Scrapyards..............

sogood

What is the pure unabashed joy and fascination in rummaging around scrapyards? The lure, the attraction that draws us in like a bee to nectar? I could spend all day, and then some, just looking, poking my head in through rusted doorways, under corroded bonnets at what used to be. Unfortunately, many of our more interesting cars have long since disappeared from the roads, but occasionally, in a scrapyard one might surface, amongst the more familiar Mondeos and Astras. The eyes register this gem, widening as a grin slides involuntarily across your face. "Now there's something I haven't seen in a while" you think, as you make your way through the twisted metal towards your goal. It might be a Fiat 850, a Hillman Hunter, a MK 3 Cortina, it doesn't really matter. It's there and quite possibly you owned one such car at some time. The memories flood back............ the day you took posession of your steed, the care and attention you lavished upon, what might have been, your very first car. Where is it now, you wonder...............

These are just the sum of so many parts, metal, plastic, fabric, glass, but it's how the whole lot comes together that the magic is made. The intangible, intrinsic essence of the car that sows a tiny seed in us at some early point in our lives, growing into someting much bigger that just "the sum of its parts"

This is why we scratch our heads in disbelief and bewilderment at how some people abuse their cars, treating them merely as a means of transport at best and a nuisance at worst. You know that knot that forms momentarily, when the clown next to you in the car park dings your door with his? And then he just waves it off, if even that, as if it was nothing! It's a personal attack and insult against all that you hold dear and he just doesn't see it, can't see it! Ah well, that's his loss. But when you feel that knot, you know you have the bug and that perhaps, goes some way towards explaining why you would spend all day, rummaging around a scrapyard.

Max Headroom

It brings out the knacker in me......................:D

carchaeologist

It doesnt matter how well you mind them,apparently more than 99% of MK3 Cortinas(practical classics figures from DVLA) have been scrapped,so...

Great day out tho!