well DITW the only scrap metal dealers I have seen are 2 English lads from Kent who have an M reg Ford Transit and bought all my metal and loaded it to illegal limits. How they did not get stopped by police for an overlaoded van that is still (after 5 years in France), but still registered with UK plates, did not get pulled I do not know.
Cars are frequently left when the driver dies and the partener left can not drive. " of my 3 neighbours have dead cars outside and in the barn. No French scrap dealers I guess.