The border counties have their mysteries, but a Lamborghini Diablo sitting on top of what looks like a scrap heap on the Armagh to Dungannon road must rank as one of the more bizarre. The sight of this exotic and expensive car sitting 50 feet above the road demands explanation.
It's only when you go in search of one that you realise that the Diablo is not sitting alone in exotic isolation. For when you enter the yard of Traynor's, formerly scrap dealers and now one of the most sophisticated car-breaking businesses in the country, if not Europe, you discover the Diablo has come to rest alongside a Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari 328, several TVRs, a Maserati and over 100 Porsche 911s.
Inside the Co Armagh premises near Moy, a call centre with 13 lines is in constant use by staff dealing with queries from all over the country, from Britain, Europe and even Australia. This is where people in the know come to when they want a second-hand car part.
In some cases it's the only place where the part can be found. When Traynor's set up their own website they had to close it down because they could not handle the business. They are hoping to set up another one in the near future but in the meantime the only way to contact them is by phone.
It's not just exotica on sale there. At any one time there are about 2,500 cars at the yard. With such numbers of cars being broken up, one would expect organised chaos, as one normally finds in breaker's yards. But you won't find anyone in Traynor's roaming about with a tool kit and a crow bar in search of parts.
Here you simply queue at the counter and one of a small army of staff will deal with your query and source the part, probably within a few minutes because the warehouse has every part neatly labelled with a computer code and hung up to await collection.
The system is the brainchild of Diarmuid McColgan, a former engineer with experience in motor factoring. With Traynor's for 12 years, he introduced the rack system of stacking cars.
The yard now resembles an open-air multi-storey car park. Every car can be seen instantly. The Lamborghinis and the Lexus 400s are taken down only when a part is needed.
"We will leave those cars stacked where they are until we need to take them down," says McGolgan. "They provide the kind of parts that will never go out of fashion and it'll take a long time before they are finally broken up.
"The rest of the cars we tend to go through fairly quickly. Something like a Carina diesel won't be left here for long."
So, how does a breaker's yard in the middle of the Irish countryside become a final resting place for some of the most exotic cars that have ever appeared on Europe's roads? Most come from Britain, where Traynor's is on a list of dealers approved by insurance companies and trusted to properly dispose of crashed vehicles.
It's a lucrative business. A door from the Diablo would cost you somewhere between £2,500 and £3,000 if you bought it from Lamborghini, but it will cost you £1,000 at Traynor's. No wonder there are queries from all over the world.
The evolution from scrap yard to upmarket breaker's yard came about as a result of Northern thrift when comes to car repairs. "It's a Northern thing to look for a good second-hand part rather than just pay for new," explains McColgan. "In Northern Ireland people will ring around looking for good value."
The lines and racks of parts are a sight to behold. "It's all about efficiency and keeping things ordered and tidy," he explains. "Our computer system tells us what we need and when, what we are running short of and so on. If we didn't keep an ordered system, there would be chaos around here."
Traynor's sends two loads of parts to Dublin every week and one to Galway. On the assumption that people know they are getting second-hand parts, many obviously go for the cheaper option. The parts come from cars that are crashed or otherwise written off and most of the cars are quite new. Even with the classic Porsche 911s, none is older than 1984.
At the moment, around 100 cars come in a week to be "broken" at Traynor's so the turnover is quite amazing.
The company also imports new car panels and sells them on as generic parts. There is actually very little that's not to be found at Traynor's. When the Belfast importer for Ferrari needed a door mirror switch for a 328, it couldn't source one from Ferrari in Italy, so it turned to Traynor's. Lots of other people do the same - including a Lexus owner in Australia who couldn't get a part for his LS 400 locally.