Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[Its Just Adz]

Perhaps the owner is trying to disguise the car, very slowly.

[GTRene]

perhaps the owner likes one with a 'bush'

[austinsmirk]

sorry I do not know how to post pictures. anyway:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.8434682,-1.76636...


I pass here a lot- the house is extremely elevated from the road, the driveway near vertical and yet this chap seems to collect and never dispose of cars. He seems to have died now- looks like stuff (except cars) being cleared.

there is a dead- freelander, 80's granada LX, a ford probe, ford puma. at the top of the drive a foldup trailer tent thing and finally an orange 70's beetle that is so rotten, everything has rotted off it. wings, running boards, all fallen off. I'm not even sure how most of this can be removed, access is terrible- probably the trailer and beetle need chopping up and then a recovery truck/tractor place up the drive to winch stuff down. all onto a busy, tight main road.

always though, what a stupid house to buy if you are going to collect your cars. doubt anything is worth saving, they've been exposed for decades, parked on severe slopes, covered in decades of garden junk

[Penny Whistle]

I guess this is the same property, from above. Seems to have liked blue cars !

[SS427 Camaro]

Looks like someone managed to rescue the black 944 that stuck out over the pavement in Grays from the loon who lives here a few months ago, but it was instantly replaced by this Fiesta lol. The red S2 2+2 E Type, MK1 Cortina and bubble arched Escort are still rotting. The garage door has been open for as long as I can remember, no idea what is rotting in there though.

[Doofus]

[GTRene]

Doofus said:

what is that, do I spot a Peugeot lion on the front?

[Doofus]

GTRene said:

Doofus said:

what is that, do I spot a Peugeot lion on the front?

It's a 203.

[GTRene]

thanks

[captain.scarlet]

Baghdad, Iraq.



I quite like the original 'Made in Brazil' sticker on the rear window. In the local dialect, a 'Brazilian' came to mean this specific model.

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Not abandoned or rotting, sorry. I'll try and get these onto the next most appropriate thread if there is one that anybody knows of.

Cadillac of some model I've not checked undergoing restoration.

NB: there is a misplaced urban myth that the Chevrolet Malibu was intended to be an Iraqi-spec taxi. It was not (there's a clip online about a chunk of the order that remained stuck in Canada).



In actual fact, in the 1980s and 1990s the VW Passat, Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, Chevrolet Celebrity and Chevrolet Malibu were handed out as gratuities to military/security personnel / their families (amongst other gratuities like houses, land to self-build etc) depending on various factors such as rank. Understandably these are now collectible in that country and I did see a fair few being used as daily runners.








Morris Marina Owners' Club!

Edited by captain.scarlet on Sunday 14th May 19:42

[captain.scarlet]

Alex Z said:

Can’t see this ever making it back onto the roads, even with “fast” Ford prices going up.

Now this is a very sorry sight indeed.

[Doofus]

30th September 2021



14th May 2023

[GTRene]

here also some classics left to die

long time ago in the army on a trip in Libanon, a UN car grave yard...

[josh00mac]

Kingston. They’ve been here for at least 7 years. Knowing the pedigree of the brands and the era of the models…. I’m sure they’d start with a little work.

[josh00mac]

[skwdenyer]

josh00mac said:

That Merc van is ripe for a camper conversion

[The Don of Croy]

skwdenyer said:

josh00mac said:

That Merc van is ripe for a camper conversion

Rusdens is still trading in Mayfield, East Sussex. Local shop for local people.

[s p a c e m a n]

Skylines been sitting there for 5 years now, surprised that there's much of it left given where it is

[mike9009]

A couple from the Isle of Wight today....

[GTRene]

mike9009 said:

A couple from the Isle of Wight today....

seems to be some old BEDFORD TK HCB ANGUS or so I saw omn the web, something like this one