I'm thinking of buying a donor car rather than getting the parts from a breaker's yard, mostly because it is a lot cheaper. The trouble is that my garage is not accessible by lorry so there's no easy way to get rid of the rest of the donor. How much work is involved in cutting up the donor into "back of my car" sized pieces and taking them to a scrap dealer. I only need about 75kg of stuff from a 700kg Cinquecento leaving 625kg of scrap to dispose of. Scrap merchants want the steel but will they take the other stuff off me as well?

just get the car on a trailer and take it apart there and then drive to a scrap yard with it on the back and let them lift it off and take it.

my last build i took a sierra apart on a trailer using jacks etc. then the scrap yard took it off me with a folklift.

thats my opinion.

or rent a council garage there about £10 per week in most cities.

you can strip all the bits in 1 day with help.

and lots of wood to leave the car on when you take wheels etc off.

cant you adapt a small trolley to sit under the car allowing you to push it out to the roadway and be collected. you can then use said trolley again to move your buitd around. the trolleys bakers use are quite sturdy

I got the local scrap merchant to collect using a skip lorry - he lowered the back arm thing, we wrapped chains around and he lifted it.

(still regret that decision - scrapping a mk2 escort that was in damned good condition all things considered was STUPID).

I know others have cut cars up in a day of angle grinder madness (irvined). I suspect hiring a large grinder will make things a lot easier.

i think getting it on a trailer, having some help to strip the bits and taking it to scrappy all inside a day is best option.

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Originally posted by austin man
cant you adapt a small trolley to sit under the car allowing you to push it out to the roadway and be collected.

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Originally posted by smart51

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Originally posted by austin man
cant you adapt a small trolley to sit under the car allowing you to push it out to the roadway and be collected.

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Its about 200m up a grassy slope then a sharp 90° turn onto a narrow paved access to the road. You couldn't get a trolley up there and you can't get a lorry in. I don't have a tow vehicle or know anyone who has a trailer.

I've seen a suitable donor for £250. My local breaker wants £765 for the parts. I've already spent more that the other half likes and £250 is just about under the radar.

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if you hire a trailer its about £30 for a weekend. collect on the friday and strip over weekend and you can leave it on the road. sorted.

just lock the trailer up.

not show how you can solve the no tow bar issue.


good luck.

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Originally posted by bmseven
Is or could your donor be taxed?

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Is or could your donor be taxed?

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Yes. It will be driven into the garage, that's not the problem. Once the front suspension and steering are removed, it won't be going anywhere.

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is there a problem with the car?

There might be people who want a shell

Let them find a way to take it off you

Take a hacksaw (or power saw) and cut a couple of bits off every night. then take them and drop them in the bin or a bin at work.

You would be surprised how quickly it would disapear. Little and often.
We got rid of my neighbours mini bodyshell that way. He just would belive I was serious about the suggestion.

It worked very well.... It all went in the dustbin, although that was 25 years ago.
You can still weigh it in for scrap by the boxfull.

Just another thought.

As suggested above, sell it as a whole shell... put it on Ebay, cost you next to nothing with a 99p start, and someone might come and take it away for a bit more!

I was going to list all the bits on eBay for 99p just to get rid of them. I hadn't thought of putting the shell on there. I bet I get someone who asks if I can post it.

I like the little and often in the bin idea too. A carrier bag full a week would make a lot of it disappear.

Here's a bit of a surprise turn up. I was driving a different way home today and drove past a place with half a Cinquecento by the gate. Its a bit of an oily mud scrappers rather than the places with websites that I'd tried already. He's got all but a couple of things that I want and he'll let me have them for £100 plus £30 if I want a pair of steel build wheels. It looks like I'll get all the bits I want for the cost of the cheapest runner I've seen yet. Result!

call your local firestation they will probably point you to a scrap dealer they use the guy here lifted it into his lorry with a grab they were not worried that it did not have a log book chassis number or wheels on it. He was so happy to get the body for free he even used the grab to lift the engine and gear box out of the chassis for me.


Result!!!!