Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[Mr Tidy]

TriumphStag3.0V8 said:

Will see if I can get a better picture next weekend.

190E Merc I'd say, or a W124.

I would concur, although I couldn't get any closer as there was a river between me and it. Will go back at the weekend with a better camera. There were a few other semi interesting motors knocking around.

My money would be on W124 - it looks too wide to be a W201 (190).

[dandarez]

generationx said:

Yertis said:

tr7v8 said:

john2443 said:

NorthernSky said:

...and...any ideas on this? There are reasons why I think it's a (pre Austin) Healey, but an equal number of reasons why I think it isn't!

Early TR maybe a 2 or a slightly later one without the grille?

The lights are not in the right place for a TR2, and I think the rad duct is too narrow.

Possibly a Morgan of some kind - the flat base to the grill area plus the rest of the old British crap lying around?

Less of the 'old British crap'...

Old 'British crap' of all sorts can be worth a packet these days - especially to idiots with more money than sense (who've always been out there, I've found a few of them in my time).
Take the 'Shepherd', who even if he'd have won the old dilapidated Shepherd's Hut (which had not moved for over 50 yrs!) at his highest bid of over £13k he'd still have been 'fleeced'
Unfortunately (I myself would have thought 'fortunately' would be a more appropriate word!) he was outbid by a bigger, more money than sense, fool who won it for £16,250 (the auction reserve was 800 quid! - even that seems too high!).
The BNPS photo shows what he won.


Think, especially before you throw away what you consider junk - some will pay over the odds for it.
Sometimes, way in excess of the odds!

[Yertis]

dandarez said:

generationx said:

Possibly a Morgan of some kind - the flat base to the grill area plus the rest of the old British crap lying around?

Less of the 'old British crap'...

I assumed he was referring to the bits of carpet and wotnot.

[Notwen]

Don't think I posted this before, spotted by my wife while walking a year or so ago

[T6 vanman]

W124 estate and old Landy .... They'll both be in daily use

[NuvolAscaRina]

MOT not renewed in 2017 for the Mercedes .

[Sammo123]

I reckon this must be a classic. It’s been sitting there for at least 12 years, if not longer. It’s a shame because it looks pretty tidy even after sitting for this long, but I’d imagine it’s rotten underneath!

[PowerslideSWE]

MK1 Scirocco GTI, last MOT equivalent in 1995, shame to let it just sit there for more than a quarter century, on grass aswell so one can imagine the state of the floor...

[4rephill]

Sammo123 said:

I reckon this must be a classic. It’s been sitting there for at least 12 years, if not longer. It’s a shame because it looks pretty tidy even after sitting for this long, but I’d imagine it’s rotten underneath!

Definitely a classic!

It's a 1980~1982 (plastic door mirrors came along in 1980) 4 cylinder (single large headlight per side- 6 cylinder cars got 2 slightly smaller headlights per side) BMW E21 in what looks to me to be Kastanienrot metallic (apart from the green wing obviously -Resedagruen Metallic? ).

Rust is a big issue with these cars (along with the E12 5 series of the same period), and not necessarily the rust you can see!

"Back in the day", BMW used a thick, rigid under-seal at the factory in wheel arches, around the boot area, inner wings etc., etc., and various other places, that got painted the same colour as the bodywork.

If you clean off any dirt and grime from the under-seal, the cars can appear to be pretty solid.

Peel off the under-seal though, and the picture changes completely, because water/moisture got trapped beneath the under-seal, and quietly rotted the cars from the inside-out, out of sight.

Plenty of "solid" BMW E12's and E21's , have proven to be anything but, once the under-seal was peeled off, and instead, were found to be rotten death traps, that would fold in half if they were ever in an accident.

[Heaveho]

PowerslideSWE said:

MK1 Scirocco GTI, last MOT equivalent in 1995, shame to let it just sit there for more than a quarter century, on grass aswell so one can imagine the state of the floor...

Ah man, what a waste. My dad had two of those, I'd love one.

[Dapster]

PowerslideSWE said:

MK1 Scirocco GTI, last MOT equivalent in 1995, shame to let it just sit there for more than a quarter century, on grass aswell so one can imagine the state of the floor...

LHD and with headlight washers - very rare option. My dad had one as well -V reg, GLi. Absolutely lovely things they were.

[Johnspex]

Dapster said:

PowerslideSWE said:

MK1 Scirocco GTI, last MOT equivalent in 1995, shame to let it just sit there for more than a quarter century, on grass aswell so one can imagine the state of the floor...

LHD and with headlight washers - very rare option. My dad had one as well -V reg, GLi. Absolutely lovely things they were.

I had a very early one. 1471 instead of 1558, two wipers instead of one, no rear wiper and a 4 speed box instead of 5. The seat cloth wore out, a common fault, and I bought set from another that had been rolled and the seats were blood stained. I pxed an MGBGT for it and bought a Dolomite Sprint to replace it.

[Gompo]

Heaveho said:

PowerslideSWE said:

MK1 Scirocco GTI, last MOT equivalent in 1995, shame to let it just sit there for more than a quarter century, on grass aswell so one can imagine the state of the floor...

Ah man, what a waste. My dad had two of those, I'd love one.

There was a very similar looking one sat just off the South Circular for around 20 years. I think it's gone now..

[Rob 131 Sport]

Gompo said:

Heaveho said:

PowerslideSWE said:

MK1 Scirocco GTI, last MOT equivalent in 1995, shame to let it just sit there for more than a quarter century, on grass aswell so one can imagine the state of the floor...

Ah man, what a waste. My dad had two of those, I'd love one.

There was a very similar looking one sat just off the South Circular for around 20 years. I think it's gone now..

They were great looking cars and so well packaged. I always felt that these together with the Lancia Beta Coupe made the Ford Capri look like a bit of a Dinosaur.

[NorthernSky]

[NorthernSky]

This is what was lurking under that cover. Dashing forward with great stealth, I got as far as finding it was some kind of VW before the ancient curtain twitching dweller cried out to me to go away, so I fled. Couldn't get more than these two but someone might know the actual model? Is it a GTI?

[Rob 131 Sport]

Looks like a late MK1 Golf Convertible.

[soxboy]

I think it may be an earlier cabrio but with the later Karmann bodykit. A standard GTi would have had a red trimmed grille rather than chrome trim, whilst the later bodykitted cabrios had a different grille without surround.

[Dapster]

soxboy said:

I think it may be an earlier cabrio but with the later Karmann bodykit. A standard GTi would have had a red trimmed grille rather than chrome trim, whilst the later bodykitted cabrios had a different grille without surround.

I think it's a standard mk 1 hatch with big bumpers added. The cab had twin headlights and only had a chrome grill trim very early on and with the small plastic bumpers. By the time the Cabrio got the body kit, the grill lost the surround.

Also, is that a Renault 11 that it's squashed up against?

[Turbobanana]

Dapster said:

Also, is that a Renault 11 that it's squashed up against?

Yup, European Car of the Year 1982, no less (together with its 4 door cousin, the 9).