Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[uk66fastback]

Bedford area? (the airfield)

[generationx]

I don't remember seeing this posted before: spotted in Billericay (Essex) this weekend, this poor sunbleached E24

[Jagmanv12]

The Mad Monk said:

trev540 said:

just been on youtube looking at one of the urban explorer sites and found one from 2018 showing a airbase with thousands of cars from the 2009 scrappage thing that are still stored just rotting away.Even today a good lot of these cars could be made use of but I suppose that would be against the idea of the scheme.
Just seems such a waste

Link?

Haven't got a link but saved these from the website.

[LotusOmega375D]

The long distance view photos don't look like scrappage cars to me. Plenty of new Mercs in there. Also they're all parked to be driven out.

I went to Bruntingthorpe a year or two ago and there were hundreds of nearly new Mercs and other marques stored there sitting on the grass by the runways. They even had to mow the grass around them. The odd one even had its bonnet open.

[iSore]

There are a couple of hundred scrappage cars left but most were fed through Copart and U Pull It as break only 9-10 years ago. I bought a few and did very well from it.

That poor Series 1 XJ6 :-(

[williamp]

I think thats bedford autodrome. And the scrappge cars are long gone...

[TonyRPH]

Here is the Youtube link

Video was posted in June 2018

I've not watched it (again) so can't remember the location.

At 25:49 they also found some discarded bodywork from a racing car.

Edited by TonyRPH on Monday 18th March 12:58

[LotusOmega375D]

Not particularly surprising, since Palmersport track those there.

[South tdf]

The cars in the video were there winter 2017 when I last went there. I assume someone is still paying SMH for storage if they are still there now.

[SunbeamSteve]

That's Thurliegh airfield Beds, been used for car storage for years by all the car makers and hire fleets.

[Escort3500]

generationx said:

I don't remember seeing this posted before: spotted in Billericay (Essex) this weekend, this poor sunbleached E24

That’s sad. Hope it will be saved. Really love the E24.

[iSore]

Looks like Misano red - could be one of the Motorsport editions our even an M635CSi.

Bloody shame.

[droopsnoot]

gothatway said:

droopsnoot said:

gothatway said:

It's hard to imagine any "fault" which would keep a car like that off the road for so long.

You'd think, but if you saw the other stuff there it would be less surprising. I don't feel right about going into any more detail on it - I don't have much, but it's not my story to share. It's going for auction at H&H next month.

And I suspect it will achieve the guide price - more so than some of the Jaguar rust-buckets, anyway ! Lots of nice cars there - I was taken by the BMW 3.0 CSi with the "Wet look" registration and no reserve ! Must stay away. Must stay away.

I watched a bit of the sale on-line this afternoon - the BMW 3.0 CSi sold at just over £60k, and the Bentley at £395k.

[scoobygaz1]

caley64 said:

iSore said:

RFC303W, last taxed 2003 but it would have been pretty rotten even then. It would have come from Hartwells on Botley road who I used to use for mine. Looks like an early HE with Starfish wheels and the stripes.

Won't be a manual in that case. That'd be the one useful thing left!

I doubt that's the original number of the car.

A lot of folks in Lewis have a special affinity for the initials RFC

Rember Hartwells they had a Delorean for sale when they came out, have a picture of it some where

[rallycross]

iSore said:

Looks like Misano red - could be one of the Motorsport editions our even an M635CSi.

Bloody shame.

could be, late model bumper and no chrome trims suggests it might be..... what a shame to leave it like that

[Fallingleaves]

Got a few more

The Audi 80 & the MR2 have been off the road at least 10 years. The 760 Turbo seems to have never had an MOT! I'll see if I can take a peek at the mileage next time I'm passing.
The reg on the Reliant comes up as a Datsun 120Y?

[Pericoloso]

MOT only ran out on the camper van^^^^ last summer and it only did about 5000 miles in the previous 10 years.

Might not be too late to save it.......and lose the flowers.

[Dapster]

Fallingleaves said:

Got a few more

MOT ran out out June '17 with 240k on the clock!

I drove a few back in the day - fantastic cars. One of the great forgotten cars of our time. Superb handling and with the VR6, sounded sublime. Not sure I've seen that green before though. Looks like the green from the mk 1 Scirocco.

[4rephill]

rallycross said:

iSore said:

Looks like Misano red - could be one of the Motorsport editions our even an M635CSi.

Bloody shame.

could be, late model bumper and no chrome trims suggests it might be..... what a shame to leave it like that

It's also wearing Motorsport arch extensions, which makes me suspect that it is either a Motorsport edition or an M635CSi.

[E24man]

4rephill said:

rallycross said:

iSore said:

Looks like Misano red - could be one of the Motorsport editions our even an M635CSi.

Bloody shame.

could be, late model bumper and no chrome trims suggests it might be..... what a shame to leave it like that

It's also wearing Motorsport arch extensions, which makes me suspect that it is either a Motorsport edition or an M635CSi.

The wheel arch extensions are a red-herring for an M635CSi as every E24 that was specified with the wider 415mm TRX wheels came with them; before 1987 (the pre-Highline cars) you can find M635CSi's without them and 635CSi's with them - after 1987 all UK cars had the wider wheels so all UK Highline cars had wheel arch extensions.

I'm pretty sure a previous owner has sprayed the bumper insert red to increase the colour-coding of the car - it should be black.

Highline cars (post mid-1987 onwards) share exactly the same wheel arch extensions, front air dam and rear boot spoiler between the M635CSi and the 635CSi unlike the pre-Highline cars where the 635CSi and M635CSi have different front air dams.

On any E24 car the easy way to check for an M635CSi is the rev-counter; all other E24's (including Alpina cars) have the econometer in the bottom the rev-counter, the M635CSi has no econometer but a simple, small '///M' logo.