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Seeing all the Toyota and the two Mercedes, for sure yes it is for export: all the cars on that page are common models in Africa 
These Carina/Corolla were everywhere in Cameroon for example.
These Carina/Corolla were everywhere in Cameroon for example.
Does this: "Ei hinnoiteltu" means "on request"?
Right now annother little anecdote came in my mind.
An experience, my wife had made some years ago.
She was looking for a car, it should be a Diesel-car with a low consumption (later on it was the Astra G from the Bundeswehr-auction). For a while she thought about to buy a Polo 6N from the German Post. They are often cheap to get, but mostly roughly damaged (as we've found out later).
On sunny day we went to a dealer, who had offered such a Post-Polo. A dealer of the real confidence
- on the company-sign was something like "Al Harouni-cars. Import, Export and Arbitration" and "We pay cash, immediately and discreet"
It was a dirty gravel-stone area behind a decayed industrial area. The office was a rotten Camping-trailer. The "CEO" was a fat, unshaved guy, wearing dirty boxer-shorts and an undershirt. He sat in front of the famous office an two plastic beer-boxes, in one hand a beer-bottle, the other he needed to scratch his privates.
Besides the Polo were standing some old Benzes, several Toyotas and some shabby VW Buses.
In the background there were two Turkish youngsters, who tried to restart a broken BMW 3 Series Convertible.
A real great scenery, an absolute cliche, worth to use it for a movie.
Right now annother little anecdote came in my mind.
An experience, my wife had made some years ago. She was looking for a car, it should be a Diesel-car with a low consumption (later on it was the Astra G from the Bundeswehr-auction). For a while she thought about to buy a Polo 6N from the German Post. They are often cheap to get, but mostly roughly damaged (as we've found out later).
On sunny day we went to a dealer, who had offered such a Post-Polo. A dealer of the real confidence
- on the company-sign was something like "Al Harouni-cars. Import, Export and Arbitration" and "We pay cash, immediately and discreet"It was a dirty gravel-stone area behind a decayed industrial area. The office was a rotten Camping-trailer. The "CEO" was a fat, unshaved guy, wearing dirty boxer-shorts and an undershirt. He sat in front of the famous office an two plastic beer-boxes, in one hand a beer-bottle, the other he needed to scratch his privates.
Besides the Polo were standing some old Benzes, several Toyotas and some shabby VW Buses.
In the background there were two Turkish youngsters, who tried to restart a broken BMW 3 Series Convertible.
A real great scenery, an absolute cliche, worth to use it for a movie.
I found this in my local junk yard this week.. It's bright pink and all the windows have chrome tint.
OMG! That car really deserved to be scrapped - it's obvious it had suffered a lot while being in use! 
Photos taken two weeks ago - Citroen GSX Break on one Belgrade junk yard, in poor condition...
That car really deserved to be scrapped - it's obvious it had suffered a lot while being in use! Photos taken two weeks ago - Citroen GSX Break on one Belgrade junk yard, in poor condition...
This was crushed recently:
And I saw this in a hospital's parking lot a couple months ago:
And I saw this in a hospital's parking lot a couple months ago:
Ty ingo for this link, pictures are great!
From that scrapyard on flickr found on the internet
Datsun Cherry
Nissan Micra K10
Opel Rekord
Fiat Tempra
Fiat Croma
Renault 21 Savanna
Audi 100
Old Seat Ibiza
Opel limo
Mazda Familia
Austin Metro
Ford Probe
1st Gen Ford Probe
Old FSO
Morris Minor
Mazda Van
Mazda 323
Proton
Fiat Ritmo
Austin Allegro
Peugeot 305
These were found on the net. I posted a link to the photostream above and there are many more interesting vehicles in it
Datsun Cherry
Nissan Micra K10
Opel Rekord
Fiat Tempra
Fiat Croma
Renault 21 Savanna
Audi 100
Old Seat Ibiza
Opel limo
Mazda Familia
Austin Metro
Ford Probe
1st Gen Ford Probe
Old FSO
Morris Minor
Mazda Van
Mazda 323
Proton
Fiat Ritmo
Austin Allegro
Peugeot 305
These were found on the net. I posted a link to the photostream above and there are many more interesting vehicles in it
@Road Wars Fanatic: the pics are all from Irland, correct?
10 years ago I've been on an small, but really nice scrapyard in Stewartstown/Northern Ireland. There were many realy old cars, placed there since 20 to 30 years, most of them sunk into the nature. The funny thing is, that the old scrapyard was underneath(!) the newer one. My friend from Dublin, which whom I went there, told me, that this junkyard was in use since decades. One day, when the space was full, the owner took a bulldozer, have smashed the wrecks, have put some tons of gravel on them - and have placed more cars on it...
On the sides of this area, you could see the rests of cars from the 30ies and 40ies looking out of the ground.
10 years ago I've been on an small, but really nice scrapyard in Stewartstown/Northern Ireland. There were many realy old cars, placed there since 20 to 30 years, most of them sunk into the nature. The funny thing is, that the old scrapyard was underneath(!) the newer one. My friend from Dublin, which whom I went there, told me, that this junkyard was in use since decades. One day, when the space was full, the owner took a bulldozer, have smashed the wrecks, have put some tons of gravel on them - and have placed more cars on it...
On the sides of this area, you could see the rests of cars from the 30ies and 40ies looking out of the ground.
@ingo yeah, somewhere in Ireland I think in kildare reading through 1 or 2 of the comments on the pictures. Interesting story by the way, this is a real old fashioned 'you pull it' scrapyard. these are sadly dying out now due to enviornmental Pressure 
I hear even guy with a few cars in a yard are being targeted. A real shame.
And another few cars from it:
Saab 96
Volvo 340
Saab 9000 Turbo
Honda Accord
Volkswagen
Renault 25
Jaguar XJ
Audi 80
Fiat 126
I hear even guy with a few cars in a yard are being targeted. A real shame.And another few cars from it:
Saab 96
Volvo 340
Saab 9000 Turbo
Honda Accord
Volkswagen
Renault 25
Jaguar XJ
Audi 80
Fiat 126
Zastava 128 from late 80's-early 90's:
Fiat 850:
Italy:
Great GS - scrapped...
Fiat 850:
Italy:
Great GS - scrapped...
The GS looks in good state 
The GS looks in good state
It was for sale for a year or so, owner asked for 1000 euros, and no one wanted to buy it. That's the reason why it got scrapped.