Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[keeef]

Anyone know anything about the Mk2 Ford Transit?

I assume this is all fibreglass bodied model?

[keeef]

keeef said:

Anyone know anything about the Mk2 Ford Transit?

I assume this is all fibreglass bodied model?

Would it be this body?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/teessideambulances/7...

[Ronaro]

A couple more ‘Ambuli’..

[NorthernSky]

[NorthernSky]

These were located somewhere between Le Mans and Nantes. There was a nicely restored Honda in the garage office, perhaps the owner will "get round to the others someday"

[keeef]

Ronaro said:

A couple more ‘Ambuli’..

Essex?

B321 AEV

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Incorrect tax status?
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SEB 786S

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[Crook]

This is quite an extreme one but if you want to rescue an old pickup truck, get yourself to Alaska; they dont seem to trade their old ones in when they get a new one and their front yards are littered with them.

[Crook]

[tapkaJohnD]

Alaska?
The US has no national equivalent to the UK's MoT, it's left to the States to decide if they want 'annual safety checks' on vehicles. The result is obvious if you watch the "Just Rolled In" channel on YouTube! Rotted out chassis/body shells, brakes with no discs, brakes with no brakes, cars with no floors!

Alaska has no annual safety check requirement at all!
John

[s p a c e m a n]

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/c...

Made me think of this thread, anyone live near Croydon?

[CKY]

s p a c e m a n said:

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/c...

Made me think of this thread, anyone live near Croydon?

Good spot - from Google streetview, the E12 in the driveway is a fairly rare pre-facelift 533i, i'm also liking the E3 parked kerbside outside the property.

[Mr Tidy]

NorthernSky said:

These were located somewhere between Le Mans and Nantes. There was a nicely restored Honda in the garage office, perhaps the owner will "get round to the others someday"

I hope so!

I've no idea why, but I've always liked those Simca 1501s.

[hidetheelephants]

They're a good looking car for a 1960s 3 box saloon, just as sharp as the italians.

[Ifinishposts]

tapkaJohnD said:

Alaska?
The US has no national equivalent to the UK's MoT, it's left to the States to decide if they want 'annual safety checks' on vehicles. The result is obvious if you watch the "Just Rolled In" channel on YouTube! Rotted out chassis/body shells, brakes with no discs, brakes with no brakes, cars with no floors!

Alaska has no annual safety check requirement at all!
John

I regularly watch 'just rolled in' I am just amazed how people can be so dumb/ignorant/stupid with some of the things shown on there.

[nismocat]

s p a c e m a n said:

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/c...

Made me think of this thread, anyone live near Croydon?

The GPZ will be worth saving.

[A.J.M]

Ifinishposts said:

tapkaJohnD said:

Alaska?
The US has no national equivalent to the UK's MoT, it's left to the States to decide if they want 'annual safety checks' on vehicles. The result is obvious if you watch the "Just Rolled In" channel on YouTube! Rotted out chassis/body shells, brakes with no discs, brakes with no brakes, cars with no floors!

Alaska has no annual safety check requirement at all!
John

I regularly watch 'just rolled in' I am just amazed how people can be so dumb/ignorant/stupid with some of the things shown on there.

What staggers me is the amount of people who decline repairs to some rather serious issues.

[99t]

If watching Vice Grip Garage has taught me one thing, it is that most of those older Yanks will start, run and drive even after decades in the weeds, given little more than fresh fuel and battery, maybe new plugs and a tap or two on the carb.

Stopping them again may be a whole other issue!!

[captain.scarlet]

A.J.M said:

Ifinishposts said:

tapkaJohnD said:

Alaska?
The US has no national equivalent to the UK's MoT, it's left to the States to decide if they want 'annual safety checks' on vehicles. The result is obvious if you watch the "Just Rolled In" channel on YouTube! Rotted out chassis/body shells, brakes with no discs, brakes with no brakes, cars with no floors!

Alaska has no annual safety check requirement at all!
John

I regularly watch 'just rolled in' I am just amazed how people can be so dumb/ignorant/stupid with some of the things shown on there.

What staggers me is the amount of people who decline repairs to some rather serious issues.

Definitely worth checking out.

YouTube adverts have forced me onto TikTok.

Autopartscity is a great channel worth checking out, showing all manner of cars being brought into a scrap yard in Illinois - some broken for parts, some 'saved' and sold off, and others being crushed.

[CKY]

99t said:

If watching Vice Grip Garage has taught me one thing, it is that most of those older Yanks will start, run and drive even after decades in the weeds, given little more than fresh fuel and battery, maybe new plugs and a tap or two on the carb.

Stopping them again may be a whole other issue!!

Sounds a bit like a chap I watched for a while, 'Zip Ties n Bias Plies' - a jump starter pack along with 10 tonnes of Ether straight in to the inlet usually gets his old IDI diesels started up, even in -20 degree weather!

[Crook]

CKY said:

99t said:

If watching Vice Grip Garage has taught me one thing, it is that most of those older Yanks will start, run and drive even after decades in the weeds, given little more than fresh fuel and battery, maybe new plugs and a tap or two on the carb.

Stopping them again may be a whole other issue!!

Sounds a bit like a chap I watched for a while, 'Zip Ties n Bias Plies' - a jump starter pack along with 10 tonnes of Ether straight in to the inlet usually gets his old IDI diesels started up, even in -20 degree weather!

There was an episode of American Pickers where he gets a go in a Superbird that's been sitting in a shed for however long then finds that the brakes are somewhat lacking.
They do just tend to start things up with seemingly no concern of decades old oil etc.