“The manifolds are undamaged, which is rare, so they’ll sell,” he says confidently.
On another stand, Norman Dunford has two Pinto exhausts and a Crossflow one, each from Mk2 Escorts 1600s, plus a carburettor and intake manifold from an Escort RS2000.
Another pitch is displaying remanufactured sills and gaskets, seals, wiper blades, spark plugs, lights and instruments, either from or for Capris and Escorts.
Steve Crew, here with his nephew, is drawing a modest crowd with his eye-catching arrangement of red Mondeo Mk2 tail-lights.
Also on his tarpaulin are parts from Fiestas and Focuses, a Honda Civic Mk8, a Jaguar XJ8, and a 2006 Audi A4. I reckon he will struggle with his collection of Mondeo wheel-arch liners. He agrees: “After today, they’ll be going in the bin.”
Weekdays, Crew is a car breaker, selling the bits he salvages on eBay and Facebook as well as at events such as Haynes’ autojumble. “If you buy the right car, slowly strip it and sell the parts, you can make five times its price,” he says. “It’s taken over my life.”
Aside from later cars, there’s still business to be done in older stuff. Stuart Sinclair has high hopes for a pair of wings from an MG TF and a side-valve engine from an Austin Cambridge. John Mason-Wenn, 90 years old no less, has been driven from Ross-on-Wye, 100 miles away, by a friend and arrived laden with assorted treasures including magnetos, carburettors and vintage headlights. Nearby, another stand boasts chrome door handles for Ford Populars, still in their boxes.
