Classics left to die/rotting pics

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msheaven

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170 posts

160 months

Monday 3rd January 2011
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So ive been living in a certain part of Guildford for around 9 years now and when i moved to this part every night while walking the dog i see one of these (slant nose)

Its left on the owners drive and has very badly faded paint and not moved in the time ive seen it there. will get pics if its ever daylight again when im not at work. So lets see pics of classic left to die/rotting. 9anyone know how much a slant nose is worth anyway?)
sorry if you think im sadistic! i find it hard sometimes to see lovely cars left to the elements!

4rephill

5,040 posts

177 months

Monday 3rd January 2011
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Is it a genuine Porsche or a Covin kit car replica?: http://www.madabout-kitcars.com/kitcar/kitcar_deta...

If it's the former then that's a shame.
If it's the latter then it's not so much of a big deal as it's just a rip off of someone elses design pretending to be something it's not.

neutral 3

6,356 posts

169 months

Tuesday 4th January 2011
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Yes, cld be a replica or a 911 that someone has put a slant nose on to.
A friend had a slant nose 911 targa in for some welding work some yrs ago, which i did some work on. Rotten as a pear !!

Dont think they are partic sought after,? as it ruined the Classic 911 look, unless its a Factory Turbo ?

madmini777

29 posts

163 months

Tuesday 4th January 2011
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frown been there for at least 3 years, too rotten to restore ? all the docs are in the passenger foot-well window open a crack too, could be a stunning bit of kit

mrtwisty

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164 months

Tuesday 4th January 2011
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Poor things been sitting there for years, as far as I can make out. The guy who owns it is hardly ever at the property it is parked (dumped) at. Wonder if he'd let me have it for a song?
PROPER 80'S!

a8hex

5,829 posts

222 months

Tuesday 4th January 2011
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A while ago on here there was a thread about a DB2 that's been sitting outside a house for donkeys years, slowly returning to nature. In that case the owner won't sell.

2slo

1,998 posts

166 months

Tuesday 4th January 2011
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Reminds me of the story in the magazine supercar classics some years ago about the exotica left in a field in France to rot away. I don't recall all the cars mentioned but one was a Ferrari 250 previously owned by Prince Ranier. The owner liked to watch the cars slowly crumble to rust. Sick as that is to most of us, if thats what the owner wants, who can argue?

Mark

williamp

19,217 posts

272 months

Tuesday 4th January 2011
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One of the most famous:



And yes, it is an original. That photo is at least 30 years old, and the 250 GTO has now been rescued and restored.

There was a thread here a while back about an Aston Martin on someones drive, but I cant find the thread at the moment

AndrewW-G

11,968 posts

216 months

Wednesday 5th January 2011
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madmini777 said:



frown been there for at least 3 years, too rotten to restore ? all the docs are in the passenger foot-well window open a crack too, could be a stunning bit of kit
Does the owner want to sell it?

RichB

51,435 posts

283 months

Wednesday 5th January 2011
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williamp said:
There was a thread here a while back about an Aston Martin on someones drive, but I cant find the thread at the moment
This one smile





Yertis

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265 months

Wednesday 5th January 2011
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mrtwisty said:
The guy who owns it is hardly ever at the property it is parked (dumped) at. Wonder if he'd let me have it for a song?
It's worth a try, I just got one of my Quattro's in exactly that way. Trouble is, once you've shown an interest I think the price goes up over what you might have potentially got it for once they're desperate to sell. But by that stage the car might have gone too far to save or the local scrappy might get there first. In my case the guy had already let an MR2 go to the breaker, and I could see the Quattro going the same way.

In many ways this is quite a good way to get old cars though – they've not been tarted up or otherwise fiddled with, been through loads of owners, they've not been on salty roads etc. You just have to catch them before the rust takes hold.

LC926

891 posts

171 months

Wednesday 5th January 2011
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AndrewW-G said:
madmini777 said:



frown been there for at least 3 years, too rotten to restore ? all the docs are in the passenger foot-well window open a crack too, could be a stunning bit of kit
Does the owner want to sell it?
Maybe the owner left the country, maybe he died ? maybe it's actually dumped....either way it's a great shame, but i wonder what would happen if you took it, along with those documents. Would anyone pursue it ?

Balmoral Green

40,660 posts

247 months

Wednesday 5th January 2011
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Not too sure it's been left to die/rot, but spotted this in a car park in the City last week, it didn't look like it had moved in a long time.


AndrewW-G

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216 months

Wednesday 5th January 2011
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Balmoral Green said:
Not too sure it's been left to die/rot, but spotted this in a car park in the City last week, it didn't look like it had moved in a long time.

I know its rather low brow BG, but if you see it again, could you pop a note under the windscreen smile

MadRob6

3,594 posts

219 months

Wednesday 5th January 2011
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mrtwisty said:




Poor things been sitting there for years, as far as I can make out. The guy who owns it is hardly ever at the property it is parked (dumped) at. Wonder if he'd let me have it for a song?
PROPER 80'S!
I really like that (apart from all the crap). I wonder if the owner would let me add it to my collection of other tired Porsches.

Balmoral Green

40,660 posts

247 months

Wednesday 5th January 2011
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AndrewW-G said:
if you see it again, could you pop a note under the windscreen smile
Fancy it do you?

So do I biggrin

The car was spotted in central London, I'm in Derby.

I can ask my brother to put a note on it though, if you want to make contact?

AndrewW-G

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216 months

Wednesday 5th January 2011
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Balmoral Green said:
AndrewW-G said:
if you see it again, could you pop a note under the windscreen smile
Fancy it do you?

So do I biggrin

The car was spotted in central London, I'm in Derby.

I can ask my brother to put a note on it though, if you want to make contact?
Thanks Warren, have replied to your pm biggrin

It's just my sort of thing & having satisfied my craving for early a Corniche coupe, the only Shadow / T I'd like more would be the yellow delivery van version complete with Trotters Trading livery! hehe

crankedup

25,764 posts

242 months

Wednesday 5th January 2011
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Reminds me of a TVR Vixen that had been left in the front garden of a house at Burnham On Crouch. No pictures unfortunately but it looked in a fairly advanced stage of decay but savable. Knocked at the front door and an elderly fellow advised that it was his Sons car and no way would the Son be selling, adding the bloody things a nuisance stuck there! Probably still roting away 15 years later, waste.

MadRob6

3,594 posts

219 months

Wednesday 5th January 2011
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Just remembered about this Allegro I used to pass on the bus to school many years ago. At first it looked fine, then a bit rusty, then it started to collapse and now it looks like this.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=50.832183...

Not quite in the same league as the others on here but the only one I can think of.

ETA: Just remembered this place. Not sure if they're rotting or being broken for parts as the cars there do change every so often but the ones at the back always seem to be the same. The 944 around the corner has been there for ages now.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=50.714329...

Edited by MadRob6 on Wednesday 5th January 17:05

vixen1700

22,671 posts

269 months

Wednesday 5th January 2011
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crankedup said:
Reminds me of a TVR Vixen that had been left in the front garden of a house at Burnham On Crouch. No pictures unfortunately but it looked in a fairly advanced stage of decay but savable. Knocked at the front door and an elderly fellow advised that it was his Sons car and no way would the Son be selling, adding the bloody things a nuisance stuck there! Probably still roting away 15 years later, waste.
I know a house that has two under covers just rotting away, one 3000M by the look of the outline, not seen the other one, but have been told by people in the pub opposite that it's under cover on the other side of the garden.

Thought better of asking about them when I found out the owner's husband killed himself in one of them by gassing himself years ago, so the cars are just left under canvases in the garden. frown
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