Great pic, many thanks.
Surely I've send them immediately to "tinhunter".

The red "Mercedes Benz???" is(was) a Borgward Isabella.

He told me that he was attending a car exhibit somewhat close to where I live so I went to see it.


Thanks, I had a hunch it would be something
Brittish.


Hope he likes them. I'm not sure if they are still there we found them because they had cleared alot of forest for a new motorway, if they haven't done it we wouldn't have found the cars, but they have obviously also seen the cars so there is a risk they have sent them to the cruscher.

Ah now when you say it I recognise the tail lights, I couldn't fit them to any Mercedes but I thought the front looked a little like a Mercedes with a missing grill.

And when I searched pictures of Isabellas I saw that the picture with the "Interesting fueldoor" also is from an Isabella but an older model.

About the two mentioned junkyards I've asked a Swedish friend (with him I made nice junkyards-trip around Vesteras and Avesta in 2000).
He answered me, that it seems, that the exact location of them shall be a secret further.

Bad for tinhunter, resp. his vacations.

A 1925 Bugatti, salvaged after 82 years out of the Lago Maggiore:
http://www.meinklassiker.com/de/magazin/menschen/ein_bugatti_fuer_damiano_aus_de- m_lago_maggiore/7/1/2208

Perhaps somewhere in the www you can find the story in annother language.

The cars of the legendary junk yard in Switzerland shall be sold by auctions:
http://www.meinklassiker.com/de/magazin/oldtimer/oldtimer_galerie_toffen_verstei- gert_autofriedhof_kaufdorf/2/1/2223

So this place will be cleared off now, after 25 years of discussions and arguments.

Hello atom,
do you have maybe some informations about junkyards around Kalmar? My best friend will going there for vacations on Saturday. Sure, that it would be fantastic, if he could find K 70's there.
15 years ago he and his wife had made wonderful vacations in Sweden. Wonderful, because they had been very successful and have found many K 70-wrecks. So they had filled up their VW T3-Bus with the rare and nice Swedish goodies (lamp washer-systems, bumpers for that, right mirrors, mudflaps -the bigger Swedish ones, laminated front screens, back safety-belts, H4-lamps and so on...)
Nowadays there will be much less K 70 (if anyone at all), but this is not too bad, because he has not that much space any more. Randomly he drives annother VW T3 again - but he also has four children.

Sorry ingo, I only know about a few wrecks around here where I live (those that I have posted pictures from).

BTW I sure you know of the biggest Swedish salesite, there is currently four K70s for sale: http://www.blocket.se/hela_sverige?q=K70&cg=1020&w=3&st=s&ps=&pe=&rs=&re=&ms=&me=- &gb=&fu=&ca=16&md=th

I talked K70 with my uncle some time back, if you remember he who said that K70 only was for music and sewing-teachers. Anyhow he had a Golf Mk1 GLS, and he got the brilliant idea to put a K70 carburator on his Golf because that was 40/40(?) and his was 38/40(?). He went to the local VW dealer to get some nozels/jets, the guy behind the counter thought it was a stupid idea but he helped him anyhow, he finetuned the carburetor and later he pushed the Golf up to over 190km/h, he also said that I wasn't alowed to tell my mother or grandparents

Oh, interesting, that this was possible. The main problem of the Solex-Double-carburator of the K 70 is the size. It's very big (some BMW's and Alfa's had a similar one).

How he could manage it to mount it? Normally he had to built an extra intake between carburator and engine, because others don't fit.

No-limit-auction of the cars from the legendary Swiss junkyard:
http://www.oldtimergalerie.ch/d/auktion/September09.htm

Good, that they make it in this way, not like Carlo Vanlingen in Houthalen-Helchtern (B), who has crusehed all the old cars, he had.
O.k., you must admit, that they were scrap since many years. It's not too different at the Messerli-place.

Another old guy with very many cars died:
Jalopnik: Epic 275 classic car junkyard collection headed to auction
One day, I hope to be such an old man. (With many cars, not dead)

I found some on the net But I have now deleted them because I don't Own the Images.

unknown


it would be great, if someone identify this car




Fiat 128 1300CL



BMW 730 3.5L I6 E23

The first car is a big Alfa Romeo, a 2000 Berlina.
http://imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=Alfa+Romeo&model=2000+Berlina&modelMatch=1&modelInclModel=- on

Went to my favourite junkyard today...

DKW F107:



Opel Rekord [D]:


Two american cars and a fintail Merc (called Fen-Merca in Sweden) in the background:


A tower of Volvo PV 544's (a red one also behind the blue one):


1974 Volvo 142:


1970 Mercedes-Benz 250 CE [W114]:


1963 Volkswagen 1200 Limousine [Typ 1]:


Volvo P210 Duett:


1977 Fiat 127 Special:

Some poor cars there Whats with them all still having plates? The VW still looks in good nic. Why is it there? The Recford looks nice to...

In spain junkyard owners don't bother removing the plates either.

It has a reason, why Sweden is popular for the best junk yards of Europe.

@marioman: it depends on the country, if the plate is seen as an document or not. For example in Denmark, Austria and Switzerland it's impossible to keep the old plate, when a car is wrecked. They have to be destroyed by the authority. In Switzerland -in Belgium, too- you can use the plate for the next car again.

In Britain and Sweden the plate is not important. There the registration-sticker at the windscreen is the evidence for the registration. So the plates have no special meaning. In Germany the small silver sticker on the plate is important. When it's on the plate, it's an document, when it's scratched off (neccessary, when you change the registration), it's just a piece of alumimium and you can do with it, what you want (except using it again in the traffic).

@atom: are the prices on the junk yard for parts fair ot is the owner an idiot?
If the prices are good, it could be senseful to make a checklist of the classic cars and the left over usable parts and ask the freaks, if something could be interesting. Sometimes you can get really money at Ebay.

So I've done in the past with many classic VW-parts, my Swedish friend has picked up for ridicolous prices on junkyards. I've sold it at Ebay and we've shared the money.

Very nice pictures atom!

I have found a 1971 Lancia Fulvia Berlina abandoned in a parking:



IMHO, It's a shame to see a so beautiful car in this state in 2009

Here are some pictures from my visit to Crete in 2003. These cars were found just outside the village of Analipsi near the town of Hersonissos. I'll bet this junk is still there today.

Autobianchi:



Ford Corsair:



AMC Gremlin:



Hillman Convertible



Also there was this old Mercedes-Benz nearby in considerable better condition, it probably belonged to the owner of the junkyard.