Classics left to die/rotting pics
Discussion
yonex said:
Will get a pick but there is a Cerb nr Chipping Norton, hasn't moved in years.
Not this one?http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Ok, so this next spotted isn't exactly recent - a long time ago to be precise, but I'd thought I'd mention it as it's just jogged my memory
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Around the late 90s/early 2000's I often visited a stretch of woods called Borsdane Wood in Hindley, Wigan. The end of woods led out into an area where a few houses stand, and just outside one house stood a very rotted and rusting MGB (not sure what model/series it was). I'd never seen an MGB in such a poor state, and I wasn't aware at the time how much of a rust-bucket they are. God knows what happened to it, presumably off to the scrapyard like so many have.
The screenshot is from 1997. Not a great picture but that's all I have.
. Around the late 90s/early 2000's I often visited a stretch of woods called Borsdane Wood in Hindley, Wigan. The end of woods led out into an area where a few houses stand, and just outside one house stood a very rotted and rusting MGB (not sure what model/series it was). I'd never seen an MGB in such a poor state, and I wasn't aware at the time how much of a rust-bucket they are. God knows what happened to it, presumably off to the scrapyard like so many have.
The screenshot is from 1997. Not a great picture but that's all I have.
4rephill said:
Does this make you the legal owner of the car or merely it's registered keeper? (as these are not the same thing!)
The reason I ask is because if you are merely declared the registered keeper and not the legal owner, is there not the risk that if a previous owner of the car came forward and proved that they are the rightful legal owner of the car, then you'd have to forfeit the vehicle back to them?
You would - which is why any recovery needs to be done correctly. Don't take a vehicle from private land, even if it is abandoned. Make every attempt to get in touch with the owner, and if in doubt, leave it. You wouldn't want to spend ££££s restoring a classic only for the son and heir to an estate to step forward and claim it back.The reason I ask is because if you are merely declared the registered keeper and not the legal owner, is there not the risk that if a previous owner of the car came forward and proved that they are the rightful legal owner of the car, then you'd have to forfeit the vehicle back to them?
Hooli said:
Poor Jags too 
I agree, I forgot about those Jags. At the time, I don't remember ever seeing the Jag's, it's only as I was looking at the video footage the shot is from when I noticed them. I think the MGB was a black bumper model, but not completely sure. Although very hard to tell from the pic, I remember it being very rotted and rusty, almost to the extent that if contact was made with it it would fall apart in your hand lol. Shame really. So many were made and the owners just didn't bother to care for them, or just didn't have the time or money to keep em in condition.Jukebag said:
So many were made and the owners just didn't bother to care for them, or just didn't have the time or money to keep em in condition.
Remember you're talking 70s BL here ... In other words s
te quality. Still lots of nice ones around and they're the ones reshelled or zeibarted from new. My 71 roadster was only a decade old when I got it ... sills and floors were rotten . uk66fastback said:
Remember you're talking 70s BL here ... In other words ste quality. Still lots of nice ones around and they're the ones reshelled or zeibarted from new. My 71 roadster was only a decade old when I got it ... sills and floors were rotten .
Quite - my first car was 10 years old when I bought it, already full of porridge & knackered: the change in build quality since the 80s has had a huge affect on the longevity of cars these days; passed an '84 Jag XJ yesterday, fairly weathered but still rolling along the M27.te quality. Still lots of nice ones around and they're the ones reshelled or zeibarted from new. My 71 roadster was only a decade old when I got it ... sills and floors were rotten . MarkwG said:
Quite - my first car was 10 years old when I bought it, already full of porridge & knackered: the change in build quality since the 80s has had a huge affect on the longevity of cars these days; passed an '84 Jag XJ yesterday, fairly weathered but still rolling along the M27.
Absolutly, my first car was a 14 year old MGA which was pretty tatty and rusting in places. My Griffith is now 14 years old and is still pretty immaculate RichB said:
MarkwG said:
Quite - my first car was 10 years old when I bought it, already full of porridge & knackered: the change in build quality since the 80s has had a huge affect on the longevity of cars these days; passed an '84 Jag XJ yesterday, fairly weathered but still rolling along the M27.
Absolutly, my first car was a 14 year old MGA which was pretty tatty and rusting in places. My Griffith is now 14 years old and is still pretty immaculate 
eccles said:
RichB said:
MarkwG said:
Quite - my first car was 10 years old when I bought it, already full of porridge & knackered: the change in build quality since the 80s has had a huge affect on the longevity of cars these days; passed an '84 Jag XJ yesterday, fairly weathered but still rolling along the M27.
Absolutly, my first car was a 14 year old MGA which was pretty tatty and rusting in places. My Griffith is now 14 years old and is still pretty immaculate 
Dr Interceptor said:
You would - which is why any recovery needs to be done correctly. Don't take a vehicle from private land, even if it is abandoned. Make every attempt to get in touch with the owner, and if in doubt, leave it. You wouldn't want to spend ££££s restoring a classic only for the son and heir to an estate to step forward and claim it back.
Thank you for the additional information, that's what I suspected to be the case.It's all to easy to see the pictures in this thread and to want to do something to save the cars without realising that if you don't investigate the cars situation fully, it could end up costing you a lot of money and the car.
I figured it wouldn't do any harm just to inform/remind people about the differences between being the legal registered keeper of a vehicle and the legal owner of a vehicle, just in case.
For most on here it will be old news but there may be some who didn't realise that the two definitions are not the same thing.
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