Classics left to die/rotting pics
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longshot said:
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
t.
heard one coming down the road the other day and was instantly reminded.longshot said:
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
t. heard one coming down the road the other day and was instantly reminded.Sardonicus said:
longshot said:
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
t.
Cliftonite said:
Sardonicus said:
longshot said:
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
t.My uncle used to have a Morris Minor. When I was a kid, him and my Aunt looked after me and my bro when our folks fked off to Greece for two weeks. Everytime we went out in it, he would deliberately start it using the starting handle to humiliate us in front of the kids in the street, the bugger.
ked off to Greece for two weeks. Everytime we went out in it, he would deliberately start it using the starting handle to humiliate us in front of the kids in the street, the bugger.80quattro said:
My uncle used to have a Morris Minor. When I was a kid, him and my Aunt looked after me and my bro when our folks fked off to Greece for two weeks. Everytime we went out in it, he would deliberately start it using the starting handle to humiliate us in front of the kids in the street, the bugger.
ked off to Greece for two weeks. Everytime we went out in it, he would deliberately start it using the starting handle to humiliate us in front of the kids in the street, the bugger.
my brother had the crank handle attachment on he's Imp before he realized it was easier to ask a passer by for a push. 
GGibbo said:
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...
99 showing for avant
I spotted these 2 Citroen DS's on Saturday. They were in a fenced off yard surrounded by US 'iron' or should I say fibreglass with the Corvette. Also some sort of kit car on a trailer, anyone know what it is? Location is just outside Summerville, South Carolina, US. None of the cars looked like they had been touched in a long time and there was no evidence of recent activity in the the yard.
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...
That's actually exceptionally rare with those wheels. Be interesting to know whether it has 3B or ABY engine. 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...
I'll probably be totally vilified on here but I'm afraid to say I cut up and scrapped these two beauties a couple of weeks ago.
In my defence though, they were left in one of my units by a former tenant who disappeared owing me a lot of rent and were both pretty rotten. The Beatle bodyshell was sitting on a Range Rover chassis and the Minivan on some sort of Suzuki chassis and I mean just sitting, how they were ever going to work was totally beyond me.
They were both projects of his that had never got anywhere near completion and I have been trying to get rid of them for a year now, nobody that looked at them was remotely interested in them for anything more than scrap value so one day I snapped and they went.
I still feel a little bit guilty but they're gone now so I must move on.
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In my defence though, they were left in one of my units by a former tenant who disappeared owing me a lot of rent and were both pretty rotten. The Beatle bodyshell was sitting on a Range Rover chassis and the Minivan on some sort of Suzuki chassis and I mean just sitting, how they were ever going to work was totally beyond me.
They were both projects of his that had never got anywhere near completion and I have been trying to get rid of them for a year now, nobody that looked at them was remotely interested in them for anything more than scrap value so one day I snapped and they went.
I still feel a little bit guilty but they're gone now so I must move on.
TeeRev said:
I'll probably be totally vilified on here but I'm afraid to say I cut up and scrapped these two beauties a couple of weeks ago.
In my defence though, they were left in one of my units by a former tenant who disappeared owing me a lot of rent and were both pretty rotten. The Beatle bodyshell was sitting on a Range Rover chassis and the Minivan on some sort of Suzuki chassis and I mean just sitting, how they were ever going to work was totally beyond me.
They were both projects of his that had never got anywhere near completion and I have been trying to get rid of them for a year now, nobody that looked at them was remotely interested in them for anything more than scrap value so one day I snapped and they went.
I still feel a little bit guilty but they're gone now so I must move on.
Not sure if serious ?? In my defence though, they were left in one of my units by a former tenant who disappeared owing me a lot of rent and were both pretty rotten. The Beatle bodyshell was sitting on a Range Rover chassis and the Minivan on some sort of Suzuki chassis and I mean just sitting, how they were ever going to work was totally beyond me.
They were both projects of his that had never got anywhere near completion and I have been trying to get rid of them for a year now, nobody that looked at them was remotely interested in them for anything more than scrap value so one day I snapped and they went.
I still feel a little bit guilty but they're gone now so I must move on.
geeman237 said:
I Also some sort of kit car on a trailer, anyone know what it is?
It's an Invader GT with a narrow rear window fitted:
More images here: http://priceofhistoys.com/category/invader-gt/ and on Google
ClassicMotorNut said:
Too right you'll be vilified! I would pay a small fortune for either of those if I could and so would lots of other people. 
What makes this worse is the fact that you're on here when you don't know the first thing about cars. I can tell that not because you scrapped two desirable classics, but because you believe the 'Beatle' was not named after the six-legged insect but after the popular Liverpudlian musical quartet.
Where were you with your money when I needed it? Please accept my sincere apologies for not notifying this forum that these "quality" classics were available. http://pistonheads.com/gassing/imgs/10.gif What makes this worse is the fact that you're on here when you don't know the first thing about cars. I can tell that not because you scrapped two desirable classics, but because you believe the 'Beatle' was not named after the six-legged insect but after the popular Liverpudlian musical quartet.Edited by ClassicMotorNut on Tuesday 18th December 20:05
I was never much of a "Beetle" fan, always preferred the Who and the Rolling Stones myself. http://pistonheads.com/gassing/imgs/9.gif
TeeRev said:
I'll probably be totally vilified on here but I'm afraid to say I cut up and scrapped these two beauties a couple of weeks ago.
They were both projects of his that had never got anywhere near completion and I have been trying to get rid of them for a year now, nobody that looked at them was remotely interested in them for anything more than scrap value so one day I snapped and they went.
Not sure if serious. They were both projects of his that had never got anywhere near completion and I have been trying to get rid of them for a year now, nobody that looked at them was remotely interested in them for anything more than scrap value so one day I snapped and they went.
A 99p listing on Ebay would have seen them gone in a week; the axles alone are worth £200.austin said:
Isimmo said:
1993 Audi S2 in Arundel, less than 200 left on the UK roads,
Been in the same spot for over six months now...
Same owner as the Audi in front?Been in the same spot for over six months now...
I'm sure the owner will be delighted that his / her taxed car has been posted on a forum saying that it has been there for 6 months and not been moved.
Within 2 weeks it had been stripped of anything of value.
sim16v said:
This happened with one of my cars a couple of years back.
Within 2 weeks it had been stripped of anything of value.
Thieving scrotes don't need to scour forum sites to find these cars!Within 2 weeks it had been stripped of anything of value.
Chances are, somebody who passes by your car every day who doesn't even go on the forum sites had noted that it had not moved and had then started to help themselves to parts off it!
Then there's the guys roaming round in the transit vans shouting: "Scraaaaap Iiioooooon!".
Do you think they don't notice which vehicles don't move location week in - week out?
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