Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[KateV8]

Mercky said:

I reckon it is a Corvair. Look at the distance between the top of the rear wheel arch and the swage line..

Does look like a Corvair now, comparing my pic with the one posted. Good spot!

[Gompo]

BeastieBoy73 said:

Managed a closer look earlier today, it is an AEC (thanks AndyM). To find it, take the turning for the Notcutts/Wheatcrofts Garden Centre. Opposite the entrance are two houses that look abandoned. The truck is in the front garden of the house on the right. If you continue along the road and reach a business park, you've gone to far.

Thanks for the detailed reply.

Cheers.

[Mercky]

KateV8 said:

Mercky said:

I reckon it is a Corvair. Look at the distance between the top of the rear wheel arch and the swage line..

Does look like a Corvair now, comparing my pic with the one posted. Good spot!

'Twas GSE wot spotted it. With a name like that I reckon he knows his GM cars.

[cymtriks]

KateV8 said:

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.

Quedgeley?

The orange one is a Skoda, been there for over thirty years if it's the one I'm thinking of.

[Iva Barchetta]

Yellow one is old F reg,where's the bus beards to identify it ?

[Mercky]

Iva Barchetta said:

Yellow one is old F reg,where's the bus beards to identify it ?

It's an old coach.

[soxboy]

Iva Barchetta said:

Yellow one is old F reg,where's the bus beards to identify it ?

At a guess I would say Plaxton Panorama. Seems odd looking on Google Images of all the coaches that were so familiar in the 70s and 80s that you never see anymore.

[kdri155]

Someone's once pride and joy slowly starting to die, not to everybody's taste with rubber bumpers and 80's glass sunroof;

[badhuis]

Taken some years ago. Poor old Lancia.

[Longnose]

The way Escort prices are going this could be worth a fortune!

[KateV8]

cymtriks said:

Quedgeley?

The orange one is a Skoda, been there for over thirty years if it's the one I'm thinking of.

Yes Quedgely it was. Bizarre, there we were strolling down the main road in search of a meal and hey what's this, a graveyard for cars. A blue mini too in addition to the Escort and Dianne already mentioned. They all certainly look like thirty years could have passed since their arrival.

[DickyC]

TonyF55 said:

Very sad end to such an elegant car, Mercedes W111 coupe;

Along with everyone else I was thinking how scarce these are and then yesterday I saw one in a local Mercedes specialist.

[wibble cb]

DickyC said:

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

my gran used to live on Radstock Road, a couple of mins from there...

[DickyC]

wibble cb said:

my gran used to live on Radstock Road, a couple of mins from there...

It was okay, a cultural melting pot. And busy! For those unfamiliar with the area, the junction is the intersection of the A4 and A329. We were there long after the motorway had been built but what it must have been like when the A4 was a main east-west route I can't imagine.

[Cliftonite]

Iva Barchetta said:

Yellow one is old F reg,where's the bus beards to identify it ?

Do you have the complete registration number, please?

[Iva Barchetta]

No I don't.

Didn't think to write it down or get it in the pic.

I don't deliver there very often either.

[gobuddygo]

Iva Barchetta said:

Yellow one is old F reg,where's the bus beards to identify it ?

Plaxton Panorama 1 AEC looked like this originally.

Edited by gobuddygo on Monday 4th April 17:11

[TimJMS]

An Early '68 - '69 Silver Shadow. Cape Coral FLA. Very sorry for itself, but there's some air in the tyres. Everflex roof is shot and someone has helped themselves to the Silver Lady and radiator grille.

[john2443]

BeastieBoy73 said:

Probably not abandoned - Matadors just seem to keep on going, there are plenty in worse condition that that still earning a living! Lots were converted into timber tractors like that one and also breakdown trucks for bus companies.

They were originally artillery tractors.

Definitely on my shopping list if I manage to move to somewhere with enough space to park it.

[E24man]

TimJMS said:

An Early '68 - '69 Silver Shadow. Cape Coral FLA. Very sorry for itself, but there's some air in the tyres. Everflex roof is shot and someone has helped themselves to the Silver Lady and radiator grille.

Modern day Lady Agnes?