Thread: Scrapping S1 & yes, I am peeved-off

This makes me sick. Bastards.

The Land Rover wrecker down near the snowys who was prudent enough
to round up quite a few series Land Rovers. An offer was made from certain UK people to buy parts. He said that he runs a wrecking yard and if the people over here don't want to put their hand in their pocket he will sell to anyone whow will. and did. I have seen the aftermarth of the carnage to some early series chassis. Like he said "i run a wrecking yard and i got to eat too". Thats it ! Tough.........

Originally Posted by Lost Landy

Well its true we can not save every series 1 Land Rover built!
But I have heard of certian people from the UK coming over here & butchering up early landys including very early 80" haveing the parts shoved into a container & shipped back to the UK.
Hell the UK has some of the best repro parts avalable, leave our Landys be!
Yes the UK might be starved of good s/h parts but that doesnt condone useing the gas axe to cut out X members & out riggers form rust free 48/49 chassis, or to distroy complete & runing vehicles!
These people are no better then the scrap metal recyclers that do the same.

These people know who they are!

I have a very good mate in the Uk who has a large personal collection of Land rovers (in fact he is the second Largest Buyer Land rovers in the world )

he keeps on saying to me he will deliver a 40'container to my door for me to fill with S1 parts and cars and then he will get it sent back to him in the uk .

Dam PC playing tricks on me

But if they are being "parted out" it probably not as bad as they will help other Land Rovers live on.
I bought a Series 2a from a bloke on ebay. I had actually been outbid by a scrappy but the seller refused to let it go to him. He rang me as second bidder and we sealed the deal. He told me many scrappies keep their eye out for Land Rovers as the AL (at the time) was quite a high value. Meaning a rusty old S2 was worth AU$500 to $600 melted down.
I think the price of Al has dropped quite a bit since.

There is one of these UK based Land Rover rapists who has removed all the rust free firewalls from a complete set of Series 1's at Walters wrecking yard in Polo Flat NSW making the rest of the vehicle/s next to useless.

He regularly visits australia to rape and pillage any Land Rover he can find.

At the LR60 celebrations in Cooma he said to a Qld enthusiast that he would deliver a rear PTO to another LR enthusiast in Canberra. This PTO had a broken case but the gears were salvageable. Instead he put the PTO in his container, shipped it back to the UK and sold it.

Now I am without the gearset for my rear PTO because the enthusiast in Canberra needs it more than me.

How can you forget to deliver an assembly like that to a town so close to Cooma and how can you then ship it around the world and claim you forgot.

This person is worse than the scrappies, because I believe that he is a thief.

And be further aware that the overseas based profiteers are planning a raid on Australian stocks to be taken back overseas to be sold. It is also believed that Australian 'agents' are working on their behalf to secure such items. What they have done here will be further extended to all bits. I really do hope they become exposed by s1 enthis.

Like most people I'm unhappy about parts going overseas but :-

If it was an overseas enthusiast getting the parts while over here and shipping them back home it's one thing but if it's just a business venture then I'm less happy about it.
At the end of the day wreckers yards are a business and they will just sell to whoever pays the price they are asking.
While AULRO members continue to circulate finds in wreckers yards etc. there is more chance of the parts staying in Australia although if someone from overseas latches onto a wrecker and offers him higher than the local market prices then the overseas sales will continue.

Leading up to the Olympics, when steel prices were at their highest the father-in-law went into one of the wreckers in Dandenong that specialised in old Lancruisers. He couldn't get the part he needed because every single one in the yard had been scrapped. The wrecker had trouble sitting down because his wallet was so fat ! He made more money on each car than he ever would by parting them out over a few years.

Unfortunately 'running a business', greed, wanting to make a buck or whatever you want to call it means this practice will continue.

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank those people on the forum who pass on details of 'finds' offer parts to fellow members (often free) and offer on the forum before putting on Ebay.


Colin