Abandoned classics in a tunnel up North
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Is this a widely known thing? There are some quite desirable classics rotting away in there. Shame.....
https://www.thedrive.com/news/31837/photos-show-do...
https://www.thedrive.com/news/31837/photos-show-do...
geeman237 said:
Is this a widely known thing? There are some quite desirable classics rotting away in there. Shame.....
https://www.thedrive.com/news/31837/photos-show-do...
Reminds me of a place a lad I knew back in the 70's/80's https://www.thedrive.com/news/31837/photos-show-do...
He ran a garage/rally business in Byker, Newcastle.
Folk used to store their cars in the laberynth underground
Skyedriver said:
Reminds me of a place a lad I knew back in the 70's/80's
He ran a garage/rally business in Byker, Newcastle.
Folk used to store their cars in the laberynth underground
I think I know who you mean, can't remember his name. He set the cam timing on my Imp when I put the R23 cam in it. He was a big mate of John Saint, a popular local rally driver.He ran a garage/rally business in Byker, Newcastle.
Folk used to store their cars in the laberynth underground
I'm surprised they've just been left there, clearly a known person owns the tunnel, and they know the cars are there. Would've thought they would sell them on.
Is there a potential issue of ownership of the cars? When you buy land/property, anything within that property is included, is that not a fairly standard maxim?
Is there a potential issue of ownership of the cars? When you buy land/property, anything within that property is included, is that not a fairly standard maxim?
InitialDave said:
I'm surprised they've just been left there, clearly a known person owns the tunnel, and they know the cars are there. Would've thought they would sell them on.
Is there a potential issue of ownership of the cars? When you buy land/property, anything within that property is included, is that not a fairly standard maxim?
Would imagine the cars have been "written off" by insurance claims. Is there a potential issue of ownership of the cars? When you buy land/property, anything within that property is included, is that not a fairly standard maxim?
Website said:
https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/dingle-tunne...
Dingle railway station was an underground station located on the Liverpool Overhead Railway
Underground railway station on an overhead railway? That would be some gap to mind.... Dingle railway station was an underground station located on the Liverpool Overhead Railway
During the mid to late 1970s and 1980s, the Dingle tunnel in Liverpool was occupied by Roscoe Engineering who ran a garage business from the underground premises.
They originally had premises on Roscoe Street in the City Centre, thus the name.
They were also very heavily involved in the rally world at that time and prepared and built a good few well known cars there. They had a long term interest in Land Rovers too.
Nigel and Terry were a great pair of lads and I spent many happy hours in the cold and damp environment with them and other friends, often working late into the night. You lost all sense of time in the artificial lighting and with so many projects on the go.
One of Nigel's interests was building unusual service barges for his rallying support services.
Obviously there was the ubiquitous V6 engined Cortina estate but one of his more challenging devises was a Rover V8 engined Hillman Hunter estate.
Not sure exactly what happened as I left Liverpool in the early 1990s but understand that there was a major collapse in the tunnel, near to the only usable exit ramp and this precluded any vehicles being removed.
No idea where Nigel and Terry ended up thereafter and maybe other PHs may fill in the gaps.
AMR
They originally had premises on Roscoe Street in the City Centre, thus the name.
They were also very heavily involved in the rally world at that time and prepared and built a good few well known cars there. They had a long term interest in Land Rovers too.
Nigel and Terry were a great pair of lads and I spent many happy hours in the cold and damp environment with them and other friends, often working late into the night. You lost all sense of time in the artificial lighting and with so many projects on the go.
One of Nigel's interests was building unusual service barges for his rallying support services.
Obviously there was the ubiquitous V6 engined Cortina estate but one of his more challenging devises was a Rover V8 engined Hillman Hunter estate.
Not sure exactly what happened as I left Liverpool in the early 1990s but understand that there was a major collapse in the tunnel, near to the only usable exit ramp and this precluded any vehicles being removed.
No idea where Nigel and Terry ended up thereafter and maybe other PHs may fill in the gaps.
AMR
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