Aussie Junkyard Gold

We venture through the Northern Auto Wreckers on one of their last days in business and Benny takes us through some history, speculations and bizarre fun facts.

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[fgialcgorge]

Man, I love junkyards. They're like an amusement park for gearheads.

[mitchellpatterson]

I'd watch an entire series if Benny just wandering through wrecking yards and giving knowledge dumps. This is beautiful automotive archaelology.

[HazeyAuto]

Benny channeling an Aussie Steve Magnante telling stories on all these old locally sold legends. Love it.

[BroomysGarage]

Could watch this all day long 👌🏻 Still love losing hours walking local junkyards looking for hidden gems.

[andrewrigg]

You may also remember the old ford laser Carla Zampatti edition. Great video down memory lane. These kinds of wreckers have always been my happy place.

[BorkenGarage]

18:20 - That definitely looks like a Bluebird dash, did 1000's of K's in my Grandpa's back in the day. The economy gauge was based on vacuum pressure, so the more beans you gave it, the less economy you got.

[pieflies]

The 280zx would have had an L28E or L28TE, so you were pretty spot on with your guess.

[rhettcorbett]

Awesome. It is Junkyard Gold. And that is what is so good about driving in the country. Playing 'Spotto'.

[AdrianM]

The Pulsar Reebok also came with a pair of Reebok's 👍There is actually one for sale on Gumtree complete with the shoes

[blairhallinan]

Your knowledge or cars is amazing.

As someone who does still have a mini ute 100% those mu were cut up to be used on mini trucks

[wurlyone]

Love this video.
These kind of breakers yards are absolute gems for those of us running properly old rare cars. Can easily spend hours doing just what you've done - walking round just looking at stuff!

Those kind of sections at the bottom of the windscreen would be used in the UK due to rot at the bottom of the screen and in the front scuttle panel (common rust areas on anything up to late 90s).

The other sections people have cut, they may not have cut/shut the other car the same extent, but it's easier/quicker to take the large section from the breakers and then pick apart the smaller panels you need when you're back home doing.

[jeepnutscotty]

Some of them old 70s Datsuns were shipped to Australia on the top deck of the ship itself, packing as many inside and out as they could, the ones on deck getting covered in saltwater waves for a couple of weeks, given a quick wash on the docks here and sent to dealers, and why they rusted like you pointed out, even on the roof. 200B’s being the worst affected

[notold]

I used to love walking around wreckers yards, that was freaking brilliant, cheers Benny

[LV-FOURTWENTYSIX]

I love wandering the wrecking yard just to imagine the stories the cars could tell.

[ondrejhybler]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Benny. I used to get so many Volvo parts from there over the years. They also had so many Japanese cars there. I remember seeing a Datsun 240K there a good 15 years ago. They used to sell cars as well out the front. It's a shame that so many of these kinds of wrecking yards are gone now. I used to go to Pick and Payless as well for many many years.

[nickgalea]

Grew up like 10 minutes from there, both there and the Pick and Payless wreckers in Blacktown used to be absolute goldmines for parts and project cars back in the late 90's and early 2000's. So many cars I wish I'd bought as projects from both yards back in the day. The big one I remember was a XW Fairmont with a 302 Windsor that was pretty straight, rust free and complete.

[someyoungguy]

Ah that brings back some memories. Seeing all the old cars kinda feels like catching up with old mates!!

[arcopierik]

I love these kind of videos, when I watch this it doesn't matter where you are in the world the junkyard is everywhere slowly disappearing .Here and there you can still see an old-fashioned scrap yard, but most of them have become modern car dismantling companies or simply disappeared. I spent hours wandering around the scrapyards in the area.
Now my eldest son, 20 years old, has been working at a scrapyard for about 2 and a half years now. The most common complaint from him and his boss is exactly what you say. For a €2.50 switch, people would demolish more than €200 worth of dashboard and other parts. That is why he often goes on site for customers to dismantle the parts designated by them.Because he is the only mechanic who does this, customers regularly come to the site who demolish more than necessary.This makes it increasingly difficult for well-intentioned customers to find parts themselves.
Here in the Netherlands we almost only see European and Japanese cars on the scrap yard.That's why I like seeing scrapyards in other countries.

[bradleysmith]

G'day Benny i used to go to this wreckers most weekends when i was a young bloke to keep my old HR holden on the road and they used to sell the better cars in a yard out the front to the side which i did buy a couple of cars from them, loved seeing this, brings back a lot of great memories.

[FixTechStuff]

Brings back memories of my childhood, walking barefoot in the wreckers standing on surprisingly not sharp shattered window glass and helping dad get parts for the Kingswood.