I suppose that's one of the joys of living in this part of the world, plenty of old cars that people run due to the economic climate here ending up in scrap yards many years after they would elsewhere......perhaps apart from Scotland due to the Scotts being careful with money LOL.
It means you see lots of unwanted parts just ripe for picking although with the low numbers of A2's you do have to be on top of what's coming into the yards, luckily the two biggest yards are next to my workshops.
Recently I've been lucky enough to pick up a complete set of front end panels for Project Poppy (Misano Red) wings, bumper, bonnet and some other odds and ends all for £100 the bumper even included the spotlights....
Its always worth a trawl of the breakers when running "older" cars...so many are getting scrapped for nothing more than a minor fail list at MOT time, I've seen fail sheets for bulbs and a couple of tyres in scrapped cars...…...what a waste of the worlds dwindling resources...…...a perfectly acceptable car wasted because someone would prefer to buy new rather than spend less than £100 on repairs.