Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[soxboy]

TonyRPH said:

This Merc has been parked like this for at least 4 years.

Google streetview shows it first appearing in 2012 but I'm sure it's been there a good year or two before that.

I can't really tell from the images, but I think it's a 230 or 280 - not a classic I know, but certainly being left to die!

EDIT: Just managed to zoom in on one of the older images - it's a lowly 220CE

This is the streetview URL

Edited by TonyRPH on Monday 19th September 18:39

I've been watching that slowly rot on a weekly basis for a number of years, I believe it is owned by a local Pole. Given its location I'm surprised it hasn't been trashed or torched yet.

[mikey77]

'lowly' 220CE? As the Scotsman with the wooden leg said, 'it's a matter of a pin yon'...

[Yertis]

soxboy said:

TonyRPH said:

This Merc has been parked like this for at least 4 years.

Google streetview shows it first appearing in 2012 but I'm sure it's been there a good year or two before that.

I can't really tell from the images, but I think it's a 230 or 280 - not a classic I know, but certainly being left to die!

EDIT: Just managed to zoom in on one of the older images - it's a lowly 220CE

This is the streetview URL

Edited by TonyRPH on Monday 19th September 18:39

I believe it is owned by a local Pole.

I think he's there just to hold up the sign.

[MarshPhantom]

[droopsnoot]

This popped up in my FB feed yesterday

[anonymous-user]

droopsnoot said:

This popped up in my FB feed yesterday

That needs saving ASAP.

[Dapster]

TonyRPH said:

EDIT: Just managed to zoom in on one of the older images - it's a lowly 220CE

This is the streetview URL

Sorry to be a total nerd but that's a 230CE. The 220 would be the facelift with the white indicators and flush rear number plate section (plus it would be an E220, not a 220CE).... As you were!

[TonyRPH]

Dapster said:

Sorry to be a total nerd but that's a 230CE. The 220 would be the facelift with the white indicators and flush rear number plate section (plus it would be an E220, not a 220CE).... As you were!

Pretty sure the badge says 220CE ?

[Dapster]

Grrrrrr. You're right. Either there's some badge bodge going on or I need to check my nerd stats...

Edit: checked Wiki. The 2.2 220 came with the facelift and was badged E220, even on the coupe. Yet checked google images and there are plenty of pre facelift coupe's with the 2.2 engine badged 220 CE's.... I'm confused.com.

Edited by Dapster on Saturday 24th September 16:46

[droopsnoot]

AVV EM said:

droopsnoot said:

This popped up in my FB feed yesterday

That needs saving ASAP.

Another comment on the post suggests that the owner also has an immaculate silver quattro, so this may be a parts donor or future project, hopefully the latter.

[Yertis]

Looks too good to be a donor, unless rotted out underneath.

[Hugh Jarse]

droopsnoot said:

This popped up in my FB feed yesterday

Im strangely fascinated by old pinky red cars

[droopsnoot]

Yertis said:

Looks too good to be a donor, unless rotted out underneath.

I thought so, but if the owner has another they presumably have some idea of whether or not it can be resurrected. No idea how long it's been there, of course, so it might not belong in here.

[scoobygaz1]

Spotted in a local garage where I work customer found it in a barn

[restoman]

scoobygaz1 said:

Spotted in a local garage where I work customer found it in a barn

Is that a 'GENUINE' barn find or a 'BARN' find . . . . . . . . ?

[CAPP0]

restoman said:

"barn find"

"Things that annoy you beyond reason"

There's a guy selling motorbikes on eBay, he must have about 50 for sale, all photographed outside his premises, every one is apparently a "barn find". I keep meaning to ask him for pictures of where they were found….

[Fastdruid]

CAPP0 said:

restoman said:

"barn find"

"Things that annoy you beyond reason"

There's a guy selling motorbikes on eBay, he must have about 50 for sale, all photographed outside his premises, every one is apparently a "barn find". I keep meaning to ask him for pictures of where they were found….

It's just his warehouse. He just has very poor book keeping so everyone is a find.

[vanquish spirit]

droopsnoot said:

This popped up in my FB feed yesterday

I wonder whether it could be my car, but new from Scotts of Sloane Square. D848GYP and not seen since about 1988?

[Yertis]

I've a suspicion that is a pre-'85 car.

[MarshPhantom]