Scrapyard Walkabout: Some amazing classic finds!

‪@BCB‬ in Lancashire, UK invited me for a walkaround their remarkable yard, where I found loads of Morris Minors, several Ford Corsairs (mostly in bits), a Gilbern Invader, Alfa Romeo GT Junior, Citroen AX and much more! What do you see? Their website is: www.baxendenca...
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[@BCB]

Enjoyed having you down at the yard, was a pleasure! good to see us from a different light.

[@HubNut]

Was a great visit, despite the weather! Thanks for having me.

[@barrio4166]

Shame to see so many classics going to waste

[@kells77]

@@barrio4166 not a waste of it helps others

[@peterhaigh5764]

All I can hear is James gobbing off in the back ground 😂

[@berwynluxe2751]

Any Honda legends?? 3.2 litre, coupe ideally. Thanks 👍👍

[@lesrogers7310]

What nice people they are at Baxenden Breakers to allow to walk around freely. Thanks for the tour Ian, and thank you to the Baxenden guys too.

[@MrHenryrolls]

They're probably also smart businessmen who know what free advertising is.

[@ShedTV]

Living my muddy, rainy scrapyard wandering fun vicariously through HubNut!

[@kathyytube5660]

From the comfort of your home 😉

[@TheAllyMor]

Ditto

[@Witheredgoogie]

Ah a traditional scrap yard that brought back many happy memories as a kid crawling through mud and clambering over cars. Not many (if any) places you could you see a Tesla and a 55 year old Corsair next to each other awaiting their fate.

[@philiphutchinson4210]

Takes me back to wandering about a "scrap yard" in my younger days hunting down bits for my cars... enjoyed the looking as much as obtaining the bits. Brilliant video Ian, thank you.

[@100SteveB]

I have added their site to my bookmarks, driving a 1997 Mondeo it's always good to find decent breakers like this. But wow, some of those classics made me realise how old I am, the Corsair was a familiar sight on our roads when I was a kid, along with the land crab. But it just goes to show what cars must still be hanging around in old sheds and barns, or tucked away in the corner of a field somewhere. Little reminders of the past.

[@stepheng8779]

Brilliant, really enjoyed that Ian. Thanks to the lads for letting us have a look round 👍 Really miss these places, not too long ago every decent sized town had at least one site you could go on a treasure hunt. Local councils used to be always picking on them, curiously never their builder/developer chums who left their sites in far worse states 🤔

[@oldclassiccarUK]

*Neat to see that the older stuff is being put to one side and not just mangled* 👍

[@OldCarsNewVan]

Really enjoy these scrapyard vids - at 17 (1987) I spent many a happy Saturday looking for bits for my banger and generally enjoying looking at all the old cars. You were allowed to wonder round - no health & safety - in a yard with multiple cars stacked on top of each other. Saw a bloke once climbing on a car 3 up and he unbalanced it and it came crashing down😂 he was ok but can you imagine that today 😲

[@allanwinter4991]

Bought an XR 4X4 2.8 new back in 86. A nice car, drove very well. She even looked good in metallic grey.

[@petehallam1304]

I’ve still got one,and had it for 15 years!! Still has its original bodywork,and paint :-)

[@allanwinter4991]

@@petehallam1304 That's great. Bought mine new in 1985-6 Reg. Was D44 the rest of it I forget. An enjoyable car smooth and swift. I am envious of you.

[@leefinney592]

This place is great. I do feel though that alot of the panels for old cars would benefit from storage inside. There will be lots of people that have been looking for those parts in various parts of the country. Well here you go!

[@JamesG75]

I really enjoy these HubNut scrapyard videos. Cheers Ian!

[@robertngreen6]

How amazing that places like this still exist. It's many, many, many years since I used to roam similar places (Bacons of Bawsey) in search of exciting finds. The video has reminded me of your wonderful excursions down under in various yards - I will rewatch soon! Great idea for a new quiz / competition - guess the random part from a car scrapped decades ago!

[@willwelch5700]

Don't know how I missed this video, but what a treasure trove! I will be giving these guys a follow! Enjoying the scrap yard features, dude!

[@Kai-Peter.Schellhase]

The MK3 Granada certainly brings back memories, mostly pleasant ones.😉Really enjoy these scrapyard walkarounds. Thanks, Ian!👍

[@Roger.Coleman1949]

Would you ever believe you'd see a ' high voltage ' label on a scrap car ? !.Great variety of content as always Ian .

[@LK0_]

What a pleasant surprise to see this come up as a suggestion, a place i used to wander past as a teenager back in the 90's, would have loved to have had a snoop around back then but this has finally sorted that! good things et al.

[@sbomorse]

I'm watching this vicariously, reminiscing on my childhood crawling over scrap cars with my Dad. I once scrapped a 1993 Ford Granada Scorpio and several years later was dismayed to come across under a pile of other cars. Nowadays the public can't walk around, let alone crawl over the scrap yards due to "health and safety" 😔

[@rheinerftvideo2647]

You are right, but scrapyards 30 years ago had not been safe to walk around or grabbing parts out of cars. We had these in Germany as well, and one day a car that was placed on the roof of another car came down and almost hit me... I understand this is not the way you can let the public walk in a scrapyard today...

[@danstewart8218]

@@rheinerftvideo2647 Yes....It almost hit you...and you are still here...Would you deny the joy of walking round those glorious old yards to children now? Tho I suppose it would be different. The cars aren't the same, very little chrome...and catching a glimpse of the nudes pinned to the wall in the office wouldn't happen now either...

[@freddieparrydrums]

I hate being born in this era

[@nagaraworkshop]

Amazing to realize how old some of those wrecks are. I remember going around a breakers yard in Devon in the 60s when I was a kid and most of the stuff there was only about 10 years old and rusted out! The prize pieces then were cars of the 30s and 40s. I remember a huge 40s Packard limo in beautiful condition in another yard that sadly got weighed in to make way for a housing estate.

[@ic08jy700]

Hub Nuts running commentary is both informative and very humorous. Well played, this breaker is to die for for a car restorer

[@barrylaflin8425]

Very brave of you to take Foxanne into the yard. Had the horrible thought that she might be squashed by mistake 😩

[@michaelmacleod]

No Scrap metal value in plastic.....

[@jeffreystacy867]

I have that same thought when I go into a junkyard here in North Carolina with one of the cars I drive. So far so good though

[@barrylaflin8425]

@@michaelmacleod engine not fibre glass....

[@michaelmacleod]

@@barrylaflin8425 Really? thanks for letting me know, I don''t suppose you are American, are you?

[@barrylaflin8425]

@@michaelmacleod No. Quarter Irish three quarter English with a bit of Dutch somewhere in the dim and distant past

[@tezzadezza9174]

It’s really nice of them to let you have a wonder and look about!

[@tomoreilly9932]

Thank you for another interesting video in filthy weather.watching in a lovely warm room with a mug of coffee🤭

[@ancientheart2532]

One of my favorite things to do, back when yards still had a back lot, was to get a sub, a drink and walk around looking at cars. Good timrs.

[@andrewchapman6010]

Looks like a really interesting place, thanks for the tour 👍

[@russellb1212]

Super video, your knowledge on old cars is amazing, seeing 55 plate cars do seem so young, so many interesting cars, great the parts are saved so well and available to keep others on the road

[@PB_657]

Amazing that places like this still exist with so much almost forgotten relics. Great to see although somewhat sad as much of the stuff at the back doesn't seem to have much future, but at least it exists at all. Automotive urbex!!

[@realnutteruk1]

Hurrah, a scrappy that hasn't been sanitised to death! Reminds me of A1 out the back of Wokingham in the early 90s...

[@ianstewartorr8455]

What a wonderful tour thanks greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@manfacilitymetalworks1296]

It's not a scrapyard visit without rain and puddles with rainbows on them :)

[@rodhili3946]

Very enjoyable video. Brings back memories of working in my uncles scrap yard in the late 70s. Reliant were known to catch fire and when we had one in my uncle would sell the chassis back to Reliant for a second life!

[@RetroRatz]

I wish I had a camera in the 80s, for the scrapyard tours back then!! Oh the days 🚗❤️ Though people say our yard I'd like this......cough

[@mpersad]

Just fascinating, and so pleased that this company are doing such terrific work recovering and recycling as much of the vehicles as possible.

[@joeedwards9721]

Nice to see a scrapyard doing the right thing with classics, hats off👍

[@AliMackMechanical]

Did they offer you Tea and Sausage rolls there famous for them lol. Great yard very helpful folks.👍

[@HubNut]

The tea was good!

[@AliMackMechanical]

@@Jasonhughes258 😂😂

[@pdtech4524]

Nice explore, very interesting place. 👍

[@neilwalsh4058]

Very close to that yard is one of the steepest inclines on any railways in the UK. Known as Baxenden Bank, its on the long time disused Accrington to Bury line and is 1:38 gradient. I know your fascination for steep hills on roads, and though you'd not notice 1:38 on a road, it was a hell of a climb for an old steam train. If you travelled south after you left Baxenden you'd have gone down the A56 towards Manchester. A section of that dual carriageway that bypasses Haslingden is built on the old trackbed

[@johnholness1470]

my grandad worked on baxenden station back in the day, got a phone call from accrington station train driver had reported warning light was out, grandad replied bloody light could not make its mind up weather it was on or off so i blow it out🚂

[@argonautsuk]

Again ur taking me back to memory lane. I just spotted a Grenada. I Had the MKII 2.0 auto when I was 1st in this country late 90s fabulous vehicle. I just also has the Peugeot 205 1.1

[@dave1455]

When you were at the back top of yard I was looking at that huge wall ,quite a few thousand bricks went into building that .Amazing place thanks for the tour .

[@stephenscholes4758]

For some reason I loved wrecking yards when I was a kid , luckily for me some of the biggest in Australia were right near where we lived here in Melbourne, and spent lots of Saturdays there. I remember once a crashed '70s Corolla wagon whose occupant was evidently carrying a birthday cake....the entire interior was spattered in a mixture of blood and whipped cream!!

[@kevthebusman4768]

Great idea for your channel. Nothings more fun than a scrapyard adventure.

[@nickthomas181]

Great local content, it's another local highlight. Thanks for the vlog I enjoyed this! All the best!

[@justinobrien3593]

Wow good video its like being in a time warp in that bone yard of cars from the 60s onwards there's a fortune in parts sat in the open rotting away if they was mine then would be in dry storage not out In winter elements! So it just proves that old parts are still out there and they may have probably forgot about the salvageable parts off ford corsairs as I never seen so many in one yard! That mk2 cortina chassis looked ok also for maybe a track car or banger racer! I love old school style scrap yards as I've worked in a few over the years i found money jewelry alsorts in scrap cars!!! 😎

[@CaptHollister]

I really enjoy these scrapyard videos. When I was a child in the 1960s, every week or so our mother would buy one Matchbox car each for my brother and I. One of these was a Ford Corsair. Now, being in Canada, I'd never seen one these and none of the adults I'd ask had ever heard of the model. It became a minor obsession to try to spot one, I even thought that it looked a bit like a Ford Falcon so whenever I spotted a Falcon, I would try to read the badging to see if it was one of these elusive Corsairs. It wasn't until I spent time in the UK in the 80s and 90s that I finally saw one in the metal. To this day whenever I watch anything out the UK I try to spot Corsairs in the background, so it was very satisfying that a Corsair was one of the first cars you filmed in this yard. Maybe someday you'll feature a road test of one.

[@Tagora2664]

This just reminded me of the many many happy hours I spent at the local yard. Long ago now, things have changed so much. 😢

[@HowardLeVert]

18:16 I thought the green/white wings were Anglia 105E? Fascinating yard though, must tell my mate with the Minors about it. What's remarkable are the electrical warning flashes on the dead Tesla. On a different matter, it's great that the owners were so accommodating letting you walk around and film - a current railway magazine gives the impression that the opposite applies where trains go to die.

[@laurieharper1526]

That brings back some memories. I used to love scavenging breakers' yards back in the day. Virtually all the yards here in North London are gone, now. I ran a series of Volvo 140s and later Saab 99s and kept them going courtesy of a wonderful yard in some abandoned railway sidings at Park Royal near the Guinness brewery (also no more), which was a treasure trove of Swedish stuff. Cars were piled two and three high and you just took in your tools, grabbed what you wanted (being ready to jump clear should a car at the top of the pile wobble) and paid for it at a hut by the entrance. Once they got to know you, prices were incredibly reasonable. Happy days.

[@scalecrawlnl]

Thank you kindly Baxenden and HubNut, a fun video tour of their yard, so much to take in👍 EV spares in demand, I reckon. Waiting for the Baxenden/HuBNut/ECC future project car😁

[@warren6815]

Pass this place almost daily if I'm working in the area, didn't realise there was so much good stuff there!

[@danieleregoli812]

God...that Corsair.... lovely car... I really do have a soft spot for those.... so quintessentially space-age '60s!!!

[@MsVanorak]

These online breakers are great. I used to use them quite a bit as i had a high mileage van and unusual things start to wear out. If someone writes off a vehicle the same with low mileage then you get your reqlacement qart for a third to half of the qrice from a dealershiq.

[@paulb4uk]

Nice yard with lots of parts on shelves ready to go out and good to see some of the rare cars getting saved as well .

[@the.internet]

I miss the N reg AX 'limited' Elation in blue/green me and a gf bought for £310 many years ago. Probably circa 2009. 68k-ish on the clock I believe, we drove to the south west to buy it and drove it back home. Went up and down the country so many times, to work every day and on many an adventure. Edward the AX. It never ever let us down. Such a fun little car, basically made of paper, so yeah it was the rust that did it in the end. But I wish I'd had some storage to throw it in back then, it held so many memories. Utterly reliable and charming, and we kept it all original down to the cassette player. They're a rare sight now, but so is the Saxo that replaced it even. It's quite unreal just how rare common cars have become. I'm so glad we got that car and that it survived the scrappage scheme of the time which put early ends to so many would-be classics. Great tour. I'm glad places like this exist.

[@stevewilson8467]

We need to find you a hi-viz umbrella for your scrapyard tours, Ian. Reminds me of the many hours I spent in yards around Denny and Bonnybridge, most long gone.

[@andrewentwistle515]

I thoroughly enjoyed your tour of the Scrapyard. It was nice to see a wide variety of vintage cars all in one location.

[@williamdeegan7840]

GREAT VIDEO. It's nice to watch a video where your in a yard and you know WHAT YOUR LOOKING AT. Some videos you watch and you wonder what there doing in a yard looking at stuff they have no idea what the hell it is. Great job. Loyal viewer. P.S. Say hello to Elle when you get home.

[@damian-795]

04:16 The strength of those hydraulic arms on these trucks is mind blowing.

[@2tone209]

I USED TO LOVE GOING TO FRADLEY SCRAPYARD AS A KID WITH ME BROTHERS GOOD TIMES

[@jimmylawson6014]

What a shame, all those were someones pride and joy at one time. Nice to meet you briefly at the NEC in November, my Hubnut beannie always draws comments at work !!

[@robames1293]

Great cars. Living in Wales and loving old cars a Gilbern ticks all the boxes (it would need new wipers). In public there would be tears in every Welsh car enthusiast's eyes.

[@daniellee9015]

Absolutely brilliant video Ian 👌

[@langerstrains9460]

Very much enjoyed watching this and playing along with guess the car. Good to see some cars are getting another chance and looks like an interesting place.

[@kellybrickey4300]

Seeing a yard full of Minors amazes me. I know they are everywhere over there, but there are about 5 in the US.

[@davidflamee]

Fantastic video. Scrapyards are such interesting places but, just like the cars, are getting rarer, and rarer - in my experience. Whereas walk round yards were once ten-a-penny, sadly, they too are becoming things of the past. It's great that you got this opportunity to have a nosey round and I hope Baxendens continue for many years to come. I'm sure your video will help towards bringing some business along for them and, thanks also for making us aware of their you tube channel. They have some interesting projects on the go. I hope your video inspires interest amongst your own viewers to enquire further into what they have to offer. More scrap yard coverage please, whenever you have the time or chance, would certainly not be wasted on me. Slightly off topic, but, seeing the Foxy lady come home was a real moment. which quite moved me. It would be superb if you could do an interview with Adam talking about his experience with Foxanne. That would imho be very watchable and worthwhile.

[@phillipwood9833]

That blue Stimson was in fact a Mini-Bug. definitely mini based as I had a cooper engined example about 20 years ago. Brilliant fun.

[@torresalex]

Thanks for introducing us to the Baxenden channel. Looks great!

[@thecaptainjones]

Thanks Ian. I used to love the Corsair when I was a kid.

[@tiasmum893]

Thank you for the video, really enjoyed it. Used to walk around our local yard with Dad when the there was one in our town.

[@robertmaitland09]

What an amazing place, carcheology at its best.

[@OfficialAdamPearson]

i love the scrap yard walkarounds

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Old school breakers yards are just so good That Corsair is certainly a bit of a unicorn Fancy someone leaving that old blue thing in the drive way I’m surprised they didn’t pick it up and stick it in the bin 😂😂😂👍👍

[@bobmcl2406]

I live roaming around in breakers yards over here in Canada. Thanks for a bit of variety, as British cars pretty much vanished from out market in the early 1970s.

[@stephenswift9868]

I like Gilbern Invaders, they have kind menacing GT look about them. Purposeful.

[@repairupdaterepeat5815]

Really nice and helpful guys at baxenden car breakers. Used to specialise in Ford's till ford tax started. James moved a Hillman imp of mine. I also sold him my X1/9 for breaking. He once had a MK1 escort that was lovely

[@BCB]

I remember moving that imp for you ! Good few year ago that wasn’t it !

[@RichieRouge206]

This was great and reminds me of many happy hours at Furbers near Wixall. We have a full de-pollution rig at work. Fascinating tour Ian!

[@ivorjones6618]

i used to go to a scrappers called furbers at doxey stafford in the late 60s

[@lucyboulton5000]

Looks like a great place I love my old cars had a red gte Mark 2 back in the day

[@vernonmatthews181]

I can see Morris Minor in Black & Purple, wow easy to recognize the 1955 to 1985 body parts.😁👍🤩🤗

[@vernonmatthews181]

Thats two black Minors !

[@vernonmatthews181]

Thats two black Minors !

[@peterhaigh5764]

Been down to baxendens What a set of great guys Sorted me out with a windscreen Got cuppa and sausage roll it was Friday!

[@Levenstone132]

Looks like a well run operation there. I was offered a V4 Corsair as my first car back in '77. The one off JPS Special edition,black body/gold roof, all brush painted for £60! Another missed opportunity.

[@mrpalm54]

You do these videos very well Ian. Love a scrapyard!

[@jamesfrench7299]

Good to see it's run by car guys instead of people who view them as cash cows.

[@rogersmith5167]

I made the press tool that trimmed the die casting flash on the Corsair horn ring brings back memories.

[@skodakatie7341]

Wow, awesome, there are some amazing classics there, I particularly found the Rialto body (or what was left of it) of interest, and of course the Robin or Rialto chassis😊.

[@roberthatfull3816]

Kool old skool yard that has older stuff the further you go in 🤘

[@darrylwebb3625]

How nice to see around a yard again, even if it is by proxy.

[@MrVexedviper]

Love the Range Rover with Mini hat

[@OhioPeteS2k]

Those two-tone green/white fenders would look good hanging on a garage wall as decor. You could make a couch for the Hublets out of the Capri Counsel rear end.

[@nickoneill7454]

Glad you enjoyed your time in Baxenden. For years they had a CVE Omni (very rare bus) that you could see from the main road.

[@clarkey1984]

I spied at least two cars wearing the period serck font number plates, they look so good.

[@martinburgess4814]

Hope you fair well in this storm all the best

[@HubNut]

Cheers. Unscathed thankfully.

[@davidmg1925]

My Mums step father turned up in corsair once and yes it was a V4.. Great to see the Gilbern

[@philipbunker146]

I used to love climbing around a scrap yard late 70’s early 80’s

[@thomasfrancis5747]

Reminds me of a scrapyard at Cannock some years ago - had Moggie Minors and three Triumph 2000's - amazed that specialists hadn't already snapped them up. MiniBug anecdote - apparently British Leyland became interested in it and sent some engineers round to have a look. They asked how the chassis frame was engineered and were told that there was a fat bloke who would come round and bounce up and down in it - if anything bent they would add more reinforcement. Not surprisingly nothing more was heard from BL....

[@andrewthompsonuk1]

Places like this have certainly helped me out. These days with the very poor quality of many aftermarket parts a good second hand original part is usually a better bet than a new one. Also second had parts often come with a few useful bits such as connectors.

[@mr_pastry]

Great video, Ian. What a place! Nice to see the honourable mention for the S60. The offer is still there if you wanted to test drive mine for the channel.

[@CauliflowerMcPugg]

I enjoyed that, thanks for the walkabout. 👍

[@tecdesigns8183]

Great vid. The black audi with the Honda accord on top has quite a rare set of wheels on it. Worth a fare bit

[@carlarthur4442]

Had a Corsaire v4 2000 in the 80s nice smooth car bought it for £200 sold it to a mate for £150 he moved to Derby trying Trent power Signalbox , he was a Signalman with B R , while he was training he used to commute every weekend back to Birkenhead , and never had any problems with it , wish I'd have kept it myself , great video, if I'd have kept every car I'd owned I'd be very rich same as the motor bikes I've owned . 😀

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

Another great scrapyard video Ian, I do like walking around a scrapyard wondering what the history of a car could have been.

[@petersimpson5859]

Fond memories of owning a base SD3 and foraging for Vitesse and Vanden Plas(tic) parts. So much easier with ebay but something is lost somehow. So much work helping to keep cherished cars survive.