An hour of scrapyard wandering! Tanygroes Car Dismantlers 

Taking the Mrs to a scrapyard on a date. And she’s not complaining! 😜

Scrapyards tell us so much about the human condition,all that cherished love and attention,now abandoned,interesting,strangely haunting,but ultimately depressing,they always leave me feeling sad and empty somehow.

Just think, 15 years or so ago, someone was very excited at getting a new car. That new car smell, the pristine manual book, setting up the radio to your favourite stations (probably all them crap). And now.....well, just sad really.

Such a simple pleasure which is getting rarer these days.

Yes!!!! The perfect video DOES exist! We all love a scrapyard wander!

Oh how I miss a scrapyard, such a pleasure to go around and liberate spares.

You know you’re watching HubNut when an XR2i is quickly binned off with a cry of ‘A SUBARU JUSTY!’

Lady Hubnut’s camerawork was second to none. She’s a keeper!

Good stuff, it’s like the under £1000 section of auto trader

I feel sad when you see some cars in a junkyard that don’t belong there 😿

When I was very young, I would explore places like this, and make up stories about the people who I imagined owned the cars when they were new. By the time I was 6 I could name the make and model of every kind of western European and American car. Many people feel depressed when going to junkyards. I never did. It’s very much like an outdoor museum (where you can touch everything). Thanks for the video. Cheers.

"You can smell the human suffering" One of the best lines I've ever heard perfect delivery 🤣🤣🤣

Loved climbing around scrapyards when I was a kid, sat behind the wheel pretend driving them all. :) Dad would be trying to source a half decent clutch for a Minx, Marina, Corsair, Victor etc. because they lasted about as long as brake pads do now. :) In reference to the vehicles mentioned, I'm not that old but we were poor (but very happy) :)

Every time I see a 3 door HRV I can hear the cinema advert sound saying "joy machine" looked so cool in the 90s.

You sure know how to spoil Mrs. Hubnut, romantic devil you!

I miss the days of the cars in scrapyards being stacked 2 or more high and taking your life in your hands to get the part you want. Lol. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

I miss those days when I could walk around the scrap yard. There was a really good one near me called W.J. Furber. Great place. It's a nature reserve now.

When you’re watching Mr & Miss Hub Nut wandering around a scrapyard and find it extremely relaxing and fun 😊

What a cruel man you are when describing the fate of that first little car. The camera holder was sobbing 😭

This vid reminds me of back in the day, going to a scrapyard in Newport to get a starting handle for my 2CV. The 2CV was at the top of a 3 car stack and the bloke told me I had to get it myself. Frightened the life out of me as I climbed from the front through to the boot 😂

Get the 1.3 engine out of the Sirion to replace the smoking 1 liter unit?

Thank you for the video, I really enjoyed that, I used to love going through car scrap yards with my Dad when I was younger when looking for car parts for our cars whenever. We needed them.

Scrapyard? That is like a showroom to you.👍

That Laguna looked like a 1.8 RN (wheeltrims, grey bumpers). I had an R-reg 1.8 RT sport which was a lovely car and wonderful to drive, but it had unfortunately had had a very hard life. Love the 405 estate very much. The interior on the S60 with the red seats is an incredibly rare option. And VWs are pretty crap to be fair, not as tough as people think they are. Very interesting video!

I used to spend most Saturdays in a scrapyard when I got my first car many moons ago, good times.

Full credit and respect for Ms Hubnut to walk around a cold oily damp scrap yard filming .

Always enjoy a good poke around a proper scrappy, but not very many left now. And yes, seeing cars like that 2007 Civic (whose futuristic styling impressed me when they were new) awaiting their date with the baler makes me feel very old. I'd have taken the 740 home for nostalgia reasons (my Mum drove a pre-facelift saloon throughout the early 90s) as she looked to be in decent shape and those redblock engines run forever. Pity about the Vel Satis - they're pretty much worthless right now but a definite future classic I suspect.

Reminds me of many happy days 30 years ago... The thrill of discovery when you found a brand new part that had been fitted just before a failed MOT....

Great video, Mr Ian. That xr2 - with prices what they are now, won't be surprised if someone sticks that up on eBay for 10k as a barn find!

Very interesting, thanks. Parts of my car have come (cheaply) from a local scrappie that my local garage regularly uses. So I appreciate their role in recycling parts to keep older cars affordably on the road, for those of us not blessed with affluence or who live in remote areas without much in the way of public transport.

Longest vid for ages, but what bliss, exploring a scrap yard. Frightening to see so many young cars scrapped.

I love a good scrappy, but much more fun when they used to be stacked 3 high and you were trying to get a seat out of one!

Reminds me of the 70's and 80's where nearly all scrappers were like that Mr HubNut, don't think your quite old enough though 🙂

Can't believe that I've just watched an hour of Mr & Mrs HubNut wandering around a scrapyard but absolutely loved every minute of it. You just cannot find quality entertainment like this anywhere else. Keep these vids coming and God Bless.

Aah, Tanygroes! Quite a few hours spent there in my youth, kept an old Triumph on the road for a few years, as well as a friend’s Avenger amongst others... Happy days!

Brilliant video Ian. It’s a shame what a throw away society we live I today. Where as years ago we’d get them prepared now it’s just use them and acts a few years their scrapped☹️

Brilliant video and your knowledge of quirky Asian cars is staggering. I've always found scrapyards relaxing, rewarding and therapeutic. Lucky enough to have some big yards close to me, usually get what I need. Rather chose a good used original part than chance a cheaply made reproduction thats hit + miss whether it fits.

I really enjoyed watching. So little of these once popular cars remain on the roads. I remember doing a scrapyard exploration in the 1980s and the places was full of Datsun 120Ys and 100As, which I loved, plus loads of Cortinas, Escorts, Vivas and the usual BL stuff.

There are people in my car club, who are boasting they're certified first owner of their 25+ year old car. The scrapyard owner in my car club: "Ha! I am certified LAST owner of hundreds of cars!" 😂

I love scrapyard videos. Especially proper yards that let you wander round. Time for tea i think. And a choccy biccy or 5.

I recently took a friends daughter into the local scrapyard as an educational experience & we talked about recycling, using 2nd hand parts & finally the fluctuations in the scrap prices. We also talked about safety & crashes etc. She enjoyed it after a bit reluctance-her mum wasn’t so amused but I labelled it up as a ‘life experience’. 😊

Thank you for sharing this Ian. Miss the simple days of scrap yard wandering.

I think the Leaf must have been a crash write off. Very interesting video an hour well spent.

It’s sad what you find in a scrap yard. I really don’t see my 106 as an “old” car (maybe if it was a series 1 I would) but they’re thinner on the ground than I’d ever would have thought. Same with MK4 and 5 fiestas, the last time I saw a MK4 in person was my mums when it went off to the scrapper in about 2007 which could’ve probably been fixed but it was cheaper just to buy a new car for the worth of it at the time. Could the purple car have been a micra? I remember seeing a few in that purple colour. Definitely missing seeing hundreds hundreds of 406s about, as it’s another car I’ve not seen for a while. Taxi firms used to have millions of them, but they’ve all moved on to modern mondeos and corollas by the looks of it now. It really is sad what gets thrown away, throw away society and all that, but I’d love to nose around scrap yards like this whenever I can.

always a blast walking through these "old timey" scrapyards

Still driving a Daihatsu Sirion from 2005, was my Mum's car, drives beautifully!! Sad to see so many newer cars here in the scrap yard! :)

Thoroughly enjoyed that tour. Some really interesting finds. So many English scrapyards have closed that it’s a rare treat to see a good one.

Much more enjoyable than the title might have you believe, in fact it was pretty much fascinating.

''You can smell the human suffering...'' I'm actually crying with laughter. Oh my days..

Like minded souls on a date to the scrapyard, how lovely!

I have t-shirts older than most of the cars there!

Quite took me back to a mis-spent youth wandering around the scrapyards -but that was in the day when most of the British cars shared common Smiths or Lucas components, Wilmott Breedon door furniture etc. and you could almost always find what you wanted. I once found a Scammell Pioneer tank-transporter and I've often wondered if anybody rescued it.

I was in tears when Hubnut and his Mrs came to the Myvi. I have always wanted one! Especially the ultra rare Wolfrace sporty edition.

I've owned sirion with the 1 liter engine. Also had a cuore automatic and a fourtrak, gutted daihatsu left the UK. Great little cars super reliable.

Thanks for sharing this. Its amazing to see a proper scrap yard still. And you are correct, so many of these 'new' cars don't deserve to be there. I certainly couldn't work in a place like that, my driveway at home would be overflowing, double stacked and half way down the street too!

There can' t be many scrapyards around nowadays where you can actually go and remove parts yourself. I used to love doing that when I was younger. I had a Y plate Renault Scenic RX4 when they were still very new, it was metallic green like the one in this video. I loved it, mainly due to the fact that it was very quirky.

My dad used to have a Honda Civic in 2007 and we drove to Austria in it, he also got points on his license for doing 125 on the motorway later that year 😮🤣

I know it can be sad seeing lots of cars that maybe shouldn't be scrapped, but I for one loved this video. As a youngster with a 1967 Austin Mini I was always hunting breakers for spares or extras. Please do as many of these as you like. Thank you again

Sad to see that 405 in a scrapyard, getting very rare now. Brilliant cars especially in diesel form

You know it's a big place when one needs a backpack to tour it 😆

I used to LOVE going into scrapyards and looking at relatively modern cars like this. Loved this video, was oddly therapeutic to watch 😁

That Rolls would make a great National Banger

This brings back some memories... thumbs up if you remember *Furbers* *of* *Whixall* ! It was virtually impossible to find in the maze of lanes, but this was just the appetiser for the parts search that faced you once you'd eventually located the yard. More than once, I climbed up a stack of cars placed precariously atop one another, to extract some widget or other to keep my own vehicle on the road. I heard tales of people finding shoes that contained feet in crashed cars there, but never had such excitement myself. Are customers allowed to hunt for parts at Tanygroes, or are the cars dismantled by the staff?

After COVID lockdowns, everyone made an effort to go on their dream holiday. So where did you go ? Lady 1: Spain Lady 2: Italy Lady 3: Tanygroes Car Dismantlers

I'm so with you.. anything newer than n reg is still new in my eyes

When I was a kid, back in the early 80's, cars in scrapyards always seemed to be really old & completely knackered, now many of those still look ready to just drive away, I've seen worse cars still on the road!

Scrap yard field trip , Fantastic, Thank you sir! And Miss Hubnut😁

I'm amazed the car was still in one piece when you got back to it...

Most of these seem better than Mr. Nut's two garage queens languishing in the back...

Nice walk along some surprisingly recent cars. The lack of an export market for used UK cars must depress prices quickly. The sight of that Accord Tourer with the "£7000 for scrappage" stickers at the very beginning makes me slightly mad though, even if I've got no idea if anything was seriously wrong with it.

Bleak but the passion still shines through. A bit like Chris Packham posting a 57 min video of him identifying roadkill.

Good video. Always interesting to wander round a scrap yard. Plenty of the cars there are younger than one of my own - a 2003 Civic.

Ah, just like my Sunday mornings in the 80s and 90s. Except in those days it was BL and earlier Ford's etc. Happy days. And kudos to Miss HubNut for filming

Hi Ian, great video I really enjoyed that, you can't beat a good scrapyard, look forward to your next video

Used to dice with death clambering over cars three high for that elusive part,happy days!

Good to know you can still walk around to pick your own parts 👍 only up the road from me but haven't been there for about 10 years now

Fantastic video, shame to see a Mk1 Laguna in the yard! I can't remember the last time I saw one on the road

We might have spiders, but don't you guys have dragons? Great video guys.

There's not many women who'd happily wander around a scrapyard. You obviously know how to pick wisely. Lovely video. Something very satisfying about looking at junk cars.

Love that ur mrs is as into motors as you have cracked it mate u really have!!

That ford ka with the blue bumper is mine! Had it a few years ago brilliant car much much MUCH welding was done

My dad has a 2005 Sirion that he has had from new. He was a driving instructor and despite a hard life it now has over 200,000 miles on it and it is still going strong!

I miss 'organic' scrapyards like that. I used to spend a lot of time rooting around them when I was younger.

Been watching your video's for quite a few years now ...and this one is by far my favorite ...sad to see the Vel-Satis there ...that's a car on the wanted list

Funny about the reputation of the Honda Jazz in the UK. Here in the US the Honda Fit (as they are called our market) is generally owned by young people, such as college students and they zip around pretty good in them. They don’t hold up traffic here.

That's the mark of a true car enthusiast, being able to recognise a car even after it's been through the crusher.

Had many years of Fun in a Jackeroo. Went On and on with only regular maintenance. Good Hunk of metal with 'Roo bar' obviously...! 😎

If H vans make me think of coffee then that Bedford makes me want an ice cream.

Most of those cars are newer than I’m driving😂

Very rare to see the rear lights still on those scrapped Rover 75 estates. They are rare as the securing lugs snap on them....... Great walk around and some great cars.......

What a fantastic hour. The throwaway society .

I can listen to you all day talk about cars Ian well said 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

A Sirion 1.3SE was our last English registered car. We drove it from Southport to Oviedo N. Spain, in August last year with 149000 miles on the clock. (we now live here) knowing it 's mot would expire shortly thereafter. It was the most reliable car we ever owned and it too went to the scrapyard, I do not normally get attached to cars, but it was a belter! RIP Daihatsu!!

A great many of these cars are in much better condition than what's being sold on Facebook Marketplace in my country :P

How times have changed, 30 years ago scrapyards would have been littered with British Leyland, Vauxhall and Ford cars.. They use to be stacked up on each other making pulling bits off a bit precarious.

The Sirion even has a towing hook. What a great compact multi-purpose vehicle!

That Bedford CF camper was available in Australia but GM fitted it with a six cylinder Holden motor and 3 speed manual or auto. Made a reasonable cruiser for our roads

You know you're getting old when all the cars in the scrapyard look new.

Had a Sirion as my hire car in Malta in 2009. As my own car was a Citroen XM, I was dreading it - I needn't have, as it was superb for what it was.

I loved my 405 Estates, so roomy, and drove well too.