P.S. Not far away from our first home, there was a scrap-yard (only metal, nor car-wrecking). During the nights or at weekends, sometimes people have placed wrecks in front of its door (perhaps they thought, that they had to pay for).
Surely, we kids have liked it very much to play in them, try to mount off parts - and finally destroy them more, crushing windows and lamps, jumping on them an so on.
I remember an early Audi 60, A Peugeot 404, a Renault 16, a Opel Kadett B Caravan (Buick Opel in the USA) and an early Renault 4, we had damaged.
It's over 30 years ago, but from that Renault 4, I still have a tool left, an 8" "Inbus"-bit.
Even nowadays, when I'm travelling around with my VW K 70, I have a tool-bag with me, where all tools are included, you need for that car. Sure, if they will be some repairs at my car, or the car of a friend, but the main reason for this toll-collection is, that I will have the chance to wreck a K 70 (which I'm always hoping to find) You never know, what will happen! You will never know, what you wil find on a junkyard- when you will ask there- just for joke- if they have stuff for my car.
Once, in February 1994, I had a big success. I've been with a K 70-friend in the garage of annnother K 70- and NSU-freak close to Hamburg. We've worked at our cars, when suddenly a neighbour came in: "Hey guy, there is an abandoned K 70, down there on the next parking of the Autobahn, it's half-destroyed. We have loughed and have said "Come on, you've confused it with something else, perhaps a Lada or so" (it was the A 24 to the East and in 1994 still a lot of Eastern cars were running in Eastern Germany.
The was getting angry and has shouted "I'm not kidding, go and look yourselves!"
So we did - and there was a K 70-wreck indeed! I think, it was coming from Denmark, due a broken sticker on the crushed windscreen. No license-plates, the FIN-number was destroyed, so surely abandoned.
Some parts weren't bad, we've mounted off perfect bumpers, good doors, some technical stuff and more parts. One back door of it is still standing in my garage.
We had fun to see the people, who have seen us, when they wanted to stop there for the toilet. A lot of them have lookd to us with big eyes - and were immediately leaving that parking. I don't know, why, was it too suspicious, too see two crazy freaks, wrecking an abandoned car?
Ah, before I forget: if you are taking parts from an abandoned car, it's not really illegal by the German law. If the police would come to us, I would have told it to them. I'm not sure, if the guy would have known that small juristic detail.
Surely, we kids have liked it very much to play in them, try to mount off parts - and finally destroy them more, crushing windows and lamps, jumping on them an so on.
I remember an early Audi 60, A Peugeot 404, a Renault 16, a Opel Kadett B Caravan (Buick Opel in the USA) and an early Renault 4, we had damaged.
It's over 30 years ago, but from that Renault 4, I still have a tool left, an 8" "Inbus"-bit.
Even nowadays, when I'm travelling around with my VW K 70, I have a tool-bag with me, where all tools are included, you need for that car. Sure, if they will be some repairs at my car, or the car of a friend, but the main reason for this toll-collection is, that I will have the chance to wreck a K 70 (which I'm always hoping to find) You never know, what will happen! You will never know, what you wil find on a junkyard- when you will ask there- just for joke- if they have stuff for my car.
Once, in February 1994, I had a big success. I've been with a K 70-friend in the garage of annnother K 70- and NSU-freak close to Hamburg. We've worked at our cars, when suddenly a neighbour came in: "Hey guy, there is an abandoned K 70, down there on the next parking of the Autobahn, it's half-destroyed. We have loughed and have said "Come on, you've confused it with something else, perhaps a Lada or so" (it was the A 24 to the East and in 1994 still a lot of Eastern cars were running in Eastern Germany.
The was getting angry and has shouted "I'm not kidding, go and look yourselves!"
So we did - and there was a K 70-wreck indeed! I think, it was coming from Denmark, due a broken sticker on the crushed windscreen. No license-plates, the FIN-number was destroyed, so surely abandoned.
Some parts weren't bad, we've mounted off perfect bumpers, good doors, some technical stuff and more parts. One back door of it is still standing in my garage.
We had fun to see the people, who have seen us, when they wanted to stop there for the toilet. A lot of them have lookd to us with big eyes - and were immediately leaving that parking. I don't know, why, was it too suspicious, too see two crazy freaks, wrecking an abandoned car?
Ah, before I forget: if you are taking parts from an abandoned car, it's not really illegal by the German law. If the police would come to us, I would have told it to them. I'm not sure, if the guy would have known that small juristic detail.
Porsche engine! "
but anyway, is it too expensive to send these stuff via mail? note that they may weigh a few so this may increase the costs, no?
