Exploring an abandoned scrapyard in Wales - Epic finds! 

Who'd have thought that a Morris Ital van would be one of the most intact and recognisable vehicles there. Probably one of the last vehicles to enter the yard.

Now Derek from Vice Grip Garage would have driven most of those out of the brambles after a day's tinkering...Ian's ability to identify vehicles from a couple of rusty panels is truly incredible though.😊

When I got my driving licence in the late 80s, I used to drive to scrap yards in my area in Ireland and spend literally hours just walking round and sometimes sitting in the cars and inhaling the unique smells each car had. Probably wierd but I remember those days with a smile 😊

I remember being in a taxi in (IIRC) Singapore which was a Nissan Cedric. The taxi driver asked me whether we had them in the UK and when I told him we didn't expressed surprise - "But Cedric is an English name isn't it?"

Amazing how long everything has been there and so overgrown!To be honest, if I had inherited the site,I wouldn't be in a hurry to clear it so quickly, I'd be in my element sorting through. So glad that ERF found a good home for restoration. 👍

I have memories when I was about 10 of finding "dumped cars" whenever we went on caravan holidays. Armed with a screwdriver I'd remove the switches and dashboard instruments, and take them home to put in my "den" in the loft, alongside the rear numberplates for dad's various cars that had been needed for the caravan. I had a Ford Anglia speedo, a "kneecapping arm" (solid metal casing that protruded from steering column, with tabs switches for indicators, lights, wipers) from a Ford *Consul* Corsair (ie the very early version), an ignition switch from a Mini (with the key code embossed on it, so dad bought a key for it. I even rigged up a Meccano motor to the speedo cable of the Anglia so the gauge would read about 80 mph! The best "car dump" was a narrow ravine in Wensleydale where local people took unwanted cars and pushed them over the edge - one farmer turned up with a tractor and trailer one which was the Mini from which I took the igntision switch. I also nicked a switch panel from an old fire engine that had been placed on an adventure playground at Thorp Arch trading estate (along with an old wooden galleon) which was somewhere for the kids to play while the parents were looking at new sofas etc. These things survived a house move a few years later, but then languished in a shed and disappeared when my parents had a clearout.

Amazing Ian, especially for the children, loved exploring scrap yards before everything became off the shelf.

25 years ago there were still many junkyards like this one. I bought lots of cheap parts for my car back then.

Love the line "Something very big and very dead". Classic!

I never fail to be amazed at Mother Natures capacity to heal everything...Those brambles almost seem to be breaking up and digesting the cars here. Maybe they like the iron or something.

Keep expecting to see Albert Steptoe come wandering out……. The expression “as a pear” comes to mind!

Great to see the kids having fun, I'd have been in my absolute element when I was their age! (And maybe even so now)

You are the David Attenborough of motor vehicle archaeology without doubt. Great video as always.

Incredible site and I really hope plenty of bits were saved! You'd be hard pressed to find another 929 grille going spare

Great day out and cool you had the chance to have a look and catch the remnants of these crusty old classics and diverse, other collected relics. Big farm too. Thank you, fun!

Love scrapyards dont see many of them now Another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍

So much entertainment poking around old motors and parts-spotting. Great to poke around before it all goes.

I could've spent at least a day wandering round those cars - very glad some have yielded useful spares for other projects

Splendid explore. I found myself imagining these vehicles when they were new and shiny… somebody’s pride and joy. Now the’ end nearly been reclaimed by the earth. Thanks! Enjoyed this one.

I used to have a speedometer out of a mini, was fascinated by it as a child, and still have some number plates from France! Scrapyards are amazing places!

Wow that place is so interesting, a true time capsule right there amongst nature❤️

I really enjoyed that. Many memories of these cars and traipsing around scrap yards as a child. I hope some of the parts will be salvaged. These are the ones that weren’t saved making the survivors more valuable, not just in monetary terms.

Well I think those old cars are beyond restoration. Enjoyed the video.

Love the truck…. Just watched the London to Brighton vintage commercial vehicle go past my house… awesome 🤘😎🤘

Thanks for the wonderful video! Great fun walking around in a yard like this and I appreciate your effort to show us this. In eastern Canada the rust doesn't really take any prisoners but most of our British cars rotted out while still on the road from the salt we have to use in winter however once they are parked the process seems to slow down and we can still find good candidates to restore. In the UK I can't believe how your cars seem to totally disintegrate when they are put out to pasture. Cheers!

Thanks for sharing this, and probably sacrificing alot of your skin in the process! Would have loved a rummage in there!

Great video mate. Thanks from South Australia.

I love this sort of place. To think, all those were new once and brought so much pride to their new owners, all the people they have carried and things they have witnessed. Brilliant :)

nice to see the family enjoying the day out

Thank you for posting this video, Ian. So important to document these cars and so sad all those parts may not end up in the hands of enthusiasts. Keep up the awesome work.

Good to see the Hublets education being expanded into the appreciation of old junk! The mystery wheeltrim looked rather Rootes to me.

One of my favorite types of Hubnut videos! Nothing better on a Saturday morning than playing a bit of Forza Horizon and watching Ian and the gang tromp their way through rotting automobilia!

Very interesting Ian, unlike some of these type of videos on you tube it's good that you can actually identify the cars, your knowledge is very impressive.

What a brilliant video. I was astounded by what you found. A definite HubNut adventure if ever there was one. I'm 63 now and can identify many, if not most, of the cars in there but your detailed knowledge just amazes me when you start identifying individual components like wings, doors, light etc. Thanks for sharing Ian. God bless you and the family.

Some really interesting finds in there. Can’t believe you could identify some of those. I couldn’t see it even after you said it.

Parts value wise, Their '' Was '' a lot of value. Great video Ian by the way, Love these scrapyard walkies

Oddly satisfying comes to mind. Just shows the way of this world. Everything goes back dust or dirt or what.

Always interesting to me me to be escorted around scrap yards where you have damp weather. I live in Arizona in there desert southwest of the US ! Those cars sitting her would be in same shape they were parked in. No plants would grow around them here. There would be no paint on them and all the plastics and upholstery would be gone , but we have no rust here ! Just to watch for snakes and spiders . Thanks for the walkabout Ian !

Great incredible video and amazing abandoned cars

Epic video amazing to see how they are slowly rusting in to the ground . There will be people watching going I need the trim etc lol even off what seems to be a total heap of rust

Wonderful, just amazing to think once they were all new and belonged to someone went places etc

The fiat van video was the first one of your videos i watched...since then iv'e been hooked

It's nice to see all these 70s and some 80s cars all fondly remembered from my childhood.

Really enjoyed your carchaeology visits. Keep them up.

Your son seems to like trampling the brambles with you while mom stays to common path lol. 👍

A great insight into the undergrowth life of old vehicles as they are reclaimed by nature (brambles). It's nice to remember some of the ordinary vehicles lurking in the undergrowth. My old dad had a Maxi 1750 but as a kid I wanted him to get a MK1 Granada but feeding and watering us three kids put a stop to that. There must be so many memories of those old cars and I do admit it's sad that we can't save them. At least some survive and like you I hope the Invacar get's an new chance at life. Many thanks for sharing Ian.

I have drove a few Leyland Olympians that were Gardener powered. Incredibly reliable engines that served on the front line of service work for almost 30 years.

So many pieces of glass to be saved surely? Unobtanium stuff! Really interesting these kind of finds......Why?? How did that happen! Excellent stuff and thanks for getting cut and scratched to share you guys.

Nice one Ian and family, enjoyed it. Hope at least some of those cars get to live but wow they have rotted so badly.

Loved to have looked through this pile

Literally melting in to the ground , amazing.

I love places like this. Thank you for sharing pchooo!!!!

Great video,, sad it's all being cleared , that place would be my heaven.just an old house with a bit of land filled with junk for another day.

Happy Tetanus shots to you all. Nice one, liked it

Great video, Ian. That place reminds of a salvage yard that was in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Minakers' did not crush cars. They were kept until noting was left. Being there one day my brother bursts out laughing. There was a car shaped hole in a row of cars that had been there since the 1930s when the yard opened. The outline of the car was still there along with ONE part from the former resident. All that had been left behind was the head gasket from some sort of inline 6 cylinder. Unfortunately the County changed the laws and all of the yards were forced to close. That was a crying shame, as there was another yard where the proprietor collected multiple examples of the same model and year and combined parts as necessary to produce one or two perfect examples which he then sold. I was in hog heaven there.

Coincidentally we visited the scrapyard at Horopito for the first time last week. Fascinating place.

My father had one of those little 850 Fiat buses many years ago, leaping lena he called it because as you are sat directly above the front axel you get bounced up and down. We also had an Ami Super estate with the flat four engine later as well.

It was an incredible sight. Quite amazing how the bodywork rots to pieces so that the cars crumple into the ground. The only saveable car there was the Invacar.

That ERF is sublime. Good to know it's been saved.

Happy memories of wandering round the wreckers with my dad looking for parts. If you had a yard like that in Australia, the cars would all be full of redbacks and you would be running away from the snakes.

It's both interesting and sad to see how this cars and things just can be out in the nature. It is scrap. I have lovely memories of that Ford Sierra estate.

All those spares and glass you prob can't get anymore thanks for sharing Ian all the best donny

Reminds me of my childhood playground of the 70/80s... my father was in the motor trade from the early 60's and quiet a lot of the less usable family farmland ended up as car grave yards for the unsaleable. 50's Vauxhaulls, Hillmans, Ford Prefects & 100E's and old Austins of all shapes and sizes.

Brilliant. Mate almost a slice of New Zealand there. Thanks for the tour. 🙂

I have never seen cars rusting this bad before and I live in a salt state. This is incredible.

What a place ian..still alot of spare parts on those classics especially the windows etc..

You'd be brave to do that in Australia. Redbacks would be everywhere and of course...snakes!

You found an indicator lenses, still with some original blinker fluid in. What a find.

Fascinating but somehow terrifying to watch too... I remember cars from in the 1970s being as rusty as that in the 1970s.

I’d have loved that transit nice little winter project ! and the welder would keep me warm in the garage 🤣

Really enjoyed this video, thank u

That's going to take some clearing.hope some parts are salvaged to keep others alive.

The scrapyard ending up in a scrapyard, sad ending to once someones hard earned pride and joy, good video fella 👍🙂

A bittersweet video . So many vehicles there . Who knows what tales they once told ? Thanks for uploading nonetheless. 👍👍

Brilliant video Ian 👍

Great video Ian very interesting such a shame everything was left to rot away would have been amazing to find a classic tucked away preserved somewhere there.

What a mess glad someone is doing the right thing and clearing it all up

As a kid in the 70's our gang would meet up Saturday morning and head to a local dump. We would explore for hours. old cars, boats and a multitude of other stuff. It was an adventure, a treasure hunt for us. In this day and age we would probably have to be disinfected and quarantined for fear of bringing home a disease. It was great to grow up in that time for me. There's something sad that as i see this, and remember back all this treasure you are exploring will be gone.

Such fun and so much treasure! I would never of guessed your mystery car was a Peugeot.

When Mrs Hubnut was looking a the little caravan it reminds me of our 1963 Aristocrat lil loafer trailer ,aka caravan,we managed to sleep 5 Kid and two adults 2 in the bunk bed over the stove and sink 2 over the dinette in slide out bunk my little sister with mom & dad on the converted dinette we went on many holidays my dad pulled the lil loafer with a 1960 Chevrolet Covair 4 door Sadan

What an amazing place 👍

I reckon the first wheel trim you found was from a late fifties/early sixties Sunbeam Rapier, great video, thanks.

13:59 My professor at uni had a fairly early one of these 304s in the first third of the 1970s. I remember its very smooth-sounding XL3 engine and distinctive transfer-gear whine. They were quite a rarity and upmarket amongst Cortinas, Marinas, Vauxhall Victors, Hillman Avengers, a few Datsuns etc.

Ive always popped down the road to here and use to have a chat with Mansel in the static caravan he was living in. I didnt realise he had passed away. When i went to go see him on saturday to get a few parts for my rover I was sad to hear of his passing. I was surprised to see a 19ton digger with a scrap grab on parked in the field and a patch of cars gone forever :( From what i have been told there use to be over 10 acres if cars and mansel and his brother didnt buy any, alot of them were driven in when they werent wanted anymore, and if you went over to the 2 field hedge line there is a load of 1930s/40s cars but in a very sad state, use to be chrome grills sticking up out of the ground! Very sad to see it go, so much useful parts gone to waste, but hopefully a friend will save the invalid car.

You mentioned the Cedric. A very long time ago, a place I worked at serviced one. Another odd one we serviced was a Nissan President, owned by the Japanese embassy here in Canada.

Finally, the mythical indicator fluid has been discovered in the wild! I always used to love exploring this kind of place when I was wee. Both in the sense of being tangibly connected to history, and the beauty of being in the moment to notice it; but also being oddly comforted by how readily nature will retake a space after a few decades. If we all disappeared one day, nature would get-on with things just fine. I bet these brambles are a brilliant environment for all sorts of insects and little rodents! Also some of your attempts at identification from tiny husks of once-whole cars really reminded me of archaeology. I know you gave the car-chaeology pun at the start but, wow. What will future generations retain about all these kinds of vehicles and the ways of life around them? Will there ever be a day when all we know of British Leyland is one piece of one engine they made? I always wondered what kind of practices would lead to finding one corner of a plant pot in a forest, or a giant pile of one kind of artefact. I guess ancient peoples did this kind of thing too! Those piles of windscreens look like exactly the kind of thing which often ended up buried, after those brambles grew and grew and mulched away... I hope someone took that TV home, the picture tube looked pretty intact. Even if the non-tube electronics didn't work, it's often a very simple component which died.

What an amazing place. Although many were past saving I really hope they were offered for parts and not just sent for scrap.

In the early eighties I did some work in a steel stockholders in Essex and next to it was a wooded area that was had dozens of cars dating back to the twenties in it. All of them were completely beyond restoration with trees growing through the roofs and many just a set of spoked wheels and heavy castings etc. The latest cars were probably of the early fifties, several of them being Jaguars and Humbers and one Ford Pilot. All the others were rotted beyond recognition. I think the area has long since been cleared with housing now on it.

Wowwww, eat your heart out Horopito motors !! Got to give it to you for your remarkable tail light recognition skills although I just beat you to the Peugeot 304 ID (honest....). Congrats on one of you best videos yet !

Just as well you got in when you did and got a chance to capture what remained before it all got removed.

Ah that lovely white Fiat Amigo (or Pandora? - some of them had a different name) camper... Happy days. I used to own one of those in the early 1980's, and like the idiot I was back then, I sold it. I wish I could find another, but sadly they are almost all like the one you found here, far too far gone. Happy memories though. Thanks for letting us see all this, for one last time.

I used to have a torch like that @ 5.07 mins. Bought it second hand from a junk shop, but reversed over it on my drive by accident with my 1993 Audi 100 back in the day. Lol. End of torch.

Fascinating video, so many interesting car in the undergrowth. It’s unfortunate that they’re all beyond being saved, apart from the ERF lorry but an amazing find nonetheless. I hope you both enjoy your holiday.

Great film, you really are a font of knowledge! Apologies for sounding pretentious, but there is an odd beauty to seeing nature slowly reclaiming those vehicles.

I was about to say Nash Metro when you popped up with that. Very unique car

That was fantastic!

Amazing Ian you nerd knowing all those rear light clusters!!!

Thanks for keeping the Car-key-ology word going!

Wow. Even the moss has moss growing on it!

Sort of a cross between Gray's Elegy and Gray's Automotive Anatomy - but without doubt, thrillingly nerdacious!