Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[Risonax]

Then (2006)

http://www.rochdale-owners-club.co.uk/Magazines/im...
http://www.rochdale-owners-club.co.uk/Magazines/im...

2012, somewhere in France it seems








This Rochdale had a whole little history. Belonged to the Rochdale Owners Club secretary.

http://www.rochdale-owners-club.co.uk/Magazines/Ma...

Edited by Risonax on Friday 8th December 07:13

[Dan Singh]

GTRene said:

P5BNij said:

Risonax said:

Rover P5?

Yes, 3 litre Saloon

that grey/blue one with those strange things at the top of the side windows?

and what is that white car, top left? a old Jag?

Yes, looks like a MK2 to me.

[Risonax]

GTRene said:

P5BNij said:

Risonax said:

Rover P5?

Yes, 3 litre Saloon

that grey/blue one with those strange things at the top of the side windows?

and what is that white car, top left? a old Jag?

And behind the gold Maserati, a doorless old Jag.

This is in Italy? An old Rover like this is a surprise. Didn't think many made it out of the UK.

[V8covin]

TonyRPH said:

Opel GT?

If so, that's a real shame!

It's a shame that such good looking cars aren't worth restoring because their value is so low

[Dan Singh]

Risonax said:

GTRene said:

P5BNij said:

Risonax said:

Rover P5?

Yes, 3 litre Saloon

that grey/blue one with those strange things at the top of the side windows?

and what is that white car, top left? a old Jag?

And behind the gold Maserati, a doorless old Jag.

Yes, another MK2

[P5BNij]

Risonax said:

GTRene said:

P5BNij said:

Risonax said:

Rover P5?

Yes, 3 litre Saloon

that grey/blue one with those strange things at the top of the side windows?

and what is that white car, top left? a old Jag?

And behind the gold Maserati, a doorless old Jag.

This is in Italy? An old Rover like this is a surprise. Didn't think many made it out of the UK.

Rover P5 and P5B Saloons were used abroad as ambassadorial cars in several countries.

[Risonax]

P5BNij said:

Risonax said:

GTRene said:

P5BNij said:

Risonax said:

Rover P5?

Yes, 3 litre Saloon

that grey/blue one with those strange things at the top of the side windows?

and what is that white car, top left? a old Jag?

And behind the gold Maserati, a doorless old Jag.

This is in Italy? An old Rover like this is a surprise. Didn't think many made it out of the UK.

Rover P5 and P5B Saloons were used abroad as ambassadorial cars in several countries.

Can't have been many in Italy.

[Risonax]

Risonax said:

Then (2006)

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This Rochdale had a whole little history. Belonged to the Rochdale Owners Club secretary.

http://www.rochdale-owners-club.co.uk/Magazines/Ma...

Edited by Risonax on Friday 8th December 07:13

"This Olympic left the UK for Germany in 2009, it was for sale on e-bay in 2012 and I think went to Thailand in 2013. The compound belongs to the https://www.jesadatechnikmuseum.com/en/ nr Bangkok and this is where they keep items before they are restored and displayed in the museum.

This Olympic has an interesting history. The first owner Dick Cawthorne collected the bodyshell from Rochdale on a trailer behind a Renault Dauphine and with him in the Dauphine as 2nd driver was Denis Sargent Jenkinson, "Jenks" or "DSJ" as he was known in the pages of Motor Sport.

As Continental Correspondent of the UK-based Motor Sport magazine, he covered F1 and other races all over Europe. He gained fame as the navigator for Stirling Moss in their record-breaking Mercedes 300SLR in the 1955 Mille Miglia cross-country race.
When Motor Sport had the Rochdale Olympic demonstrater VDK 147 for a week in June 1961, DSJ drove a lot of miles in VDK 147 and DSJ coined the phrase ” The Rochdale Olympic is the poor man's Porsche". At this time DSJ had a Porsche 356 as his company car."

Crikey. I don't think its going to get restored though.

Almost certainly the same car as discussed in this Motor Sport article

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article...

The car was 90 FHO before becoming JFO 673

[Halmyre]

Heartbreaking to see those cars in Thailand going to waste. Restoration projects? No bloody way all that lot are ever going to be restored.

[finlo]

Risonax said:

It seems the Thai "yard" is well known.

https://fishki.net/2991407-kladbiwe-retro-avtomobi...








The Riley also left the UK in 2004.

These cars can't have been that bad when they were exported not that long ago.

It was a waste that those Nova kit cars were designed to use asthmatic old Beetle engines

[Composer62]

finlo said:

It was a waste that those Nova kit cars were designed to use asthmatic old Beetle engines

I agree. They looked fantastic and futuristic at the time.. Couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding though.

[GTRene]

Composer62 said:

finlo said:

It was a waste that those Nova kit cars were designed to use asthmatic old Beetle engines

I agree. They looked fantastic and futuristic at the time.. Couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding though.

agreed, sometimes long ago some came for sale, I then looked and thought wow, then the hp... ow... en were it was based on... ow... nah, but, special looks, btw I believe that 1 Marcos special had also such cabin system like a fighter jet.

[hidetheelephants]

GTRene said:

Composer62 said:

finlo said:

It was a waste that those Nova kit cars were designed to use asthmatic old Beetle engines

I agree. They looked fantastic and futuristic at the time.. Couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding though.

agreed, sometimes long ago some came for sale, I then looked and thought wow, then the hp... ow... en were it was based on... ow... nah, but, special looks, btw I believe that 1 Marcos special had also such cabin system like a fighter jet.

Always thought that about the Karma Dino lookylikey; even if it was a decent replica(no idea if it was or not) tooling about with a lawnmower engine sound track rather spoils the effect.

[The Rotrex Kid]

Don’t see many of these anymore, the Polo or the Mini

[Shadow R1]

It's been years since I've seen a G40.

Thanks for sharing.

[p4cks]

Skyedriver said:

Turbobanana said:

Bore scoring, IMS or RMS? Take your pick.

You been talking to that bloke down the pub again...?

Probably talking to me, ask me how I know that these engines are made of chocolate.

[Gompo]

I'm going with it being a classic, anyway.

The Rotrex Kid said:

Don’t see many of these anymore, the Polo or the Mini

Nice to see some original content. Not seen a G40 for a good few years.

[Watcher of the skies]

Does anyone know what the grey car next to the RM is?

[nicanary]

Watcher of the skies said:

Does anyone know what the grey car next to the RM is?

Maybe a Lancia?

[finlo]

nicanary said:

Watcher of the skies said:

Does anyone know what the grey car next to the RM is?

Maybe a Lancia?

Is it not the light blue Robin from one of the other pics?

Edit to add, I completed missed that one hiding between them!

Edited by finlo on Saturday 9th December 11:27