As an Eastern European watching this makes me feel like peeking into an alternate universe, as in none of the cars that I recognized were called their actual names 😄
@@fewstr Yeah i know Aussies dont get snow, i was talking from a eastern european to a eastern european about how rust is an issue cuz we get tonnes of snow and road salt that comes with fighting it. Through Wade i found out Australia got sun damage instead while ive never even heard of it before.
A lot of cars have different names in different places. Dodge dart that's named Fiat viaggio, the Ford Fusion is also our Mondeo and more. Some are blatantly stolen, like what Lada did before they got embargoed.
It's so weird seeing cars that were new when I was a kid completely rotting, but in a weird alternative universe where some of the badges are completely different. Honestly, the format of you and James going around Junkyards, laughing and reminiscing is so utterly compelling, please do more.
unfortunately theres only 3 u-pull its in adelaide. Luckily according to their webside a "new" car enters one of the u-pull-its every half an hour. so that might just work...
Wade you have no idea how much this particular content does for me. Being an Adelaide local who genuinely enjoys mundane every day cars and going to u-pull-it, this video is everything I could have ever wanted. Don't ever stop
There's something magical about going to a junkyard as a 90's kid who loved the cars from back then. It's awesome that you have a buddy to do it with, not to mention a fanbase that appreciates it!
It’s really interesting how some cars don’t really go anywhere once they’re at the end of the line, they’re just put somewhere and left to rot. It could be any car too, even one from this year could be subject to such a fate.
I mean, that outcome is valid only for pull-aparts (this yard) and storage type junk yards. Most common junk yards are picking these apart and make mince meat out of them. My local junk yard is half and half. It both has the storage area, which kiiiinda serves as a pull-apart, but it's beer based and it's also a shredder. There's a dude with a big claw/magnet attachment in a fixed digger and he just wrecks these things apart, rips them open. It's actually pretty entertaining to watch. He breaks all the glass, shakes the car until it's all out, then rips the bonnet out, pulls the motor, throws it into the pile, then rips the rubber out and then absolutely hammers the living sh!t out what's rest then throws into a huge, house sized rotating shredder. I usually give the boss pit a six pack and he lets me hang round from time to time, just about the most therapeutic thing to watch.
Totally could watch an hour long version of this. About 1/3 of the cars I've heard of. The rest are just mysterious odd things. Love scrap yard adventures.
My local part pulling place does an "all you can carry" event a few times a year. Whatever parts you can carry out the door is $50. I've seen some weightlifters try getting entire engines out the door.
This video was such stupid fun. I can't believe how much you've been uploading lately, Wade! What an absolute treat this has been, but just please don't burn yourself out!
“Charge on you manky nugget” is maybe the best motto for all of your channels that has ever been said. I need it on some merch! It just says everything.
13:20 (Wade talking about the Daihatsu Applause) James: (clapping) Wade: *“SHUT UP, I DIDNT SANCTION THAT!!”* That small bit made me die with laughter 😂😂🤣🤣 Cheers for the walk around 😁
These temps remind me of the time I wanted the rear interior bits out of an E32 at a yard in Nashville in the middle of June (ambient temp was easily over 100F), but the rear doors were hard locked with all the windows rolled up. Climbed in through the front and damn near cooked myself, but I got those bits in the end and they're still in my E34 to this day.
Let’s all of us in the northern hemisphere appreciate the sheer effort of walking around the wreckers in the summer heat of Southern Aus. I know it’s probably drizzling and cold where most of us are rn, but these guys are taking a stroll in a place where engines never get below working temp 👏
SSV was Sydney Special Vehicles, they made body kits that typically would be bought by car yards and fitted to cars to make them look sporty. Silins was probably the car yard that sold it and customised it. Also I have a BA tonner exactly the same as that one that’s being built up as a work car to do pilot escort work. Also EA Falcons are amazing. I’ve owned 2, both white, both were an S. I absolutely loved my EA’s.
I was looking it up, and saw mostly Sydney Special Vehicles ads, but a few older ones said Silins Special Vehicles, so maybe they rebranded at one point?
@@musewolfman Maybe 2 different companies since GT is in SA, and Silins seems to be based there. I’m in NSW and have known of Sydney for years. Maybe they’re related somehow.
SSV was essentially a body kit you could buy at the time they were new , and SILINS was also part of the kit that added certain parts, the kit was available on Holdens and fords
What happened to Holden is basically happening to Subaru now. They make 5 different SUVs, 4 of which (Crosstrek, Forester, Outback, Ascent) are just slightly different sizes with nothing else to really distinguish them, and then got rid of all their sensible hatchbacks (in 2014, despite the hatchback being 60% of the sales on the Impreza at the time), performance cars, and their wagon. So now they're starting to struggle and I don't know how they didn't see it coming.
The Daewoo "Vauxhall Astra" was actually a continuation of the Opel Kadett E (Vauxhall Astra in the UK). It was a car made since 1984, but Daewoo produced it from 1994-2016 in many different forms. It was even sold as a Pontiac Lemans 😂.
Aw man The Nissan Bluebird felt like the most futuristic car EVER when I was a kid, you could sit in the back and see what speed your parents were doing because the speed was projected onto the inside of the windshield. Pretty sure my parents got rid of it because they were tired of me telling them to speed up or slow down.
@@Ozuhananas my grandfather had one. And he used to drive me as a kid. He always wanted me to drive that car. He passed away a few months ago and now I'm driving his car 🥹
That Holden Epica literally has the exact same steering wheel as all of the USDM GM trucks and SUV’s from 2007 - 2014. You’ll find that in anything from a base 2007 Chevy Silverado to a fully decked out 2014 Cadillac Escalade. It’s crazy the amount of part sharing GM does.
Forget parts sharing... they share entire cars across the globe and just call them something different with minimal other changes. Noticed that with one of the cars I had here in Germany, which was a 2005 Opel Astra H. Turns out this one model was even sold in the US and Canada, albeit very unsuccessfully. Other than badges and being LHD/RHD, there weren't really any major differences. Vauxhall Astra (UK), Holden Astra (Australia & NZ), Saturn Astra (NA), Chevrolet Astra (?), Chevrolet Vectra (Argentina & Brazil), Opel Astra (Europe, parts of Asia)
I can't tell you how accurate the comments about the VT commodore were and how they cut deep. The VT was king when I was in high school, everytime we saw one we would look for the front guard badge to see if it was a "Gen 3" V8 - iirc these were the first commodore with the LS. I also remember the 'controversy' when the VX came out, we all thought the reflectors on the rear bumper looked shit - like they'd been lifted from a Hyundai excel.
Thank you for making goofy vids like this. Your content has genuinely been one of my favorite things ever on this platform, even if it's just you and James mucking around at a U-Pull-It.
Love this! Getting to see you putz around giving your opinion on a bunch of cars really makes your vibrant personality shine and exemplifies the reasons I love your content. Keep it up man, love to see do things you enjoy.
Always a treat, watching cars you either know or know under a different name in a junkyard, they really are a car guy's treasure trove. Despite the cars are rusted, rotting and smelly it's still interesting to mess around and discover cars, the dents and scratches could tell stories
Man, the Vectra mirrors take me back to my childhood in a way that I didn't know was possible. My dad had that car in the weird pearlescent green-purple paint job
I like how this man update his videos on his three channels at the same time. It's like getting good nugget three times in a row from the nugget stash.
Thank you for the journey back in time! I loved exploring the original Lonsdale U-Pull-It, and getting parts for my cars there. Such a sad day when the desalination project forced them to move and they crushed most of the really old and interesting cars. They had lots of British or European 1950s cars in there. Hi to James as well!
Vauxhall itself is just a rebrand, it's ownd by Opel (Germany) and the cars are basically opels. And in your country they are Daewoo or Holden (astra for example). All opels, basically. Good cars, if you know which one to buy. The Dawoo you have in your video is an Opel Kadett from the 80s. Daewoo just shipped the forms and everything over and kept on making them, long after opel did. I had one of these, it was my first car i bought myself. I loved that thing (and the plastic trim was quite fance back then) ;-) PS: The combo van you show is an opel, too - its an Opel Corsa Combo (Cargo). Opels everywhere (like the Holden Vectra at 5:26, which is an Opel Vectra before they re-badge it, or the commodore. Basically the whole lineup) 😀
@@satsumagt5284 these corsa itself itself as a small car quite old, the first generation from 1982 was build in spain by GM, using German construction plans. Who knows what happened all the way to the now 7? 8? Generation 😁
@@erebostd I can’t speak about the Corsa A, neve seen one (they weren’t sold in my country). But the C, eh, the cabin blower really tells me it was engineered as RHD first
Two things: 1. It is 19°F (-7.2°C) where I am right now. I forgot that people were experiencing heat now. 2. Thank you for translating your Celsius temperatures to Fahrenheit. That is HOT!!
Fun fact, the green Daewoo at 0:25 was brought to Colombia by Chevrolet as the "Chevrolet Optra",i think it was called the Lacetti in the US alongside another bunch of rebadged crappy Daewoos. Except the Chevrolet spark (2nd gen Daewoo matiz) that was our Toyota Corolla, almost indestructible. I like the fact that we kinda have the same vehicles in Colombia as in Australia, makes me smile.
It also was brought to the states as the Pontiac LeMans in the 1980s. Muscle Car people get kinda angry when that is brought up and how it ruins the legacy of the Pontiac LeMans. I don't really get those people because 1.) More people know of the earlier LeMans, and 2.) What legacy the LeMans had? It was a Midsize sedan, sure it can come with big stupid engines, but majority of them didn't
You're lucky to still have places like this - I live in Sydney, where Pick 'n Payless closed just over 12 months ago, and Northern Auto Wreckers closed a few months ago. Due to land values the busineses are worth more dead than alive these days. Closest wrecker these days is Dapto Pick a Part, just outside of Sydney and a 3 hour drive from where I live (Northern Beaches)
6:40 hah no way, my computer seat is actually a driver seat from a vh sl/x in green, comfiest chair ive ever owned too got it from a vh they were wrecking in the local scrappies for 50 bucks and welded it to a computer chair base.
Its mind blowing to see how many old cars there were in that scrap yard. I live in the midwest US and the majority of scrap yards have mid 90s vehicles at the oldest. So you never get to see just old cars setting there and rotting away
@@Procondor00 I imagine that as a sad place for cars to exist. More than 20 years old, it's rusting in half. "Whoops! The kids in the back seat are half a mile behind me in the front seat! Time to buy a new car again!"
Apparently Silins was a thing! They used to sell you kits and stickers and everything. I agree that the Opels (i.e. Vectra) of that time seemed so cool, especially to me, an American, going to Spain for the first time and seeing all the cars we didn't get.
I envy these lots that are dry and have cars on blocks... up here in the northeast US, there's only like 2 yards to go to, and the cars are just plopped down in the mud
Aww man nothing gets me going more than rando Aussie cars. We had so few of them imported here and badge engineered by Chevrolet and Pontiac but I'm still so in love with them.
@@rawnature8148 funnily enough, I did lock the doors on my manual Saturn, and it still got stolen. The lock cylinders on Saturn's were garbage and after a few years, pretty much any key would work. At least I didn't have to replace my ignition cylinder or any windows when I got it back.
@@rawnature8148 dunno what you're talking about. I only had to replace the alternator. And the engine. And bypass the automatic radiator fan to a switch in the cabin. And at the end of the day, somebody stole it to go to IHOP apparently.
The "Vauxhall Astra" was only called that in the UK, the rest of Europe it was called Opel Kadett E 👍 I daily drive an 1983 Opel Rekord E2 sedan (Commodore VH), currently working on my new car, 85' Rekord E2 wagon! With the 2.2 Injection 😬
@@AfferbeckBeats nah We don't have any V8s over here, and there's no way we'd be able to afford the tax even if we did import one from Australia or America Instead we have our own Opel made straight sixes :) C30NE, C30SE... C40SE hooh C40SE a four litre twin cam injected straight six, very reliable and very torquey, basically a European Barra :) But they're rare Most people will just swap in a C**NE, a OHV straight six hehe The ohv engines were really good though, they were cam in head! No pushrods! C30NE from 1977, Opel Senator A1 and A2, basically our equivalent of the VK and VL commodore, 180hp!
4:31 "Oh that's an Ignis! Wait no, wait, yes" I learnt to drive on one, loved how high off the ground it was, you can just fly into one, kinda like with Ford Fusions. There's a junkyard near my home and it's like 90% old Suzukis, mostly Swifts. Ladas, Trabants, Wartburgs were common when I was little and now it's a miracle if I see one in drivable condition.
these videos bring me so much joy cause my favourite activity during my summers was visiting my favourite scrap yard and just exploring and salvaging what i could. i never have time for that any more due to work and uni, so these vids help satisfy my wish to go back 🥺
gosh him talking about his car memories makes me wanna sit him down in the car of my childhood, a 2000 plymouth voyager, never found a family van with that much space since honestly
I would love to see you restore one of those 90’s and early 2000’s Holden Commodores sometime. It would be interesting to see what kind of faults one of these cars has and what kind of parts you would buy for it. It would be great to see that Holden alongside Smelly Jeff. I wonder what that Holden would be named tho? 🤔
Yeah that would be awesome to see what the competition was up to at the time. I have a 2006 vz wagon but never been in a VT. Would love to see one of those done up
Commodores are easy because they used the same parts across all models for like 15 years, and the engine was from a front wheel drive 80s Buick of all things. Mine is still running fine apart from some annoying electrical problems now where it thinks everything is broken but it's all actually fine.
Top tip: All the Daewoos that you saw in the beginning? They got facelifts and then they were sold as Holdens. The Epica is also another rebadged Daewoo. The same happened in Latin America, they just got them as Chevrolets instead.
I know nothing about cars, but I would watch any video of James and Dank doin anything. They nerd out the same way I do at a junk store full of retro PCs
1:22 In Europe they were called Opel Kadett E and were notorious for rusting, so nowadays they're rather rare. They were called Astra the next generation. I believe Vauxhall they were called only in the UK and in north america they were marketed as Chevrolett.
As a German, this is so confusing to watch. All the Vauxhalls and Holden‘s you guys found are actually Licensed under Opel here in Germany. Really cool to see what other countries have!
Yeah, several Holden Commodores were reworked Opels. It wasn't until the VE Commodore (2006) that Holden had it's own self-engineered Commodore platform. Unfortunately it cost 1 billion AUD to develop (as it would also underpin Chevrolet's then-upcoming Camaro), and with SUV sales eating away at the family car market Commodore used to dominate, it sealed Holden's fate, as well as car manufacturing in Australia.
What's funny is we have a U-pull-it here in the UK. I enjoy having a wander about for some bits. Although next to no daewoos there. Mostly vauxhalls and fords but interesting to see the cars over the other side of the world has got. So many of them are just rebadged cars we have here
8:07 Idk if it means anything else but Silins is a common last name in Latvia. I would know, I have it. So if a latvian did that to a Falcon, I apologize.
I used to work for Halfords back in 1995 when Daewoo were selling the Nexia through Halfords stores. Daewoo purchased the tooling for the Mk2 Vauxhall Astra/Opel Kadett and started cranking the Nexia out. It was so close to the Astra in looks that the manager told me to park my 1985 Astra at the other end of the lot so customers wouldn't see how the entire interior was identical to a 10 year old nugget.
As an American, my grandfather has one of those Ford Aspires (the Ford Aspire is that crappy Kia Rio thing) and that thing didn't die. I would've figured that they ended up at junkyards now!!
One of my favorite nuggets from the early 2000s was the Honda insight G1, apparently only 45 were sold in Australia so I can't imagine you'll be able to find one but their mile per gallon rating is still one of the best in America. The rear wheel covers were kind of fun too
Reminds me of going to salvage yards back in high school with a good friend on the weekends. Being the rural Midwest, we were always weary of copperheads since the two yards we had at the time were up in the hills in blocks of "carved" out woods. We only have one yard left local, and there's rarely good finds at that one. I grabbed a manual Crossfire we rebuilt entirely just using the body, engine, and trans with new steering/suspension, wiring/ecu, etc. Other than that, it's mostly just cheap crap wrecked not worth grabbing.
I feel what you're saying at 2:07. When I was a kid I was obsessed with Citroen Xsara Picasso for some reason. I'm sure many of them are dead already, but I'm going to be sentimental when I see one rotting away.
I'm still keeping an ancient Citroen on the road, I have a 95 Xantia and she's the most reliable idiot in the planet, the suspension is still better than a lot of modern cars too lol
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As an Eastern European watching this makes me feel like peeking into an alternate universe, as in none of the cars that I recognized were called their actual names 😄
SAME
Also the minimum amount of rust on these is shocking, would never keep this well here.
@@42neddy it doesn't snow and is quite dry in 99% of the places people live so there isnt much chance for it to rust.
@@fewstr Yeah i know Aussies dont get snow, i was talking from a eastern european to a eastern european about how rust is an issue cuz we get tonnes of snow and road salt that comes with fighting it. Through Wade i found out Australia got sun damage instead while ive never even heard of it before.
except the daewoos maybe
A lot of cars have different names in different places. Dodge dart that's named Fiat viaggio, the Ford Fusion is also our Mondeo and more. Some are blatantly stolen, like what Lada did before they got embargoed.
It's so weird seeing cars that were new when I was a kid completely rotting, but in a weird alternative universe where some of the badges are completely different.
Honestly, the format of you and James going around Junkyards, laughing and reminiscing is so utterly compelling, please do more.
unfortunately theres only 3 u-pull its in adelaide. Luckily according to their webside a "new" car enters one of the u-pull-its every half an hour. so that might just work...
its like watching an episode of fringe when they go to the other side for a day XD
Boy do we love Wade and James. What a duo.
one of the greatest nba duos of all time! two GOATs fr🐐🐐
@@matthewbrun5962 🐐
@@matthewbrun5962 🐐
Garbage Time is my fav car channel.
@@matthewbrun5962 🐐
Wade you have no idea how much this particular content does for me. Being an Adelaide local who genuinely enjoys mundane every day cars and going to u-pull-it, this video is everything I could have ever wanted. Don't ever stop
When Wade says "smell" I never know if he means literally smell or "experience" in general. It's a fun guessing game
Nah, it's literally a genuine smell. I've been to that yard, and let me tell you, you never forget that smell of roasted dead car interior!
Like when Han says to Chewie "What an incredible new smell you've found!"
It’s definitely a fun game, especially because it never gets old! The dank language is vast, and beautiful
He also refers to bass as "stinky" so it's always a gamble
@@bobmcguffin5706 stinky in reference to anything audio related means powerful or power hungry
The Aussie auto industry is fascinating. So many re-badges!
4 videos in 2 days?
He is killing it
4 in a day if we count the Patreon one
yeah
I can only find three. Where is the 4th?
@@kasperilse4878 1 Dankpods, 1 Garbage time, 1 Drum Thing and 1 Patreon after show
Likely himself as well
There's something magical about going to a junkyard as a 90's kid who loved the cars from back then. It's awesome that you have a buddy to do it with, not to mention a fanbase that appreciates it!
It’s really interesting how some cars don’t really go anywhere once they’re at the end of the line, they’re just put somewhere and left to rot.
It could be any car too, even one from this year could be subject to such a fate.
The swift of the guy who sold him the corolla is probably rotting already!
@@pingucraft95 True, true.
I was at an lkq and there was a corvette rotting away
I mean, that outcome is valid only for pull-aparts (this yard) and storage type junk yards. Most common junk yards are picking these apart and make mince meat out of them.
My local junk yard is half and half. It both has the storage area, which kiiiinda serves as a pull-apart, but it's beer based and it's also a shredder. There's a dude with a big claw/magnet attachment in a fixed digger and he just wrecks these things apart, rips them open. It's actually pretty entertaining to watch.
He breaks all the glass, shakes the car until it's all out, then rips the bonnet out, pulls the motor, throws it into the pile, then rips the rubber out and then absolutely hammers the living sh!t out what's rest then throws into a huge, house sized rotating shredder. I usually give the boss pit a six pack and he lets me hang round from time to time, just about the most therapeutic thing to watch.
Mum told me they went to car heaven
Totally could watch an hour long version of this. About 1/3 of the cars I've heard of. The rest are just mysterious odd things. Love scrap yard adventures.
My local part pulling place does an "all you can carry" event a few times a year. Whatever parts you can carry out the door is $50. I've seen some weightlifters try getting entire engines out the door.
"Why do you want to get swole, bro?"
"I want to lift a whole car engine and pay fiddy buck for it, bro."
Get 20 people together and carry out the entire car for $50
Lol
I desperately need to know if anyone's succeeded yet
12:47 thats a 1 grit sanding job there mate 😄
This video was such stupid fun. I can't believe how much you've been uploading lately, Wade! What an absolute treat this has been, but just please don't burn yourself out!
“Charge on you manky nugget” is maybe the best motto for all of your channels that has ever been said. I need it on some merch! It just says everything.
This is how my wrecker trips go too. 15 minutes of getting what I came for, 2 and a half hours of reminiscing about my P plates.
Pretty much the same for me as well although I haven't been to the wreckers in a long time as I no longer own a Ford Falcon.
5:54
"Dry your tears
Youve been dead for years"-Wade 2023
Beautiful rhyme lol
These are like the nugget lucky dips and although I have no knowledge about cars, it's really lovely to watch.
13:20 (Wade talking about the Daihatsu Applause)
James: (clapping)
Wade: *“SHUT UP, I DIDNT SANCTION THAT!!”*
That small bit made me die with laughter 😂😂🤣🤣
Cheers for the walk around 😁
I actually started saying "I didn't sanction that!" when something/someone interrupts me 😂
@@devinmcleod3395 magnificent… no notes 😁
These temps remind me of the time I wanted the rear interior bits out of an E32 at a yard in Nashville in the middle of June (ambient temp was easily over 100F), but the rear doors were hard locked with all the windows rolled up. Climbed in through the front and damn near cooked myself, but I got those bits in the end and they're still in my E34 to this day.
Hmm 7 series, nice
Fellow e34 enthusiast who watches wade, hell yeah
Same but with my old Civic at a scrapyard in Vegas in the middle of summer
Or looking for a spare tire in Phoenix in August ☀
A graveyard filled with the victims of GM. Rest in peace Saab and Holden.
I somberly donate my F to the Saab
Man, I'd give an arm to have a 2023 Viggen. I miss Saab.
@@Majima_Nowhere the best this reality can do now is NEVS electric vehicle
Add.: it apparently can't even do that, as NEVS had shut its factories down
the last generation of saabs were soooo beautiful and it sucks that they died shortly after that
@@Majima_Nowhere My first car was a Pontiac. Sleek and sporty, I was so sad when GM killed the brand.
The only car channel that doesn't make me bored to death within the 5-minute mark
Doug Demuro ain't got shit on Wade
Let’s all of us in the northern hemisphere appreciate the sheer effort of walking around the wreckers in the summer heat of Southern Aus. I know it’s probably drizzling and cold where most of us are rn, but these guys are taking a stroll in a place where engines never get below working temp 👏
SSV was Sydney Special Vehicles, they made body kits that typically would be bought by car yards and fitted to cars to make them look sporty. Silins was probably the car yard that sold it and customised it. Also I have a BA tonner exactly the same as that one that’s being built up as a work car to do pilot escort work.
Also EA Falcons are amazing. I’ve owned 2, both white, both were an S. I absolutely loved my EA’s.
I was looking it up, and saw mostly Sydney Special Vehicles ads, but a few older ones said Silins Special Vehicles, so maybe they rebranded at one point?
Why does it look like Silin is using the Nissan Silvia font? XP
@@musewolfman Maybe 2 different companies since GT is in SA, and Silins seems to be based there. I’m in NSW and have known of Sydney for years. Maybe they’re related somehow.
SSV was essentially a body kit you could buy at the time they were new , and SILINS was also part of the kit that added certain parts, the kit was available on Holdens and fords
Wade, the content is nearly unstoppable. I just came from the drum stream, it never ends!
dankpods upload then drum thing upload then garbage time upload within 3 days this must be heaven
What happened to Holden is basically happening to Subaru now. They make 5 different SUVs, 4 of which (Crosstrek, Forester, Outback, Ascent) are just slightly different sizes with nothing else to really distinguish them, and then got rid of all their sensible hatchbacks (in 2014, despite the hatchback being 60% of the sales on the Impreza at the time), performance cars, and their wagon. So now they're starting to struggle and I don't know how they didn't see it coming.
all they need to do is bring back the Baja
@@j0anbug and the BRAT. But it’ll probably just be one or the other, Jeep wont even give us a 2 door Gladiator.
7:48 It's called an EA Falcon because the base car is just a chassis and every part has to be purchased separately for 25% of the base car's price.
Modern cars are starting to have DLC and live service features
The Daewoo "Vauxhall Astra" was actually a continuation of the Opel Kadett E (Vauxhall Astra in the UK). It was a car made since 1984, but Daewoo produced it from 1994-2016 in many different forms. It was even sold as a Pontiac Lemans 😂.
Aw man The Nissan Bluebird felt like the most futuristic car EVER when I was a kid, you could sit in the back and see what speed your parents were doing because the speed was projected onto the inside of the windshield. Pretty sure my parents got rid of it because they were tired of me telling them to speed up or slow down.
I love the Renault Scenic hiding in the never ending line of Daewoo s 0:29 🤣
Love it too, my childhood car, my parents had that exact same model, same color and all
@@Ozuhananas my grandfather had one. And he used to drive me as a kid. He always wanted me to drive that car. He passed away a few months ago and now I'm driving his car 🥹
That Holden Epica literally has the exact same steering wheel as all of the USDM GM trucks and SUV’s from 2007 - 2014. You’ll find that in anything from a base 2007 Chevy Silverado to a fully decked out 2014 Cadillac Escalade. It’s crazy the amount of part sharing GM does.
Though helpful if you're restoring one
@@nickrustyson8124 Absolutely
Forget parts sharing... they share entire cars across the globe and just call them something different with minimal other changes. Noticed that with one of the cars I had here in Germany, which was a 2005 Opel Astra H. Turns out this one model was even sold in the US and Canada, albeit very unsuccessfully. Other than badges and being LHD/RHD, there weren't really any major differences. Vauxhall Astra (UK), Holden Astra (Australia & NZ), Saturn Astra (NA), Chevrolet Astra (?), Chevrolet Vectra (Argentina & Brazil), Opel Astra (Europe, parts of Asia)
I can't tell you how accurate the comments about the VT commodore were and how they cut deep. The VT was king when I was in high school, everytime we saw one we would look for the front guard badge to see if it was a "Gen 3" V8 - iirc these were the first commodore with the LS. I also remember the 'controversy' when the VX came out, we all thought the reflectors on the rear bumper looked shit - like they'd been lifted from a Hyundai excel.
Thank you for making goofy vids like this. Your content has genuinely been one of my favorite things ever on this platform, even if it's just you and James mucking around at a U-Pull-It.
Sometimes, the best content is just some friends messing around
Vauxhall in the UK, Opel in the rest of Europe
Love this! Getting to see you putz around giving your opinion on a bunch of cars really makes your vibrant personality shine and exemplifies the reasons I love your content. Keep it up man, love to see do things you enjoy.
1:20 These were actually sold as an Opel Kadett E in the non UK parts of Europe
Love these type of junkyard videos, keep them coming please!
Always a treat, watching cars you either know or know under a different name in a junkyard, they really are a car guy's treasure trove.
Despite the cars are rusted, rotting and smelly it's still interesting to mess around and discover cars, the dents and scratches could tell stories
Always good times going to the wreckers. Please do more of this? Good stuff!
Man, the Vectra mirrors take me back to my childhood in a way that I didn't know was possible. My dad had that car in the weird pearlescent green-purple paint job
Man that dad wisdom hits hard. I came up on the vs being the dream and now I can hardly find them at the wreckers around here
the magna wagon at 13:31 was still being road driven around the end of last year, i recall admiring the patch job on the doors in traffic lol
I like how this man update his videos on his three channels at the same time. It's like getting good nugget three times in a row from the nugget stash.
Thank you for the journey back in time!
I loved exploring the original Lonsdale U-Pull-It, and getting parts for my cars there. Such a sad day when the desalination project forced them to move and they crushed most of the really old and interesting cars. They had lots of British or European 1950s cars in there.
Hi to James as well!
The feeling of crouching on hot gravel whilst trying to unbolt and remove heavy parts from the cars is a strong memory.
Vauxhall itself is just a rebrand, it's ownd by Opel (Germany) and the cars are basically opels. And in your country they are Daewoo or Holden (astra for example). All opels, basically. Good cars, if you know which one to buy. The Dawoo you have in your video is an Opel Kadett from the 80s. Daewoo just shipped the forms and everything over and kept on making them, long after opel did. I had one of these, it was my first car i bought myself. I loved that thing (and the plastic trim was quite fance back then) ;-)
PS: The combo van you show is an opel, too - its an Opel Corsa Combo (Cargo). Opels everywhere (like the Holden Vectra at 5:26, which is an Opel Vectra before they re-badge it, or the commodore. Basically the whole lineup) 😀
Something still tells me the Corsa C was engineered RHD first
@@satsumagt5284 these corsa itself itself as a small car quite old, the first generation from 1982 was build in spain by GM, using German construction plans. Who knows what happened all the way to the now 7? 8? Generation 😁
@@erebostd I can’t speak about the Corsa A, neve seen one (they weren’t sold in my country). But the C, eh, the cabin blower really tells me it was engineered as RHD first
They're all Peugeot's now. As are Opel.
Opel was owned by GM since the 1930's
Two things:
1. It is 19°F (-7.2°C) where I am right now. I forgot that people were experiencing heat now.
2. Thank you for translating your Celsius temperatures to Fahrenheit. That is HOT!!
Fun fact, the green Daewoo at 0:25 was brought to Colombia by Chevrolet as the "Chevrolet Optra",i think it was called the Lacetti in the US alongside another bunch of rebadged crappy Daewoos. Except the Chevrolet spark (2nd gen Daewoo matiz) that was our Toyota Corolla, almost indestructible.
I like the fact that we kinda have the same vehicles in Colombia as in Australia, makes me smile.
TOYOTA COROLA. LLEGO EL JAPONES 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
It also was brought to the states as the Pontiac LeMans in the 1980s. Muscle Car people get kinda angry when that is brought up and how it ruins the legacy of the Pontiac LeMans. I don't really get those people because 1.) More people know of the earlier LeMans, and 2.) What legacy the LeMans had? It was a Midsize sedan, sure it can come with big stupid engines, but majority of them didn't
Ok, that PASSATE (which to this day is a very common modding car in Brazil) looked absolutely radical with that rust.
I can’t express in words how excited I am every time I see a notification for the channel pop up on my phone
7:03 when a revcounter is luxury so you just have a giant analog clock in your dash instead.
7:00 I just watched Robocop and legit thought the badging was "SUX."
Did I spy James rocking a Bunnings hat.
I had a bad day (my car had a rod knock) until this video popped up and I just smiled, thank you.
Oh no, you never want a visit from Uncle Rodney
I'm gonna hit up my local pick n pull. These videos remind me of how fun it is to check out dead cars.
Im so happy you're posting so consistently, I just want an hour long U-pull-it video its just so interesting!
Keep up the great vids😃
Based on the 016 Transmission laying in front of that Audi, that might actually be a proper 80/90 Quattro Sedan. Rarity in Oz land!
Let’s goooo
Thanks for not saying "first"
It's U-pull-it, not many things will actually go
Where
“Let’s goo” is not the exclamation you kids think it is. 😂
14:49 pretty much tells you to think twice before leaving your child and/or pet in a hot car.
It's a miracle that those Jaguars aren't on fire in the video
😂
You're lucky to still have places like this - I live in Sydney, where Pick 'n Payless closed just over 12 months ago, and Northern Auto Wreckers closed a few months ago. Due to land values the busineses are worth more dead than alive these days. Closest wrecker these days is Dapto Pick a Part, just outside of Sydney and a 3 hour drive from where I live (Northern Beaches)
6:40 hah no way, my computer seat is actually a driver seat from a vh sl/x in green, comfiest chair ive ever owned too got it from a vh they were wrecking in the local scrappies for 50 bucks and welded it to a computer chair base.
Thanks for taking me to the yard today mate! Had a nice trip. I could smell some of those from here in the US
14:20 that car with its matte paint and rust streaks looks like a car that could exist in the borderlands games.
Its mind blowing to see how many old cars there were in that scrap yard. I live in the midwest US and the majority of scrap yards have mid 90s vehicles at the oldest. So you never get to see just old cars setting there and rotting away
Midwest, is that the "Rust Belt"?
@@De19thKingJulion yes it is
@@Procondor00 I imagine that as a sad place for cars to exist. More than 20 years old, it's rusting in half.
"Whoops! The kids in the back seat are half a mile behind me in the front seat! Time to buy a new car again!"
Apparently Silins was a thing! They used to sell you kits and stickers and everything.
I agree that the Opels (i.e. Vectra) of that time seemed so cool, especially to me, an American, going to Spain for the first time and seeing all the cars we didn't get.
At least we still got the holden monaro, ve and vf commodores as the 2000's pontiac gto, pontiac g8, and chevy ss
@@tonierbuckle0202 And the Cadillac Catera
I envy these lots that are dry and have cars on blocks... up here in the northeast US, there's only like 2 yards to go to, and the cars are just plopped down in the mud
i love how the u-pull-it cars are being held up by tires and tire rims so much
That's how the u-pull-it lots do it in Toronto, too.
That just seems to be the standard for self service yards, cheap way to make jackstands, just weld 2 steelies together
Aww man nothing gets me going more than rando Aussie cars. We had so few of them imported here and badge engineered by Chevrolet and Pontiac but I'm still so in love with them.
We really need a story time of all the cars you and your family has had over the years
Wayde buy a magna! You gotta experience them, the 3rd gen manual ones are bloody special
Being in Canada, it's amazing to see so.many manuals like this, stick cars just don't exist here lol
They’re basically an anti-theft feature at this point.
I have driven a few manual cars in canada. Mind you I didn't have to lock the doors on our rav 4 because it was manual.
@@rawnature8148 funnily enough, I did lock the doors on my manual Saturn, and it still got stolen. The lock cylinders on Saturn's were garbage and after a few years, pretty much any key would work. At least I didn't have to replace my ignition cylinder or any windows when I got it back.
@@brianargo4595 the thing about a saturn is that you need to replace parts as they break so often. Hence you just steal a spare.
@@rawnature8148 dunno what you're talking about. I only had to replace the alternator. And the engine. And bypass the automatic radiator fan to a switch in the cabin. And at the end of the day, somebody stole it to go to IHOP apparently.
So many cool vintage cars just rotting away
Man so many of them look just so saveable
The "Vauxhall Astra" was only called that in the UK, the rest of Europe it was called Opel Kadett E 👍
I daily drive an 1983 Opel Rekord E2 sedan (Commodore VH), currently working on my new car, 85' Rekord E2 wagon! With the 2.2 Injection 😬
Do you put the V8s we used in the Commodore in your Opels?
@@AfferbeckBeats nah
We don't have any V8s over here, and there's no way we'd be able to afford the tax even if we did import one from Australia or America
Instead we have our own Opel made straight sixes :)
C30NE, C30SE... C40SE hooh
C40SE a four litre twin cam injected straight six, very reliable and very torquey, basically a European Barra :)
But they're rare
Most people will just swap in a C**NE, a OHV straight six hehe
The ohv engines were really good though, they were cam in head! No pushrods!
C30NE from 1977, Opel Senator A1 and A2, basically our equivalent of the VK and VL commodore, 180hp!
4:31 "Oh that's an Ignis! Wait no, wait, yes" I learnt to drive on one, loved how high off the ground it was, you can just fly into one, kinda like with Ford Fusions. There's a junkyard near my home and it's like 90% old Suzukis, mostly Swifts.
Ladas, Trabants, Wartburgs were common when I was little and now it's a miracle if I see one in drivable condition.
Mate that wade and James matching hat is top tier
these videos bring me so much joy cause my favourite activity during my summers was visiting my favourite scrap yard and just exploring and salvaging what i could. i never have time for that any more due to work and uni, so these vids help satisfy my wish to go back 🥺
Love every upload from this channel. Genuine.
gosh him talking about his car memories makes me wanna sit him down in the car of my childhood, a 2000 plymouth voyager, never found a family van with that much space since honestly
I would love to see you restore one of those 90’s and early 2000’s Holden Commodores sometime. It would be interesting to see what kind of faults one of these cars has and what kind of parts you would buy for it. It would be great to see that Holden alongside Smelly Jeff. I wonder what that Holden would be named tho? 🤔
Yeah that would be awesome to see what the competition was up to at the time. I have a 2006 vz wagon but never been in a VT. Would love to see one of those done up
Commodores are easy because they used the same parts across all models for like 15 years, and the engine was from a front wheel drive 80s Buick of all things. Mine is still running fine apart from some annoying electrical problems now where it thinks everything is broken but it's all actually fine.
Top tip: All the Daewoos that you saw in the beginning? They got facelifts and then they were sold as Holdens. The Epica is also another rebadged Daewoo.
The same happened in Latin America, they just got them as Chevrolets instead.
I know nothing about cars, but I would watch any video of James and Dank doin anything. They nerd out the same way I do at a junk store full of retro PCs
I love that one of the Holden Apollo's had the old Aperture logo just on the back window, facing inwards as well
1:22 In Europe they were called Opel Kadett E and were notorious for rusting, so nowadays they're rather rare. They were called Astra the next generation. I believe Vauxhall they were called only in the UK and in north america they were marketed as Chevrolett.
In the US they were the Pontiac LeMans. A sad iteration of an otherwise legendary name in automotive history
I have a 2l 8v fuel injected kadett and can confirm they rust extremely quickly and extremely badly :(
@@a5leighton Not really, both were junk and worthless within 5 years
D-TEC just kicked in yo!!
that's the funniest thing I've seen/heard in months!
As a German, this is so confusing to watch. All the Vauxhalls and Holden‘s you guys found are actually Licensed under Opel here in Germany. Really cool to see what other countries have!
Yeah, several Holden Commodores were reworked Opels. It wasn't until the VE Commodore (2006) that Holden had it's own self-engineered Commodore platform. Unfortunately it cost 1 billion AUD to develop (as it would also underpin Chevrolet's then-upcoming Camaro), and with SUV sales eating away at the family car market Commodore used to dominate, it sealed Holden's fate, as well as car manufacturing in Australia.
What's funny is we have a U-pull-it here in the UK. I enjoy having a wander about for some bits. Although next to no daewoos there. Mostly vauxhalls and fords but interesting to see the cars over the other side of the world has got. So many of them are just rebadged cars we have here
8:07 Idk if it means anything else but Silins is a common last name in Latvia. I would know, I have it. So if a latvian did that to a Falcon, I apologize.
I used to work for Halfords back in 1995 when Daewoo were selling the Nexia through Halfords stores. Daewoo purchased the tooling for the Mk2 Vauxhall Astra/Opel Kadett and started cranking the Nexia out. It was so close to the Astra in looks that the manager told me to park my 1985 Astra at the other end of the lot so customers wouldn't see how the entire interior was identical to a 10 year old nugget.
So cool there was a four door SAAB there. I can never find another one around here, apparently everybody else here had the hatchback.
08:25 Silins means a 'pine forest' in Latvian.
As an American, my grandfather has one of those Ford Aspires (the Ford Aspire is that crappy Kia Rio thing) and that thing didn't die. I would've figured that they ended up at junkyards now!!
One of my favorite nuggets from the early 2000s was the Honda insight G1, apparently only 45 were sold in Australia so I can't imagine you'll be able to find one but their mile per gallon rating is still one of the best in America. The rear wheel covers were kind of fun too
Yeah for whatever reason Honda has never tried that hard in Australia, they're probably the least common of the major Japanese manufacturers here
6:58 Aperture Science faded logo 👀
I love Australian uploads who needs sleep at 3am when you can watch a Aussie adventure.
12:26 most gen alpha sentence ive ever heard wade say
11:23 sigma wagon 🗿
and a pt cruiser
Reminds me of going to salvage yards back in high school with a good friend on the weekends. Being the rural Midwest, we were always weary of copperheads since the two yards we had at the time were up in the hills in blocks of "carved" out woods. We only have one yard left local, and there's rarely good finds at that one. I grabbed a manual Crossfire we rebuilt entirely just using the body, engine, and trans with new steering/suspension, wiring/ecu, etc. Other than that, it's mostly just cheap crap wrecked not worth grabbing.
12:31 reflection of batman
12:31: euueeaaaghhh chhoooo MAGNAS
I feel what you're saying at 2:07. When I was a kid I was obsessed with Citroen Xsara Picasso for some reason. I'm sure many of them are dead already, but I'm going to be sentimental when I see one rotting away.
idfk why but same, also the late 90's scenics
I'm still keeping an ancient Citroen on the road, I have a 95 Xantia and she's the most reliable idiot in the planet, the suspension is still better than a lot of modern cars too lol
12:42 bless you
12:42: euuEEGGHH CHOoo MAGNAS