French scrapyards

[Lobster]

How do we find French scrapyard owners in comparison to British ones then? Are they equally as hardwork etc?

Reason being is thus - I'd like to go and grab a few bits for Twingo whilst I'm over there and thought the Friday morning of the Thenay weekend would be a useful opportunity before I get to the show. Never been to a French scrapyard before so wondering if they are much the same as their cross channel counterparts and if I'll be able to pass a happy hour wandering and removing the necessary bits before handing over what I hope would be a modest amount of Euros for my pleasure.

So any advice appreciated and also if anyone knows of good locations along the rough route of Alencon / Le Mans / Tours then that'd be splendid.

 

[Melissa]

nope! ones I've been to are much more a case of go to the counter & tell them what you need..no poking about with a bag of tools..but there are private places that have lots of R4's..they might be more fun! maybe search leboncoin in the areas you are going to?

 

[Lobster]

Thanks. Thats pretty much what I though might be the case. Good suggestion on Leboncoin though, I'll try that as well!

 

[Lobster]

Just to follow up on this, I managed to find a small local yard that was happy to let me go in and remove bits ( Auto Cartoucherie at La Hoguette, about 45 mins south of Caen for anyone interested.)

I tried google but that only brought up the big yards. So I thought about it from another angle, specifically, above. Using google earth I followed my route from Caen to Thenay, seeing if there was anything that looked promising. Having found one, I looked at google reviews which suggested it was a small, traditional yard. And so it proved to be!

 

[Melissa]

excellent!