Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[TheTyreAbuser]

Found this sorry looking thing about this time last year behind some flats in a kinda rough area of Leicester.

Full marks to those who pick out what it is before seeing the last couple of photos.

Looks as though some scrotes have tried to torch it, not realising that it's not that easy to burn out one of these.

[russell_ram]

I got it on pic2 and probably would've done from pic1 if I'd spent longer looking at it.

Edited by russell_ram on Thursday 17th March 11:37

[anothernameitist]

Picture 5 , but had to check 6 for confirmation!

[TR4man]

Dapster said:

DickyC said:

My first wife and I lived at the endearingly named Cemetery Junction.

A couple or six pints at the College Arms, charm the laydeez in the "After Dark" followed by a large with chilly from Abra-Kebabra. Now that's a night out in Reading for you...

Erm, would you mind awfully if I don't come with you?

[texaxile]

TR4man said:

Dapster said:

DickyC said:

My first wife and I lived at the endearingly named Cemetery Junction.

A couple or six pints at the College Arms, charm the laydeez in the "After Dark" followed by a large with chilly from Abra-Kebabra. Now that's a night out in Reading for you...

Erm, would you mind awfully if I don't come with you?

I think I might be washing my hair tonight. Sorry and all that.

[KateV8]

Can somebody identify these for me please? Found last year in Gloucestershire, drove me mad because they look familiar but can't place them.

[KateV8]

Second image....

[Iva Barchetta]

KateV8 said:

Can somebody identify these for me please? Found last year in Gloucestershire, drove me mad because they look familiar but can't place them.

A Manta B ?

[Stigproducts]

That second one is a Skoda 110R

Whats with the tins of beans in the first pic? picnic?!

[KateV8]

I'd never have guessed the Skoda. The tins of beans were actually cat food. It was a bizarre find, there were two other cars there also disappearing into the vegetation, a mark two Escort Estate and a Citroen Diane. It was a plot of land just off a busy main road and the only sign of human activity was that evidently someone was feeding cats there, daily we thought. Healthy cats and dead cars.

[KateV8]

Answering my own question here but thanks to the Manta B suggestion a quick google search suggests the first car is an Opel Rekord Coupe.

[Iva Barchetta]

I was in 2 minds whether it was an older Opel but settled on Manta,incorrectly it seems....

[v46m4n]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8937499,-0.45966...

[uk66fastback]

v46m4n said:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8937499,-0.45966...

Shame, but you only have to look at the state of his paintwork on those windows to know the car will be in a similar state ... but he won't sell as one day he's going to do it up of course ...

[Humper]

uk66fastback said:

v46m4n said:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8937499,-0.45966...

Shame, but you only have to look at the state of his paintwork on those windows to know the car will be in a similar state ... but he won't sell as one day he's going to do it up of course ...

One day......
If you look through the Streetview history it's been there since 2008 at least

[MarkwG]

v46m4n said:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8937499,-0.45966...

I pass that each time I head for the M1 home; not the usual Barry'd BMW or Mercedes-Benz I tend to get cut up by around there...

[MontyC]

Rescued from a barn a good few years ago.

[Huntsman]

Fastdruid said:

It's got all the important things for a restoration.....a VIN number, engine number and registration plate!

On an e type the block and head are numbered, the gearbox, final drive, body, picture frame and chassis plate. But yes, it'll live on.

[tom2487]

this was outside brian leightons garage in howden which closed a few years back, think its gone now though so either s have got hold of it or its been sold

[DickyC]

Is it an Ashley?