Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[Ayahuasca]

Edited by Ayahuasca on Sunday 11th December 14:48

[Gunk]

Just further up my road in Oxford is this lot which have been rotting away for the last 10 years.


Behind the Fiesta is;
Commer ex BT van
Land Rover 110
Maestro Van

Edited by Gunk on Sunday 11th December 15:13

[Hugh Jarse]

Those commer vans are pretty neat as camper vans and that Toyota is ueber cool, the hanging chains give it a horror movie extra type association

[v8250]

Ayahuasca said:

Edited by Ayahuasca on Sunday 11th December 14:48

Didn't realise this was what Jean Alesi was driving these days...

[RanchoGrande]

davebem said:

Edited by davebem on Monday 5th December 12:30

I posted a pic of one of these in a similar state a few years back. Wonder if it's the same one? Was in West London.

[Hub]

[MiltonBaines]

P5BNij said:

soxboy said:

MiltonBaines said:

Is that a scan from a magazine article showing lots of abandoned lambos?
I remember having that pic in a magazine years ago, showed lots of abandoned test cars and prototypes. Mainly uraccos and espadas with one lone muira bonnet.

I remember it from Car in the mid/ late 1980s.

Yes the article was called something like ''Death In The Afternoon...''. The orange Urraco prototype on the right is now in the Lambo museum (the other Urraco hack was used by Bob Wallace to create the 'Urraco Bob'), cowering beneath it is the first running Urraco prototype with its central instrument pod, also in that photo is the rear end of the Espada prototype, just to the left of the Giallo Urraco.

Edited by P5BNij on Thursday 8th December 15:45

Don't suppose you know which issue it was so I can try and get hold of it.

[Gunk]

Hub said:

Great photo, it would almost be a shame to disturb it, it's just slowly and gracefully crumbling away.

[TonyRPH]

Amazingly that Astra GTE is SORN - but I couldn't find any MOT history for it, so it must have been off the road for a long, long time.

[DiscoColin]

Gunk said:

Hub said:

Great photo, it would almost be a shame to disturb it, it's just slowly and gracefully crumbling away.

Having had an 80s Astra - there probably isn't a lot of structural integrity left in that if it has just been rotting there. In fact - you are probably looking mostly at dust, glass and paint there.

[P5BNij]

MiltonBaines said:

P5BNij said:

soxboy said:

MiltonBaines said:

Is that a scan from a magazine article showing lots of abandoned lambos?
I remember having that pic in a magazine years ago, showed lots of abandoned test cars and prototypes. Mainly uraccos and espadas with one lone muira bonnet.

I remember it from Car in the mid/ late 1980s.

Yes the article was called something like ''Death In The Afternoon...''. The orange Urraco prototype on the right is now in the Lambo museum (the other Urraco hack was used by Bob Wallace to create the 'Urraco Bob'), cowering beneath it is the first running Urraco prototype with its central instrument pod, also in that photo is the rear end of the Espada prototype, just to the left of the Giallo Urraco.

Edited by P5BNij on Thursday 8th December 15:45

Don't suppose you know which issue it was so I can try and get hold of it.

June '87

[MiltonBaines]

wow I do have a good memory, I spent a large chunk of my pocket money on that issue.
Cheers for the info, off to ebay.

[Gompo]

Gunk said:

Hub said:

Great photo, it would almost be a shame to disturb it, it's just slowly and gracefully crumbling away.

The last change of owner was in 1993 for this.

Great spot.

[Purso]

In my mates garage

[Purso]

Rs2

[DickyC]

Advise him that some chaps pay better attention to their pension pots.

[Gunk]

Friend of mine lives like that, I can't do it, it would just completely stress me out.

[samj2014]

At least it's dry stored and only going up in value!

[CharlieAlphaMike]

These must be firmly in the 'dead' category

[Alan L]

CharlieAlphaMike said:

These must be firmly in the 'dead' category

A bit of t cut that will be fine, seriously though how long does a car have to sit somewhere to get to that state, 20 yrs, 30 yrs ?