Last time I saw a Crown Vic in UK was near Belfast, sheriffs car outside a Harley Davidson dealers. Never going to be used on UK roads I suspect as it still had US or US style plates on it, no UK or NI plates. Some TGI Fridays used to have other Yank Tanks outside but they will be long gone now.
24:43 - I know what you mean, places like this are such a bittersweet vibe where you're glad for all the donor parts helping keep other cars on the road, but you're sad for those poor vehicles which ended up there, most of which might have been saveable at the time with the right person to step in.
I'm really pleased for you. Got what you needed. Many years ago in 2002 I bought a 1986 Volvo 740 GLE estate for £425. My first car. A B230K Carb model with red interior with various broken door trim bits. Went to my Local old School breakers yard and bought a 940 electric sunroof motor, cover and switch to convert my manual sunroof to electric. A few months later stopped off again and asked them if any 740's were due in and said yes any minute! Sure enough a 1987 740 Turbo Diesel estate came on a transporter. Asked the guy what interior colour is it. Red!! Unloaded it and I had all the door pull trims and mirrors off it! Got everything to repair my car! Was so chuffed and all very cheap.
Matt....I felt I was with you! We have many U-Pull yards here in America. I LOVE going! It's about 25 years of memories for me! The fun part is I learn how to remove the parts on a "junk" car and not mine! Some of our yards have a printed price list instead of wondering how much the guys are going to charge! Yes, I have said to myself as well, " I'm wet and I stink"!
5:32 The old truck looks like a Dodge 100 "Kew". They're featured in an old black & white film called 'Hell Drivers'. At the time of sending this message the full movie is here on YT (that's how I saw it). If you get chance do watch it, it's quite entertaining (some famous actors are in it).
Matt, the 1st gen XC90 does NOT have air suspension but the rear dampers are the Nivomat self levelling ones. That was quite the haul with all those parts. It is always easier the 2nd time round whne liberatring parts.
A very excited Matt!! Glad you found those wings! Note that green is not factory, there is green paint over rubbers, door wiring conduits & door lock mechanism screws. All these things are fitted after it’s painted. Likely it was white originally. That Crown Vic has had a life that’s for sure.
Great restraint shown there. I'd have picked them bad boys to the carcass. Might be the last time you will see a 'vic in a scrap yard over here. Shame that second one came with the rare option of an in car pond.
The lime green is a NYC taxi cab colour serving the higher parts of Manhattan. Police do use them to look like taxis. You see them parked in front of the police stations from time to time
Well done Matt on getting what you 'needed'. It's a tough one from my old memories of getting parts from a breakers yard thinking along the lines of what is good and what you really can make use of but that common sense valve has to open at some point and say enough is enough (which is usually more than you need) and step away. Here's looking forward to some more Crown Vic tinkering. I think you need to set up an 8mm socket adoption site though given the ones that escaped into the wild on your trips. Many thanks for sharing.
Nice little haul there Matt! Look forward to seeing your Vic with the centre caps...never been a massive fan of the wheel covers really though nice to have originality! Quite surprised the RR isn't ULEZ but is low miles and an HSE too.
Your second Crown Vic, the one changed from green to yellow, is simply explained. There are two types of "Yellow" cabs, the original ones, which are yellow and can go all over the city, and the Green ones. Those are limited to pickups in the outer boroughs (Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island). They can pick up in the outer boroughs and drop off in Manhattan, but have to go back to the outer boroughs without a paid fare. Once out of Manhattan, they are the same, just painted green. These are a bit younger than my days as a "hack". We had the Checker Cabs, which all the fares really enjoyed...
@@furiousdriving It still is, and what with the Uber and Lyft cars also all over the city, it's hard for a cabbie to make a living. The only advantage the yellow and green cabs have is they can pick up off the street. That's not as much of an advantage as it once was...
Tgi 01....those wheels! I bet it was difficult not taking loads more! I miss the days of being able to clamber over cars in a scrappy. Bloody elf and safety. When it comes to taking tools to any situation take them all! As an aside am sure matt Armstrong will be importing something from the USA again soon! Get him to wang some bits in the crate for you! Cheers mat great video.
Glad you found out about those cars. You bought what you needed. Great I. I thing i would have, "Stretched" the budget a little more. To have a spare alternator in stock and maybe some relays, from the fuse box. Cheers. see you in the next one. 👍👍
I used to do scrap salvage in summer only. But at least you got what you wanted urgently, with cars as rare as that, one has to move quick to be in like Flynn.
My favourite scrap yard, been getting bits from there for years. Nice chaps to deal with, even gave me a bottle of ice cold orange juice when I was getting some mini wheels in the baking summer heat. The Vic's are in the bit you don't normal get to go in when your picking your own parts.
What a great 'find' knowing when to stop 'just one more bitting' is an art when it comes to your car in a scrappers and yes they're always nicer than your own one.
Wow a result someone letting you know about the vics in a scrapper. Really impressed with the metal on this US ford unlike there European cousin. Same age euro ford would have completely rusted out. Late Cortinas and Sierras were reasonably thick steel unlike Focus bean tin thick. Hope you found your 8mm socket. Great video.
I've spend many an hour removing stuff from cars in Smiths Yard over the years. Recently I've sent a couple of cars into that yard, one of which had a load of parts on it that came out of the yard a few years earlier
Back in the 70/80s , the American air base, was at upper heyford , around 10 miles from where you were today , they even made houses for the Americans in Bicester around the corner from me , there was hundreds of American families living over here back then , but now all gone
I am beyond fortunate that my Crown Vic is in excellent condition. Little bits of rust on the bottom of the passenger door, some on the trunk. But underneath it’s almost mint. Absolutely love these cars. Mine is a 2011 in dark blue. Absolutely LOVE your green! That Crown Vic in the yard was not a fleet car, that definitely seems like something a “fan” created
That’s what I thought. Does NYC still offer that? It’s been a decade since I’ve been in New York. I thought they terminated that program, which would be why it was painted back to yellow.
@@seanharvey1250 definitely still green cabs, just not many and I think they've moved to a new system so won't be any new ones. If it was changed to yellow in the US it could have been because it was under a new permit covering the city. Or maybe it was changed in the UK to look more iconic?
That is a regular Crown Victoia, as it has the keypad on the driver's door. Also, the trunk release is not on the dash; the genuine taxi P74 can have longer rear doors. The second is an ex-police, who could have been a fire chief car at an airport with the day-glo green.If the steering wheel has a cruise control steer buttons, it's worth $500, but it will work in all the later ones with a twink of a laptop, it will engage cruise, which was disabled from the factory, but it's in the system.you should of took the ashtrays, they are getting hard to find, $150
I remember in the early 90s helping a friend at art college find a couple of Caprices to help her decorate a wine bar. When I went down there later to see what she’d achieved the taxi had been sliced in half and mounted on the wall. The police one, don’t know if it was a genuine 9C1, had survived and was in a corner behind barriers. About ten years later I saw it again, cut in half and mounted on the outside of a church that had been converted into a nightclub 😢
Excellent find and well done on your perseverance, did you grab a starter and alternator while you were there, they and many other parts/sensors etc might have been good toy get for spares while they are available, especially off the one you know started..
Glad you were able to find some! From what I can tell the first yellow taxi one stared life as a P74 civilian LX model (98-02) that was converted to a taxi. Some signs are that it has the chrome grille, door key pad, electric ac controls, and the original white color. The taxi designation I think was P70/P7A which was the long wheelbase model. Shame it wasn’t in great condition. This is most likely why your key did not work with it.
That green looks a bit like National Park Service green.... might have been an urban Park Ranger's car. Who knows! Actually surprised there are so many metric nuts and bolts on that American Ford! Surprised those all weren't 3/8 or 1/4 inch...
Those Crown Victoria Taxis will help keep other Crown Victoria's on the road and removing those mud guards was a lot cheaper than importing new guards from the USA
The first one is a very nicely spec'd civilian model. Almost certainly not born to be a taxi, but yeah, a lot of the civilian ones got traded in and bought by cabbies. It's got auto headlights... I don't really know what it would take to mod in those to yours. I bet I could find out, though.
If that alfa romeo gt is the version with the diesel engine. It should be the same as the one in your 159. But also watched a video a while ago. Where the engine is the same in the vectra.
Yes my local TGI Fridays had one like this parked outside for a while but inevitably people jumped on the roof and the tyres went flat and it looked a right old mess so off to the scrappies it went 😢
Great finds , a fews years ago i knew a bloke that imported 12 of these cabs , he was going to turn some into the taxi film replica's but never did and they just sat rotting in a field
My Great Granded imported a load of old Buicks into Margate on the basis that ' he would have every taxi driver using one and he would be the only person who could supply spares from the cars he dismantled'
Sure at my TGI Fridays before it closed it was a Chevvy Taxi amd not a crown vic but it was a pretty rough example even when TGI's opened a few years back. A great Haul, do you think Jason wants a LPG powered Range Rover and how is he getting on with his Range Rover.
Moments after you said “this has the digital dashboard” the light changed and the analog dashboard was clearly visible. I miss rummaging around scrap yards.
@ ah yes I see what you mean now. I bought a car from that era with a full digital dashboard and it seemed like a great idea for the first hour or two.
I love the Alfa GT, but here in Ireland it's €600 to tax it for the year(cheaper if U go for 3 r 6 months, but overall if U go that way its actually more) still a very beautiful car!😢
Despite all the "Cleaning Up" of yards - it's interesting to know that the old school brambles and mud experience is still a thing! I remember at one of the (Paddock Wood) yards you would be jumping between the wheels and tyres that were soaked into the mud for some solidity! I remember back in 2007 the Pound Dollar exchange rate was such that everything in the U.S was half price.
Out of curiosity, what scrapyard was this. I ask, as this very car used to be outside the restaurant I used to work at. In fact, on my interview, they were putting the tyres on as they had all gone flat. It used to be outside TGI Fridays in MK Stadium, then I believe relocated to Northamptons TGI Fridays, and then that closed late last year, and I guess it was since scrapped. A shame
@@furiousdrivingJust watched the vid, surprisingly it is neither. The one at my old job was an older model, the shape before I believe! If you type in Google 'TGI Fridays Milton Keynes taxi' the car comes up. I wonder where this one ended up, being an earlier spec, it would make it even rarer!
Matt I had a horrible dream last night. You pulled out of a junction without looking and were struck in the O/S and received a bruised hip. Maybe it's an omen, please take care at junctions 😊 (I was a bit annoyed, you ignored me and kept talking to a traffic warden, it was a very frustrating dream)
@@furiousdriving Think they were all apple green apart from the famous yellow medallion taxis? I'm basing a lot of this on my 1/64 Greenlight Crown Vic collection😅
Be Glad you aren't here today 5 inches of Snow, and a wind chill of minus 1 degree F, Outdoor disassembly Cancelled... bloody lucky find however, Like a Unicorn in a Zoo....
I am so jealous. I can't tell you how long it's been since you were allowed in a junkyard with tools to take off what you need here in the states. They do all the work wrap it up and of course it costs you a metric shit town of money more.
Matt, With the greatest of respect it seems to me that every time I watch one of your videos, there is always a point where you say " I didn't bring that spanner, socket, screwdriver, impact driver, saw, drill, etcetc or "I've left it in the barn, shed, house, lent it to a friend etcetc " Why dont you speak to those nice people at Draper and see if they would support a video where you consolidate, organise and find an emergency toolkit, a service toolkit, a full workshop toolkit etc, it's incredibly frustrating to watch you struggle and I'm just a viewer. You know you have most of the appropriate tools because you mention them, tidy up, speak to draper and maybe have content for another video. Regards
Amused American here. The flip side of this is our restaurants using black London cabs for decor.
Last time I saw a Crown Vic in UK was near Belfast, sheriffs car outside a Harley Davidson dealers. Never going to be used on UK roads I suspect as it still had US or US style plates on it, no UK or NI plates. Some TGI Fridays used to have other Yank Tanks outside but they will be long gone now.
The taxi with the dent in the roof was outside TGI Fridays on Telford Town Centre until recently, I believe.
Been vandalised by some prat unfortunately....
24:43 - I know what you mean, places like this are such a bittersweet vibe where you're glad for all the donor parts helping keep other cars on the road, but you're sad for those poor vehicles which ended up there, most of which might have been saveable at the time with the right person to step in.
Reminds me of happy days 40 years ago spent climbing up cars stacked three high for 'treasure'. Health and safety? Never heard of in those days.
Your excitement is palpable!
can see your genuine enthusiasm - i'm the same in a scrapyard when i find a useful part :)
I'm really pleased for you. Got what you needed. Many years ago in 2002 I bought a 1986 Volvo 740 GLE estate for £425. My first car. A B230K Carb model with red interior with various broken door trim bits. Went to my Local old School breakers yard and bought a 940 electric sunroof motor, cover and switch to convert my manual sunroof to electric. A few months later stopped off again and asked them if any 740's were due in and said yes any minute! Sure enough a 1987 740 Turbo Diesel estate came on a transporter. Asked the guy what interior colour is it. Red!! Unloaded it and I had all the door pull trims and mirrors off it! Got everything to repair my car! Was so chuffed and all very cheap.
Matt....I felt I was with you! We have many U-Pull yards here in America. I LOVE going! It's about 25 years of memories for me! The fun part is I learn how to remove the parts on a "junk" car and not mine! Some of our yards have a printed price list instead of wondering how much the guys are going to charge! Yes, I have said to myself as well, " I'm wet and I stink"!
It's good you managed to find parts for the Vicky in the UK - hope you can make good use of them.
5:32 The old truck looks like a Dodge 100 "Kew". They're featured in an old black & white film called 'Hell Drivers'. At the time of sending this message the full movie is here on YT (that's how I saw it). If you get chance do watch it, it's quite entertaining (some famous actors are in it).
Ive seen it a couple of times, they do look familiar to that now you mention it
It’s a Ford Thames ET6 or 7 with a Flathead V8 😢
Matt, the 1st gen XC90 does NOT have air suspension but the rear dampers are the Nivomat self levelling ones. That was quite the haul with all those parts. It is always easier the 2nd time round whne liberatring parts.
One man scrap is another man GOLD.
A very excited Matt!! Glad you found those wings! Note that green is not factory, there is green paint over rubbers, door wiring conduits & door lock mechanism screws. All these things are fitted after it’s painted. Likely it was white originally. That Crown Vic has had a life that’s for sure.
Really is the way of breakers yards, taking parts from a surprisingly good car to put on one that's stitched together
Great restraint shown there. I'd have picked them bad boys to the carcass. Might be the last time you will see a 'vic in a scrap yard over here.
Shame that second one came with the rare option of an in car pond.
The lime green is a NYC taxi cab colour serving the higher parts of Manhattan. Police do use them to look like taxis. You see them parked in front of the police stations from time to time
What a result a good days work and a good money saver too greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
These were parked outside branches of TGI Fridays as ornaments. There was one outside the Telford restaurant which was pretty rough.
With TGI Fridays going bust you may find more of these in scrap yards in the near future. There's a very sad looking one outside the one in Sheffield.
most have already disappeared now
I’ve passed the one on Sheffield many times.
The ones in States may get a buyout….no Crown Vic’s at our ones though unless it’s a customer come to have dinner.
Great find Matt.
Well done Matt on getting what you 'needed'. It's a tough one from my old memories of getting parts from a breakers yard thinking along the lines of what is good and what you really can make use of but that common sense valve has to open at some point and say enough is enough (which is usually more than you need) and step away. Here's looking forward to some more Crown Vic tinkering. I think you need to set up an 8mm socket adoption site though given the ones that escaped into the wild on your trips. Many thanks for sharing.
Nice little haul there Matt!
Look forward to seeing your Vic with the centre caps...never been a massive fan of the wheel covers really though nice to have originality!
Quite surprised the RR isn't ULEZ but is low miles and an HSE too.
What an epic job, Matt! That chrome grille was nice too
Omg i love this, I would love to go there one day. Great find!
Your second Crown Vic, the one changed from green to yellow, is simply explained. There are two types of "Yellow" cabs, the original ones, which are yellow and can go all over the city, and the Green ones. Those are limited to pickups in the outer boroughs (Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island). They can pick up in the outer boroughs and drop off in Manhattan, but have to go back to the outer boroughs without a paid fare. Once out of Manhattan, they are the same, just painted green. These are a bit younger than my days as a "hack". We had the Checker Cabs, which all the fares really enjoyed...
Thanks, I didn’t know about the green outer borough cabs! Must have been annoying getting a fare into Manhattan and having a long drive back out
@@furiousdriving It still is, and what with the Uber and Lyft cars also all over the city, it's hard for a cabbie to make a living. The only advantage the yellow and green cabs have is they can pick up off the street. That's not as much of an advantage as it once was...
Not a taxi; that’s a standard LX trim. It never served as a NYC taxi, I assure you. Movie car, perhaps.
Tgi 01....those wheels! I bet it was difficult not taking loads more! I miss the days of being able to clamber over cars in a scrappy. Bloody elf and safety. When it comes to taking tools to any situation take them all! As an aside am sure matt Armstrong will be importing something from the USA again soon! Get him to wang some bits in the crate for you! Cheers mat great video.
The wheels on that first taxi are lovely!
Glad you found out about those cars. You bought what you needed. Great I. I thing i would have, "Stretched" the budget a little more. To have a spare alternator in stock and maybe some relays, from the fuse box. Cheers. see you in the next one. 👍👍
I used to do scrap salvage in summer only. But at least you got what you wanted urgently, with cars as rare as that, one has to move quick to be in like Flynn.
My favourite scrap yard, been getting bits from there for years. Nice chaps to deal with, even gave me a bottle of ice cold orange juice when I was getting some mini wheels in the baking summer heat.
The Vic's are in the bit you don't normal get to go in when your picking your own parts.
Great find Matt 😊👍
When I read the video titled, for a moment I was worried you were referring to YOUR Crown Vic in the scrap yard. Phew!
Thank u that was good entertainment
What a great 'find' knowing when to stop 'just one more bitting' is an art when it comes to your car in a scrappers and yes they're always nicer than your own one.
Wow a result someone letting you know about the vics in a scrapper. Really impressed with the metal on this US ford unlike there European cousin. Same age euro ford would have completely rusted out. Late Cortinas and Sierras were reasonably thick steel unlike Focus bean tin thick. Hope you found your 8mm socket.
Great video.
I've spend many an hour removing stuff from cars in Smiths Yard over the years. Recently I've sent a couple of cars into that yard, one of which had a load of parts on it that came out of the yard a few years earlier
The circle of life
Back in the 70/80s , the American air base, was at upper heyford , around 10 miles from where you were today , they even made houses for the Americans in Bicester around the corner from me , there was hundreds of American families living over here back then , but now all gone
I am beyond fortunate that my Crown Vic is in excellent condition. Little bits of rust on the bottom of the passenger door, some on the trunk.
But underneath it’s almost mint. Absolutely love these cars.
Mine is a 2011 in dark blue. Absolutely LOVE your green!
That Crown Vic in the yard was not a fleet car, that definitely seems like something a “fan” created
Would love to see you do some junk yard walk arounds!!
Another great video has always Matt and family hope you can get the paint to match 👍
Taxis in the outer boroughs of Nyc are green.
That green might be a 'boro taxi'. The 5 boroughs of NYC, the green ones can't pick up in Manhattan but they can drop you off there.
That’s what I thought. Does NYC still offer that? It’s been a decade since I’ve been in New York. I thought they terminated that program, which would be why it was painted back to yellow.
@@seanharvey1250 definitely still green cabs, just not many and I think they've moved to a new system so won't be any new ones. If it was changed to yellow in the US it could have been because it was under a new permit covering the city. Or maybe it was changed in the UK to look more iconic?
That is a regular Crown Victoia, as it has the keypad on the driver's door. Also, the trunk release is not on the dash; the genuine taxi P74 can have longer rear doors. The second is an ex-police, who could have been a fire chief car at an airport with the day-glo green.If the steering wheel has a cruise control steer buttons, it's worth $500, but it will work in all the later ones with a twink of a laptop, it will engage cruise, which was disabled from the factory, but it's in the system.you should of took the ashtrays, they are getting hard to find, $150
I remember in the early 90s helping a friend at art college find a couple of Caprices to help her decorate a wine bar. When I went down there later to see what she’d achieved the taxi had been sliced in half and mounted on the wall. The police one, don’t know if it was a genuine 9C1, had survived and was in a corner behind barriers. About ten years later I saw it again, cut in half and mounted on the outside of a church that had been converted into a nightclub 😢
I use that scrapyard it's hour and half away from me some good old cars in there and macd's always good
What a find, you must have thought Christmas had come early 😂
Excellent find and well done on your perseverance, did you grab a starter and alternator while you were there, they and many other parts/sensors etc might have been good toy get for spares while they are available, especially off the one you know started..
The scavengers code should apply in scrapyards, you only take what you need.
Tbh i would take that dented fender, You could pop it back into shape if its solid.
I was shouting at the screen take the both wings off the taxi, I'd use the 2 good taxi wings and sack off the p71 one with the rust.
Glad you were able to find some! From what I can tell the first yellow taxi one stared life as a P74 civilian LX model (98-02) that was converted to a taxi. Some signs are that it has the chrome grille, door key pad, electric ac controls, and the original white color. The taxi designation I think was P70/P7A which was the long wheelbase model. Shame it wasn’t in great condition. This is most likely why your key did not work with it.
It was definitely a civilian model, so had a unique rather than fleet key, but had been in great condition before scrapping
Would a taxi, particularly an NYC one, have had a partition fitted between the seats?
I'd love to see you pulling that low mileage V8 from that Crown Vic!
That green looks a bit like National Park Service green.... might have been an urban Park Ranger's car. Who knows!
Actually surprised there are so many metric nuts and bolts on that American Ford! Surprised those all weren't 3/8 or 1/4 inch...
Those Crown Victoria Taxis will help keep other Crown Victoria's on the road and removing those mud guards was a lot cheaper than importing new guards from the USA
The first one is a very nicely spec'd civilian model. Almost certainly not born to be a taxi, but yeah, a lot of the civilian ones got traded in and bought by cabbies. It's got auto headlights... I don't really know what it would take to mod in those to yours. I bet I could find out, though.
If that alfa romeo gt is the version with the diesel engine. It should be the same as the one in your 159. But also watched a video a while ago. Where the engine is the same in the vectra.
Yes my local TGI Fridays had one like this parked outside for a while but inevitably people jumped on the roof and the tyres went flat and it looked a right old mess so off to the scrappies it went 😢
Great finds , a fews years ago i knew a bloke that imported 12 of these cabs , he was going to turn some into the taxi film replica's but never did and they just sat rotting in a field
That’s sad. Are they still there?
My Great Granded imported a load of old Buicks into Margate on the basis that ' he would have every taxi driver using one and he would be the only person who could supply spares from the cars he dismantled'
rear lights with yellow bit
Where was the Cadilac...?
Wow always like looking around scrap yard, but then one just has to leave lol
lol, California scrap yards I’m tripping over rows of those horrible things 😂
Great finds. Hard work but no postage and packing
The one outside our Telford TGI’s has just gone so that could be in a scrap yard somewhere
Yep, it's the one of the cars in this video (the originally white one)
A case of Trunk in the Junk.
Sure at my TGI Fridays before it closed it was a Chevvy Taxi amd not a crown vic but it was a pretty rough example even when TGI's opened a few years back.
A great Haul, do you think Jason wants a LPG powered Range Rover and how is he getting on with his Range Rover.
His is due for a mot and it’s got a few lights on so the lpg one looks tempting!
wonder if they had been used for filming over here
They were outside restaurants
Well done for tracking these down. One thing I find bizarre is the use of Metric fixings in an American built vehicle, odd.
They’re built in Canada, and post 2000 so guess thats why
It does seem strange to see huge American cars in European scrapyards.
Happy hunting Mr Furious, hope you find all of the parts you need❤.
did you see my msg about the horizontal bolt on the Alfa?Did you remove thast one, I couldn't see.
yes, that was taken out
@@furiousdriving the one behind /between the pulleys,? ahh sound! as you were then fellow!
In that case it's time to put as alfa petrol engine in it, an Alfa should never have a diesel lump.
You need that R8, NO YOU NEED THAT R8.
It had sold when I went back 2 days later!
Moments after you said “this has the digital dashboard” the light changed and the analog dashboard was clearly visible. I miss rummaging around scrap yards.
Digital odometer is more accurate
@ ah yes I see what you mean now. I bought a car from that era with a full digital dashboard and it seemed like a great idea for the first hour or two.
Saw a crown vic on the M2 today
Oh! What colour was it?
@@furiousdrivingwhite
Good place to get a project car from
A 5/16 socket is the same as 8 mm. I swap them everyday 😅
This XC90 still has a valid MOT. 157000 miles only. 205 bhp.
Get the other wing and chrome grill
I love the Alfa GT, but here in Ireland it's €600 to tax it for the year(cheaper if U go for 3 r 6 months, but overall if U go that way its actually more) still a very beautiful car!😢
I was thinking I'd never seen a Crown Vic in the UK. They used to be police cars everywhere here in the US.
Seen a few down in Kent area, 2 Police Cruisers, Early 90’s and 2000s models
If you spot any 1989-1996 Buick Century’s in any scrapyards let me know, I’m after some Wings for mine too 🤣
Ill keep 'em peeled!
@ Thanks! I have a feeling mine might be the only one in the UK, but ya never know 😁
Despite all the "Cleaning Up" of yards - it's interesting to know that the old school brambles and mud experience is still a thing!
I remember at one of the (Paddock Wood) yards you would be jumping between the wheels and tyres that were soaked into the mud for some solidity!
I remember back in 2007 the Pound Dollar exchange rate was such that everything in the U.S was half price.
I remember that time, had a coupe of very cheap trips to the US then
they get a lot of rovers in that yard,
There was a 200 in the yard outside
Could be wrong but that might be a Zetec S MK2 Mondeo. They're even more rare than the ST200/ST24!
You’re right, I think it was a zetec S, it had 2.0 badges on the sides
Out of curiosity, what scrapyard was this. I ask, as this very car used to be outside the restaurant I used to work at. In fact, on my interview, they were putting the tyres on as they had all gone flat. It used to be outside TGI Fridays in MK Stadium, then I believe relocated to Northamptons TGI Fridays, and then that closed late last year, and I guess it was since scrapped. A shame
This is Smiths of Bloxham in Oxfordshire. Which one was the MK car? Im assuming the civilian spec with alloys as the tyres looked pretty good
@furiousdriving I believe so. Sorry, I haven't had time to watch the whole video, will watch later!
@@furiousdrivingJust watched the vid, surprisingly it is neither. The one at my old job was an older model, the shape before I believe! If you type in Google 'TGI Fridays Milton Keynes taxi' the car comes up. I wonder where this one ended up, being an earlier spec, it would make it even rarer!
Just buy the two cars!
Crown Vic's are like busses, you wait ages for one then two turn up together.
goldmine scrap there.. Nice cars too.
Matt I had a horrible dream last night. You pulled out of a junction without looking and were struck in the O/S and received a bruised hip.
Maybe it's an omen, please take care at junctions 😊
(I was a bit annoyed, you ignored me and kept talking to a traffic warden, it was a very frustrating dream)
I’ll keep an eye out!
Former boro Taxi the green one?
which 'boro? It was a cop car originally but most became cabs hen they retired
@@furiousdriving Think they were all apple green apart from the famous yellow medallion taxis? I'm basing a lot of this on my 1/64 Greenlight Crown Vic collection😅
Ah TGI Friday cars. They probably haven't been run in a decade
You were just up the road from me
I bet most of those lovely cars sitting there, like the Volvo are engine flooded , so many muppets are drowning their cars 🙄👍🏴
I would have thought the bolts would all be imperial, not metric.
It’s Canadian
It would make sense for the cops to use fake cabs for undercover work.
In New York they do
Be Glad you aren't here today 5 inches of Snow, and a wind chill of minus 1 degree F,
Outdoor disassembly Cancelled... bloody lucky find however, Like a Unicorn in a Zoo....
I am so jealous. I can't tell you how long it's been since you were allowed in a junkyard with tools to take off what you need here in the states. They do all the work wrap it up and of course it costs you a metric shit town of money more.
Even that dented wing would be an easy fix with a "spotter" . Would be pulled out and skimmed over in a day or less. I have fixed far worse.
Buy the fricking thing.
Matt,
With the greatest of respect it seems to me that every time I watch one of your videos, there is always a point where you say " I didn't bring that spanner, socket, screwdriver, impact driver, saw, drill, etcetc or "I've left it in the barn, shed, house, lent it to a friend etcetc "
Why dont you speak to those nice people at Draper and see if they would support a video where you consolidate, organise and find an emergency toolkit, a service toolkit, a full workshop toolkit etc, it's incredibly frustrating to watch you struggle and I'm just a viewer.
You know you have most of the appropriate tools because you mention them, tidy up, speak to draper and maybe have content for another video.
Regards
I'm not sure but I think I have the only cimos dak in the country anyone else got one