Classics left to die/rotting pics
Discussion
Rob-C said:
This sorry sight is what greets visitors to my workshop. It isn't mine. I don't know the owner and the landlord isn't interested...
Well Rob, if you're anywhere near Beverley, I could do with a nice Boxer engine for my Pembleton build....http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/166979/pemb...
Phil
Pair of sad looking Jags which have recently been pulled out of an old barn & left where they currently are on some land in a small village on the outskirts of Clacton in Essex. I took these pictures on Saturday. Cream MkII looks like it might be recoverable; the other one (think it's a MkI) looks dead.
Hooli said:
I never saw them when I lived in Clacton
Actually in Great Holland - past The Ship pub on the left (if you know the area); until very recently they have been out of sight. Land their on is to be re-developed so I assume that these will be removed in due course.Co-incidentally I saw a very shiny red Jag MkII outside a garage on an industrial estate in Brentwood earlier.
TCEvo said:
Pair of sad looking Jags which have recently been pulled out of an old barn & left where they currently are on some land in a small village on the outskirts of Clacton in Essex. I took these pictures on Saturday. Cream MkII looks like it might be recoverable; the other one (think it's a MkI) looks dead.
Nice find TCEvo.... the 'dead' one is also a Mk2, Mk1s don't have the slim pillars and brightwork round the top of the doors, they're solid metal, similar to the doors on a Rover P4.I'd imagine the cream Mk2 will yeald some decent spares if it turns out it's beyond saving.
sim16v said:
What about this rarity.
Only 50,000 miles, sat for a number of years.
Spoke to the owner, put a battery on it and some fresh fuel, and it runs!
I think i may have agreed to buy it!
Ooh, turbo or the standard one?Only 50,000 miles, sat for a number of years.
Spoke to the owner, put a battery on it and some fresh fuel, and it runs!
I think i may have agreed to buy it!
We had a standard one, Dad wrote it off in 1991. It was put back on the road though later on in its life...
P5Nij said:
Nice find TCEvo.... the 'dead' one is also a Mk2, Mk1s don't have the slim pillars and brightwork round the top of the doors, they're solid metal, similar to the doors on a Rover P4.
I'd imagine the cream Mk2 will yeald some decent spares if it turns out it's beyond saving.
Cheers, assumed someone would clarify for me. I'd imagine the cream Mk2 will yeald some decent spares if it turns out it's beyond saving.
TCEvo said:
Hooli said:
I never saw them when I lived in Clacton
Actually in Great Holland - past The Ship pub on the left (if you know the area); until very recently they have been out of sight. Land their on is to be re-developed so I assume that these will be removed in due course.Co-incidentally I saw a very shiny red Jag MkII outside a garage on an industrial estate in Brentwood earlier.
Hooli said:
TCEvo said:
Hooli said:
I never saw them when I lived in Clacton
Actually in Great Holland - past The Ship pub on the left (if you know the area); until very recently they have been out of sight. Land their on is to be re-developed so I assume that these will be removed in due course.Co-incidentally I saw a very shiny red Jag MkII outside a garage on an industrial estate in Brentwood earlier.
phib said:
sim16v said:
What about this rarity.
Only 50,000 miles, sat for a number of years.
Spoke to the owner, put a battery on it and some fresh fuel, and it runs!
I think i may have agreed to buy it!
Fantastic effort !!! Exactly the kind of thing I usually end up doing !! Only 50,000 miles, sat for a number of years.
Spoke to the owner, put a battery on it and some fresh fuel, and it runs!
I think i may have agreed to buy it!
Phib
Expect unreliable electrics.
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