping I could have just bought an LS in Denmark
My girlfriend and I did a 3000 mile road trip through the western US in a Challenger. It was an amazing road trip car. Plenty of boot space, powerful yet very economical (we had a V6, not a V8, sadly) and surprisingly comfortable.
Agreed! Normally the ads feel really awkwardly squeezed into the body of the video, with some tenuous link, but I actually watched this one! Nice job Taylor 😊
I remember going through a pick n pull years ago looking for Saab parts. Almost left with a 2JZ-GE for $80. They were having a half price sale that day, and I happened to open the hood of an and found it. One of those shoulda coulda woulda moments.
You guys are absolutely brilliant ....next top gear ....can sit an watch you guys all day so funny and actually really interesting to watch very helpfull when buying cars
I love those challengers. Such a 70s throwback design. Wish there was cars like that made in the UK. There’s quite a few been imported though (mostly v6’s)
I love these places. You can get a wheelbarrow & fill it up and it'd hardly break the bank. There has to be more filming of this scrapyard somewhere that Rory has hidden away.
You two, especially Alex, should have looked at the Durango’s a bit more They are basically a Dakota with and SUV body behind the front doors, but in some ways nicer as well Most have the 5.2 318 V8, but there were several with the 5.9 360 V8, which surprisingly was never offered in the Dakota, but will bolt right in and makes for quite a fun ride lol Many Durango’s have nicer trim on the inside, and nicer seats too And yes, they bolt right up to a Dakota as well :) Want period correct factory Dodge leather and suede heated power adjustable seats in your lil Dakota, just plop them in (will have to wire up the seat heaters and power seat motors of course)
I sold my e39 540i 6 speed for 2500. Had a chunk of aluminum missing from one of the heads. J b welded back Into place😂 230k miles. And fun fact, e39 was my 39th car
For dakotas you have to be careful with the seats. The extended cab and 4 door have a different seat bracket than the two doors. Also v8 swaps can be a bit complicated. Theres so resistors that need to be swapped to make everything work
I remember the days of the pick a part style yards here in Australia when I got given my first car, so many sketchy interesting times looking for parts for a very obscure Chrysler which was almost 30 years old when I got it
Glad you found some parts in America to bring home. I think you got a good video going if you guys were to put every part on the cars that you bought for just seeing the transformation. Why not you're going to do it anyways.
We had a pick a part scrappy know locally as Billy bridges you'd go up there with a tool box and have a rummage till you found what you needed but slowly over the years they stopped you going in to parts of the yard then at one point you could only go if you had one of there guys chaperone you then when covid hit you weren't allowed past reception and that's how it stayed to this day 😢
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Very cool scrapyard down here in New Zealand called " smash palace " there's the cars for parts side then the peculiar cars for the display side, which is called the museum. Something very beautiful yet very sad seeing all these odd old girls left to rot. There's even a movie from 1982 based on the wreckers. maps.app.goo.gl/yQR9XuFd7yB4JVMs8
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Fun fact Durango parts fit that Dakota model. They use the same hood and drive train.
Holy is not healthy at all... It is full of shit!
I could watch a 1 hour version of this. Listerning to Taylor talk cars and trucks. 14 minutes, less the ad read. Way too short.
I was thinking the same thing. I got to the end and just wanted more
Found that with most of the vids now definitely need to start making them an hour long waiting a week or two for 20 minutes isnt enough
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Totally agree been good to play find the highest mileage 😂
Yes 100%! I'd've happily of watched a good hour of that, it was absolutely brilliant. Well done Lads.
Taylor is a fountain of knowledge & puts it across sooo well 😊
if you can please post an extended cut this was awesome. we dont care how bad the editing was hearing them nerd out over our american cars was awesome!
Agreed
Worst thing UK scrapyards did was stop letting customers pick and remove spares from cars. Used to love a good scrapyard haul.
Absolutely, AND you could always drop a spare bulb or 2 down your wellies, before paying for the more visible items 😂
I got 2 scrapyards near me that let you in and get what you want
Because people were pocketing stuff & throwing things over the fences to get later
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Motorcycle scrapyard near me lets you do this, the guy was smoking a joint and helping me pull parts off an old bike.
"Thats your number one fan" surprisingly hilarious.
Ffs, beat me to the comment 😂
And such a quick one-liner delivered with perfect comedy timing
Nah it was Alex's only fan.
A lot of people do that in a Tesco car park respect for flying to Nevada and paying!!!
"Ford Explorers, they're cool" is not something I ever expected to hear on an automotive channel haha! Love the Vegas epis, hope you can more travel in future.
It’s just because we don’t get them this side of the pond. I’m sure you’d have the same feel for some of the stuff that’s mundane to us here 😂
Explorers are cool but only in junkyards
Things like 91-01 5.0 intake manifolds, V8s in general and the 8.8 irs/ live axle are nice to yank off an explorer or navigator
Need a part 2 to this
Got to love a scrap yard
I'm screaming at the phone 03:30 "TAKE THE SEAT RAILS!!"
US scrap yards are awesome, especially out west. Most cares are there because they are either accident damaged, worn out or unable to meet emissions regs. On the east coast you get rust buckets too
Love a junkyard run
That one is incredibly clean. No chains, belts, brakes, seats, bumpers or random motor components in the isles and, strangely enough, concrete floors instead of dirt and hardened motor oil
I remember when you went here in the CT days and came home with a giant bullbar lol, Glad to see you couldnt resist
for the green jag, that was a long time ago haha
I knew it! I saw the intro clip and got a pang of deja vu
That time was in Florida not Nevada
Yeah it went on the Mud Type Jag
8:15 in the US if air suspension fails it’s extremely common to just replace the whole suspension with not-air suspension, so it may have had it originally
2:50 "that's your number one fan." A classic. And yes... I did have an audible giggle to it. 😂
Used to love wandering around a scrappy just to see what was there, even if I didn't need anything.
A Dodge Durango is basically a Dakota with back seats. Everything in front of the back seats is plug and play.
This episode has a such a back-to-the-roots feel. First episode I watched fully in a while.
I could wander around that place for days so thanks for the preview 😂🏴👍🏻
I told my wife that it was normal for me to visit breakers yards for fun. Now I have video evidence . Cheers guys , Nick BMW e90 335 with 250k kms
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Nvr seen someone get excited over a ford exploder😂 the 1st and 2nd gens are nice tho
Some of my best days out in the US have been going to the local pick and pull with my father in law. Usually to get yet another bumper for his ram 1500 that rusts quicker than it accelerates.
As a kid I was fascinated with scrapyards, we used to have a couple in Dublin, all gone now though. Crashed cars were such an attraction to young me, I'd draw them endlessly. It probably helped my dad only had shitboxes growing up, rarely did we have a car that wasn't sporting some sort of damage!
At 8:50 those are called sidemarker lights (amber on the front side and red on the rear side) and they have been required on every car sold in the US since 1968. On some vehicles, they are built into the side of an existing light housing, but on other vehicles like the MINIs they are separate lights in the wheel arches.
One of my all time fav episodes tbh, I can see why it's maybe on the 2nd channel, but this is first channel content imo, I'd watch regular junkyard dives (extended or brief), it's be super cool to see how you could transform a car over time with only junk yard parts too (UK or special international episodes would be amazing too).
Seeing you 2 (3 including Rory on the cam) getting excited over junk we all love too is great entertainment 100%
What a delightful duo, as always! I love a scrap yard and wish I was there appreciating the nuggets with ya.
I could’ve watched this one for hours whilst you were all delving around in the scrapyard.
Blimey, I used to spend hours in the scrapyards back home in England 🏴. Always a great time. Great video lads 👍
You guys should build a mash up of your fav cars using that scrapyard. Like one car using only scrap parts.
13:15 yes, because we like people who like cars here.
Exactly.
Florida has tons of pull-a-part salvage yards, but the prices have gone up huuuuge since 2020
I wouldn't mind a full hour of this stuff. Best episode ever
Can we get more of these but longer videos! Love it😊
Crazy, brings one back to the days you went to junkyards and just look for stuff. Lovley, do this again!
You should do an import series! Where you have to import a cool US car.
Due to import taxes, it is EXTREMELY prohibitive to do this.
That'd be too much cost for something they wouldn't keep, when they'd be much better investing in something else
Taylor would import a BMW 😂😂😂
YES
3k then tax ....... needs to be something beyond cheap to make it worth while
Love junkyards, found a previous project car at my local yard that was going to be scrapped because no one wanted it - 1978 Chrysler Scorpion. 2L inline 4 cylinder going through a manual transmission to the rear wheels, great fun while I had it!
In America, Range Rover‘s are often converted to coils because people are tired of dealing with air suspension failures.
There is nothing better than you guys when I'm having a nightmare of a day 😂 i could watch you guys for hours 😊
I could watch you guys in u pulls for hours. This is literally my brother in laws and my hobby.
They're the same over here in Straya 😝 Garbage Time did a few videos on them 👌
Alex’s vocabulary for the whole episode “I bet this has lived a life” and “this is the boll*cks” 😂 in reality, you guys ARE living the life and ARE the boll*cks 👍🏻
Straight up best video yet, I could get lost in there for a week. You guys should do a video on a Frankenstein car off stuff just from a junkyard
2:52 this is why I love this channel
I used to love my time in breakers yard's. Learning about car and spending time with my farther they are the best places to learn about cars. So sad they have gone and so sad that the new generation won't have these moments.
This was awesome, could watch you for ever nerding out in the scrap yard.
This looked fun I remember when I was on work experience in Spain this year. the guy I was working with we had to get an ecu for a hyundai accent.we wènt to a scrap yard I saw an old Mercedes there which was sad and a scania 124l 420 I was allowed to sit in it. Sadly I didn't think to buy something there to bring home tho I do have some Spanish tools. We went to lebrija for two weeks health and safety was way different but it was a great time. There was also a Renault 5 a Toyota hilux and a lada niva. Also, a bmw 3 series touring the reg was funny 0670 cnt ,2 seat marbellas. The Mercedes was a 350se like proper classic Mercedes. I'm glad I recorded some of that and had to get work photos. We also had a mk2 focus sttd in which was a let down being a diesel not a 2.5 but yeah saw a few around plus made a seat chair out of a kangoo seat which was an mot fail it was worn down to bare metal
13:10 'in the UK you go to scrap yard they tell you to piss off....' 😂😂 that made me chuckle
This reminds me of the scrap yard that was around the corner from my house in Tanygroes in West Wales when I was about 17/18
You could go around the yard and grab any bits that took your fancy and they old boy behind the desk would usually let you have a few little bits for free if your over all bill was above £50 or so.
I used to enjoy going there after college to see if they had any performance parts for my saxo vtr 😅 and me and a couple of mates got friendly with some of the guys who worked there. They’d call us if anything came in that they thought we’d be interested in. Sadly due to HSE places like that aren’t easy to come by these days
I did the same when I lived in So Cal, it's brilliant how all the makes are separated & a clean concrete car park covered in cool shit . We need another longer episode of a USA scrapyard challenge .Who can get the best shit for $200 in 4 hours :) .
Great stuff seeing you go around a old style scrapyard
Hey i am a american and here in the USA alot of people swap the air suspension out with struts cause it's cheaper and the air suspension have lots of issue
Common swap here too
I still remember the car throttle days when they came to the us and got to go picking through a scrap yard
Pick and Pull yards are great. My LS swap Cadillac has a junkyard LS and transmission. It was cheaper to pull the engine, a couple of transmissions and some other stuff, crate it up and ship it to Europe than to buy just the engine in Europe. I also included all the small things I needed for the swap and saved a ton there. For what I spent on engine, transmissions, amazon parts and shipping I could have just bought an LS in Denmark
My girlfriend and I did a 3000 mile road trip through the western US in a Challenger. It was an amazing road trip car. Plenty of boot space, powerful yet very economical (we had a V6, not a V8, sadly) and surprisingly comfortable.
Loved the enthusiastic ad Taylor, you could easily get a job on a shopping channel
Agreed! Normally the ads feel really awkwardly squeezed into the body of the video, with some tenuous link, but I actually watched this one! Nice job Taylor 😊
@ it’s definitely hard than it looks, I do worry that I’m going to develop a recurring dream of Alex bursting into my bedroom doing a car vertical ad
Junk yard trips are some of my absolute favorite memories
I remember going through a pick n pull years ago looking for Saab parts. Almost left with a 2JZ-GE for $80. They were having a half price sale that day, and I happened to open the hood of an and found it. One of those shoulda coulda woulda moments.
Definitely should have gone to harbor freight!!!
I went to the junkyard for the first time this summer. Holy. Crap. That. Was. Awesome.
I'd watch you both going to far off places and visiting their car yards for sure
I'd just be trying to get all the USDM bits off all the Euro stuff to bring back home. Oh also any badge and licence plate I can find.
Alex, Saab in America stands for Sadly Absent, Always Broken. There's no parts supply here anymore. They're all on borrowed time.
You guys are absolutely brilliant ....next top gear ....can sit an watch you guys all day so funny and actually really interesting to watch very helpfull when buying cars
I love those challengers. Such a 70s throwback design.
Wish there was cars like that made in the UK. There’s quite a few been imported though (mostly v6’s)
Full length version please!
To be walking through a pick and pull then hearing a British accent…”ahhh a mini” I would for sure find out who it was😂
I have a pick-a-part 10 minutes down the road from me here in Australia. I really must visit now, based on this video.
My first truck was a dodge dakota. Brillant wee thing
You could have doubled your toolkit for similar money if you had went to Harbor Freight! Junkyards are such great fun. Cheers, boys!
I'm so happy that the American pick a part mechanics treated the Red coats so well 😅
Looking forward to another Taylor Adventure
I love these places. You can get a wheelbarrow & fill it up and it'd hardly break the bank. There has to be more filming of this scrapyard somewhere that Rory has hidden away.
This needs a part 7 and 6 and the rest. This is content boys! This is gold❤
Utterly fascinating! I’d love a good poke around that there yard🤠🇺🇸
You two, especially Alex, should have looked at the Durango’s a bit more
They are basically a Dakota with and SUV body behind the front doors, but in some ways nicer as well
Most have the 5.2 318 V8, but there were several with the 5.9 360 V8, which surprisingly was never offered in the Dakota, but will bolt right in and makes for quite a fun ride lol
Many Durango’s have nicer trim on the inside, and nicer seats too
And yes, they bolt right up to a Dakota as well :)
Want period correct factory Dodge leather and suede heated power adjustable seats in your lil Dakota, just plop them in (will have to wire up the seat heaters and power seat motors of course)
It’s super easy to spend over an hour at a Pull-A-Part just walking around
I think you totally need to do your version of Vanishing Point in the Challenger! It's the same colour as the 1970 version! 😂
Have to admit I love scrap yard videos
I sold my e39 540i 6 speed for 2500.
Had a chunk of aluminum missing from one of the heads. J b welded back Into place😂 230k miles.
And fun fact, e39 was my 39th car
That IS a fun fact
Don't ever stop making these videos!
Great vid guys
For dakotas you have to be careful with the seats. The extended cab and 4 door have a different seat bracket than the two doors. Also v8 swaps can be a bit complicated. Theres so resistors that need to be swapped to make everything work
Please release an uncut version of this
I remember the days of the pick a part style yards here in Australia when I got given my first car, so many sketchy interesting times looking for parts for a very obscure Chrysler which was almost 30 years old when I got it
You guys should have gone to harbor freight.
Loved the video, I could watch an hour long video of this. Yall need to get Matt Armstrong to pick one of those cars up and do a full repair.
Puddins fab shop needs that Ford courier uhaul box truck
E46 330d has chrome slats aswell 😉
I go to pull n save in Washington state just to look at the cars it’s really fun and I could spend hours there as well 😂
You should've visited Wilberts U Pull It in South Maine.
Eric O swears by this place, and you would've got everything you needed for half that price!!
Next time to the USA. Taylor goes to as many scrap yards as he can for a week!
Crazy seeing you guys behind the wheel of a Dodge.
Glad you found some parts in America to bring home. I think you got a good video going if you guys were to put every part on the cars that you bought for just seeing the transformation. Why not you're going to do it anyways.
I think it’s time for a taylormadecars channel the guys a legend
Great episode!
We had a pick a part scrappy know locally as Billy bridges you'd go up there with a tool box and have a rummage till you found what you needed but slowly over the years they stopped you going in to parts of the yard then at one point you could only go if you had one of there guys chaperone you then when covid hit you weren't allowed past reception and that's how it stayed to this day 😢
Funny u lads went for truck parts and bought loads of euro parts 😂😂😂 i think id be the same tbh getting side tracked but other shiny stuff
You're the best Taylor. Start your own channel mate.
You all need to do a copart challenge in the UK 🙌🏻 5k budget
We need an extended part 2 to this
Taylor, the E60 530i also has the chrome inner kidney grilles :)
About time Alex