E30 Zone

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proper timewarp love seeing things like this! loads of fords around!

i also see that cyclists were a problem in 1983 as well!

Brilliant
Check out how many roadside parking spaces there are!!!

Check out the total lack of BMWs!
(I didn't watch the whole thing so there might be some later on)

how many allegro's !!!!!

Spotted a couple of 131 mirafioris in there as well as a couple of Lancia Betas! And pleanty of Mk1 Granadas as well.

What a great find!!

Thats Quality!

The Metro looks like it's from the future.

Love the video - thanks for sharing.

this is my era guys. Been driving 2 years by this time and it takes me right back. Surprised at how old some of the cars are. Don't remember that many Corsairs and Mk1 and 2 cortinas about!

Lovely yank at 4:03 Not sure? Pontiac?

And a tasty 635csi e24 at bang on 20:00.

70's Firebird at 30:46

Mini Marcos / Midas at 31:29

The german invasion had already started. look at te number of Golfs, scirrocos, e21's, W123, R107 and S class Mercs etc. The writing was all the wall.

Check out the carve up by the white Mk3 cortina at 22:50. What a great handling car they were!

Series one Jag xj / Daimler sov at 22:53

Whats the guy driving? Any idea?

One thing you don't see anymore, the luggage rack on the bootlid!

chrome bumpers everywhere

Superb - and plenty of 18/22 Princess action with a matching pair of Series 1 HL's in Glacier white at 0.33 and 0.39 as well as a Sandglow example up on ramps at 2.30. I love the beige Austin 1100 with the 'UNT' number plate reversing into a spot.

Andyboy wrote: I love the beige Austin 1100 with the 'UNT' number plate reversing into a spot.

Another number plate for Kos then!

What a facinating find....

I spotted a white Moggy 1000 pick up truck

Any-one else notice just how many cars were displaying L plates? 'Driving schools' have cornered this market now.

Those Leyland Olympian double deckers,about twenty of them were bought up by Lincolnshire Roadcar in the late '90's and re-furbed.I remember them well!

Lots of unusual scrap there including a Simca 1100 Van and a white Mark 2 Jag/Daimler.

Thinking back to scrapyards in '83 you'd find lots of ropey early XJ6's, plenty of Cortina Mark 3's, Maxis Avengers, 1100's etc. You'd find the odd late sixties 2002 or early E3 saloon.
Things like SD1 Rovers, Princesses, Cortina Mark 4's and Mark 2 Escorts were just a bit too new unless they'd been smashed. The car parks would be full, and the place heaving with geezers pulling bits off dead cars. Not like that now. No bugger wants to repair anything and 90% of the yard customers are Polish or something.

Andyboy wrote: No bugger wants to repair anything and 90% of the yard customers are Polish or something.

It's easier and most perhaps cheaper to seek out a specialist breaker these days.

'er indoors brought her car home the other day claiming that she found this after it had been parked up...



simple fix was a replacement 'bumper',from my local Fix It Again Tomorrow breaker at £30,plus the cost of making it the correct colour!


I claim the labour cost seperately,of course