We explore a huge collection of abandoned Classic car’s (Never Explored by anyone else!!)

[@gosportjamie]

23:04 That was a Vauxhall FB Victor VX4/90. That's a seriously rare car. That one's far to far gone to be restorable, but it looks very original so there should be plenty of parts there for someone restoring one to use, and maybe even enough bits to build a replica using a decent FB Victor base vehicle. They were, effectively, the performance version of the Victor, and were so called as their 1600cc, twin carb 4-cylinder engine produced (nearly) 90 horsepower. They may well have been the first British performance saloon as to get that sort of performance from any other make you'd have had to go up to something with a 6-cylinder engine, like a Ford Zephyr or Zodiac and pay a lot more in road tax and in fuel costs. The VX4/90 continued with the Victor models, the last one being produced in 1979, by which time the last of the Victors, the FE VX2300GLS (the Victor name was dropped in 1975) and the VX4/90, by now with a 5-speed gearbox and a 2.3 litre overhead cam engine, were replaced by the mk1 Vauxhall Carlton. The mess on the left at 13:48 was a VX2300GLS, in the pale blue metallic that was such a popular colour on them...

[@prince77rp]

Id say the barn is in use. The old combine may not be a runner but ill bet the old tractors will still fire up. And a very modern looking telehandler at the back,definitely in use...or nicked..

[@gosportjamie]

18:33 You're right, it is/'was a Ford, but it's not a mk1 Escort van, it's a 105E Anglia van (the anglebox with the reverse-slope rear windscreen...)

[@NickRatnieks]

Car at 17:00 is a Standard 10. I reckon I last saw one of them on the road in about 1971. There are probably only a handful left. 50s cars are now very rare as they just rotted away as this video shows us. The irony is, there are probably useful parts on some of these wrecks but they will all be bulldozed up into a heap and taken away.

[@ferraridinoman]

Great stuff Guys! (This is when you know you are REALLY old when you know all the damn cars!!) SOB!!!

[@randomrandomness8743]

The tractors and Land Rovers were the only vehicles I saw with potential and value.

[@tommoston3176]

it is sad seeing the cars rotting into the ground. but if they hadn't ended up there most would of been recycled into oblivion never to be seen again.

[@christineberry3076]

They should be put somewhere useful!

[@jaggass]

It's delaying the inevitable.

[@NOWThatsRichy]

A very interesting place, sadly most of those vehicles are too far gone for restoration, the blue & white Landrover & red Nova definitely looked saveable. I noticed what looked like a Wolsey 1100 at 4:40 & another car at 22:21 had *'Radio Victory'* stickers in the windows, the local station in Portsmouth back in the 70s & 80's. The tractors in the barn looked in good nick, I reckon someone is holding on to that land, waiting to get a good offer for it in the future.

[@johnlong3214]

"A nuva nova ova there", . . . .a nuva nova ova, love it.👍

[@mikefinegold4073]

Yes great video. There are many good parts still here. I can’t believe the cars just flatten out as time goes by. Next time wear trousers, yes. Thanx for the great memories from a Yank in California.

[@alliechampagne1404]

Mike & Frank would be be in rusty gold heaven!

[@lennyh500]

Great find! That VX4/90 on the trailer, most were like that shortly after leaving the factory : ( Good to know young blokes are interested in old junk.

[@SimpsonsClassics]

Blows my mind why people wouldn't want to sell them on to save them instead of letting this happen, so sad. Great video!

[@francoisgaignaux6474]

the alloy wheels on this BMW 520 are Alpina Style 7x14, very sought after ..

[@thewippit2400]

francois gaignaux - they need collecting up 🤣

[@freeganjustin6699]

5:40 is a BMC J4 van, not a Ford. Called 'amputator vans' in their day due to the non existent crash protection. Made up to 1974 when it was superceded by the Sherpa which shares its roof and most of the rear body parts.

[@-abacchus]

Amazing to see so many ancient relics of motoring history, and then... Some fairly 'modern' Vauxhall Novas..!?

[@-abacchus]

@Adam McGinty, sounds good. Do you have a link bud?

[@speakfreeley4473]

The Land-Rover (DTP 2C) does appear to still look savable. The American car at 19:30 is a 1961-63 Rambler American, possibly a convertible.

[@speakfreeley4473]

Wherever it is, the place should be a shrine. Just wish more vehicles of that era that were first beyond saving ended up in places like this.

[@xdsnipezfbrpromlgxxzzzxxx334]

9:45 Novas are worth a fortune now, upto £10,000 for a small hatchback

[@esurcylimaf4335]

The old Morris Minor van was the same as my grandfather had here in Australia... I was always fascinated by it for some reason. Nice find.

[@krisneal7725]

Hey, just bin watching ur latest with all the Cortina's. My mum had one of those, a 66 I think. Under powered, handled like a bag of shyt, with crap brakes. They are a great solid little car. Put in a V6, good suspension and disc brakes, you'll have a go anywhere little MUSCLE car 🚗. But OMG alright with the convertible 😲👍 and I think I've only ever seen 1 wagon/estate b4 in Aust. And the rest ,,,,,, OMG also. 👍🇭🇲🇬🇧

[@GG-hu9dn]

Judging by the way those cars are positioned ? This was some kind of DIY car salvage parts place? So they where scrap to begin with?

[@gosportjamie]

The Land-Rover at the end, DTP 2C is an interesting vehicle. The DVLA shows it as having a 3300cc diesel engine, which would be a Perkins commercial engine. During the '70s, with the fuel crisis, the 2.25 Land-Rover petrol engine was too heavy on fuel to be affordable for farmers to run, so a big market sprung up in conversion kits allowing various diesel engines to be fitted to them. The factory 2.25 diesel engine was an expensive option on series Land-Rovers, as well as being not very good and a complete slug with all of about 60 horsepower. The Perkins 3300 diesel was a lot better, with bags of torque, plenty enough power and good fuel economy, essential as it was designed for highway commercial vehicles. A friend of mine has a short wheel-base series 2 Landy with the same conversion, also done in the early '70s, and it's a cracking old beast. It's interesting to see that a lot of the vehicles shown here started off life in my neck of the woods, near Portsmouth. That would suggest that a lot of them were cheap transport owned by sailors who, when they got drafted to a ship out of Devonport, would sell off their old cars for pennies before going on board. The result was that any area that was near a Royal Navy dock yard would be swimming in very cheap cars a lot of the time, to the point where it would be cheaper to buy another car than repair the one you had. The reason why so many have Portsmouth-area plates is simple. Portsmouth is another big Navy town, having the dock yard and, in the past, a great many training establishments around it. So Portsmouth sailors would get a ship out of Devonport, so they'd drive down there and then dump their cars off in Devon. Some of these cars probably literally cost the owner a pint of beer, and some, very likely, would have been free...

[@garethifan1034]

The Perkins was pretty much the same engine as out of the M-F 165 tractor, with a different pump for road use. Another 3300cc conversion candidate for the LR could have been the Nissan 6 cylinder engine.

[@gosportjamie]

@@garethifan1034 I can't say I've seen many with the Nissan conversion. I know a Japanese Mazda diesel was also a fairly popular conversion, a company in Southampton used to make a fortune importing those engines from Japanese vehicles that had reached the end of their road due to the very strict Japanese rules. I suppose I just assumed it would be the Perkins lump as I knew it was a very popular conversion as the engines were quite easily available and had a reputation for being pretty much bullet-proof...

[@garethifan1034]

@@gosportjamie In the 80's and early 90's the Nissan was a popular conversion for Volvo 240/760's - and occasionally Land/Range Rovers though the front grille on the RR had to be extended to acommodate the bigger length of the 6 cyl. Admittedly, I only ever saw a few Nissans put in to the LR, but they were a very popular conversion for Volvo 240/740/760 cars at one time. The Perkins was the cheapest and probably the most durable, but it was a ruff - gruff loud shaky engine which was really designed for a tractor or light commercial. I never much liked them in a LR.

[@gosportjamie]

@@garethifan1034 Well, ruff, gruff, loud and shaky pretty much describes a Series Land-Rover so the Perkins would be right at home, though I have to say that that hasn't been my experience of my friend's 88, it's not really any worse than a petrol 2 1/4 and certainly a lot better than the factory diesel...

[@gosportjamie]

@@peterwaterfield1231 I always like the Land-Rover straight-6, a very smooth engine and massively torquey but yes, the fuel consumption did suck, it rivaled the Stage 1 V8 for dipsomania. As for the Landy itself, you're absolutely right, but Series Landies are so sought after now that, if it avoided a date with the crusher there is a good chance someone, somewhere is restoring it or at least using it as a parts donor...

[@lamvespa1]

Great vid . I spent many a great time in the 1970s playing in a yard like this . Used to play inside old bristol half cab bus , old bedford ql army lorrys , AEC lorrys , old bulldozers , and old steam rollers . Somthing about the smell of old rusty vehicles . Thankyou for showing us this vid 😊

[@studebaker58]

The blue convertible is or was a 1961/62 Rambler American. 1691PO is a Hillman Minx of 1956/59 period. I saw several Standard 8s & 10s, The MK1 Escort van you mention was an Anglia van, several Trumph 2000s & a Herald. A very collapsed Vauxhall Victor from the early 70s. Great find.

[@TUMBLINJEST]

but no one mentions the most valuable series landrovers.. the americans love them being old enough to be imported = blue long wheel base DTP 2 C

[@ronniduncan1618]

my husband likes your videos and he has a request, would it be possible to film the emblems on the cars? as a car enthusiast from the u.s., he's very interested in knowing the makes of all these cars. Thank you!

[@blair79bear38]

WOW !!!!! Looks like an old salvage yard that people would have bought used parts off of. And long since given up on. When you mentioned Nova .. I go Thats no Nova, then I remember the Novas over there are nothing like the Chevrolet Novas here. we used to get Novas' with chevy Big blocks in them. lol . the sryle of cars is totally different than the style of cars we have here in the Americas.

[@KevinJones-ye3vw]

520 BMW last taxed July 1990 , last log book issued on 22 November 1989 . Great Videos guys keep up good work . Such a shame some of these can't be saved .

[@james-to3ht]

15:01 vauxhall victor fe but looks like a ventora front grill,great video lads super stuff,car at 23 vauxhall vx4 90,a more desirable model than the normal victor

[@scruffyHerrbert]

that place hasn't changed hands in a while - great mooch, really enjoyed that one - reminded me of a Mk1 Escort in woods beyond a friends folks garden back in early 90's, which had collapsed in on itself - the front suspension was still there and the chrome F-O-R-D letters on front edge of bonnet - pretty much everything else had disintegrated and dissolved.

[@davidchandler9812]

That was literally the most times I've ever heard anyone say "literally"

[@Carrera-gp9od]

It was literally out of context every time he said literally 😂😂

[@dambuster6387]

I remember in the 1960,s you could by a Austin 7 for £5.

[@xdsnipezfbrpromlgxxzzzxxx334]

i remember my grandad telling me he bought a Vauxhall Viva for £40

[@adeladd7638]

A lot of money then. My first wage,in 1970,was £8.1/- (5p) P W

[@anonymous_bot_bot]

Sure I spied a rare Mk1 Crayford Cortina. I was waiting for more on that one. Long trousers next time please !!!

[@newman1971]

Get oooorf my laaaand!

[@acreativename7999]

With a heavy Norfolk accent

[@minislayer2010]

It's sad to think that many moons ago, someone pulled up outside their house whilst the family waited by the front door with excitement, waiting to see the brand new car. And now, there they are rotting into oblivion.

[@Toxic2T]

sad

[@Robhalifax]

Its an old scrapyard. Most of those cars would have been knackered by the time they arrived there.

[@MrDerryk]

i just stumbled on your videos they are awsome keep up the good work i just subscribed

[@TheShowgirl25]

I love this kind of stuff, and look forward to more.

[@aaronwelfare1249]

Fair play you keep finding these intriguing places

[@carolynhollingworth4082]

What a find!.

[@alansimpson2647]

The tractors look quite new and worth a lot!

[@nigelcharlton-wright1747]

That rust will polish out on that Vauxhall FB Victor 4/90. As solid as that Morris 1100!

[@studebaker58]

The collapsed car on the trailer is a Vauxhall VX4/90 from 1962/64, quite a rare car, bur totally gone.

[@ronniepickering3157]

Nature reclaimes everything

[@ronniepickering3157]

Gr8 content glad to stumble on your channel

[@fhwolthuis]

Amazing find! Next to the BMW was a DAF!

[@wiedietie]

This would be my ideal museum..

[@ShortBusScotty]

A thousand years from now Time Team will rediscover this.

[@niazpetkar53]

17:19 BMW registration CEX 179T last taxed 1990

[@blobby273]

are you sure the place is abandoned ? those tractors look still loved no dust at all

[@gosportjamie]

Even that Nova is pretty unusual being the bog stock poverty model 1.0 which didn't even come with headrests...

[@Zocky73166]

Dave is real petrol head... excellent video

[@brianvince7697]

My son come across this site about 25 years ago and and with permission viewed the cars there since then nothing more was thought about it. But I saw the Hillman Minx Series 3 (1691 PO) in a scrapyard a couple of weeks ago just about to go into the crusher it was in the state as shown on the video but once lifted it collapsed in the middle but I managed to save a lot of original parts which were rusty but cleaned up well the car had just over 55000 miles on the clock as I a so m restoring an exact same model that was helpful! The cars are slowly being removed and taken to the local scrapyard but these are only good for parts so are not kept out of the crusher for very long.

[@findafixing]

Really interesting to hear Brian. Good luck with the restoration and if you can share any details with other restorers, pop by findafixing.com .Cheers, Andy

[@-abacchus]

@@vickyblacktopp2432 This looks like Blackborough House (owned/previously owned by Ralph Sanders) in Devon.

[@dazcapri7004]

@@-abacchus Blackborough house was sold and cleared a couple of years ago

[@jaggass]

There is a canal near where i live and there is a big field next to it full of abandoned cars and vans. Id love to explore it but frightened that i might i get shot

[@davecollumbell4592]

Where about mate

[@hugopetrus34]

I can’t wait for them to go inside somewhere and find theciwner still living in one of these places

[@leebanks7957]

B540 UOW ✗ Untaxed Tax due: 19 January 1996

[@marktgsxr]

You gota remember that scrap cars used to be worthless,you couldnt give them away, this was just a dumping ground....

[@davidchandler9812]

The red tractors in the barn hadn't been left very long, there was no dust on them.

[@blair79bear38]

I saw that to. and when he walked around the shed you could see tractor tracks that disappear under the door. and not just a track or two but like its routinely used.

[@mendhamsmusicmoviesmovemen8075]

The Thee Wheeler I'm sure is Bond! Great stuff!

[@steveszuplewski9010]

It’s actually a Reliant

[@popkinson]

@@steveszuplewski9010 Reliant Regal Mk1 An old friend of mine had one and we managed to get over 60mph with five adults aboard. Very scary.

[@Darwinion]

@@popkinson Definitely not a MK1. More like a MK4, 5 or 6. There was very little differences between the marks at that point. But a MK1 is aluminium bodied and square looking. There's a white one in Beaulieu motor museum.

[@patriceguillemot5252]

Les vidéos sont toujours aussi belle merci. 🚘🏚👍♥️

[@richardphillips3303]

You really need to let the environment agency know about this place so they can stop all the fluids getting into the ground. Great video thanks.

[@ShockWaveGamings234fg321f]

Super minx at start of film. Amazing car

[@sirmugman]

poor things, look to mostly be 50's and 60's cars some pre 50's too all far to gone but what's left might yeld useful parts to others,

[@sidewayssam]

The white 3 wheeler is a bond mkf

[@ANDREW-oy2vh]

Great video/coverage. Excellent finds.

[@paulthomas3841]

it's nice to see the window haven't been broken

[@malcolmhutchison62]

Wish I had some land and could park a load of motors on and revisit years later looks absolutely amazing 👍

[@chrisround8372]

The fibre glass car is a bond. The grey panel van is a Bedford CA

[@fredfungalspore]

Oh Deer 😂...Rust in peace...🇬🇧

[@paulchearman6261]

great find ... fingers crossed it stays hidden

[@duncanpace4115]

Beautiful hd video and really interesting ! You did a great job !

[@RetroRatz]

As a true petrol head, was in heaven, but sadly so was all them cars Haha!

[@chubbyroyston3880]

You'll love this then how it should be done kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3fUqYCBZaqrZrc

[@paulwarren6105]

Work space needed.. I Need approx half to one acre of land for building a pole barn and siting a Polly tunnel. Can be rough - wooded (pref) whatever that needs clearing and work say but not a low lying/flood zone area.. Or a big pile of old building stones in half an acre plus. Land registry true & private treaty - Cash buyer if needed at a lower price.Thank you.

[@maxwellmc9734]

What we growing Bud..lol

[@paulwarren6105]

@@maxwellmc9734 Tiny Homes & sustainable veg grow..😉

[@Mossa64]

Amazing. Unfortunately, apart from glass and a few small interior items you'd be hard pushed to find anything to salvage on most of them.

[@LukeGB003]

The BMW at 10:41 hasn't been Taxed since 1990

[@Beemer917]

Those cars are probably sinking down atop some old Roman ruins or into an iron age barrow. Not even time team will be able to figure it out.

[@suzyqualcast6269]

I know an old now well overgrown 6ts yard in the SE. There's loads more than this there but very rusty. No, have no film but it's close to the edge of an old gravel pit/clay extraction pit and there's more than me knows about it. (this may be it, or one v.like). Isn't that white one one of them you could drive into a river.? Grey things a Bedford or a Thames van. Two tone greys a Connie. Triumph 1300 Dolomite in green. Big Vauxhall beside them. Thought saw a Citroën. On that trailer, whiten red strip - Vauxhall Cresta, Viva?

[@bigrichturbo25]

Fantastic video

[@robaspinall988]

the landrover and the nova looked almost intact you should have given them a closer look inside with the camra ..

[@geddonmeansome9834]

The car on the trailer , with all the ratchet straps ,is a Vauxhall Victor VX490 it was a sporty version with twin carbs , they did race them with limited success.

[@lewis72]

10:39 BMW 520 - CEX 179T. "~EX" was a Norwich plate. Don't think that that's an OE sunroof. Tax ran out/surrendered 25th July, 1990. 13:19 Nova - B540 UOW Last taxed Jan 1996. 20:36 Nova - E927 LOT SORN

[@xdsnipezfbrpromlgxxzzzxxx334]

Lewis72 if you fix up them novas you’ll be looking at selling them for £2000-£4000 each

[@lewis72]

@@xdsnipezfbrpromlgxxzzzxxx334 It'd be easy to spend that much fixing them up ! I'm not a fan.

[@xdsnipezfbrpromlgxxzzzxxx334]

Lewis72 Im not really but theyre worth abit

[@lewis72]

@@xdsnipezfbrpromlgxxzzzxxx334 Most cars in good condition of that age would be worth about that much. I've just seen an E plate Nova in excellent condition at a dealers for £2k, so you'd be lucky to get that as a private sale. I don't think there's much to be made financially even though it'd possibly be worth recommissioning if you wanted one.

[@poacher9118]

I wonder if anythings happened to the cars, that landy would be a lovely project.

[@matthewbrown2037]

Many of these must have been there for decades, in order to rot to that extent. It's hard to imagine all of these, at some point, were once people's brand new, shiny prides of joy, sat on their driveways. Many cars of this era were known for their tendency to rust, even when fairly well looked after. So when left for dead out in the wilderness, they have no chance. Apart from the more modern bits, like the Nova's, which probably aren't worth saving anyway, i don't think there was one classic car there that wasn't way past saving! Except that Land rover 109 at the end. Cool place.

[@chrispalmer9838]

The fibreglass 3 wheeler is an early Reliant Regal, or possibly a Bond Minicar. Both date from the 1950s. The ancestor of Del Trotter's van...

[@rubblejohnstone4460]

When my brother and I were little (many years ago) my dad had a hedge filled with old wrecks of cars he and his dad had owned. We would play in them for hours, man we drove one old rover I think it was round the world at least twice (in our imaginations)

[@faerieSAALE]

Just be careful when venturing into places like this - you never know who might be off their flipping rocker and insane and will attack you.

[@johnmasters504]

Tony Martin will catch him one day...

[@ImStokze]

Great video dude sad shame about the cars,

[@taz89ful]

those poor 2 novas :( :(

[@andrewhaines8603]

I think the Sherpa van is salvageable with a bit of T-Cut. NOT! There are still bits than can be salvaged if someone is willing to put the time in. Glass, trim, badges, lights etc. some interior stuff. Possibly some engine parts.

[@TUMBLINJEST]

was that a sherpa or a JU 250?

[@andrewhaines8603]

@@TUMBLINJEST definitely Sherpa. The double curve across the back is a dead giveaway! If memory serves me the JU250 was flatter in the rear doors apart from a small rounded body contour running across the doors depending on spec.

[@TheWacoKid1963]

@@andrewhaines8603 It's an Austin J4 or the BMC version, Rear doors of a Sherpa have larger door windows, As can be seen side by side here www.flickr.com/photos/23875695@N06/5820511101

[@andrewhaines8603]

@@TheWacoKid1963 I stand corrected. Completely forgot about that model! Sometimes the mists of time........... There was a time when you could tell what vehicle make and model you could see coming towards you, but now one would be hard pressed to!

[@hboorizza6439]

That BMW number plate was cool 5EX1

[@thewippit2400]

Them novas need saving 110% & the Barn with the Massey & international tractors in & landrover is 100% still used.. it’s an old boys collectors shed even had a fairly new green merlo telehandler in it defo still used

[@AndyP85]

At 2.58 I think that is this is a fibre glass it is three wheeler as it looks like there is no front wheel arch.. maybe an early Bond?

[@poljana]

Amazing place mate! Just found your channel, Sub'd and liked. Cheers from NJ

[@z0m123]

The owner must have some amazing stories about this place.

[@davecollumbell4592]

This wasn't a bad little explore the red nova wasn't there when I got there the white one was still

[@cruizzer77]

All those cars were pretty certainly in pretty bad nick when they got there, just old cars in their time. If we had them today in the condition they were then however they would pretty likely be very savable. I did a few lookups, the white Nova's last V5C was 1997, the blue BMW 520's was 1989 and the trailer onto which the Vauxhall VX was strapped was M83RTX which should be a blue 1995 Land Rover. The actual blue Land Rover DTP2C however had a V5C in 2013 so could have been the last driver of the people there. By the looks of it I'd guess that this yard hasn't been active for a long time and probably just accepted the other car now and then but the machinery in the shed and the tire tracks contradict this a bit.

[@marshalllucky]

some of these old classics would prob start if you had a battery :-O

[@YorkieLad]

And a couple of gallon of 4 star and there good to go

[@richardmounfield7822]

Probably easier to get some of these going than fixing a modern car with all their electrical gremlins

[@stumac869]

This what most cars from 1970s looked like when they reached 10 years of age, total rot boxes.

[@otman558]

This is true.

[@Witheredgoogie]

The problem was, they could not spot weld through painted or coated metal in those days, they had to have shiny metal to complete the electric arc, so all the joins had no protection all on the inside, although they did try to seal the outside.Then there was acid rain from coal burning to accelerate the rot process.

[@robertwillis4061]

Give it another 2 -3 years and some developer will have bulldozed the whole site and put 200+ houses on it

[@honeymonster5589]

F developers greedy bastards

[@craigymac5386]

That was a Hillman Hunter or Minx at 13.20, What a sad sight. It's a pity it couldn't be saved. 😥

[@alantraish3368]

I saw Triumph 2000s,Morris Oxford,Riley Rm , Austin Ju 250 vans, Austin A30 or A35? Would love to look there Maybe useful parts for someone if the owners can be found?

[@gijskovino5717]

Nice place