Classics left to die/rotting pics

[Dr Interceptor]

Actus Reus said:

Here's the 356 in the same car park as the Esprit I posted earlier (the Merc is an old W123 estate, and now in terrible shape). The reg is "CSK 381" - the app on my phone says registered in November 1990, and lists the make as 'Porsche' - so is it a replica, or the real deal? If it's the real deal it's worth a fair bit, no?

It's a 1960, registered in 1990, so an import. Could be genuine.

[GT6 Jonsey]

Could also be a 1960 registered Beetle converted into a speedster replica in 1990, Chisel ?

[RichB]

GT6 Jonsey said:

Could also be a 1960 registered Beetle converted into a speedster replica in 1990, Chisel ?

You'd be blooming clever to create that with a chisel

[GT6 Jonsey]

Oops Chesil

[hidetheelephants]

Ferry Porsche never signed off on that park bench of a front bumper; it's like it fell off a 1970s US-spec Volvo 240.

[4rephill]

hidetheelephants said:

Ferry Porsche never signed off on that park bench of a front bumper; it's like it fell off a 1970s US-spec Volvo 240.

Many a car design has been spoilt in the USA by the requirements of US DOT spec bumpers!

[Figgle]

Dapster said:

H A Lock in Rushden, reputedly a very knowledgeable Merc man and the go to guy for 80's Merc service and repairs.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.297342,-0.627283...

Thanks, I thought they looked a bit too organised to be left to die but there's a couple with bushes growing through them which made me doubt it.

[will1991]

GT6 Jonsey said:

Got talking to the owner of this French barge today. Failed it's MOT needing welding a while back. He also had a saloon 505 gti parked next to it that he sold for banger racing !!!!! In the garage behind is an A35 and GT6 mk3 which I am trying to pry from him

Edited by GT6 Jonsey on Wednesday 29th April 14:33

I've got a real soft spot for 505 GTIs, my parents had 2 of the estates when I was younger - I clearly remember my dad once having one of them do donuts in a loose surface carpark.

Very rare now too, particularly the saloon. They're part of the reason I ultimately ended up with my 205 GTI.

[scooters5670]

First post so don't know if this has been seen before, very sad, not moved in years. Just off A53 in Staffordshire

[DaveL485]

Blib said:

tali1 said:

Blib said:

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 !!

Phib

Sold my turbo last year. There is s great specialist near Derby. Renault Alpine Tuning Services, chap called Lee.
Expect unreliable electrics.

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.

Finally, we know actually bought a non turbo Alpine in the UK!

Far better than the turbo, IMO. The lag on the latter was ridiculous. The year that I bought mine, Renault sold a grand total of 38 NA Alpines WORLDWIDE !

I put a 21 Turbo lump in the back of one of these a few years ago. I wonder what happened to it.

[SilverSixer]

scooters5670 said:

First post so don't know if this has been seen before, very sad, not moved in years. Just off A53 in Staffordshire

Is that some kind of world record lurk? Anyone ever seen a better one?

Hats off.

[DickyC]

Actus Reus said:

Here's the 356 in the same car park as the Esprit I posted earlier (the Merc is an old W123 estate, and now in terrible shape). The reg is "CSK 381" - the app on my phone says registered in November 1990, and lists the make as 'Porsche' - so is it a replica, or the real deal? If it's the real deal it's worth a fair bit, no?

Probably teaching everyone to suck eggs but SK and SV plates were retained as age related registrations for imported cars or cars which have had the original plate transferred. They are non-transferable to stop cars becoming money making machines with endless non-suffix registrations.

National Numbers explain some of it on their website:

Certain 3 letters/3 numbers dateless combinations are reserved as replacement marks for pre-1963 vehicles. They are usually allocated following the transfer or retention of the original cherished mark, thus helping to preserve the authenticity of the vehicle. However, as a fraud prevention precaution, such marks are "non-transferable". Typical replacement marks are some of the LSV and GSK series. The "non-transferable" marker appears on the notes on the registration document (V5/C)

When I scrapped it I took the plate, 4826 PE, off a 1963 Austin 1100 which, unusually for a '63 car, didn't have an A suffix. It was replaced with APA 797A which, had I been a bit sharper, I would have had away as well. Other folk did keep transferring numbers and the practice was stopped with the introduction of the non-transferable plates.

[iDrive]

DickyC said:

Probably teaching everyone to suck eggs but SK and SV plates were retained as age related registrations for imported cars or cars which have had the original plate transferred. They are non-transferable to stop cars becoming money making machines with endless non-suffix registrations.

National Numbers explain some of it on their website:

Certain 3 letters/3 numbers dateless combinations are reserved as replacement marks for pre-1963 vehicles. They are usually allocated following the transfer or retention of the original cherished mark, thus helping to preserve the authenticity of the vehicle. However, as a fraud prevention precaution, such marks are "non-transferable". Typical replacement marks are some of the LSV and GSK series. The "non-transferable" marker appears on the notes on the registration document (V5/C)

When I scrapped it I took the plate, 4826 PE, off a 1963 Austin 1100 which, unusually for a '63 car, didn't have an A suffix. It was replaced with APA 797A which, had I been a bit sharper, I would have had away as well. Other folk did keep transferring numbers and the practice was stopped with the introduction of the non-transferable plates.

I understood that A suffix were only issued in a small number of Registration Offices (original plan was just London?) and that non-age-related plates were issued form the majority of local Offices?

However, replacement A suffix plates are now issued (and from localities that never issued them originally).

In terms of LSV and GSK, they are part of a long line of replacement plate series, including the previous SK and SV series, and FF amongst others.

[DickyC]

I knew an old boy with an imported DB2 which was issued a CSV plate which he reckoned stood for Classic Sports Vehicle.

For a while there seemed to be lots of SV and SK plates on the road. Late 80s, early 90s?

Sorry, a bit off topic here.

[CAPP0]

Figgle said:

Dapster said:

H A Lock in Rushden, reputedly a very knowledgeable Merc man and the go to guy for 80's Merc service and repairs.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.297342,-0.627283...

Thanks, I thought they looked a bit too organised to be left to die but there's a couple with bushes growing through them which made me doubt it.

I'm sure that someone from here, maybe even from this thread, bought a car from that place?

[gforceg]

SilverSixer said:

scooters5670 said:

First post so don't know if this has been seen before, very sad, not moved in years. Just off A53 in Staffordshire

Is that some kind of world record lurk? Anyone ever seen a better one?

Hats off.

I saw one a few days ago where someone had been a member for 148 months. First post. It was in the thread about the Alfa GTV6.

He don' say much, that boy.

[Cliftonite]

iDrive said:

I understood that A suffix were only issued in a small number of Registration Offices (original plan was just London?) and that non-age-related plates were issued form the majority of local Offices?

However, replacement A suffix plates are now issued (and from localities that never issued them originally).

In terms of LSV and GSK, they are part of a long line of replacement plate series, including the previous SK and SV series, and FF amongst others.

This is true.

The original relative scarcity of A suffix plates makes the recent registrations using them to look even more inappropriate on an otherwise well turned out classic.

[V41LEY]

Cant beat an old ALCY !!

[Gompo]

Coming into London King's Cross on the East Coast Line possibly a minute or so from becoming stationary, I looked up and to the East and spotted what I initially thought was a Bristol 411 although looking back now it may have been a 60s Bentley Continental Coupe. It was stationary, looked like it was parked in a yard with a few other cars. I only got a quick sighting but it didn't look in use. Anyone know the car?

Tried to have been a quick look on Google Maps for a location but it's difficult, could have been a yard around Rufford Mews, but could be totally wrong.

Anyway, here's something else to look at, left to die for nearly 20 years:

[Notwen]

Crappy phone picture. Probably better suited to the Dead Truck/similar thread, but I had a look in the commercial section, but it did not jump out at me.