Classics left to die/rotting pics

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hoppo4.2

1,531 posts

185 months

Sunday 23rd August 2015
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Spotted this on my travels today. Looks like it's not moved in a few years.

kmpowell

2,918 posts

227 months

Monday 24th August 2015
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From eye level, and due to the angle of the garage in both directions, this is a blink and you'll miss it car, but the whale tail caught my eye so I got into google maps. It's in a now closed garage and appears to have been there for a few years. I'm betting the owner knows not of the current Cosworh ford prices boom!



sc0tt

18,032 posts

200 months

Monday 24th August 2015
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kmpowell said:
From eye level, and due to the angle of the garage in both directions, this is a blink and you'll miss it car, but the whale tail caught my eye so I got into google maps. It's in a now closed garage and appears to have been there for a few years. I'm betting the owner knows not of the current Cosworh ford prices boom!


This interests me.

kmpowell

2,918 posts

227 months

Monday 24th August 2015
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sc0tt said:
kmpowell said:
From eye level, and due to the angle of the garage in both directions, this is a blink and you'll miss it car, but the whale tail caught my eye so I got into google maps. It's in a now closed garage and appears to have been there for a few years. I'm betting the owner knows not of the current Cosworh ford prices boom!


This interests me.
Me too, I'm making enquiries about it.

eccles

13,720 posts

221 months

Monday 24th August 2015
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hoppo4.2 said:
Spotted this on my travels today. Looks like it's not moved in a few years.
It has an appropriate number plate! biggrin

Thermobaric

725 posts

119 months

Monday 24th August 2015
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I saw a lovely, yellow Ferrari 360 Spider sitting on someone's front garden the other day. Covered in a layer of dust, all tyres deflated and sitting on it's alloys. Poor thing.


99t

996 posts

208 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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dandare said:
This has been dormant for a few years on the island of Brac, in Croatia.

Didn't see that, but also on Brac





Not entirely sure if it has been left to rot, but no plates and looking a bit down at heel...

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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Hideous US spec bumpers and bling arches...yuck

hidetheelephants

23,772 posts

192 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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It's an oil burner too; S series shouldn't be diesel.

eccles

13,720 posts

221 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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Thermobaric said:
I saw a lovely, yellow Ferrari 360 Spider sitting on someone's front garden the other day. Covered in a layer of dust, all tyres deflated and sitting on it's alloys. Poor thing.

MR2 or Fiero nestling underneath perhaps...?

Thermobaric

725 posts

119 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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Possibly. I didn't consider it being a replica.

RichB

51,433 posts

283 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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Don't know why you'd think that? It's obviously a drug baron's car who's spending some time at Her Majesty's Pleasure.

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Saturday 29th August 2015
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The W109 is still bloody cool, just needs a proper engine and Euro-spec bumpers.

iSore

4,011 posts

143 months

Saturday 29th August 2015
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Longnose said:
Isn't it one of these, an Austin A40 or A50 Cambridge (depending on the engine size). Also made under licence by Nissan.
Christ, what a miserable looking thing they were. The Mark 1 Consul was 1000 times better looking.

hidetheelephants

23,772 posts

192 months

Saturday 29th August 2015
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RoverP6B said:
The W109 is still bloody cool, just needs a proper engine and Euro-spec bumpers.
W116 shirley?

ClaphamGT3

11,269 posts

242 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Gompo said:
iva cosworth said:


There's at least 5 SL outside this house.
Initially I thought that was a place I'd spotted before, however the house looks quite different. Mine was in SE London, where is this one roughly?

While we're at it, this is the one a few years back:



That second one is on Leigham Park Road in Streatham. I think the owner must deal in MBs because they all change really regularly

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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hidetheelephants said:
W116 shirley?
Whoops, quite right too, no excuse.

Also seen today, on the A248 in Chilworth, a driveway filled with at least four Citroen BXs, looked in reasonable nick...

mab01uk

45 posts

158 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Abandoned Showroom Of Classic Cars In Japan.....
Click the google maps link below then take a look around the dusty abandoned mainly British imported classic cars including several Mk1 Mini's in this ProAuto showroom in Japan, make sure you also go round the side road corner and look in the side windows of the showroom too......(May 2012)......anyone know if they are all still there?
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@35.406554,136.7802...











More pics here (scroll down) :
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/totxxx000/29855608.html

The red Mini inside showroom with the JAN 4 numberplate is a historic and valuable early 1960's Janspeed racer which once belonged to Jan Odor, if it is the genuine article......



Edited by mab01uk on Monday 31st August 09:36

dig123

339 posts

115 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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That's a good collection but what's is the small white car on the corner?


iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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That's a Unipower next to the 7 type car in the second pic.
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