Used to love the smell of P38 , castrol R , Red X ,
Fond memories. The only things you paid for at the 'scrappy' were things that were too big to stuff into the pockets of the very large coat you were wearing. They used to laugh their (c)socks off as you walked in and jumped back a mile as the Alsation lunged at you, thankfully held back by a thick chain.
I think its a shame the last 30 years has seen the demise of the car accessory shops ( not your Halfords shiiite ) there used to be some really good ones , i think the reason being Manufacturers started specking some cars a bit different from the norm , hence our lethargic younger generations got sucked in with easy credit to want it and buy and have now must have. Was a common site to guys working on cars outside their houses etc , Kids are conscious now not to have the latest whatever gizmo including cars , all they seem to do is add a heinz bean can to the exhaust and they think they are Lewis Hamilton , perhaps now credit will get tight , car manufacturers will struggle to down size and remodel, and with any luck Brexit will put high tarriffs on European imported cars , i would love to see a new generation mucking about with Carlos Fantango wheels , scoops to handle the added twin choke webbers etc , great fun days and appreciating the monster you had created , whilst everyone else thought you were a dick lol.
Car accessory shops priced themselves out of the industry with the rise of e-commerce. The Fast and the Furious came out in 2001 and as a near direct result the car accessory industry had a huge boom... Thankfully most of the fads it brought in have died.
Sure the advent of fuel injection has meant that people tend not to work on their cars anymore. Along with the increase of wealth and thus the growth of the fast fit industry and abundance of garages has meant that it is more convenient for people to get servicing done for them. Majority of us live a lifestyle of convenience... I suppose wrenching on your own car is down to it either being a hobby or necessity (i.e. can't afford to pay someone to do it which we might see a lot of in the next year or two)
Ahhhh... Scrappy pocket fillers, I'm sure we all miss those; possibly my best was finding a centre console for my 1600E MkIII Cortina and paying for the console but not the four Smiths clocks from it that were all secreted about my person!
Well I remember the wobbly stacks of cars and total lack of safety in the 6" deep oily mud. Last couple around here ended up with customer counters and they would send their lads into the yard to get bits for you. The last couple off Ship Rd, Stock have now been cleared to make way for the new UK HQ of the Jehovah's Witnesses!
Newton dont get me started on churches and cult organisations .........................thats a whole other thread lol
the amount of times I've been tempted to stop when passing a scrappy when abroad on hols has been unbearable, especially when noticing some fairly nice classics, not worth the death wish with the mrs on tow though
thread drift, just came across this, if I didn't have the giulietta project this would have been it possibly, these little lotuses are now fetching top money and seems like an easy project for anyone interested, note to self, stop looking on ebay ffs
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