The "Cars In Incongruous Locations" thread
Discussion
j44esd said:
98elise said:
A bloke that lived near me had a red 355, but only has a 2 up 2 down cottage. He didn't even have proper off street parking so it sat on his grass. It was later repalced with a porsche of similar value.
You don't live in Stone, Staffordshire perchance do you?darkcat said:
j44esd said:
98elise said:
A bloke that lived near me had a red 355, but only has a 2 up 2 down cottage. He didn't even have proper off street parking so it sat on his grass. It was later repalced with a porsche of similar value.
You don't live in Stone, Staffordshire perchance do you?R12HCO said:
Local guy near me has a 360 Spyder (has done for years now so would of been an expensive car at the time), and lives in a 2 bed council house. Use to have 996 vert probably 7 years ago now?
Makes me laugh really as a matter of yards of the road is a load of shops where all the scum bags hang out - setting fire to flats, glassing each other. The estate reminds me of something out of shameless.
As they don't touch his car I assume he 'rules' the estate? Makes me laugh really as a matter of yards of the road is a load of shops where all the scum bags hang out - setting fire to flats, glassing each other. The estate reminds me of something out of shameless.
Woke up one morning (must have been about 8 years ago) to see this parked outside the house:
Normal street of terraced houses in Coventry.. you can see the types of car normally parked there in the picture.
They weren't too good with their parking though..
Owner was a nice guy though. Was just visiting relatives. Came over and give the car a very quick blip on the noise pedal before setting off, and almost blew out my eardrums - I didn't realise how loud that V12 was!
Normal street of terraced houses in Coventry.. you can see the types of car normally parked there in the picture.
They weren't too good with their parking though..
Owner was a nice guy though. Was just visiting relatives. Came over and give the car a very quick blip on the noise pedal before setting off, and almost blew out my eardrums - I didn't realise how loud that V12 was!
What a cool thread!
I lived in Canary Wharf for a while. Some of it is fairly posh but a lot of back streets are pretty dodgy. Once took a short cut down one such dodgy alley and heard a very pleasant engine noise. Strolled past an open garage door (not attached to a house - seemed to be some kind of hidden parking) and in that garage a guy was tuning his Bugatti EB110 alongside a:
Lister Storm
Lambo Miura
Lambo Countach LP500.
My jaw nearly fell off! I asked about the Bugatti and the guy almost seemed embarrassed to have been "caught" with such a collection. He didn't seem to want anyone to know they were there.
I wish I'd got a photo!
I lived in Canary Wharf for a while. Some of it is fairly posh but a lot of back streets are pretty dodgy. Once took a short cut down one such dodgy alley and heard a very pleasant engine noise. Strolled past an open garage door (not attached to a house - seemed to be some kind of hidden parking) and in that garage a guy was tuning his Bugatti EB110 alongside a:
Lister Storm
Lambo Miura
Lambo Countach LP500.
My jaw nearly fell off! I asked about the Bugatti and the guy almost seemed embarrassed to have been "caught" with such a collection. He didn't seem to want anyone to know they were there.
I wish I'd got a photo!
Vladimir said:
Strolled past an open garage door (not attached to a house - seemed to be some kind of hidden parking) and in that garage a guy was tuning his Bugatti EB110 alongside a:
Lister Storm
Lambo Miura
Lambo Countach LP500
A friend of mine used to work on the peripheries of Canary Wharf a few years back - someone who shared his office's parking had an EB110 (and an LM002). Can't have been too many around there.Lister Storm
Lambo Miura
Lambo Countach LP500
martin84 said:
melvster said:
Found this the other week, abandoned, and yes it is a real Cozzeh, such a shame to see it in this condition.
I dont normally feel a sense of outrage but something must be done!Lets get it and restore it! Save the Cosworth from a dusty death!
Trommel said:
A friend of mine used to work on the peripheries of Canary Wharf a few years back - someone who shared his office's parking had an EB110 (and an LM002). Can't have been too many around there.
Highly likely to have been the same one then - we lived there about six years ago. The back street was very near our gaff in Anchorage Point next to the Cascades building. I would LOVED to have seen the LM002!!
I am now wishing that I'd photographed the immaculate 67 Mustang which I used to drive past in one of the rougher areas of Berrylands last summer... what a beautiful machine that was, and what a surprise that the local scrotes didn't rip it to shreds. As with the 360 Spider mentioned earlier in the thread, do we think that there is a certain level of car which engages the "petrolhead" section of your average hoodlum's brain rather than the "I want to nick it/key it/spit on it" section which is engaged by a more workaday slice of car-dom - your RS4s, M3s, RR Sports and the like? Or am I showing too much faith in humanity, and the response is triggered more by the thought of "Wonder who owns that, what he deals, and whether he's fed his pitbull recently?"
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