This isn't a scrapyard, it's a caravan park near my house. A number of caravans are stored here as well as these buses, trucks and cars. I think most of them will belong to someone, and some of them are better looked after than others. It was getting dark when I took these (it was a wet day anyway) so the pictures aren't great and now it's winter some of have had tarpaulins thrown over them (although they're already pretty rusted).

Triumph Estate (grille and headlights missing):


1970 Austin:


1977 Triumph 2500 TC, a Lotus and I don't know what the one on the left is:


AEC Routemaster:




1982 Mercedes-Benz 508D:












APC:








GMC CCKW and the cab of a Chevrolet CUCV:


AM General M-35:




1970 Austin Hearse:


1994 Skoda Favorit Foreman II pickup:




1987 Renault 50 Series E S46-90 truck:

What's that thing stuck to the grill? I've seen cars with those (only old Jags and Benzes for some reason) around here, but never parked so I can get a good look at what they are (sometimes there's several different ones).

That's a horseshoe. It's supposedly an old symbol of luck. I don't know if it actually works, maybe to be on the safe side I'd better pinch one to my Marina (if I buy one, that is).

@G-MANN: the one on the left that you don't know what it is, is another Austin 3-litre [ADO61].

@Black Ice: yes, as Lateef has said, this horseshoe shall bring luck. It was popular mostly in the 60ies and 70ies - when there were cars, with a grille, where you could mount them. And these are no real horseshoes, you really could buy "aftersales market"-horseshoes, just for putting them on the grille.

It was something, mostly older people have done on their cars. So it's correct, that you could see them mostly on Jaguar and Benzes.

I'm living nearby the Ruhr area, where many coalmines have existed in the past. Often you could see chrome-badges with these symbols on car-grilles, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_and_pick
But they have disappeared, since nearly all coal-mines were closed nowadays.

Thanks Lateef and ingo, I knew about the horseshoe=good luck superstition before, but I never got a close enough look at the things to identify them.

found on internet, I do not remember if it was posted here or not:

Thousands of scrapped taxis are abandoned at a yard in the center of Chongqing city on March 4, 2009. Traffic congestion and pollution have worsened dramatically in Chinese cities as the country's long-running economic expansion has allowed increasing numbers of consumers to make big-ticket purchases such as cars.

Six months ago, I spent the day taking pictures in a local Junkyard that specializes in old American cars (All American Classics, In Vancouver, Washington).

I took over 150 pictures.. So i will only post a few of my favorites (for the time being anyways):

Aaah, great pics, many thanks!

I'm now thinking, if i maybe have been on this yard before - in Summer 1988, when I've been on school-exchange in Vancouver. There I've pushed my host-family to go to junkyards with me, because I wanted to have license plates.
The plates are still existing, today they are hanging in my heating-cellar.
But I'm not sure, if we had been there. I remember, that the yard was fuller. But o.k., it was over 21 years ago...

btw.: there was a junkyard in Vancouver only for European and imported cars. Does it stil exist?



@Antoine: I'm wondering, what models all these taxis are. If it shall be in Chongqing, wouldn't they have mainly Chinese VW Jetta, Santana or Santana 2000, as the usual Chinese taxis??

I was wondering the same thing - I do not know what model are these...

I'm not sure about the European junkyard.. I don't know of any (Except one that specialized in newer German cars). The junkyard I took these at was: http://www.allamericanclassics.com/


Here's a few more:

boogieman-are you able to get badges for me? Mustang would be nice, but any others would be good. I live in Aus, so I can pay postage/trade stuff with you.

The junk yard I took those pictures at removes the emblems before setting the cars out there (I think they do anyways, I don't remember seeing any cars emblems.. other then the old ones that are probably near impossible to get off). But theirs a few more mainstream junkyards that leave them on. (The one pictured rarely crushes cars, They just keep them till theirs nothing left.. A lot of the local places only keep a car a couple weeks before crushing them.).


Are you looking for some to collect? or??

I'll keep my eye out next time I am in a junk yard (which will probably be as soon as the weather turns nice again).

marioman I have quite a few badges ( I used to collect them) I know I have a few mustang ones and can get others for you if you can get me some Suzuki Sierra, or Holden Drover badges

I'll try tonka, but looking at the yards stock online, I don't see either. I'll link you there, and I can try and get badges off some of the cars.
http://www.pick-a-part.com.au/parts_recovery.php
Just look at the Kilsyth ones.

A 70 year old wreck of a Bugatti sold for €260,500 in Paris today:

http://www.auto123.com/en/news/car-news/titanic-bidding-for-sunken-bugatti-at-bonhams-retromobile-sale-in-paris?artid=115287

The recession is over.

speaking of badges - I am collecting Volvo badges (types, not the volvo signs) and also a VIN chassis plates. So if someone has something to offer, I will be very glad. viktor.farar@gmail.com

So you mean like 244, 242, etc, not various versions of VOLVO? I'll check at the wreckers, in maybe, 8 weeks (unless dad needs a part)

@chicomarx: isn't it the wreck, which was pulled after decades out of a lake (Lac Leman?) a time ago.

@wickey: I should have known some years earlier. For a while I've made scrap-yard-tours. There I have *cough* -stolen- many badges. Finally I had a box full of it. Later on I've sold them on oldtimer-markets or at eBay...
But nowadays German and Dutch junk-yards aren't interesting any more for many reasons:
- the old-style junk-yards are disappeared in the last 10 years (due an EU-law... )
- nowadays junk-yard-owners often don't let you stroll around alone
- there are nearly no interesting cars any more - I only have "found" metal-badges, no plastic-stuff
- for me junk-yards aren't interesting any more. K 70ies are disappeared there since years.


Perhaps Lateef, Raul1983, BeanBandit or atom will be able to help you. In Scandinavia they have more Volvo's and -very important- they are living in the countries with the most interesting scrapyards...



Or maybe you wil have the chance to join us there: http://www.siha.de/acs_uk.php
This event could be used as a IMCDB-user's-meeting. Animatronixx and me are thinking about that...

yep, I mean exactly those marioman (242, 244 etc)