Classics left to die/rotting pics
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d would not start one morning so in anger I kicked it...and 'accidentally' snapped the carb off the casting.
DickyC said:
RichB said:
a DB Mk III in equally poor condition
Rich, did you ever see the cars mouldering away alongside the Aston factory at Newport Pagnell in the pre-Ford days? The story was it was cars that owners had dropped off for work to be done and never came back. Behind Sunnyside, there used to be a compound with the remains of the crash test Astons, many in a matt yellow but not all. It is not unknown for a car to be dropped off for repair and the owner never to return, there was a Lagonda sent to a place in Dorset in the early 70s, when I saw it in the late 80s it had a tree growing through the boot. On their books as a bad debt
blueg33 said:
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.
I thought that it was lost for ever. However, about three years ago, I was driving into a Sunday Service when I spotted a red Alpine. MY RED ALPINE.
Here it is. Firstly when I owned it and the second photo was taken at the SS over twenty years later.
Blib said:
I bought a non turbo Alpine new in '89. It was so unreliable that Renault bought it back from me less than two years later. We had a courtesy car from them for so long that my daughter gave it a nickname.
I thought that it was lost for ever. However, about three years ago, I was driving into a Sunday Service when I spotted a red Alpine. MY RED ALPINE.
Here it is. Firstly when I owned it and the second photo was taken at the SS over twenty years later.
Did you speak to the current owner and tell him the reliability story above ?I thought that it was lost for ever. However, about three years ago, I was driving into a Sunday Service when I spotted a red Alpine. MY RED ALPINE.
Here it is. Firstly when I owned it and the second photo was taken at the SS over twenty years later.
I remember nearly buying a scabby DB5 when I was a student in Dundee in the mid-late 70s. It hadn't run in years and, although I could have afforded the purchase price, I was afraid of what it would cost me to put it right, and bought a Mk3 Cortina 1600E instead. Maybe I should have swallowed the brave pills...
rev-erend said:
Nice house but the car can be crushed.
Now if it was an M3 or convertible .. that's another story.
A factory E21 M3 or convertible? (and not a Baur conversion) - That would be the rarest car on the planet!Now if it was an M3 or convertible .. that's another story.
As for crushing the car: People used to say the same thing about old Ford Escorts/Capri's/Cortina's etc., etc, as they were just old cars, today though, they're sought after due to being comparatively rare and can fetch good money.
(Yes, due to the roof damage this car is pretty much worthless now, but if the roof/glass wasn't damaged it would still be worth saving, M3/convertible or not!)
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