Spotted Ordinary Abandoned Vehicles

[undred orse]

CaptainCosworth said:

Not the best of pictures, but this was just up the road from where we used to live. It was there when we moved in 2009 and looked like it had been there a long time before.

That could be a car my father owned once.A Panda Sergio Tacchini limited edition with the loudest green seats imaginable.It was bought from Measham BCA in about 1991/2 and was great fun.I think a dealer had registered a few with DAN on the number plate used them for a while and put them into the auction with about 10,000 miles on them.

Great car and I'd love another one.

[PoopahScoopah]

This doesn't exactly fit this particular thread but what the hell, I was reading it and thought I'd toss this in...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.7156024,-3.26437...



Back story is, it's a bus from the 50s/60s that my uncle drove for a while when it was in service. He bought it when it went out of service for sentimental reasons and "parked" it in my grandad's field (in Devon) but then went to live in Birmingham where he's been ever since. It's not moved since at least the 70s I should imagine. My grandparents are no longer with us and the land belongs to my dad, auntie and two of the three uncles, but they can't get their act together to get it sold (much to my dad's, and my, annoyance). Once of the issues being that my uncle refuses to do anything with the bus. He wants to keep it, has talked of moving it (yeah, good luck with that), but he's hundreds of miles away and has just recently had a stroke too. I've often joked that we should either just set fire to it or find some local gypsies to come and break it up for scrap (amazed they haven't already frankly!).

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[TooMany2cvs]

Here's another one for sleepera6 - not a million miles away from the others he's posted...
https://goo.gl/maps/EvymERPgwbq

IIRC the tax disc was 1995 - it went soon after that pic was taken, when the house was sold.

Then there's the A40 through Oxford.
https://goo.gl/maps/TJMRYqjoriB2
Gawd knows how long that's been there...
At least seven years...

[romac]

jimmy156 said:

This bond bug has been there since at least 1996, and considering i would have been 8 at that point, it could have been there a lot longer as i don't remember much before that

No idea what the car under the sheet it... i wonder if PH knows?

Under the sheet looks like a Citroën SM !!!

[IanJ9375]

Remembered seeing this years ago and I reckon it's still in there, toggle the years of streetviews lol -

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2282359,-4.13399...

[Bradley1500]

sleepera6 said:

what a find!
Although I may have found something similar...



A load of old JDM stuff, unregistered, abandoned.

They're not abandoned. They're owned by Garage D. If you go in the gates they've got loads of Japanese cars and parts laying around - mad place.

This isn't their only store of cars and parts either, here's another photo of some of their cars.



Julian the owner has an incredible collection, but some of these are customer's cars too.

[Bradley1500]

Supra abandoned in Kings Langley.



I've spoken to the owner's wife regarding buying it. She said her husband would be in touch but never was. I've been told he has a sizable collection of cars and before the Supra was left in this spot a Ferrari he owned was left there.

Supra abandoned in Bedmond.



I've tried many times to contact the owner to no avail. Sadly he's known as a recluse so can't see the car ever moving or being sold now.

Supra abandoned near the London Eye.



This hadn't moved for years until circa a year ago when it disappeared.

[cookie1600]

I can't find an image on Google streetview as Cyrpus isn't currently covered, but I found this Vauxhall Six in the basement parking lot of premises on Agiou Filonos, Paphos a couple of years ago:

[Raudus42]

The Crack Fox said:

CaptainCosworth said:

Not the best of pictures, but this was just up the road from where we used to live. It was there when we moved in 2009 and looked like it had been there a long time before.

That makes me sad. Like it's an old persons car outside a nice little bungalow and they're bed-bound inside, the car sits outside waiting to be driven to the seaside or somewhere nice.

I know...they've got like 60 milk bottles outside not taken in and post backing up out their letter box...lazy sods!

[PGM]

Here are the one's I see regularly

Graveyard near Whitchurch, Bucks




Pangbourne, Berks - There's a couple of Ford Cougars and a Rancho here too now!




Christmas Common, an old 205 and Renault 4?

[M1C]

There's a good one for this thread a few streets away from me.

The house doesn't look like it's bee touched for many, many, maaaany years (but i think someone does still live there)

The streetview is from 2010, but i remember that the wooden bits around it used to actually be a wooden garage which has collapsed over time.

To me it looks like a small van. Or a car with a van body on the back? Anyone got any ideas what it is?

I've lived here for 30 years and to my mind, it's always been there. The house is also the only one out of any of them still with it's original windows etc.

We're talking a serious number of years here.

If we know what the van is, might give us an idea of timings, etc.

[scubadude]

Sad sight near me, I presumed the owner must be dead inside the house because its a right state but apparently it belongs to an active local councillor! (Not sure what that imply's about local politics...)

Street view images are 2016 and 2009 but they've been there since the late 90's if memory serves, not sure what the two infront of the Rover are, probably more in the garage :-(

[Taylor-nkv9v]

It's not been abandoned but this MGB has rested here for as long as I can remember, I always wonder if there's a sad story attached to it but maybe it's another 'one day' restoration waiting to happen.

[cookie1600]

A poor old Silver Shadow II near Bush Hill Park station, Enfield EN1;

[binnerboy]

for years this field was over completely overgrownm, it got cut back about 4 years ago to reveal a few old trucks ! they are all still there

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5362124,-2.45558...


and this place in bristol appears to be a graveyeard for citroens, there are more than the two you can see here

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4701609,-2.58010...

[Dion20vt]

BertyFish said:

This Volvo has been there for a good 8 years maybe, i always drive past and think how the hell they got it in....

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.7989614,-2.11594...

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I bet if you put a fresh battery and fuel in her, she'd start straight away

[Fonzey]

Years and years ago when I was a kid living at home, there was a stretch of wasteland behind our house which we spent most of our summer evenings in.

Buried in the long grass, with grass growing up through the rotten floor was a classic mini clubman in baby blue and faded evidence of what must have been an old company name or logo.

Wish I had a photo, but we didn't have camera phones back then!

Would go back, but the wasteland is now a housing estate

[lufbramatt]

On the way into Thanet at the end of Manston airport runway there is a strange house in the tree surrounded by old mercs, Volvos, jags. Looks like the guy buys old barges, runs them till they break and buys a new one, leaving them one by one to rot away. Have heard he was a famous wrestler in the 70s?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3409712,1.382016...

[ShuthanVtec]

Talking about Modern Micras....



I see this abandoned on a driveway in Enfield North London where the house looks just as bad as the car itself, the Micra is a 57 plate I think, its now fenced up and the place looks a mess and it has been years in that state. No idea on the back story though.

Also see this:



57 plate C class, not moved in years, its in a fairly bad state though picture doesn't show it much, its parked on a driveway and forgotten.

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[si_xsi]

Spot the old Series ? land rover in this house. If you look at the house, on prime street in Oxford, I think the owner has passed away and family don't know what to do with the place.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.788062,-1.276125...