Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2
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james6546 said:
Ha round the corner from my office this, often drive past on the way to Wirksworth, never thought of getting a picture though.
Escort3500 said:
A couple of old coaches (Bedfords?) slowly decaying at the rear of a closed-down village garage near me about 10 years ago. The brothers who owned the site tried selling them, but no-one was interested so they were scrapped, the owners retired and another rural garage/filling station was lost forever. Sad really.
Unbelievably the one on the right is exactly what I was driven to school in during the early 80's! All the local schools in our bit of Dorset were served by the Bere Regis bus company based in Dorchester with their brown livery and amongst the very few newer Bedfords and the like, were those creaky old things with ancient throbbing diesel engines belching thick black smoke, and with 4 speed manual gearboxes.Someone has gathered a rather nice collection on pics on here
https://www.flickr.com/groups/1943954@N23/pool/
Edited by Dapster on Tuesday 4th January 18:34
Old Scimitar spotted today - MoT ran out a year ago.
And then this Silver Spirit - sad to see a car that must have looked so elegant 30 years ago reduced to this. The house has a nice mid-80s Jag XJ under cover just the other side of it as well. MoT on the Roller ran out in 2011 - at just over the 100k mileage - just run in, surely. No failed MoTs on record before that - then just 'left' ... unless something expensive went bang.
nicanary said:
Those old coaches would make cracking transporters for historic racing cars. Not much conversion work required, and they would really add to the atmosphere in the paddock. They'd take an awfully long time to get there though.
Like this 50's bus based transporter? 
...and to bring it back to the thread, this was it when it was found in 2006 before it was restored (at a cost of $600k!)
More pictures (both of the original state and restoration here: https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Maserati%27s_1956_Fiat... )
Two old MGs (one a factory Harvest Gold V8, complete with Webasto roof) languishing ...
The far one has a 4600cc motor in it - and is taxed - so probably the wrong thread - but as they're parked together.
See this link ...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/128691640@N04/493675...
Fastdruid said:
nicanary said:
Those old coaches would make cracking transporters for historic racing cars. Not much conversion work required, and they would really add to the atmosphere in the paddock. They'd take an awfully long time to get there though.
Like this 50's bus based transporter? ...and to bring it back to the thread, this was it when it was found in 2006 before it was restored (at a cost of $600k!)
More pictures (both of the original state and restoration here: https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Maserati%27s_1956_Fiat... )
Dapster said:
Unbelievably the one on the right is exactly what I was driven to school in during the early 80's! All the local schools in our bit of Dorset were served by the Bere Regis bus company based in Dorchester with their brown livery and amongst the very few newer Bedfords and the like, were those creaky old things with ancient throbbing diesel engines belching thick black smoke, and with 4 speed manual gearboxes.
Hey, Dapster - same here! Well almost...Edited by Dapster on Tuesday 4th January 18:34
As a lad in the late 70s / early 80s, we used to get a coach from our local village school to Pontins' in Prestatyn, for swimming lessons. Always from Voel Coaches (who are still there, based in Dyserth) and usually some smart-ish, late model device finished in their trademark orange livery.
Every so often though, to my delight (but to the dismay of others) we'd get this:
It's a Bedford VAS5 by Plaxton, apparently, and was kept by Voel as a spare for use at busy times. I can still smell the moquette upholstery, which seemed unfeasibly itchy at the time probably because we'd all just been swimming for an hour.
I'm not sure if it still exists, but it certainly made it to 1992 (albeit as a catering wagon).
Dapster said:
Unbelievably the one on the right is exactly what I was driven to school in during the early 80's! All the local schools in our bit of Dorset were served by the Bere Regis bus company based in Dorchester with their brown livery and amongst the very few newer Bedfords and the like, were those creaky old things with ancient throbbing diesel engines belching thick black smoke, and with 4 speed manual gearboxes.
Someone has gathered a rather nice collection on pics on here
https://www.flickr.com/groups/1943954@N23/pool/
Well well. My brother’s Godmother was of the family that owned Bere Regis Coaches, and ‘The Morden Bus’ spewed its fumes over me when I walked to school. On the school bus theme, here’s ours:Someone has gathered a rather nice collection on pics on here
https://www.flickr.com/groups/1943954@N23/pool/
Edited by Dapster on Tuesday 4th January 18:34
Yertis said:
Dapster said:
Unbelievably the one on the right is exactly what I was driven to school in during the early 80's! All the local schools in our bit of Dorset were served by the Bere Regis bus company based in Dorchester with their brown livery and amongst the very few newer Bedfords and the like, were those creaky old things with ancient throbbing diesel engines belching thick black smoke, and with 4 speed manual gearboxes.
Someone has gathered a rather nice collection on pics on here
https://www.flickr.com/groups/1943954@N23/pool/
Well well. My brother’s Godmother was of the family that owned Bere Regis Coaches, and ‘The Morden Bus’ spewed its fumes over me when I walked to school. On the school bus theme, here’s ours:Someone has gathered a rather nice collection on pics on here
https://www.flickr.com/groups/1943954@N23/pool/
Edited by Dapster on Tuesday 4th January 18:34
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