Classics left to die/rotting pics

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keeef said:

Or the iPad was a recent purchase - New buy?

Both

[SPT28]

One from this weekends travels, not gone very far in a while I'd suggest.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.91934,0.724472,3...

[530dTPhil]

Interesting that the house qualifies as well!

[ClaphamGT3]

http://www.instantstreetview.com/2o8pn7z3eu45jz1vu...

These sad specimens have been on a drive in Streatham Hill for at least 12 years. The Spur is a rare sunroof model and the W140 is a 600SEL

[V41LEY]

ClaphamGT3 said:

http://www.instantstreetview.com/2o8pn7z3eu45jz1vu...

These sad specimens have been on a drive in Streatham Hill for at least 12 years. The Spur is a rare sunroof model and the W140 is a 600SEL

10 x 80 litre wheelie bins ?

[E24man]

Looks like the house has been turned into flats so the cars could be belong to anyone in them or more probably the owner of the building.

[yellowjack]

V41LEY said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

http://www.instantstreetview.com/2o8pn7z3eu45jz1vu...

These sad specimens have been on a drive in Streatham Hill for at least 12 years. The Spur is a rare sunroof model and the W140 is a 600SEL

10 x 80 litre wheelie bins ?

Everything about that image is sad to me.

A formerly grand house, converted to what (apparently) is now ten bedsits.
Two formerly grand (and expensive) luxury cars fallen on hard times.
A battered old transit front and centre in a residential street.
A Daewoo Lanos on the (weed infested) drive next door.

It gives every impression of an area that is heading downmarket fast. Judging by the proliferation of 'For Sale' signs in the street, plenty of residents share my opinion, and are desperately trying to bale out while their homes still have some value and the 'property speculators' haven't yet completely ripped the life out of the street.

Any guesses as to what's under the tarp at No 65??? http://www.instantstreetview.com/2o8ppaz3eu4n3z179...

At least there are some interesting cars that appear to be in rude health... http://www.instantstreetview.com/2o8ptsz3eu5cpz2fp...

[CTrickle]

This lives in a village near by. Used to be in tip top condition but has sadly deteriorated over the last five years.

[ClaphamGT3]

yellowjack said:

V41LEY said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

http://www.instantstreetview.com/2o8pn7z3eu45jz1vu...

These sad specimens have been on a drive in Streatham Hill for at least 12 years. The Spur is a rare sunroof model and the W140 is a 600SEL

10 x 80 litre wheelie bins ?

Everything about that image is sad to me.

A formerly grand house, converted to what (apparently) is now ten bedsits.
Two formerly grand (and expensive) luxury cars fallen on hard times.
A battered old transit front and centre in a residential street.
A Daewoo Lanos on the (weed infested) drive next door.

It gives every impression of an area that is heading downmarket fast. Judging by the proliferation of 'For Sale' signs in the street, plenty of residents share my opinion, and are desperately trying to bale out while their homes still have some value and the 'property speculators' haven't yet completely ripped the life out of the street.

Any guesses as to what's under the tarp at No 65??? http://www.instantstreetview.com/2o8ppaz3eu4n3z179...

At least there are some interesting cars that appear to be in rude health... http://www.instantstreetview.com/2o8ptsz3eu5cpz2fp...

It's a Morgan Plus 8.

It's funny but, actually, the road is going in the other direction. This and the 60s house next to it is pretty much the last property on the road not to be gentrified. Ten years ago, you could buy pretty much any house on this road for under half a million quid. Now, doer-uppers go for about £1m and houses that have been done go for £1.5-3m

[yellowjack]

ClaphamGT3 said:

It's a Morgan Plus 8.

It's funny but, actually, the road is going in the other direction. This and the 60s house next to it is pretty much the last property on the road not to be gentrified. Ten years ago, you could buy pretty much any house on this road for under half a million quid. Now, doer-uppers go for about £1m and houses that have been done go for £1.5-3m

Happy to be corrected. It just looked that way to me. I grew up on a 1950s council estate near Swansea, and despite most of the tenants being in low paid, semi skilled, and manual jobs, there was a lot of pride in keeping the place looking nice and sprucey. Then 'Right to Buy' happened, and almost overnight scruffy oafs with poor taste moved in, and began knocking down walls and digging up the front gardens to make half-hearted gravel 'driveways'. Next was 'mock tudor' timbering, and ugly extensions. It's an awful place to be now. Not in terms of 'bad people' but in terms of ugly houses. Glad to see that the street you linked to is going the other way, putting things back as they 'ought' to be

[ClaphamGT3]

Here's another one in Lambeth - this one is in Tulse Hill/Streatham on a short-cut I sometimes take. There's also a knackered 928 behind the shiplap fence
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=hillside+road+lam...

[tali1]

CTrickle said:

This lives in a village near by. Used to be in tip top condition but has sadly deteriorated over the last five years.

Shame as very original.V reg makes for final ones(although there are a few on W)

[nicanary]

yellowjack said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

It's a Morgan Plus 8.

It's funny but, actually, the road is going in the other direction. This and the 60s house next to it is pretty much the last property on the road not to be gentrified. Ten years ago, you could buy pretty much any house on this road for under half a million quid. Now, doer-uppers go for about £1m and houses that have been done go for £1.5-3m

Happy to be corrected. It just looked that way to me. I grew up on a 1950s council estate near Swansea, and despite most of the tenants being in low paid, semi skilled, and manual jobs, there was a lot of pride in keeping the place looking nice and sprucey. Then 'Right to Buy' happened, and almost overnight scruffy oafs with poor taste moved in, and began knocking down walls and digging up the front gardens to make half-hearted gravel 'driveways'. Next was 'mock tudor' timbering, and ugly extensions. It's an awful place to be now. Not in terms of 'bad people' but in terms of ugly houses. Glad to see that the street you linked to is going the other way, putting things back as they 'ought' to be

Going a bit OT, but I come from a similar background. The old-style working class hardly exist any more, more's the pity. There's just a yawning gap between the underclass and Mondeo-man of our supposedly classless society. My friends when I was young had little money, but huge pride and self-respect. They were almost embarassed when they were out of work. How the country has changed.

[Keep it stiff]

CTrickle said:

This lives in a village near by. Used to be in tip top condition but has sadly deteriorated over the last five years.

The remote battery is an interesting feature!

[mikey77]

In (as usual) a village near Limoges. It has 4-point harnesses and pins to hold the bonnet so presumably it has retired from a competition career.

[tali1]

The red on that french 205 is one that was not on uk cars.

[Cliftonite]

tali1 said:

The red on that french 205 is one that was not on uk cars.

Is being a car "anorak" cool?

Just askin'

[Flip Martian]

My first car was a UK Pug 205 1.1GL in exactly that colour. Great car (at the time).

[Martin350]

Cliftonite said:

Is being a car "anorak" cool?

Just askin'

I hope so!

[gforceg]

Flip Martian said:

My first car was a UK Pug 205 1.1GL in exactly that colour. Great car (at the time).

My mum used to have a non-turbo diesel 205 in that colour too. Unless we've both got it wrong.