Loved that, but slightly heartbreaking seeing some of those cars! Partly because I like things like the Civic and the Disco in the background, and partly because I kept on thinking "55 plate, that's practically new!" then realising, nope, that's 17 years old. Time is flying.
Hubnut at its best showing of a wide range of knowledge and with unscripted humour. One of my favourite videos is that walk round the scrapyard in NZ. Please make this a regular.
I love going with you both on your adventures. This is what I would have done before I became disabled. You make my day every episode. Thanks so much. Pete 🇬🇧
Oddly, I have very mixed feelings watching this. I think of who owned the cars, whether it was the 'pride and joy' of some driver, a car someone passed their test in, one that a family had happy touring holidays in, a first car of a young driver, a car that a nurse drove every night to her shift at the hospital and so on. I think of the sadness of a last drive in the cars. A reminder that we invest a lot of feelings in these devices, that they are very much a part of our lives.
We tend to think of the actual cars of our memories, and of the others,sad but removed from our own cars. I suppose really, when we see a funeral procession pass, we have those same feelings if it is someone that we don't know.
I never look up most of my old cars since I like to think they're still on the road, even if they most likely aren't. Although admittedly there were a few I've owned that were so bad I would have liked to watch them go to the crusher
I was in the army in Germany so when I came on leave (free flight) I never bought my car over. When over i would get a car from the Jalopy Corner section of the paper and buy a cheap banger with a month tax and MOT. Probably pay about £2 (in the 70s) drive it around for 2 weeks, then scrap it and get £10 or £15 from the scrapper. A lot cheaper than car hire.
I watch that and think of the design, the energy, the technology that went into those motors, only for them to be crushed when I suspect so many of them could still be running if they had regular maintenance and a bit of TLC. We are so wasteful. My 17 year old Fabia with 173K on the clock ready for scrap? It's just broken in sir! That nasty grabber isn't getting its hooks into my baby!
You are correct. If you watch American car channels 100k on a car sounds normal for a car built around 4 or 5 years old. Unfortunately our cars in the UK have a long spell of damp and salty winters to deal with. My SEAT Ibiza I brought brand new back in 2013 is starting to show signs of creaks on the suspension area's and it hasn't long had 2 new shock absorbers and suspension springs. I think the salt is getting into the bushes.
Used cars in the UK are so cheap (excluding the pandemic blip) any major fault just made them uneconomical to repair, especially given the complexity of modern cars. Although it is interesting how despite the technological advances, the average lifespan of a car doesn't really change.
I agree we as a country are wastful I own a mk3 escort cabriolet that is more or less still like new because its cared for regular wash and polish and any faults fixed immediately if our government had there was there would be no such thing as classic I own 6 cars all my babies
@@bentullett6068 The secret is frequent washing and waxing, that's my experience. I live in Yorkshire and my car lives outside all year round, so plenty of rain and grit to contend with. 17 years of regular everyday use, the old girl has only a little bit of superficial rust on the rear arches. It once was a common sight to see dads washing their pride and joy on a Sunday, people don't do that anymore. The car wash places use high power jets and aggressive chemicals, there is no love in what they do, and they won't get into the nooks and crannies a caring owner will. Get back out there on Sunday afternoons dads!
@@bentullett6068 You do have to remember that in the US there are a lot of long, straight, fairly featureless highways, and distances are just far greater on average. Long, easy miles mean cars pretty normally hit 200K+ over there. Here it's largely all short distances, barely warmed up, city driving, start stop, basically all the things that wear a car fast.
Matt from Furious might be interested in that CF after his last vid! This is what we wanted to see happen to the Multipla, we would have paid to see that 🤣
Completely, utterly brilliant. Well done and many thanks to Tanygroes car dismantlers for their part in this insanely entertaining video. What a collaboration, what genius, what a result. I can't imagine how you got around the health and safety issues but you did. Fantastic.
Amazing how many reasonably modern cars are there, to think not too many years ago these would’ve all been somebody’s pride and joy. Somebody would’ve had the excitement of collecting a brand new car from the dealership all shiny with an immaculate untouched interior with delivery mileage and that new car smell, less than 20 years later this is what becomes of most of them, so sad yet fascinating at the same time. You’ve just got to love the awesome power of that claw crane just manhandling and tearing the cars to pieces as though they are just toys. This machine is a real leveller, it doesn’t care whether it’s an eco budget hatchback or a Rolls Royce, it just crushes them all as though they are made of tin foil, it’s a real eye opener to think how materialistic we have become and spend literally £thousands on these things yet they really are all just tin boxes that can be crushed within seconds. Fascinating video and great hubnut presentation and humour along the way. Thank you!!!
In your previous visit I saw a Skoda similar to mine , I contacted them and very quickly obtained a door lock mechanism. Excellent service. A great but sad video, thanks to you both.
An oddly philosophical video this. Its strange how we have strong emotions for what is an inanimate object... that these objects become members of the family, friends or in other cases objects of derision even adversaries. It'll be interesting to see the bails and engines being reduced to raw materials.... looking forward to the next installment!
And cars are one of the few things we do it to. A fridge or washing machine is a vital part of our lives for years, but I can't imagine getting emotional over watching it go to the tip.
Way back in the mists of time (1950s) when I was a schoolboy,I used to help my dad run a machine just like that (on Saturday mornings.)The "Dutch press" was the title they gave it.I loved to watch the bales being ejected when the crush was finished..And the blokes who worked there always gave me chocolate buiscuits to enjoy with tea break.Very happy days...What more could a boy ask?
In this current climate I have seen so many car's that get scrapped just because the owner could not afford to repair them. Or can't justify keeping them on the road because they are not using them. The yard I normally go to nothing sits for longer than 2 weeks. Also where I go they don't bother to remove the engine's they just crush them as they are it all melts in a big pot. The other yard I go to they do take engine's out. This was a good upload HubNut
I knew someone who got an MOT advisory on his Toyota Something-or-other for discoloured headlight lenses. Not a fail - just an advisory. He took it to a garage and they quoted £800 to fit new lenses (apparently the entire front end had to be removed). He reckoned that was too much...so he scrapped the car, right there, fresh MOT and all. A bit of toothpaste would probably have fixed it!
I am surrounded by a lot of car wreckers and there is big money in the engines. One place i have dealt with for years sends a 40' container every week to Dubai where a broker sells them to various countries in Africa. Value? around $15,000 per container.
I feel a bit wistful as all these cars were someone's pride and joy when new. We invest so much of our life, dreams and aspirations in our vehicles, which, like life itself, all come to an end eventually. Nice video - cheers !
The temperamental atlas' straight six sounds lush thrashing away, a lovely reminder of scaling stacked cars for spares, when you could still get in most scrapyards and mooch about
Brings back memories of my dad when he was a bus driver in the early 90’s, all the old buses from his company fleet (lots of old Leyland and Bristol RE/VR) used to end up at a bus dismantlers in Carlton in Barnsley and the guys there would always let him take me round as a kid, scrap yards despite how sad they are have always fascinated me, makes you think about what life all the vehicles have had and what stories they could tell.
Fascinating video and thank you for putting it all together. Although it was sad seeing these cars being crushed and engines removed but it's recycling and it's all for the good. That claw was amazing to watch powerful but delicate at the same time. I enjoyed watching it and what a day for you too.
It's crazy how some of these cars I remember seeing as Concept Art in magazines and how futuristic they looked and now here they are in Scrapyards. Some Cars really aren't long for this world. :(
Cars such as the Mk1 Focus, I still of as a fairly recent car but the first ones were made 25 years ago! Decent ones will be classics soon, although I don't see many around nowadays.
Over here there's a scrapyard that's basically one giant neat and clean asphalted parking place with scrapped car neatly on concrete blocks. There's a public toilet, hand washing station, music, trolleys, and tools for hire. And fixed part prices, regardless what make car it came from.
All is forgiven for crushing that 1994 Vauxhall Astra Swing Mister HubNut. It was (for a long time) a very nice one. Very end-of-line pre-facelift car. An M reg but still had amber indicators and a tailgate with no grey tailblazer. Yeah we hardly see those anymore. Very clean MOT history except for a fairly recent one where it only failed on wipers. Only 74000 miles, and 27.5 years old. Marseille Red Pearl is a nice colour. It's done very well.
Well done you two, that was fascinating, a bit sad but hey, nothing lasts forever and every one we save against all those that are crushed become rarer and more valuable.
Back in the 70s I would love just wondering around scrapyards all day I always found fascinating, kept most of my early cars going thanks to scrapyards you could have a good look at a model that you fancied and see where it’s weakness was . Thank you it was very interesting
It's a shame that health and safety kicked in were I live you can't walk round a scrap yard anymore you've to order what you want at the gate and some lad will go get the part for you in the passed I bought many a cortina or marina from scrap yards
I remember those days, when you could go to a scrapyard & just wander among & climb over the cars there, to find what you wanted & come out with pockets full of small parts too!
That Rover was a surprise, though. It looked immaculate and well looked after, yet the underframe was disintegrating. I thought they were built better than that. But I guess after 17 years and salty roads, anything can decay.
When I saw the title I thought this would be a video about the fate of your old Multipla. I have to admit when we were promised that in the 21st century we would have flying cars, I didn't envision that it would suspended at the end of a crane tearing them apart... Thank you for this, and more scrap yard videos please, they are fascinating and instructive. For example, I never knew that GM sold the Chevrolet Cavalier in Japan as a Toyota until you showed us one in that huge scrapyard in New Zealand. It motivated me to do some intensive googling into this obscure bit of automotive history.
Great video Ian, I'm amazed at how many 2000s cars are in the scrap yard. I thought there would be more 80s and 90s cars like the vauxhall astra you scrapped but I guess most of them have already been scrapped by now and even 2000s cars are between 13 and 22 years old now so I guess it's not surprising that they are now commonplace in scrap yards.
This is a first, a Hubnut video I couldn't watch until the end. I just can't help it but scrap yards make me sad. Sorry Ian, please don't be offended. I watched as much as I could.
To think that somebody somewhere signed a bit of paper many years ago to say they would pay many thousands of ££££ to buy it, were excited to pick it up, excited to drive it for the first time after buying it, spent £1000's servicing, repairing and maintaining it and here we are today watching it get ripped to shreds and destroyed after being sold for about £200!
@yossarian That doesn't surprise me 😀 I'm sure there was a chap on TH-cam who had bought a Rover 75 with about 250k miles and the total servicing and repair costs in its time were something like £17k!
Please don't feel guilty Ian, the scrappage schemes did way more damage than you could ever do on your own. This was a really interesting video, I knew someone who owned a Serena 2.3 diesel and omg they were painfully slow, luckily he used it as a taxi so it rarely ever saw 60mph.
@@bentullett6068 I was out in it a couple of times on the motorway and it could do 70mph plus eventually but not really recommended, the noise was horrific, not as bad as an LDV 2.5d though!!
@@HubNut That's a brave move 😂, I've been in a T4 2.4D doing that speed, a totally different experience. Both these engines had the same power but were totally different beasts in the way they drove.
@@graemew7001 I remember going on a activities weekend in Snowdon, North Wales back in 2007 with my secondary school for a BTEC sports diploma I was doing and the company who was organising the activities we were doing hired two LDV mini buses to transport us to the various locations. Lets say when these vans had to negotiate a hill they would tend to have to drop down to second or third gear and the driver had to rev the head off the engines to get them to get up the hills and it was very noisy and even drowned out the noisy members of us secondary school students. James May also found out how noisy they were when he drove the LDV box van on the man with a van challenge on Top Gear.
That was fun. I spent thirty plus years designing and developing cars for a living. I was always interested in the environment and what we were doing to it. I was lucky enough to get involved with how to recycle cars in the 1990's. It clearly hasn't moved on very far. Still mostly brute force, but then it works.
Love seeing this, good memories of my late father going to scrapyards,. He found two cut up Alvis Stalwarts stacked on top of each other, and stripped them of parts .
Like Miss Hubnut, I remember when Space-ship Civics were all the rage and heavily advertised at launch. They were still all over the freshly-vacuumed red-carpeted Honda showrooms when my 06 plate FRV and 08 plate S2000 were new. @10:49 to 11:49 That's a facelift one so it's even newer than my two. It's just odd nowadays seeing them now in scrapyards. I bet they were still decent things with everything still working on arrival before being de-polluted.
The crane grab reminds me of nature documentaries where you see a falcon or whatever pulling bits of flesh from its prey to feed to a nest full of hungry chicks. Perhaps you should have had David Attenborough on this video as a guest narrator!
Just like a Nature video. The exoskeleton of the cars crumpling being relentlessly devoured, so much like a praying mantis snatching up it's prey and delicately pulling it apart.
Brilliant video - interesting that although rust is not the cancer it once was - the cars are only slightly older ( by 2/3 years) than they would be in a typical scrapyard 30 years ago - most of these cars - somebody only a few years ago - circa 2005 - got up early and excited as this was the day the would get their new car - first trip to Tesco they parked well away from other cars.
Neat Vid-yo Ian. Over here in the dry of New Mexico & Arizona Cars just don't rust so it's even more "shocking" or "sad" when a Car ect,(depending on what brand,ect you like or where you 'loyalty' towards certain brands lie..)gets crushed. What comes into the yards sometimes IS shocking, however. I have just bought a '61 Vauxhall FD Victor Sedan from a local yard. It wasn't in any sort of 'Danger'...the Owners (same Owner's since 1968..)simply moved it down there and advertised it. I paid $900 for it. ZERO rust of course(it was always garaged..)!
A fascinating video, but as others have commented below it is rather sad to see these vehicles meet their end. Of course, they have to. Nothing lasts forever, but... there are some cars that are already older than I am probably ever going to achieve so nostalgia etc that leads to keeping some of these vehicle is no bad thing?
I find it quite funny that you can (and increasingly must in these days) drive around with an explosive device right next to your face, but after you take it out, it becomes so dangerous that it needs special measures to transport...
I feel that scrapyards are the automotive equivalent of abbatoirs. Or a vet, where you have to put your pet to 'sleep'. Anyone else feel that way, or is it just me?
One of the last 75's sold in the good old days when we still had friendly Rover main dealerships. Trim level Connnnoisssseur SE CDTi made it the poshest, and most powerful diesel 75, in silver. That exceptionally sweet BMW M47 diesel engine could live on as a service parts donor or (very slight) power upgrade for the 'Hippo of Happiness' Freelander TD4 on Tea-shelf Matt's channel, furiousdriving.
I have a Conny SE CDTi and love mine, especially when I found out the history when it was made and one of so many in British Racing Green with a Sandstone Leather interior, and I think finding out facts like that makes it more of a connection to you as well.
When I heard the comment about the new suspension on the Rover, it reminded me that sometimes cars get to a peak of being spent-upon (because their owner sees no reason to get another car) and then something happens that makes it suddenly imperative to get another car. This has happened to me twice - a Suzuki Swift where I shelled out on new drive shafts (absolutely horrifyingly expensive - the garage excuse was that nobody made pattern parts for them) and then the gearbox started disintegrating a few months later; and a Renault Clio on which I'd just fitted two new top-brand tyres and then I crashed it. Lesson for the future - don't put posh tyres on your slightly old car!
Thanks Ian.. so fascinating! And disturbing, worrying, frightening all at the same time! Just had the timing belt done on my 2005 Mk6 Fiesta so it can stay away from places like that. I'd love a leather interior for it to give it a more upmarket feel.. 😂😃😁
Hubnut destroying the average in this episode. Great little insight into the process of dismantling and crushing a car, I thought you may have crushed the 75 but relief was upon me when you never! Now time to look for 75 parts!
It's very strange that nowadays about 80% of cars I see in scrapyards are newer than most of the cars that I've ever owned.
Modern paints used on new cars don't help.
Yep, same here.
Loved that, but slightly heartbreaking seeing some of those cars! Partly because I like things like the Civic and the Disco in the background, and partly because I kept on thinking "55 plate, that's practically new!" then realising, nope, that's 17 years old. Time is flying.
Hubnut at its best showing of a wide range of knowledge and with unscripted humour. One of my favourite videos is that walk round the scrapyard in NZ. Please make this a regular.
"There´s the BMW diesel engine... so if you need one.. It sounds quite good!" I felt your split second desperation there 😄
I love going with you both on your adventures. This is what I would have done before I became disabled. You make my day every episode. Thanks so much. Pete 🇬🇧
Oddly, I have very mixed feelings watching this. I think of who owned the cars, whether it was the 'pride and joy' of some driver, a car someone passed their test in, one that a family had happy touring holidays in, a first car of a young driver, a car that a nurse drove every night to her shift at the hospital and so on. I think of the sadness of a last drive in the cars. A reminder that we invest a lot of feelings in these devices, that they are very much a part of our lives.
Or a youth driving around on the road with no tax, insurance, mot, and don't care. So good to see it go.
We tend to think of the actual cars of our memories, and of the others,sad but removed from our own cars. I suppose really, when we see a funeral procession pass, we have those same feelings if it is someone that we don't know.
I never look up most of my old cars since I like to think they're still on the road, even if they most likely aren't. Although admittedly there were a few I've owned that were so bad I would have liked to watch them go to the crusher
If you have ever watched the Cartoon film the Brave little toaster. This is like the scrap yard scene but in real life
I was in the army in Germany so when I came on leave (free flight) I never bought my car over. When over i would get a car from the Jalopy Corner section of the paper and buy a cheap banger with a month tax and MOT.
Probably pay about £2 (in the 70s) drive it around for 2 weeks, then scrap it and get £10 or £15 from the scrapper. A lot cheaper than car hire.
I watch that and think of the design, the energy, the technology that went into those motors, only for them to be crushed when I suspect so many of them could still be running if they had regular maintenance and a bit of TLC.
We are so wasteful. My 17 year old Fabia with 173K on the clock ready for scrap? It's just broken in sir! That nasty grabber isn't getting its hooks into my baby!
You are correct. If you watch American car channels 100k on a car sounds normal for a car built around 4 or 5 years old. Unfortunately our cars in the UK have a long spell of damp and salty winters to deal with. My SEAT Ibiza I brought brand new back in 2013 is starting to show signs of creaks on the suspension area's and it hasn't long had 2 new shock absorbers and suspension springs. I think the salt is getting into the bushes.
Used cars in the UK are so cheap (excluding the pandemic blip) any major fault just made them uneconomical to repair, especially given the complexity of modern cars. Although it is interesting how despite the technological advances, the average lifespan of a car doesn't really change.
I agree we as a country are wastful I own a mk3 escort cabriolet that is more or less still like new because its cared for regular wash and polish and any faults fixed immediately if our government had there was there would be no such thing as classic I own 6 cars all my babies
@@bentullett6068 The secret is frequent washing and waxing, that's my experience. I live in Yorkshire and my car lives outside all year round, so plenty of rain and grit to contend with.
17 years of regular everyday use, the old girl has only a little bit of superficial rust on the rear arches. It once was a common sight to see dads washing their pride and joy on a Sunday, people don't do that anymore. The car wash places use high power jets and aggressive chemicals, there is no love in what they do, and they won't get into the nooks and crannies a caring owner will. Get back out there on Sunday afternoons dads!
@@bentullett6068 You do have to remember that in the US there are a lot of long, straight, fairly featureless highways, and distances are just far greater on average. Long, easy miles mean cars pretty normally hit 200K+ over there. Here it's largely all short distances, barely warmed up, city driving, start stop, basically all the things that wear a car fast.
This was an excellent watch. Fascinating (and quite sad) to see the cars getting crushed. That poor Astra though, the poor Astra...
Matt from Furious might be interested in that CF after his last vid!
This is what we wanted to see happen to the Multipla, we would have paid to see that 🤣
I was tempted until I saw the close ups of the rust!
Completely, utterly brilliant. Well done and many thanks to Tanygroes car dismantlers for their part in this insanely entertaining video. What a collaboration, what genius, what a result. I can't imagine how you got around the health and safety issues but you did. Fantastic.
Such brutality and delicacy all in one process. Fascinating video.
Amazing how many reasonably modern cars are there, to think not too many years ago these would’ve all been somebody’s pride and joy. Somebody would’ve had the excitement of collecting a brand new car from the dealership all shiny with an immaculate untouched interior with delivery mileage and that new car smell, less than 20 years later this is what becomes of most of them, so sad yet fascinating at the same time.
You’ve just got to love the awesome power of that claw crane just manhandling and tearing the cars to pieces as though they are just toys. This machine is a real leveller, it doesn’t care whether it’s an eco budget hatchback or a Rolls Royce, it just crushes them all as though they are made of tin foil, it’s a real eye opener to think how materialistic we have become and spend literally £thousands on these things yet they really are all just tin boxes that can be crushed within seconds.
Fascinating video and great hubnut presentation and humour along the way. Thank you!!!
Brilliant, tense video. Spent the whole time worrying about how you’re going to avoid bringing a project (or two) home.
In your previous visit I saw a Skoda similar to mine , I contacted them and very quickly obtained a door lock mechanism. Excellent service. A great but sad video, thanks to you both.
no complaints of the content. good video. yet it genuinely saddens me to see cars going to die
An oddly philosophical video this. Its strange how we have strong emotions for what is an inanimate object... that these objects become members of the family, friends or in other cases objects of derision even adversaries.
It'll be interesting to see the bails and engines being reduced to raw materials.... looking forward to the next installment!
And cars are one of the few things we do it to. A fridge or washing machine is a vital part of our lives for years, but I can't imagine getting emotional over watching it go to the tip.
Way back in the mists of time (1950s) when I was a schoolboy,I used to help my dad run a machine just like that (on Saturday mornings.)The "Dutch press" was the title they gave it.I loved to watch the bales being ejected when the crush was finished..And the blokes who worked there always gave me chocolate buiscuits to enjoy with tea break.Very happy days...What more could a boy ask?
The chemistry between you two is really heartwarming. I think you have found the woman of your life...
Brilliant video Ian, Always found scrapyards interesting places so much so I now work at one 👌
Thank you Ian and thank you the company that allowed you to film. This was very informative and interesting to watch. Hubnut at it's best.... x
In this current climate I have seen so many car's that get scrapped just because the owner could not afford to repair them. Or can't justify keeping them on the road because they are not using them. The yard I normally go to nothing sits for longer than 2 weeks. Also where I go they don't bother to remove the engine's they just crush them as they are it all melts in a big pot. The other yard I go to they do take engine's out. This was a good upload HubNut
I knew someone who got an MOT advisory on his Toyota Something-or-other for discoloured headlight lenses. Not a fail - just an advisory. He took it to a garage and they quoted £800 to fit new lenses (apparently the entire front end had to be removed). He reckoned that was too much...so he scrapped the car, right there, fresh MOT and all. A bit of toothpaste would probably have fixed it!
@@michaeljohnson9421 I am a mechanic mate I have cleaned a few in my time's it's crazy.👍
I am surrounded by a lot of car wreckers and there is big money in the engines. One place i have dealt with for years sends a 40' container every week to Dubai where a broker sells them to various countries in Africa. Value? around $15,000 per container.
I feel a bit wistful as all these cars were someone's pride and joy when new. We invest so much of our life, dreams and aspirations in our vehicles, which, like life itself, all come to an end eventually. Nice video - cheers !
The temperamental atlas' straight six sounds lush thrashing away, a lovely reminder of scaling stacked cars for spares, when you could still get in most scrapyards and mooch about
Brings back memories of my dad when he was a bus driver in the early 90’s, all the old buses from his company fleet (lots of old Leyland and Bristol RE/VR) used to end up at a bus dismantlers in Carlton in Barnsley and the guys there would always let him take me round as a kid, scrap yards despite how sad they are have always fascinated me, makes you think about what life all the vehicles have had and what stories they could tell.
It was really good of Tanygroes Car Dismantlers to let you 'do the business' Great stuff, Hubnuts !!
Happy to see you revisit this yard!
Love your scrapyard visits Ian...
Very entertaining as always 👏 👌
Loved the "my friend at school had an Astra Mk.3"
Interesting video. I own a Mk3 Astra so was sad seeing one get crushed at the end😥.
I suspect he chose that car for me! It was sad, but it was well beyond salvation. I think the Fire crews had been at it.
Fascinating video and thank you for putting it all together. Although it was sad seeing these cars being crushed and engines removed but it's recycling and it's all for the good. That claw was amazing to watch powerful but delicate at the same time. I enjoyed watching it and what a day for you too.
A great video guys, and a big thanks to the guys at the yard for being so accommodating.
It's crazy how some of these cars I remember seeing as Concept Art in magazines and how futuristic they looked and now here they are in Scrapyards. Some Cars really aren't long for this world. :(
Cars such as the Mk1 Focus, I still of as a fairly recent car but the first ones were made 25 years ago! Decent ones will be classics soon, although I don't see many around nowadays.
Brilliant video, brings back memories of the 70's clambering round a scrapyard with scant regard for any H&S :-) things have changed.
Over here there's a scrapyard that's basically one giant neat and clean asphalted parking place with scrapped car neatly on concrete blocks. There's a public toilet, hand washing station, music, trolleys, and tools for hire. And fixed part prices, regardless what make car it came from.
All is forgiven for crushing that 1994 Vauxhall Astra Swing Mister HubNut. It was (for a long time) a very nice one. Very end-of-line pre-facelift car. An M reg but still had amber indicators and a tailgate with no grey tailblazer. Yeah we hardly see those anymore. Very clean MOT history except for a fairly recent one where it only failed on wipers. Only 74000 miles, and 27.5 years old. Marseille Red Pearl is a nice colour. It's done very well.
Well done you two, that was fascinating, a bit sad but hey, nothing lasts forever and every one we save against all those that are crushed become rarer and more valuable.
Great stuff, I really like scrap yard visits 👍🏻😃
Back in the 70s I would love just wondering around scrapyards all day I always found fascinating, kept most of my early cars going thanks to scrapyards you could have a good look at a model that you fancied and see where it’s weakness was . Thank you it was very interesting
It's a shame that health and safety kicked in were I live you can't walk round a scrap yard anymore you've to order what you want at the gate and some lad will go get the part for you in the passed I bought many a cortina or marina from scrap yards
I remember those days, when you could go to a scrapyard & just wander among & climb over the cars there, to find what you wanted & come out with pockets full of small parts too!
That Rover was a surprise, though. It looked immaculate and well looked after, yet the underframe was disintegrating. I thought they were built better than that. But I guess after 17 years and salty roads, anything can decay.
Awesome video!!!! Really nice of the dismantles yard to allow you to safely video the process taken to scrap a vehicle 👍
When I saw the title I thought this would be a video about the fate of your old Multipla. I have to admit when we were promised that in the 21st century we would have flying cars, I didn't envision that it would suspended at the end of a crane tearing them apart... Thank you for this, and more scrap yard videos please, they are fascinating and instructive. For example, I never knew that GM sold the Chevrolet Cavalier in Japan as a Toyota until you showed us one in that huge scrapyard in New Zealand. It motivated me to do some intensive googling into this obscure bit of automotive history.
Absolutely fascinating....this should deffo be on NHS for stress busting!
Ian loves his old cars. He had a real crush on that Astra! 😉👍
growing up next to a scrapyard those sounds of the crusher takes me back, lovely video, sounds like you had a lot of fun :-)
"I'm having the time of my life!!!" Best thing I've heard all weekend.
Brilliant video , my 5 year old son loved this
Fascinating thanks. BIG Thanks also to the business for allowing you to film etc.
Great video Ian, I'm amazed at how many 2000s cars are in the scrap yard. I thought there would be more 80s and 90s cars like the vauxhall astra you scrapped but I guess most of them have already been scrapped by now and even 2000s cars are between 13 and 22 years old now so I guess it's not surprising that they are now commonplace in scrap yards.
Yup, everything in the main yard looks modern to me!
This is a first, a Hubnut video I couldn't watch until the end. I just can't help it but scrap yards make me sad. Sorry Ian, please don't be offended. I watched as much as I could.
I couldn't either. Maybe another day. No doubt it is good content.
Hi Ian & Mrs hubnut it looks a good day out for you both and good weather to all the best to you both and your family 😎🏴👍🔧
To think that somebody somewhere signed a bit of paper many years ago to say they would pay many thousands of ££££ to buy it, were excited to pick it up, excited to drive it for the first time after buying it, spent £1000's servicing, repairing and maintaining it and here we are today watching it get ripped to shreds and destroyed after being sold for about £200!
@yossarian That doesn't surprise me 😀
I'm sure there was a chap on TH-cam who had bought a Rover 75 with about 250k miles and the total servicing and repair costs in its time were something like £17k!
Being the owner of an MG ZT-T, this was a harrowing experience. 😳
I'm glad we didn't film crushing that one...
Great piece of documentary filmmaking! And well done the scrapyard for letting you make it.
Please don't feel guilty Ian, the scrappage schemes did way more damage than you could ever do on your own. This was a really interesting video, I knew someone who owned a Serena 2.3 diesel and omg they were painfully slow, luckily he used it as a taxi so it rarely ever saw 60mph.
did the Serena's ever get over 60mph as they were classed as one of the slowest cars in the world
@@bentullett6068 I was out in it a couple of times on the motorway and it could do 70mph plus eventually but not really recommended, the noise was horrific, not as bad as an LDV 2.5d though!!
I managed 80mph in a Vanette Cargo with the same engine. Eventually...
@@HubNut That's a brave move 😂, I've been in a T4 2.4D doing that speed, a totally different experience. Both these engines had the same power but were totally different beasts in the way they drove.
@@graemew7001 I remember going on a activities weekend in Snowdon, North Wales back in 2007 with my secondary school for a BTEC sports diploma I was doing and the company who was organising the activities we were doing hired two LDV mini buses to transport us to the various locations. Lets say when these vans had to negotiate a hill they would tend to have to drop down to second or third gear and the driver had to rev the head off the engines to get them to get up the hills and it was very noisy and even drowned out the noisy members of us secondary school students. James May also found out how noisy they were when he drove the LDV box van on the man with a van challenge on Top Gear.
That was fun. I spent thirty plus years designing and developing cars for a living. I was always interested in the environment and what we were doing to it. I was lucky enough to get involved with how to recycle cars in the 1990's. It clearly hasn't moved on very far. Still mostly brute force, but then it works.
Well I’m sorry I’m going to be too busy watching my paint dry, 🤣😂🚙love all the other clips mind, thank u mr & Mrs HUBNUT
That was more entertaining than Disneyland! 😄
Love seeing this, good memories of my late father going to scrapyards,. He found two cut up Alvis Stalwarts stacked on top of each other, and stripped them of parts .
Like Miss Hubnut, I remember when Space-ship Civics were all the rage and heavily advertised at launch. They were still all over the freshly-vacuumed red-carpeted Honda showrooms when my 06 plate FRV and 08 plate S2000 were new. @10:49 to 11:49 That's a facelift one so it's even newer than my two. It's just odd nowadays seeing them now in scrapyards. I bet they were still decent things with everything still working on arrival before being de-polluted.
The crane grab reminds me of nature documentaries where you see a falcon or whatever pulling bits of flesh from its prey to feed to a nest full of hungry chicks. Perhaps you should have had David Attenborough on this video as a guest narrator!
HubNut- entertaining and educational 👏👍
Great video, very interesting with the added bonus of your commentary throughout 👍
What a cracking episode, I enjoyed every minute!
Both my cars were saved from this brutal ending. I did my bit, pity I can't save more. 😔 Interesting video, all the same!
Just like a Nature video.
The exoskeleton of the cars crumpling being relentlessly devoured, so much like a praying mantis snatching up it's prey and delicately pulling it apart.
Brilliant video - interesting that although rust is not the cancer it once was - the cars are only slightly older ( by 2/3 years) than they would be in a typical scrapyard 30 years ago - most of these cars - somebody only a few years ago - circa 2005 - got up early and excited as this was the day the would get their new car - first trip to Tesco they parked well away from other cars.
Really interesting video! I have so many happy memories spent with my dad in our local scrapyard looking for parts
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you!
Neat Vid-yo Ian. Over here in the dry of New Mexico & Arizona Cars just don't rust so it's even more "shocking" or "sad" when a Car ect,(depending on what brand,ect you like or where you 'loyalty' towards certain brands lie..)gets crushed. What comes into the yards sometimes IS shocking, however. I have just bought a '61 Vauxhall FD Victor Sedan from a local yard. It wasn't in any sort of 'Danger'...the Owners (same Owner's since 1968..)simply moved it down there and advertised it. I paid $900 for it. ZERO rust of course(it was always garaged..)!
What great day that would have been
Fancy all day just smashing cars to bits 👍
Ah, really interesting vid. Looking forward to the next instalment 👍
A fascinating video, but as others have commented below it is rather sad to see these vehicles meet their end. Of course, they have to. Nothing lasts forever, but... there are some cars that are already older than I am probably ever going to achieve so nostalgia etc that leads to keeping some of these vehicle is no bad thing?
-standing in front of a cube - don't worry it was already dead, I can see rust there... hahahahah
Sad to see how most of them end up,I bet you had to look away a few times,great vid
My heart just broke when I saw that C3 Picasso!
I used to work at a scrapyard, super hard work. Credit to the people who do it 👍
It is like watching an extreme form of Hubnut tinkering....
"That's one way of unplugging the ECU..." Priceless!
The garage I worked at as a petrol pump attendant, used to give me the old oil cans to crush in a mini crusher. Most satisfying job it was.
A brilliant video, I really liked this one. More of this sort of thing please
Lovely Jubbly, I hear those cars screaming in pain, not me not me😭
I find it quite funny that you can (and increasingly must in these days) drive around with an explosive device right next to your face, but after you take it out, it becomes so dangerous that it needs special measures to transport...
A man was killed here in Australia when a explosive vest he was wearing went off when he drove over a speed bump. it was made from airbags......
I feel that scrapyards are the automotive equivalent of abbatoirs. Or a vet, where you have to put your pet to 'sleep'. Anyone else feel that way, or is it just me?
Ohhh that was good ian right up my street.
Look forward to the next one.
That operator on the Atlas, must win a teddy bear 🐻 ever time, when on holiday in the amusements.😉
That was absolutely fascinating.
So so satisfying as a job I bet. 👍🇬🇧🏴
Reminds me of them grab a prize games at the seaside
And as the Astra was lifted out, the Swing special edition swung for its' last time... :P
on a positive note if anyone owns a mk3 Astra swing edition its limited edition status has just increased on the rarity scale
That 'escort' looks like it has been out on a few too many outcalls.... loved them longtime.
One of the last 75's sold in the good old days when we still had friendly Rover main dealerships. Trim level Connnnoisssseur SE CDTi made it the poshest, and most powerful diesel 75, in silver. That exceptionally sweet BMW M47 diesel engine could live on as a service parts donor or (very slight) power upgrade for the 'Hippo of Happiness' Freelander TD4 on Tea-shelf Matt's channel, furiousdriving.
I have a Conny SE CDTi and love mine, especially when I found out the history when it was made and one of so many in British Racing Green with a Sandstone Leather interior, and I think finding out facts like that makes it more of a connection to you as well.
When I heard the comment about the new suspension on the Rover, it reminded me that sometimes cars get to a peak of being spent-upon (because their owner sees no reason to get another car) and then something happens that makes it suddenly imperative to get another car. This has happened to me twice - a Suzuki Swift where I shelled out on new drive shafts (absolutely horrifyingly expensive - the garage excuse was that nobody made pattern parts for them) and then the gearbox started disintegrating a few months later; and a Renault Clio on which I'd just fitted two new top-brand tyres and then I crashed it. Lesson for the future - don't put posh tyres on your slightly old car!
Its like some dinosaur ripping the guts of some prey. When the engines come out its like a gigantic dentist pulling a tooth
This video is like Chris Packham going to watch badger baiting !!
Brilliant video Ian 👍 that looked a great day 😀
A good analogy of life. The carcass is crushed and buried, but the driver got out.
Thanks Ian.. so fascinating! And disturbing, worrying, frightening all at the same time! Just had the timing belt done on my 2005 Mk6 Fiesta so it can stay away from places like that. I'd love a leather interior for it to give it a more upmarket feel.. 😂😃😁
Hubnut destroying the average in this episode. Great little insight into the process of dismantling and crushing a car, I thought you may have crushed the 75 but relief was upon me when you never! Now time to look for 75 parts!
Very interesting video!
Wish we still had scrapyards like that in Belgium. They also are adying breed.
Hi both that was a great video thank you take care both 😊👍
Poor mk3 astra! Had 2 of them and they both died this way in the end! Great video!
It was no coincidence that Ian started with the Rover 75; given recent frustrations on planet HubNut, it definitely looked like therapy.