The Art of Shedding

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I love visiting automotive graveyards, there's still a few dotted around Scotland. This is one of my favourites.

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This Lada I actually bought, I'll write some more on that later perhaps...

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Edited by jeremyc on Sunday 19th January 23:21

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Bobberoo99 said:

Absolutely brilliant, love seeing places like that, some of those would be worth so much money if they had been saved!! As others have said never see scrapyards like this nowadays!!

The last set of photos is more a private collection than a scrapyard, the owner of the place generally doesn't sell parts but will sell complete cars from time to time.
If the cars hadn't been parked up here over the years they would probably have been made into bean tins by now so instead of being upset about what some of these cars could have been worth, I salute the owners for keeping hold of them, fueling our imaginations.

There's a few more of these kinda places out there I'll write about if there's a demand for it.

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Jonny-Jimbo said:

OP - as you seem to like these so much, I wondered if you'd seen this one... (no connection to it in any way)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Puegot-305-GR-Estate-lo...

No, I hadn't seen that, looks pretty straight. I have pretty much all of the bits to complete it but can't really justify buying another one at the moment.

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Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

At least I wasn't imagining it!

I think you're right about that law coming in. The scrapyard in the North East of Scotland has been under scrutiny in recent years from the Scottish environmental protection agency about the way the cars are stored and have been insisting for a number of years that it needs clearing.
The other place might get away with it because it isn't a business, it's in a remote area away from the publics attention so nobody takes any notice.
Saying that, we've had sepa at our yard in the past and they have never bothered about any of my cars sitting outside on gravel. They did lose their st when people thought it would be OK to burn tyres or when the owner of the place filled in a drainage ditch with rubble and covered it with mud...

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Here's a strange one, I don't know much about this place but the way the cars are dumped here makes it look like they've been here a long time but looking at google streetview they aren't anywhere to be seen!

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The cars are surrounding a house that nobody lives in, the owner of the house and the cars seems to own a number of properties in the village which all seem to have interesting old cars outside them, he also owns the local newsagent which has a large yard space out the back of it, I managed to sneak some pics over the fence...

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Out on the street in plain view are these.

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I'm led to believe that this is just scratching the surface of the guys huge collection of cars and he has a good few more tucked away inside. I did briefly speak with him about having a look around his collection but he was busy working in the shop and couldn't leave it unattended, I've not managed to find out much else but whoever he is he's clearly an absolute legend!

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Anyway, back to how I came about buying a fked Lada that had sat in a field for over 20 years...


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I'd been visiting this place for a number of years and always had a soft spot for Lada Riva's so early on I asked the owner if he'd part with it, after an eternity of negotiation we agreed on the price of £300 for the car. It ran and wasn't that rusty. The owner agreed to dig it out of its grave over a number of months and I arranged transport to get it home.


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Didn't it just fit right in at my workshop?

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See... It wasn't that rusty... Erm... I persevered with it regardless and bought a bunch of new panels from Russia.


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That's a copy of Retro Cars Magazine sitting on the boot with a regular feature I used to do which revolved around the kinda places visited in this thread and some adventures in crap cars.


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I probably should have bought a bonnet to complete the look externally, for some reason all of the new panels started to rust over a short period of time, I think the black coating was only temporary and should have been painted straight away instead of fitting the panels straight to the car unpainted.

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As well as owning this piece of crap, I also went out and bought an even worse Lada Samara which was allegedly roadworthy...

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It was incredibly st and ended up breaking down at a motorway services where I had to abandon it then collect it via A-frame and a Toyota Camry


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We all had great fun thrashing it down the quarter mile...



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This was one car I decided to "tart up" and sell on.


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I flung it through the local classic car action and someone bought it for £300.


Back to the Riva, I painted the panels with a random tin of red through a spray gun. It looked st.

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I ended up losing the enthusiasm to continue with it so sold it on for £500. I did eventually manage to get a roadworthy Lada estate followed by a roadworthy red saloon followed by the same estate a couple of years later but I've covered that already.

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Thanks for all of the kind comments, as well as updating this thread regularly I'm trying to keep my YouTube channel (Retroste) updated with similar kind of content with the odd video of driving around in various old stters or welding or whatever - subscriber's on there are most welcome...

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Veeayt said:

Subscribed to your channel, enjoying it so far. What's your passion with Ladas? They were awful new and even more awful shed-wise.

I just like boxy cars, I wouldn't say the rivas were awful, they were just based on an ancient design and drove much the same as 60s cars did. The samara I had was crap but I'm not sure if I just had a rubbish example.
How many have you driven to base your opinion on?

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BrabusMog said:

Love this thread, OP

Would be interested to hear the story behind this Volvo

The story behind that Volvo...

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I bought it in March 2014, a previous owner had stripped out the interior, welded the diff. damaged the doors drifting it into things and stickerbombed it. It looked totally st. I spotted it for sale on gumtree for something like £500, it had some horrendous looking 17" ripspeed alloys fitted which were the wrong offset and rubbed the wheel arches, I brought some smaller wheels with me and fitted them for the journey home. It was in Newcastle so I took my 240 down with my Mrs and a friend to drive the 240 back up the road.

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First thing we did after buying the car was stopped in a retail park and removed the majority of the stickers.

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I took it around driftland, it was pish. It was fun to skid around on a wet roundabout but trying to drift on such a large track was difficult. I was constantly having to clutch kick in second gear to get the rear end to step out but the puny 1.7 Renault engine would quickly run out of steam or it would just understeer.


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I got some non dented doors and decided a change of colour was in order.

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A fetching shade of brown!

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I ended up buying a 360 and selling the 340 to a friend in 2015.


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He continued to abuse it.


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He didn't like the brown so painted it battleship grey.

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My friend took the car to the skidpan at Crail.


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My other friend took my old Nissan Laurel onto the skidpan which was just as gutless and hopeless as the Volvo.

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As the day went on my friend became a little bit over confident on the track.


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You can probably guess what happened when trying to drift at close proximity with the BMW driver in a gutless 340...

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Volvo 1

BMW nil



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I ended up with a 2.0 Auto 440 which I sold to my friend to donate it's engine to the 340.

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My friend got as far as removing the 440's engine and scrapping the rest then removing the 340's engine. The 340 has been sitting there abandoned for around 5 years now.

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NGRhodes said:

That battleship grey would not be the same paint used on the ships you weld, would it ?

The vessels I work on are painted black.






The paint on the car was bought from military vehicle paints on eBay

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BrabusMog said:

Thanks for the write up, brilliant stuff!



You'd fit in well if you ever move to Sweden, I think you'd be in an EPA Traktor within hours of landing

This kinda thing?


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The Niva was great off road.

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Apart from one time I got stuck in some really squelchy mud in January and had to dig myself out with my bare hands, it really wasn't much fun having to dig freezing cold mud a handful at a time, I ended up swapping it for something worse in the end.


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I really didn't like it all that much.

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I swapped it for another shed as soon as I could.

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A Bosch pumped xud engined Xantia which had mostly been run on waste vegetable oil, I used it for a while then swapped it for something even worse...

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It seemed to go quite well until.


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It randomly died.

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I swapped the 440 for a Subaru Forester

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I think I ended up selling it for £400, the original purchase price of the Niva was around £400 too so essentially I got to experience a bunch of mildly interesting (to me) old cars and get my money back at the end.

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Bobberoo99 said:

Loving all the randomness, always fancied a Lada Niva!!

I love the randomness too, because I'm never actively seeking to buy anything specific I'm always surprised with what I end up with next.
I usually just browse cars on ebay and see what's available by nearest first.

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Veeayt said:

Not many. It was the first car I ever driven properly during my driving test. I hate them passionately, albeit can see where your fondness is coming from. A proper 'vintage' driving experience.

Oh, I can see why you hate them.

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I passed my test in 2009 when I was 24 which enabled me to avoid all of the extortionate new young driver insurance. I had always loved the look of E30 BMW's but as an inexperienced driver, I settled for something a little bit newer for my first car, a 1999 Peugeot 306 for £700. It was a shed and although it was perfectly usable I never really thought it was cool. A while later I sold it and bought a BMW E36 compact which I probably kept for less than a year.
My third car was probably one of my favourites.

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It holds so many good memories, I even picked up my Mrs in it on our first date...

Up until that point I had only really had one car at a time but my Mrs was about to change that, she introduced me to the idea of buying cheap sub £400 motors to run around in and that's pretty much where my great shedding adventure began.

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My sheds of choice seemed to be Polo's which could usually be picked up for under £300.

Here's a selection of sheds I had over the next few years, I was only really keeping 2 or 3 at a time and didn't have any off the road parking apart from my parents garage.

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My neighbours loved me...

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in 2014 I was given a free Allegro!

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My Mrs also passed her test and bought her first car.

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Also in 2014 we started renting a yard for storing cars in, it was quite small and in a bit of a sthole so none of us really wanted to leave cars there in case of vandalism...

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We found somewhere a little bit better a short while later.


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I bought a Proton for £100. I treated it to years of abuse and it continued to soldier on.

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We started renting a new unit at a secluded mill, the guy subletting it to us was a bit of a dick and had a mouldy old E34 and a fked Citroen CX estate.

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I got another free car in 2014, a Lancia Beta.

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First car of 2015 was an Alfa Sprint which someone gave me for free.

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I swapped the Saab 99 for a 900 which was a bit crap.

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I bought a crusty Tata Loadbeta

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I bought my most expensive (£1800) car to date.

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I swapped my Proton pickup for an ex Knockhill rally school Sierra.

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We left the mill and moved into a far better unit with plenty of space outside and room for working on cars inside.

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I bought a starlet and sold it soon after to by a Suzuki Alto FX

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I took the Alto away for a weekend in Wales for the Autoste forums annual "stefest"

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It performed quite well with it's tiny 800cc 3 cylinder engine and 4 speed gearbox.

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We bought a 4 post ramp for £150 from the unit next door, bolted it to the floor and wired it up.

I bought my first Lada.

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I bought my first 305

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I bought a Rover Metro for £200

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I bought a 318is

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I bought another Proton.

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I swapped the Tata for a Bedford Rascal, the guy swapping let me use his trailer to take the rascal back to my place. The next day the guy gets in touch and says he can't insure the Tata so I offer him my Metro for the Tata plus his trailer which for some bizarre reason he agrees to...

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The trailer was built to carry this Fiat 127 Rally car, the guy who had just done the rascal/tata/metro swap offered the 127 for my e36.

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I bought a 205 xs for a £250

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I swapped the Alfa sprint for an E28 with no engine.

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Then swapped the E28 for a 6 series.



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I swapped the 127 for a 240 GLT

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I swapped the Carlton Estate for a Toyota Camry, the Carlton was used by its new owner for "Rust to Rome" then I bought it back for £120

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I part exchanged the Carlton with £300 cash my way for a scabby 440.

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I sold the 440 for £200 then bought a 340 the same day.

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I bought a scabby Niva.

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Last car of 2015 was a 305 saloon with a turbo diesel engine fitted.

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I think in 2016 I bought quite a few sheds..

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The Tata I'd previously had I sold then bought back.

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I picked up a Volvo V70 for free...

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I bought another 309

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A guy at work gave me a free 7 series BMW


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I bought back the Renault 18 of many colours which was constantly swapped between two friends.

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I swapped the 240 GLT for a W123 200, it looked really good in photos but was horrendously st to drive, loads of play in the steering and incredibly slow.

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I bought a zx Volcane for £80

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I bought a Citroen C15 which I had aspirations of making some kind of basic camper.

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It was adequate if a little bit lacking in space!

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I bought my first Ranger.

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I used some Aldi paint and a spray gun from Aldi to paint it.

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I bought another 305.

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And a Sigma

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I bought an E28 for £900

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I bought a C15 to break and robbed the rear axle for my 305 estate.

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Last car of 2016 was a £400 940 estate which broke down quite often.

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Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

It's amazing that you can get a Volcane for £80, when you consider what it's sister car, the 306 GTi's go for! Was it a petrol or a diesel?

It was a D-turbo.

It was a bit crusty underneath and didn't run, I think I sold it for £400 or something.

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SlowV6 said:

Er..is that a 300C I spy?

It's a Nissan (Datsun) Laurel.

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It was my friends car, he bought it after I sold him the later red Laurel but didn't really get along with it. From memory it had a 2.4 petrol straight six and a 3 speed automatic gearbox. It was slow and uneconomical.

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I recently sold the Daihatsu Charade so with a small bundle of cash burning a hole in my pocket I was on the look out for another shed!
Today I set off into the wilderness to go out and buy another car. With a light dusting of snow appearing on the hills I thought it best to take something with 4WD capability and winter tyres.

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I got to my destination with my wad of notes(£500) and chapped on the sellers door...

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We talked about crap old cars for a while and I handed over the cash for the beastly Nissan Micra!
I've never had one before so excited to see what it's like. I used my typical laid back approach to buying by turning, handing over the cash and fking off. I haven't even driven it yet!

Edited by Retroste on Tuesday 28th January 15:58

Edited by Scrump on Sunday 9th February 16:58