Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[PowerslideSWE]

No pics yet, but I'll get a few. Spotted a genuine 1992, 60.000 mile Jaguar XJS-R with a manual gearbox (rather rare I guess?) on a farmers lawn. It's been off the road since 2004, didn't look all that worse for wear from a distance, but I imagine that standing on grass for a decade and a half hasn't done the underside any favors...

[uk66fastback]

What underside? It'll be history now ...

[Longnose]

Came across a strange boarded-up neglected suburban semi with these two outside. Both cars packed with junk, and a third Triumph saloon totally overgrown behind them. Vauxhall Senators were all the rage with the sales guys in the office a few years ago.

[Horsetan]

Longnose said:

Came across a strange boarded-up neglected suburban semi with these two outside. Both cars packed with junk, and a third Triumph saloon totally overgrown behind them.....

The home of a recluse? Or had someone died there?

[Yertis]

Longnose said:

Vauxhall Senators were all the rage with the sales guys in the office a few years ago.

And the Police, who kindly offered to let me sit in the back of one.

[j80jpw]

Is that a Fox on the roof at the back?

[lucido grigio]

j80jpw said:

Is that a Fox on the roof at the back?

Well spotted ,could be a large cat.....

[M3DGE]

GT6 Jonsey said:

john2443 said:

That's how I remember it, was along time ago when I had mine (PNR 469M, where are you now!). I think main beam was push forward on the indicator stalk.

I'd say that floor mounted dip switch was a BMC thing, but maybe other did it, I don't remember Ford having them.

Triumph TR 2-3-4's also have floor mounted high beam switches. They work great when motoring along the lanes at night

So did Morris Minors - so when I was mucking around in Dover Ambulance Station garage when I was about 14 (my Dad was a mechanic there) i pressed the button on the floor of a Bedford J series - and the two tone horns came on, loud as hell in a closed garage!

[Cold]

austin said:

Yertis said:

fouronthefloor said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-412...

This must be a contender for 'left to die/rotting pics'

So, archeologists are digging up – and computer modelling – sites that date all the way back to 1962? One of those historical 'dark ages', about which we know very little.

Yup. Yet in a long running thread on here no one can identify a car that was photographed in 1962 and probably made around that time.

It was those pesky kids after all. A bloke has just admitted that him and his mates used to play in the MG by pushing it up and down the hill until one day they attempted to start from slightly higher up...

Guardian link

[AMG Merc]

Great story, Enjoyed that thanks

[Auto810graphy]

I know these are not left to rot but they never seem to move.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.9911734,0.844410...

[4rephill]

Auto810graphy said:

I know these are not left to rot but they never seem to move.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.9911734,0.844410...

Looking at their website: https://www.angusbmw.co.uk/car-sales/ , these are just old cars & modern classic cars for sale at a garage.

Does the fact that they don't seem to be selling very quickly qualify them for this thread?

[100 IAN]

Fortunately the owner had the foresight to cover it up with a tarpaulin, so when they get round to restoring it it shouldn't be too much work..... errr maybe not!

[randomeddy]

100 IAN said:

Fortunately the owner had the foresight to cover it up with a tarpaulin, so when they get round to restoring it it shouldn't be too much work..... errr maybe not!

[mr alan]

What is it Alfa gtv? Lancia hpe

[99t]

Alfetta GTV6 judging by the bonnet bulge

[GT6 Jonsey]

This lovely coupe has been sitting on the drive for the past 10 years

[Horsetan]

mr alan said:

What is it Alfa gtv?...

Don't you mean "What was it?"

[iSore]

GTV6 - five stud wheels.

Horsetan! Where have you been? Still got the E24?

[Horsetan]

iSore said:

.....Horsetan! Where have you been? Still got the E24?

Sold the 635 in September 2014 to another mad fella from Poland when the MoT fail sheet turned out to be longer than my arm.

Have been without a "classic" until relatively recently - bought a 1988 Citroën CX GTi Auto; bringing it home next weekend. That should add a few miles to the 79,000 that its six previous owners have managed to put on it in 29 years.