I often have a look around my local scrapyard looking for bits for my car but have you noticed how hard it is to find the old mk3 mk4 escorts nowadays. It seems that if a scrappy round my erea gets hold one they automatically crush them I recently found an old xr3i and had a couple of bits off it then when i came back to get some more they had already crushed it I realy think it criminal doing that! parts are getting harder and harder to get hold of nowadays and all them pefectly good bits have now gone forever This car had an almost pefect gun metal grey body shell with no visible rust i could see! the reason it was in the scrappy was the engine had overheated and probably killed it. It realy makes me sad that alot of scrappys dont see the worth in keeping them anymore.

 

Plenty in my local, 2 ghias in there at the moment, an XR3i, RS turbo shell, few estates, cabriolet with good shell, coupe of vans and al the usual Xl's. They seem to scrap the Pop's and Bonus's really quickly though

 

Its good to here some scrappys still keep them. The ones i generally go to only keep the newer cars and crush the rest for scrap

 

heres one for you, xr4i 1 owner from new, mint, been in a garage for 2 1/2 years after the owner passed away and the old lady scrapped it as she was selling up

 

Not mint anymore

 

Indeed they are getting scarce, theres always shitloads in the local scrap yards around here but i am noticing them starting to disappear, especially XR's and Ghia's

That sierra

 

heres another heartbreaking one

 

NEVER

ive never even seen an RS in a scrap yard let alone that many at the same time

 

why o why cant i find scrappys like that!!

 

Dittoooooooo

I would make a killing on eBay

 

Closest I've got to finding an RS in the scrappy was finding a 1.3 with a dodgy fibreglass RST kit and Cossie bumpers.

 

You should have had the kit and put it on yours lol

Where you been hiding then

 

In the process of buying a place to live so not been about much. Should be on here loads though once we've moved in as I'll have no money left to actually spend on the cars

 

Put a mattress in the boot!

Live in the car

Everyones a winner

 

shit the bed, 3 rs's in one place. i've managed to find one rs turbo in a scrapyard near me. was nearly stipped though apart from bodywork.
i needed a window off it so came back the next day to find a load of poles were stripping the car for all bodykit doors and windows
managed to find a 3i ina scrappers down the road though

 

Where is that scrappy with the turbos in

 

if you look at the plates the one on the top of the pile is the sae one as in the bottom pic, but bloody hel 3 S1's and 2 s2's in a scrap yard!!! where the fuck is that!!!

 

fook me

 

didnt get a pic(not sure if that was west drayton car spares there, in middlesex myself) but i saw 2 white series 2's that i clambered upon to find bits and also 2 s1's although one was going to be restored by the scrappy owners ford nutter son and the other was stolen recovery.

 

wow esrst owners heaven!!!!

 

At least you can find some RSTurbos or some other cars at the scrapyards in UK

 

not up in north east of scotland you can't

 

In whole Germany either...

 

Ive saw one S1 in a scrappy, came back an most of it was gone got a few bits off it, and an S2 the other day in another, had been in a smash tho and was sold

 

In the meantime, you'd be lucky to find any MkIV Escort here...

 

the cars i raped for bits

black one under the s1 was mostley gone and there was another front ended one on the left wich u cant see

 

bargain had by all

 

pier must of been pissed i fawt it was christmas

 

its not a got subject to talk to him about

 

tru

 

Change that to "the rest of Europe".....

Not a nice view though but it was helpfull when you could find some "normal" Mk4's at the scrap...... That's history unfortunately.

 

wait a few years... it will be easier then to find MK4 than to find MK5... they rust more

But it's also got hard to find Fiesta MK2 parts. I'm glad that i've got nearly a whole second car in my garage in parts

 

Very true!

 

Seen quite a few mk2 fiesta xr2 in my local scrappy

 

few in my ends to some times

 

man they must have been nicked most rs end up in specialist rs breakers

 

one place i went had a mk3 xr3i, which i managed to get the box out of as a spare for my S1. round the corner was a mk3 black rs16i
managed to get the center speaker console grid and 2 plastic kick sills, when i went back to ask if the shell was up for grabs (it was good cond apart from bent front apron, it was chrushed

 

If I'd have seen those S1 RST's in there I'd have bought them all!

 

to many people strip them now thats what ebay does for u in blackpool some of the scapyards get them and guess what they put them up for auction on ebay

 

Only ever seen one rs in my local scrappy! was a fooking rotton s1,came back a day later and the thing was down to a bare shell!!!