Spotted Ordinary Abandoned Vehicles

[Menaturally]

Bradley1500 said:

Use to think this was an old Lotus either Excel or Eclat, but it looks to be more of a kit car in this photo. Never seen it move from this spot.

Amazing looking series of cars

[bobclayton]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.7968043,-1.25973...

This has been here since at least 2001, when I moved into the village! Never seen it move, or be moved at all.
Gentleman who lives there though also has a new Transit van he uses.

The house has also been scaffolded for as long as I can remember, but it's definitely lived in!

[DeltaTango]

sleepera6 said:

DeltaTango said:

sleepera6 said:

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?

Edited by LotusOmega375D on Monday 5th December 12:27

I've got a similar one.
Been here for a very loooong time.
Parked outside a pub too.

I'll be driving past that pub with the S class later, will check it out!

The Green Man, Kingsbury

Yes indeed. Very much still there last night. The grass around it is now level with the bottom of the windows, they've just been mowing around it. Couldn't take photo as was driving plus it was dark.

[anonymous-user]

DeltaTango said:

sleepera6 said:

DeltaTango said:

sleepera6 said:

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?

Edited by LotusOmega375D on Monday 5th December 12:27

I've got a similar one.
Been here for a very loooong time.
Parked outside a pub too.

I'll be driving past that pub with the S class later, will check it out!

The Green Man, Kingsbury

Yes indeed. Very much still there last night. The grass around it is now level with the bottom of the windows, they've just been mowing around it. Couldn't take photo as was driving plus it was dark.

Wow. That's awesome but a sad demise!

[Irishrob]

Another from just up the road iv remembered.



Funnily enough there is another recently removed ford couger that was standing by the roadside for years that got to be much worse condition but il have to scroll back a few years on streetmaps which i havnt found a way to do on my phone yet.

[HTP99]

I'm sure I've seen this here for years, however the MOT ran out April 2015 so perhaps it hasn't been there as long as I thought.

[K50 DEL]

I cycle past this one pretty regularly, been there for 7 years that I know of and google earth appears to show it in 2002 as well.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3669156,-2.13485...

It can only really been seen during the winter as during the summer the garden is left completely untouched and it, and the camper van that's been there nearly as long get completely swallowed up, along with the multitude of motorbikes that are abandoned there as well!

[Dapster]

x type said:

StevenB said:

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.

If it's a coupe quattro it has the wrong exhaust, should be a twin pipe. looks more like a Coupe GT

maybe not quite correct don't think it's the late model facelift

the early ones had the rubber spoiler on the boot lid, my first coupe gt (not a quattro ) a 1.9 carb version from 82 had one like the one in the pic

with an exhaust same shape as the pic

My later coupe gt from 1986 was the 1.8 carb version with a round exhaust pipe and rubber spoiler

the 2 litre and above had the different tail pipe as in the picture

but in the pic it looks like injection badge on right hand side of bootlid

I would go for 1.9 injection

You are right I think. My initial thought of it being a facelift was simply the tinted rear lenses. The black plastic bumpers obviously mark it out as a pre facelift. My mistake.

However, did the UK cars ever have "injection" written on the bootlid? Weren't they rather clumsily called the "Audi C GT 5E"?

[StevenB]

K50 DEL said:

I cycle past this one pretty regularly, been there for 7 years that I know of and google earth appears to show it in 2002 as well.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3669156,-2.13485...

It can only really been seen during the winter as during the summer the garden is left completely untouched and it, and the camper van that's been there nearly as long get completely swallowed up, along with the multitude of motorbikes that are abandoned there as well!

Yes the early cars had a fuel injection badge

[GreatGranny]

K50 DEL said:

I cycle past this one pretty regularly, been there for 7 years that I know of and google earth appears to show it in 2002 as well.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3669156,-2.13485...

It can only really been seen during the winter as during the summer the garden is left completely untouched and it, and the camper van that's been there nearly as long get completely swallowed up, along with the multitude of motorbikes that are abandoned there as well!

I bet they're popular with the neighbours! :-)

Big house near to me in had a huge narrowboat in the front garden for a few years while he was renovating it.

must have been a hell of a task getting it on and off the driveway.

This must have been on this thread at some point.

https://goo.gl/maps/gY48NTT7wKC2

Lived up the road from 1995 to 2001 and used to drive past it regularly after that.
Image capture is from Aug 2016 so still there.

Various rumours about reason why its not been taken away, one is that it was the son's car and he committed suicide in it! Probably BS as most of these are.

[Byker28i]

I walk past a couple everyday, buried in the bushes. The back ones certainly never moved for years and they've parked another in front about 2 years ago

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5725901,-1.84127...

[Gunk]

Dapster said:

x type said:

StevenB said:

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.

If it's a coupe quattro it has the wrong exhaust, should be a twin pipe. looks more like a Coupe GT

maybe not quite correct don't think it's the late model facelift

the early ones had the rubber spoiler on the boot lid, my first coupe gt (not a quattro ) a 1.9 carb version from 82 had one like the one in the pic

with an exhaust same shape as the pic

My later coupe gt from 1986 was the 1.8 carb version with a round exhaust pipe and rubber spoiler

the 2 litre and above had the different tail pipe as in the picture

but in the pic it looks like injection badge on right hand side of bootlid

I would go for 1.9 injection

You are right I think. My initial thought of it being a facelift was simply the tinted rear lenses. The black plastic bumpers obviously mark it out as a pre facelift. My mistake.

However, did the UK cars ever have "injection" written on the bootlid? Weren't they rather clumsily called the "Audi C GT 5E"?

That photo just reminds me of a golden age when Audi made genuinely desireable cars rather than the Black Edition 2.0 TDI rubbish they currently churn out

[DaveGoddard]

The Safrane and the silver BMW behind it haven't moved for years, despite looking in fairly reasonable condition.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.6789073,-1.91365...

A short distance along the same road, you can just about see a dead Defender with flat tyres at centre right.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.67842,-1.9104218...

A few doors away from that there's also a dead Freelander that has been slowly sinking into its driveway for some time, but that can't be seen from the road.

Same town, different place, another dead Safrane (are all big Renaults of this era abandoned on driveways?). This one was being used as a skip the last time I saw it.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.678245,-1.899564...

Sorry I suck at linking images.

[x type]

Dapster said:

x type said:

StevenB said:

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.

If it's a coupe quattro it has the wrong exhaust, should be a twin pipe. looks more like a Coupe GT

maybe not quite correct don't think it's the late model facelift

the early ones had the rubber spoiler on the boot lid, my first coupe gt (not a quattro ) a 1.9 carb version from 82 had one like the one in the pic

with an exhaust same shape as the pic

My later coupe gt from 1986 was the 1.8 carb version with a round exhaust pipe and rubber spoiler

the 2 litre and above had the different tail pipe as in the picture

but in the pic it looks like injection badge on right hand side of bootlid

I would go for 1.9 injection

You are right I think. My initial thought of it being a facelift was simply the tinted rear lenses. The black plastic bumpers obviously mark it out as a pre facelift. My mistake.

However, did the UK cars ever have "injection" written on the bootlid? Weren't they rather clumsily called the "Audi C GT 5E"?

chri.. on a bike

that looks like a pic of my first coupe
same colour same wheels and yes as you say mine was a COUPE GT 5E without the C

mine had the left handed wipers as in the picture , twin headlights but was right hand drive

MBX 683Y was the number

Edited by x type on Saturday 17th December 21:03

[anonymous-user]

x type said:

Dapster said:

x type said:

StevenB said:

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.

If it's a coupe quattro it has the wrong exhaust, should be a twin pipe. looks more like a Coupe GT

maybe not quite correct don't think it's the late model facelift

the early ones had the rubber spoiler on the boot lid, my first coupe gt (not a quattro ) a 1.9 carb version from 82 had one like the one in the pic

with an exhaust same shape as the pic

My later coupe gt from 1986 was the 1.8 carb version with a round exhaust pipe and rubber spoiler

the 2 litre and above had the different tail pipe as in the picture

but in the pic it looks like injection badge on right hand side of bootlid

I would go for 1.9 injection

You are right I think. My initial thought of it being a facelift was simply the tinted rear lenses. The black plastic bumpers obviously mark it out as a pre facelift. My mistake.

However, did the UK cars ever have "injection" written on the bootlid? Weren't they rather clumsily called the "Audi C GT 5E"?

chri.. on a bike

that looks like a pic of my first coupe
same colour same wheels and yes as you say mine was a COUPE GT 5E without the C

mine had the left handed wipers as in the picture , twin headlights but was right hand drive

MBX 683Y was the number

Edited by x type on Saturday 17th December 21:03

[x type]

used to look like this

[PaulGT3]

GreatGranny said:

I bet they're popular with the neighbours! :-)

Big house near to me in had a huge narrowboat in the front garden for a few years while he was renovating it.

must have been a hell of a task getting it on and off the driveway.

This must have been on this thread at some point.

https://goo.gl/maps/gY48NTT7wKC2

Lived up the road from 1995 to 2001 and used to drive past it regularly after that.
Image capture is from Aug 2016 so still there.

Various rumours about reason why its not been taken away, one is that it was the son's car and he committed suicide in it! Probably BS as most of these are.

Yep have seen that one there for years, also this one not far away!

https://goo.gl/maps/WgWARxmuNRC2

[anonymous-user]

x type said:

used to look like this

That looked great

Hey I had an X Type before! Fantastic car.

[Dapster]

It may not look like it but this W124 hasn't moved in 3 years and now has a load of metal fence sections laid on it.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5828437,-0.16475...

Half a mile away we have a later W210 that's been stood around for around 6 years and to the right, you can just make out the roof of another W124 which again, has been long forgotten about.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.575991,-0.159226...

Round the corner parked outside a house with a high fence is an immaculate 560SEC. The other day the gate was opened revealing at least 4 dead 80's Mercs including another C126. I'll see if I can capture that sometime.

The house next to the first W124 now has a dead 944 in the drive which isn't yet on Google images.

[BentleyR8]

These two Astra GTE's's have been sat on the driveway for years. The other is behind the first one down the driveway.

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?si...

Edited by BentleyR8 on Sunday 18th December 17:21