Open at your own risk, distressing pics inside

Open at your own risk, distressing pics inside

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paddy328

Original Poster:

2,902 posts

184 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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I hope the owner is ok and hope it was nobody on here.




Impasse

15,099 posts

240 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Oh dear. That's quite sad to see.

williamp

19,213 posts

272 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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As long as nobody was hurt, no problem. It will be repaired..er... restored. I hear silver birch is out of fashion. Maybe fiesta red this time??

IanV12VR

2,749 posts

154 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Agree, provided no one injured then it will be better than new pretty soon provided they have not skimped on insurance cover. They are now so valuable little likelihood of it being written off. Sad to see though frown

vankypanky

526 posts

184 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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more distressing though is to have only 14% battery left on your phone

Quinny

15,814 posts

265 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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I've seen that car a number of times travelling the A483frown

divetheworld

2,565 posts

134 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greate...

Glad the occupants weren't too badly injured. I'm sure 3DC will be back on its wire wheels soon enough, contrary to the opinion of Manchester's police spokesman.

Quinny

15,814 posts

265 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Blimey.....according to the article, it appears it's a DB5 as driven by "Bond" in the "Bond" films:rolletyes:

gowmonster

2,471 posts

166 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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passenger compartment looks surprisingly intact, in fact it looks to have crumpled like a modern car DB ahead of it's time?

complete write off for a million pound car according to the article, really? i doubt it would cost that much to repair!

IanV12VR

2,749 posts

154 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Y100 said:
Too subtle for me vankypanky. confused
I will leave Russell to come back on that but of more concern to me was how quickly the battery life was dropping - 2% in three minute. He would have been out of battery by 5:00pm getmecoat

ds2000

2,681 posts

191 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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I'm more upset it was involved with an Astra, hardly a blaze of glory for the old girl frown

hman

7,487 posts

193 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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looks like a lot of damage - but certainly repairable in my amateur opinion.

was it out on hire or was the owner driving it?

woolders

873 posts

156 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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gowmonster said:
passenger compartment looks surprisingly intact, in fact it looks to have crumpled like a modern car DB ahead of it's time?

complete write off for a million pound car according to the article, really? i doubt it would cost that much to repair!
Have you checked iin at Works Service recently?!

RobDown

3,803 posts

127 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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I think Works are currently charging GBP375k (+VAT) as the standard price for a full restoration job.

The car isn't worth a million, that's just lazy journalism, with a Works restoration done on it you would probably be looking at more like £700k in today's money - unless its got some special history that I'm not aware of.

So it will certainly get restored, albeit it will potentially lose a lot of originality in the process, which is a shame.

I know it sounds trite, but the main thing is that it sounds like the occupants are ok. The car can be restored, people can't.