Classics left to die/rotting pics

[irocfan]

Irish said:

irocfan said:

oaky d'oaky

Tree-mendous effort. Pine-ing for more.

Yew're really trying now. Ashsoon as this becomes old just say

[lowdrag]

I'm hedging my bets here, but as your elder it's time to stop beeching about things and stump up.

[CAPP0]

irocfan said:

Irish said:

irocfan said:

oaky d'oaky

Tree-mendous effort. Pine-ing for more.

Yew're really trying now. Ashsoon as this becomes old just say

We need to stop this, I think it's sapping everyone's energy.

[Cliftonite]

CAPP0 said:

We need to stop this, I think it's sapping everyone's energy.

You're barking up the wrong tree there, I'm afraid!

[lowdrag]

Such an old chestnut that. Stop pineing, get to the root of the problem, branch out and go conker the world! Or is that a non sequoiatur?

[LC926]

Downton Mini said:

This has been rescued form a tunnel at Longbridge it has since had the roof strightened and is apparently going to be auctioned as a resteration project. It has divided opinion in the Mini world many myself included feel it should have been left as it was an put in a museum as a peice of history it was the last Mini to leave Longbridge and as such should be preserved as it left the facory.

I am normally all for restoring classic cars and getting them back on the road but to me this one should be left.

How on earth do they even begin to straighten out a roof like that !

[rev-erend]

LC926 said:

How on earth do they even begin to straighten out a roof like that !

It's like Triggers broom

[quiraing]

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I believe they were leaf sprung front and rear.

This one was obviously serviced at the local Ford branch.

Edited by quiraing on Tuesday 14th May 15:30

[richardgrace75]

Didn't Stirling Moss own one of these?

[quiraing]

I think Ronnie Wood had one - but I could be bark ing up the wrong tree as he appears to have lost the log book.

Edited by quiraing on Tuesday 14th May 15:51

[Tyre Smoke]

rev-erend said:

LC926 said:

How on earth do they even begin to straighten out a roof like that !

It's like Triggers broom

Err, re-shell it with a Heritage Shell????????

[Tyre Smoke]

quiraing said:

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ford poplar

I believe they were leaf sprung front and rear.

This one was obviously serviced at the local Ford branch.

Edited by quiraing on Tuesday 14th May 15:30

How long would it take to get like that? Sixty years? More?

[richardgrace75]

Steff1965 said:

Transit Van lying in a field.

Where abouts is this? Looks like Lake District, but would be interesting to know more.

[Downton Mini]

LC926 said:

Downton Mini said:

This has been rescued form a tunnel at Longbridge it has since had the roof strightened and is apparently going to be auctioned as a resteration project. It has divided opinion in the Mini world many myself included feel it should have been left as it was an put in a museum as a peice of history it was the last Mini to leave Longbridge and as such should be preserved as it left the facory.

I am normally all for restoring classic cars and getting them back on the road but to me this one should be left.

How on earth do they even begin to straighten out a roof like that !

Very carefully I would have thought I saw it at a show earlier in the year and it appeared to be the orignal roof

[quiraing]

Tyre Smoke said:

quiraing said:

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ford poplar

I believe they were leaf sprung front and rear.

This one was obviously serviced at the local Ford branch.

Edited by quiraing on Tuesday 14th May 15:30

How long would it take to get like that? Sixty years? More?

I'd guess at least 40 years in the open.

I remember a Vauxhall PA Cresta being abandoned near woods close by where I live in the mid 1970s - car was about 100metres from the sea on a shingle bank. By around 1993 all that was left was an engine and running gear sitting in a pile of crumbly rust with seat-springs on the top. Bodywork had completely rotted away to rust flakes. Car was completely unrecognisable as the windows and lights had all been smashed at some point. Would have been a bit of a resto challenge for someone.

Oh, as for Ford Poplar - it could really do with a bit of a spruce up now before the damage gets too bad.

Just after Stirling Moss took delivery of his car Mike Hawthorn bought one too.

[Hugo a Gogo]

didn't Twiggy have one too?

[quiraing]

She did - it started to rot so she thought she'd nip it in the bud and had it resprayed in Silver Birch. It kept wearing out suspension bushes tho. It was at Goodwood last year along with Ronnie's old car which was full of ash.

[richardgrace75]

Just spoken to the guy whose land this is in. He says he wants £25k for it!... Sounds like daylight shrubbery to me!

[RichB]

Hugo a Gogo said:

didn't Twiggy have one too?

What a bush?

[billymctavish]