Spotted Ordinary Abandoned Vehicles
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talksthetorque said:
Zerotonine said:
Not sure if this has been posted, but this car is quite famous in Swindon. The guy will not sell.
He appears to have made his porch roof from exactly the same material as Ford used for the body panels.
Dapster said:
rfsteel said:
I always remember seeing this on Audi Coupe on the driveway around the corner from when I grew up for 30 odd years
That's a late model facelift quattro, not to be confused with the Ur Quattro, from c'86. The coupe quattro was rarer than the Ur Quattro. LotusOmega375D said:
This thread reminded me of the below Peugeot:
About 6 weeks ago, the owner parked it in the pub car-park right next to our house. He hasn't been back to it since. I have just checked the DVLA site and lo-and-behold the MOT expired 22.10.16 and the Tax at the end of November. I guess the owner has conveniently forgotten about it, rather than making any arrangements to get it back on the road or scrapped. It's the pub's problem now, of course.
There's a second part to this story. Several months ago the same car was left for a couple of weeks on our private road directly outside our house. There was a business card with a name visible on the dashboard, so I called the company and the HR lady informed that the guy had recently left the company, but that she still had his contact details and would pass on the message. Sure enough, a couple of days later he came back and drove the car away.
What sort of person just dumps their car on somebody else's property for weeks on end?
UPDATE
About 6 weeks ago, the owner parked it in the pub car-park right next to our house. He hasn't been back to it since. I have just checked the DVLA site and lo-and-behold the MOT expired 22.10.16 and the Tax at the end of November. I guess the owner has conveniently forgotten about it, rather than making any arrangements to get it back on the road or scrapped. It's the pub's problem now, of course.
There's a second part to this story. Several months ago the same car was left for a couple of weeks on our private road directly outside our house. There was a business card with a name visible on the dashboard, so I called the company and the HR lady informed that the guy had recently left the company, but that she still had his contact details and would pass on the message. Sure enough, a couple of days later he came back and drove the car away.
What sort of person just dumps their car on somebody else's property for weeks on end?
Edited by LotusOmega375D on Monday 5th December 12:27
A week on from this post, the owner has just come back in a different car to collect some stuff from his abandoned Peugeot. He drove off again, leaving the Peugeot where it's sat for 2 months now, before I had a chance to speak to him. I just did a DVLA check on his new car and guess what, it's showing as not taxed.
EDIT
He's just come back again and things looked promising when he got in the Pug and tried to start it. Unsurprisingly, it was having none of it after being dumped for 2 months. He tried with jump leads, but no good. Looks like it'll be there a little while longer yet.
Edited by LotusOmega375D on Monday 12th December 11:47
This double Decker has been in this yard since I've been here - which is about 10 years now.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.7280843,-0.40598...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.7280843,-0.40598...
cpjitservices said:
This double Decker has been in this yard since I've been here - which is about 10 years now.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.7280843,-0.40598...
Looks like it's been there for several multiples of that! Really gone.https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.7280843,-0.40598...
Efbe said:
multibuy?
This is in Halifax. It's been about 6 years since I was last there, but I can't remember seeing them there the last time I was there, so they can't have been there that long. I know that there's probably plenty of abandoned cars around Halifax though. I remember seeing a mossy pale blue MK1 Celica GT parked in a yard around the back of a garage once, that was about 8 years ago now. I wonder if it's still there. I also remember seeing a few rotting LDV Convoys/Pilots around, but I feel like that's a common sight wherever you go in the UK as LDV vans are pretty well known for being piles of s
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This thing's been there for at least 10 years! Not actually sure what it is?
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5353691,0.7308467,...
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5353691,0.7308467,...
kayzee said:
This thing's been there for at least 10 years! Not actually sure what it is?
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5353691,0.7308467,...
Dutton Sierra. Early '80s Ford-based kit.https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5353691,0.7308467,...
Dapster said:
StevenB said:
If it's a coupe quattro it has the wrong exhaust, should be a twin pipe. looks more like a Coupe GT
You're right about the exhaust but it says "quattro" on the bootlid. Either a bad aftermarket exhaust or a fake badge.Edited by Gunk on Monday 12th December 20:53
Crappy picture but here is two old fords been there for sure more than ten years but i know it is alot longer. Just down the road from work. Strangely the sheets were put on quite recently despite the a pillar being so rotten on the capri its about to collapse. It does have an aluminium body kit on it that must be worth saving.
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Or even a regular B2 Audi Coupe Quattro that's had a replacement silencer
It has the early bumpers, the coupe quattro was never made with those, i think the badge on the O/S says Fuel Injection, making it an pre 83 ish GT
Gunk said:
Dapster said:
StevenB said:
If it's a coupe quattro it has the wrong exhaust, should be a twin pipe. looks more like a Coupe GT
You're right about the exhaust but it says "quattro" on the bootlid. Either a bad aftermarket exhaust or a fake badge.Edited by Gunk on Monday 12th December 20:53
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