Classics left to die/rotting pics
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LotusOmega375D said:
Looks like an Italian market tax-break two litre 208 GTB with the NACA duct just ahead of the rear wheel. The 1980 - 1981 cars had only 155bhp. The 1982-on cars were turbocharged and had a much-more-like-it 220bhp. It's probably one of those.
Christ! That was well spotted.
iva cosworth said:
Those 2 have been mentioned before here as there was also 2 older cars behind the XR
which have now gone [obv].
I have passed those many times but not able to take a pic as traffic never "bad" enough to
tailback from the lights
Surprised the XR4 is still there? I thought 2 door bodies were hard to come by.which have now gone [obv].
I have passed those many times but not able to take a pic as traffic never "bad" enough to
tailback from the lights
LotusOmega375D said:
Looks like an Italian market tax-break two litre 208 GTB with the NACA duct just ahead of the rear wheel. The 1980 - 1981 cars had only 155bhp. The 1982-on cars were turbocharged and had a much-more-like-it 220bhp. It's probably one of those.
Wow! Thanks for the update. I can at least some more info to the tag on the photo :-) Hooli said:
I wouldn't. I know that road, it's like a wind tunnel so nothing will build up under the car.
IIRC that AB Autos are about 200yrds down the road on the other side to the Audi, so no surprise they've spotted it.
The owner could be in hospital, gone to work abroad for several months, forgot where he parked it (as happened to a very drunk German), could be dead, doesn't mean that it's actually been left to die!IIRC that AB Autos are about 200yrds down the road on the other side to the Audi, so no surprise they've spotted it.
(Mind you, despite the fact that it is currently taxed and insured, some authorities would still tow it away and crush it if the owner didn't claim it within 7 days if they decided it was abandoned!)
Down the road from my house is a (modern) VW Passat that had been sat for the best part of a year with four flat tyres and was covered in bird s
and dirt. The road tax was about to run out and I started to wonder what would happen to it.Low and behold, the car suddenly had it's tyres re-inflated, was re-taxed and was parked slightly further down the road.
A few months on and it is back to having four flat tyres again and is covered in bird s
t and dirt again! Since it was parked up, it hasn't moved once! - Go figure!4rephill said:
The owner could be in hospital, gone to work abroad for several months, forgot where he parked it (as happened to a very drunk German), could be dead, doesn't mean that it's actually been left to die!
(Mind you, despite the fact that it is currently taxed and insured, some authorities would still tow it away and crush it if the owner didn't claim it within 7 days if they decided it was abandoned!)
Down the road from my house is a (modern) VW Passat that had been sat for the best part of a year with four flat tyres and was covered in bird s and dirt. The road tax was about to run out and I started to wonder what would happen to it.
Low and behold, the car suddenly had it's tyres re-inflated, was re-taxed and was parked slightly further down the road.
A few months on and it is back to having four flat tyres again and is covered in bird st and dirt again! Since it was parked up, it hasn't moved once! - Go figure!
There a Z3 that has done the same for the past 18months where I live only time it moved was obviously when the MOT ran out and the it came back the day after and parked in the same place the cloth roof is almost completely green from mould will get a pic when I next walk past(Mind you, despite the fact that it is currently taxed and insured, some authorities would still tow it away and crush it if the owner didn't claim it within 7 days if they decided it was abandoned!)
Down the road from my house is a (modern) VW Passat that had been sat for the best part of a year with four flat tyres and was covered in bird s
and dirt. The road tax was about to run out and I started to wonder what would happen to it.Low and behold, the car suddenly had it's tyres re-inflated, was re-taxed and was parked slightly further down the road.
A few months on and it is back to having four flat tyres again and is covered in bird s
t and dirt again! Since it was parked up, it hasn't moved once! - Go figure!Iang84 said:
There a Z3 that has done the same for the past 18months where I live only time it moved was obviously when the MOT ran out and the it came back the day after and parked in the same place the cloth roof is almost completely green from mould will get a pic when I next walk past
It's quite baffling really isn't! (The VW's been parked up again for @4 months so far without moving this time around, and I'd have to say that considering how long it has been sat with the wheel rims buried into the flat tyre sidewalls, I wouldn't want to trust those tyres at any sort of speed, who knows what damage may have been caused!)
4rephill said:
It's quite baffling really isn't!
(The VW's been parked up again for @4 months so far without moving this time around, and I'd have to say that considering how long it has been sat with the wheel rims buried into the flat tyre sidewalls, I wouldn't want to trust those tyres at any sort of speed, who knows what damage may have been caused!)
It really is but as the saying goes "theres nowt queer as folk"(The VW's been parked up again for @4 months so far without moving this time around, and I'd have to say that considering how long it has been sat with the wheel rims buried into the flat tyre sidewalls, I wouldn't want to trust those tyres at any sort of speed, who knows what damage may have been caused!)
olly22n said:
ZR1cliff said:
Surprised the XR4 is still there? I thought 2 door bodies were hard to come by.
But not the 6 window shell, which is only good for an XR4i.
pxw said:
timolloyd said:
pxw said:
pxw said:
iva cosworth said:
One for Monsieur Le Garlick ,parked in a front garden in Surrey.
There is also a military vehicle left to gather moss.
Cheers Gordon
Isimmo said:
1993 Audi S2 in Arundel, less than 200 left on the UK roads,
Taxed locally in Arundel.
Cloth interior looks dusty, but otherwise pretty good.
Brake discs are now corroding.
Been in the same spot for over six months now...
It is outside a nice pub; maybe the owner just forgot he left it there...Taxed locally in Arundel.
Cloth interior looks dusty, but otherwise pretty good.
Brake discs are now corroding.
Been in the same spot for over six months now...
1961 Morris Minor 1000 in a garden near me. The glowing around the number plate is just where my editing has gone a bit weird. I've got a few pics of rotting classics, but it might take me a while to dig them out from the depths of my computer memory.
June 2013 update (God knows why I can be bothered to return to write this when no one will see it): this car is now gone but still on SORN.
Edited by ClassicMotorNut on Tuesday 25th June 20:25
ClassicMotorNut said:
1961 Morris Minor 1000 in a garden near me. The glowing around the number plate is just where my editing has gone a bit weird. I've got a few pics of rotting classics, but it might take me a while to dig them out from the depths of my computer memory.
It was a hateful car. Cost us a fortune and drove like s
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