Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[LotusOmega375D]

CivicDuties said:

Don't worry about the number plate thing, you're not the only one afflicted, I can remember all my Dad's plates still, and all the plates of the 37 car's I've owned since 1987...they make very handy bases for passwords these days, with a bit of judicious special character and capital use, and if you need to leave yourself a clue as to what the password is, then something like "blue Citroen GSA" will prompt you, but mean nothing to anyone else.

Go on then, prove it! List them all here!

[CivicDuties]

LotusOmega375D said:

CivicDuties said:

Don't worry about the number plate thing, you're not the only one afflicted, I can remember all my Dad's plates still, and all the plates of the 37 car's I've owned since 1987...they make very handy bases for passwords these days, with a bit of judicious special character and capital use, and if you need to leave yourself a clue as to what the password is, then something like "blue Citroen GSA" will prompt you, but mean nothing to anyone else.

Go on then, prove it! List them all here!

You're not catching me that easily

But honestly, it's a great database of potential passwords which are easy to remember, which nobody else would ever guess. I highly recommend it!

[Turbobanana]

CivicDuties said:

You're not catching me that easily

But honestly, it's a great database of potential passwords which are easy to remember, which nobody else would ever guess. I highly recommend it!

I do exactly the same, Civic.

[finlo]

-Cappo- said:

hidetheelephants said:

Surprisingly intact for a Mk4 Zephyr.

We had one of those when I was a kid, same colour too. CNO 838G iirc (don't ask me how I remember that over 50 years on!).

I was given the unenviable task of spraying the underside of one silver in preparation for its taxi test, bench seat & column change gears.

It had allegedly come straight from the set of Z cars!

[21st Century Man]

My dad borrowed one and got it stuck on the kerb performing a U turn across a central reservation. He got me and my brother to sit on the boot to put the rear wheels back onto the tarmac, but we weren't quite heavy enough, so he put it in drive and climbed on to the boot too, with the three of us bouncing it gradually made it's way clear then dad had to chase after it

[Dan Singh]

Turbobanana said:

CivicDuties said:

You're not catching me that easily

But honestly, it's a great database of potential passwords which are easy to remember, which nobody else would ever guess. I highly recommend it!

I do exactly the same, Civic.

So do I, mixing the reg with the make and model.
I also remember my old Dad's reg numbers apart from one, a POS VW Derby that nobody liked.

[reddiesel]

21st Century Man said:

My dad borrowed one and got it stuck on the kerb performing a U turn across a central reservation. He got me and my brother to sit on the boot to put the rear wheels back onto the tarmac, but we weren't quite heavy enough, so he put it in drive and climbed on to the boot too, with the three of us bouncing it gradually made it's way clear then dad had to chase after it

Made me smile , what a memory of your old man that is :

[ric p]

Spotted on a farm whilst dog walking near me in Somerset. Loads more with perhaps half a dozen pre Defender LRs.



Maybe a few more pics to follow and may knock on their door out of interest.

[Dixy]

CivicDuties said:

My Dad had the posh one, a Zodiac Executive,

I think that is an Executive, from the badge in the centre of the grill

[Bluevanman]

ric p said:

Spotted on a farm whilst dog walking near me in Somerset. Loads more with perhaps half a dozen pre Defender LRs.



Maybe a few more pics to follow and may knock on their door out of interest.

Is that a Jensen Interceptor in the background?

[Fermit]

Bluevanman said:

Is that a Jensen Interceptor in the background?

I would say almost certainly.

[TarquinMX5]

Fermit said:

Bluevanman said:

Is that a Jensen Interceptor in the background?

I would say almost certainly.

'Almost certainly', agreed, although it might be an FF

Edited by TarquinMX5 on Saturday 9th March 15:09

[TarquinMX5]

Dixy said:

CivicDuties said:

My Dad had the posh one, a Zodiac Executive,

I think that is an Executive, from the badge in the centre of the grill

Are you referring to the MK IV? If so, I think it's a '68-onwards Zephyr DeLuxe (std didn't have the grille) - Zodiacs had 4-headlamps and the central badge was '68-onwards.

[P5BNij]

Abandoned rather than left to rot but interesting nonetheless - a '70 / '71 Mustang Grande left in a car park in Newcastle...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtuM5mybNpw

[MuscleSedan]

Spotted today at the roadside ....

[GTRene]

huh? what type is that? must be pretty rare or most others rotted away.

[hidetheelephants]

A bad copy of a Hebmuller convertible.

[Pistom]

GTRene said:

huh? what type is that? must be pretty rare or most others rotted away.

From memory, it was a conversion available in the 1980s. It looked awful then as many kits and conversions did of that period and it hasn't improved with age.

I think the firm that did it was called something like Cal Conversions, Fibrefab or maybe Wizzard of Rods.

Clearly my memory isn't that good and apologies to any of those firms if they weren't guilty of creating that.

[Bluevanman]

Some Wizzards were built by a colleague of mine in the 80's in the workshop I used to rent,he said they were a nightmare to do

[Oldwolf]

I took a wrong turn while out for a run in Manila and came across these.







The surprising thing for me is that all the cars you see in Manila are Japanese or Ford and most of them here are what I would call 'new' cars (10 years old or newer) and then there were these.
I've seen one performance car (911 Turbo) and there does look to be a car scene.
I'm sure it will be different when I get out in the provinces with older cars.
Oh and millions of motorbikes of course