That green car, 4;45, would be worth a small fortune now. It looked like an ex-army staff car. The tipper at the end, I saw an old pram coming down with pile of rubbish, when we were kids them pram wheels where like rocking horse shit, we would have quickly converted them to a brilliant go cart. Spent hours a day pushing each other around on a short length of scaffold board with an old set of wheels attached, great fun. Kids today don't know what they missed.
And how about the glamorous olive green Studebaker that looks in good condition reduced to a bail. I would also love to have saved the American kitchen clock that ended up in the furnace.
Interestingly, the soundtrack was also used in the Amazing Spider-Man cartoon series from 1967 and the narrator sounds like it could be a young Anthony Hopkins.
3mins 40 secs in.................it was called Jones's scrapyard Waltham Cross ........"the biggest in Europe......." my wife's family were part of this ........happy days of a bygone era........whisky and milk at the Cart Overthrown, , Edmonton after a good days trade ..............those who know - KNOW and we still live locally
Need to remove rubber, wood, plastic, waste oil and petrol from a derelict car? The official answer? Douse it in fuel and literally just burn it all off. I wonder who it was that looked at the plume of foul smoke coming from a burning wreck and thought, “I wonder if that’s such a good idea...”
Love these films and the super-judgey commentary. No wonder the average life span has accelerated since we introduced things like basic safety at work and stopped chucking all the horrific chemicals up in the air. 😄
Old Buicks aren't worth that much, a mid 1930s sedan isn't even worth 20k $ and if most of them hadn't been scrapped, the survivors wouldn't be worth anything at all.
One man's rubbish is another man's wealth!The money I have made in the past out of scrap iron and items have found in the bins..Today you can't scrap metal at a scrap yard without a license because of scallywags stealing copper pipes and other no Ferris metal it's a shame fridges now need to be scrapped in a different way because of the gases now days you will see more unwanted fridge's because of the hefty cost of getting it removed The way times have changed some for the best others not so good for the environment.
'Firing' old cars? Environmentally horrendous, of course, but for the Bart Simpson in me - wow, that's the *dream job,* right there! (So much so, there's plenty round my way who'll still take away your car and burn it out. You don't even have to ask, and they won't charge you a penny!)
I was a kid back then and the behaviour pictured here seemed perfectly normal. The sad thing is that many of my generation continue to believe that environmental awareness is some kind of liberal ploy to deprive them of their freedom.
