Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2
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thetapeworm said:
GeneralBanter said:
For those of us whose car knowledge only goes up to 1951 - what is it?
Sorry, I thought part of thd fun might be the guessing but as above it's a Celica Cabriolet, probably around 1991 vintage, but with a different paint job and aftermarket wheels.
I think this probably qualifies - definitely a "yesterday's hero". Been parked up where it is for was long as I can remember, definitely at least 30 years and probably longer. Back then it was still red! It's odd, it's just been left there to slowly fall apart, which it's managing quite well all on it's own. It's on the front lawn of a private house.
DickyC said:
thetapeworm said:
GeneralBanter said:
For those of us whose car knowledge only goes up to 1951 - what is it?
Sorry, I thought part of thd fun might be the guessing but as above it's a Celica Cabriolet, probably around 1991 vintage, but with a different paint job and aftermarket wheels.GeneralBanter said:
DickyC said:
thetapeworm said:
GeneralBanter said:
For those of us whose car knowledge only goes up to 1951 - what is it?
Sorry, I thought part of thd fun might be the guessing but as above it's a Celica Cabriolet, probably around 1991 vintage, but with a different paint job and aftermarket wheels.A The work of the Devil?
B A figment of an advertising executive's drug-riddled mind?
-Cappo- said:
I think this probably qualifies - definitely a "yesterday's hero". Been parked up where it is for was long as I can remember, definitely at least 30 years and probably longer. Back then it was still red! It's odd, it's just been left there to slowly fall apart, which it's managing quite well all on it's own. It's on the front lawn of a private house.
wow, but maybe some Dr from back to the future lives there and is tapping some Tesla energie from those 3 energie power kabels? via that steel bus? a Tesla Bus 
Not physically spotted but whilst browsing the back roads on streetview this caught my eye.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zc3vvkM61i4FYkYe8?g_st=ig
Reminded me of around twenty years ago when on holiday and I'd spotted an aging 2CV van in a field, a faded "a vendre" note in the window. It was next to the site we were staying at. Got speaking with the owner and he was keen to give it a run, within 15 minutes he'd put a battery on it, air in the one flat tyre and we were going up and down the farmyard. Nicely patinated, a bit of surface rust but solid floors, etc.
I spent the majority of the holiday trying to think of how I could buy it and get it back to the UK. Thoughts of driving it back and leaving the wife and kids to fly back next to my empty plane seat were met with a death stare.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zc3vvkM61i4FYkYe8?g_st=ig
Reminded me of around twenty years ago when on holiday and I'd spotted an aging 2CV van in a field, a faded "a vendre" note in the window. It was next to the site we were staying at. Got speaking with the owner and he was keen to give it a run, within 15 minutes he'd put a battery on it, air in the one flat tyre and we were going up and down the farmyard. Nicely patinated, a bit of surface rust but solid floors, etc.
I spent the majority of the holiday trying to think of how I could buy it and get it back to the UK. Thoughts of driving it back and leaving the wife and kids to fly back next to my empty plane seat were met with a death stare.
Moospeed said:
Not physically spotted but whilst browsing the back roads on streetview this caught my eye.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zc3vvkM61i4FYkYe8?g_st=ig
Reminded me of around twenty years ago when on holiday and I'd spotted an aging 2CV van in a field, a faded "a vendre" note in the window. It was next to the site we were staying at. Got speaking with the owner and he was keen to give it a run, within 15 minutes he'd put a battery on it, air in the one flat tyre and we were going up and down the farmyard. Nicely patinated, a bit of surface rust but solid floors, etc.
I spent the majority of the holiday trying to think of how I could buy it and get it back to the UK. Thoughts of driving it back and leaving the wife and kids to fly back next to my empty plane seat were met with a death stare.
They just don't get it do they? I had a similar reaction at a campsite in Dorset a couple of years ago, this time for one of those Suzuki Jeeplet thingies with the humping rhinos on the spare wheel cover, as was the mode in the 1980s. I didn't know I wanted one before, but it suddenly became the most desirable object in the world. Standard reactions are either "where would you put it?" or "which one are you going to sell then?" to which she knows I have no effective answer. Still https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zc3vvkM61i4FYkYe8?g_st=ig
Reminded me of around twenty years ago when on holiday and I'd spotted an aging 2CV van in a field, a faded "a vendre" note in the window. It was next to the site we were staying at. Got speaking with the owner and he was keen to give it a run, within 15 minutes he'd put a battery on it, air in the one flat tyre and we were going up and down the farmyard. Nicely patinated, a bit of surface rust but solid floors, etc.
I spent the majority of the holiday trying to think of how I could buy it and get it back to the UK. Thoughts of driving it back and leaving the wife and kids to fly back next to my empty plane seat were met with a death stare.
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