So it’s been another very interesting week for the car scrapping industry. In fact, chances are that even if car recycling isn’t your primary passion, you might still get a kick of what’s been going on around the world.
Fast 8 Sell-Off
First of all, if you happen to have a decent chunk of change lying around and have been looking for a novelty to spend it on, you might want to check out a sale that’s happening in Iceland this week The long and short of it being that three of the actual trucks that were used in the filming of Fast 8 are being sold off. Considering the success of the franchise, it’s not a big price to pay for a genuine piece of movie history! 
There are two trucks up for grabs that look as this one – hardly a looker, but that’s not really why you’d be buying it…if you decided to. They’re all being sold via bilauppbod.is and the manager said that depending on whether or not they sell at all, they might well end up being scrapped. Which however you look at it would be something of a shame – especially as they’re all still running pretty week.
The third of the trucks looks decidedly more menacing than the other two, though perhaps wouldn’t be the most practical runaround in most parts of the world. The chap selling them admits he’s not really sure of their exact origins – he’s not even sure if they’re real army truck, or have simply been modified to look as such. They’re definitely Russian, but that’s about where the concrete details come to an end.
At last check, they had chalked up bids in the region of about £1,500 who hadn’t quite met with the reserve set on them yet. In any case, it’s a small price to pay for such a cool toy that’s also a serious piece of movie memorabilia.
Scrap Engine
Meanwhile, a young college student by the name of J. Joachim Hall has taken it upon himself to prove that sheet metal and the like isn’t the only thing that can be recycled and reused. Incredibly, he decided to turn his talents to creating a fully-functional two-stroke internal combustion effort, entirely by using old scrap metal and 100% by hand.
Literally – all by hand!
His YouTube account is packed with awesome projects, but this is undoubtedly one of his most impressive to date. Over the course of six episodes, he documents the entire process right up until the final video where he actually tests it. If you haven’t got six hours spare to dedicate to his vids, click here to see the engine fire up for the first time.
It really is basement engineering at its finest and all the proof you could ever need that there’s no such thing as life after death for car parts – the reason being they never truly die in the first place!
For more information on car scrapping and recycling in the United Kingdom, get in touch with the Take My Scrap Car team today.
