Classics left to die/rotting pics

[Blue Oval84]

I'd blanked the plate out of respect to the owner but it seems that Photobucket take a while to update their pictures. For what it's worth, I don't think it's real!!

[cjb1]

A car like the Healey 3000 is so valuable in good condition that it would have to be a pile of rust you can sweep in to a dust pan before it would be considered too far gone to rescue.

[Yertis]

Blue Oval84 said:

[T-Money] Money! [/T-Money]

[MontyC]

I found this sorry looking suzuki SJ410 in kent yesterday looking in a very unloved state.

[richardgrace75]

Excuse the rubbish quality...

[Lost soul]

Blue Oval84 said:

Saw this poking out of a garage today, it's so rotten that the front wings have collapsed on themselves and the headlights now point towards the ground...

That is a terrible waste

[Hooli]

MontyC said:

I found this sorry looking suzuki SJ410 in kent yesterday looking in a very unloved state.

Bet that's worth money in parts. 410 transferboxes are popular with modders, they've got a lower high range which can be used in a 'rock lobster' conversion to suit larger tyres.

[richardgrace75]

Does anyone know what happened to all the motors at Blackborough House, near Exeter?

[gforceg]

Unsurprisingly, there's an FB page!

https://www.facebook.com/NationalBangers/posts/496...

I hadn't heard about that place, it's probably only 30 odd miles from me.

Wow.

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.ph...

[LordBretSinclair]

I've bought many a spare part from there - amazing number and variety of cars in the grounds.

[al 350i]

MontyC said:

I found this sorry looking suzuki SJ410 in kent yesterday looking in a very unloved state.

i,saw,that,yesterday,and,was,going,to,post,up..........must,have,past,it,100's,of,time,and,not,noticed.........Ashford??

[colin2296fs]

richardgrace75 said:

Does anyone know what happened to all the motors at Blackborough House, near Exeter?

I know someone stole a Packard limo from there 4 or 5 years ago

[MontyC]

al 350i said:

MontyC said:

I found this sorry looking suzuki SJ410 in kent yesterday looking in a very unloved state.

i,saw,that,yesterday,and,was,going,to,post,up..........must,have,past,it,100's,of,time,and,not,noticed.........Ashford??

Yes its in Ashford, was the first time I noticed it to and must been there years.

[thespannerman]

richardgrace75 said:

Excuse the rubbish quality...

That Landy's probably not beyond saving! Bit of an odd one though, it looks like either a series IIa or III but with a reg. from '63... Either way it's tax exempt!

[Olf]

thespannerman said:

That Landy's probably not beyond saving! Bit of an odd one though, it looks like either a series IIa or III but with a reg. from '63... Either way it's tax exempt!

'83 more like - you need your eye checking.

[yellowjack]

thespannerman said:

richardgrace75 said:

Excuse the rubbish quality...

That Landy's probably not beyond saving! Bit of an odd one though, it looks like either a series IIa or III but with a reg. from '63... Either way it's tax exempt!

1. Rover. It's a 'Rover' - not a 'Landy'

2. I'm sure you mean '83 (not '63) as the year letter is a prefix, not a suffix. Series III produced from 1971 to 1985 would tally with that VRN

3. 1983 plate suggests that it's NOT 'VED' exempt, so probably not a priority for restoration.

[4rephill]

yellowjack said:

thespannerman said:

richardgrace75 said:

Excuse the rubbish quality...

That Landy's probably not beyond saving! Bit of an odd one though, it looks like either a series IIa or III but with a reg. from '63... Either way it's tax exempt!

1. Rover. It's a 'Rover' - not a 'Landy'

Really? - You might want to tell them here then that they need to change the name to 'Roverzone'!: http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/


I have to say that over all the years I've been alive and around Land Rovers (mainly on farms), I've often heard them referred to as Landy's but never 'Rover'.

[gforceg]

Rover is Army.
Landy is civvy.

[yellowjack]

gforceg said:

Rover is Army.
Landy is civvy.

What he said ^^^

As a squaddy, you'd get beaten about the head with an 12" adjustable if you said "Landy".

I didn't realise it was a civvy thing though. I thought it was only the Crabs that called them 'Landies'

[eccles]

yellowjack said:

gforceg said:

Rover is Army.
Landy is civvy.

What he said ^^^

As a squaddy, you'd get beaten about the head with an 12" adjustable if you said "Landy".

I didn't realise it was a civvy thing though. I thought it was only the Crabs that called them 'Landies'

Strange that, I had a pongo say to me only last week that he'd have to come back with a Landy to pick up some bits....