Welsh car graveyard/mancave

Watching one of those whacky vids on you tube...came across this...a graveyard of cars from the 70s...200ft in a underground slate mine...it appears that recycling was out of the question for Welsh folk back in the 70s..and through a hole in the ground..what are now classic cars were launched to there doom..
Mainly ford's were spotted..mk1 capri, cortinas estate.The caves are located at.Ceredigion Gwynedd ...wales..The only car seen with a number plate in pic is the green one avh 717k

How many were stolen?

Even missing folk could of met there doom.some are under very deep water...abandoned rafts are found in the caves...I think there are 2 ways in....climbing the dodgy slate walls or risk sinking a dingy on sharp slate

Looks like it might have been a good place to conveniently arrange an insurance claim for a "stolen" car

Yes I bet a lot if those cars didn't need to be tipped...hardly any head gasket woes back then...probably a leg out of bed or the floors caved in.with the opening of more motorways..it was trendy to press that pedal to the floor...most aa recoveries back then we're probably for big end failure....hello Mr aa man...just drop my car has close has you can to the cave entrance!

“A leg out of bed" now there's an expression that I've not heard for a long while! Some of the younger end won't have a clue what that refers to.

Yes I didn't know what leg out of bed meant untill a old geezer told me.

mgtfbluestreak wrote: Yes I didn't know what leg out of bed meant untill a old geezer told me.

I had to google it! Never heard that expression before,for a con rod through the engine block, although I have experienced it twice. Once in a V6 Capri and then in a Nissan 200sx turbo...

Incidentally the Lake District has a smaller version of this car dump. A place called Hodge Close Quarry just west of Coniston Water. Again it is an abandoned slate quarry, that has filled with water. Several cars and even a couple of bicycles have been launched off the top to plummet around 100 feet to the water below, then settled under the 100ft of clear water.
It's a popular scuba diving location due to the depth and the water clarity. I've dived it many times over the years, and squeezed into the cars for photos of me 'driving' whilst diving!
Attached to the main quarry are flooded mine workings where quite few unwary ill-prepared divers have lost their lives, sadly.

Quoting the venerable mgtfbluestreak “I didn't know what leg out of bed meant until a old geezer told me.” Does that place me fairly & squarely in the Old Geezer department?

Very interesting that David...diving and having a photo taken in submerged car...like to see the pic if you that one to hand....airportable what can I say?...It was about 30 years ago when I heard the saying leg out of bed...I worked next door to the diesel engine business I work for now....venturing around the diesel yard I ganderd at a engine.it was a volvo b58 about 10 litres..a old guy(51 at the time) bill shouted...look around the other side it's thrown a leg out of bed...I thought of bill has old...and now I've reached his age 51 and laugh has my grandkids tell me I'm old....call a guy at work who is 10 years older than me old fella...
Has a piss take of course....no harm done....word should really be older geezer....I'm beginning to think maybe I'm getting older...has the cops look like kids..and I noticed kids holding the door for me has I walk in a shop......or maybe they are just polite kids....how old are you airportable?

It's not just the number of years that measure your “age” it's the quality of stuff you've packed into that time; for age read experience. Miss no time in passing on your knowledge to you grand kids, I don't have any & feel deprived, there's no one for me to bore to death about electronic valve theory or the beauty of the Cornish pumping engine steam cycle, DNA, narrow gauge railways, geology & so it goes: ^% .