Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[4rephill]

Dapster said:

Woody.GTJ said:

DickyC said:

Not sure where to start with this. It just came up on the local FaceBay:

A great shown piece on top of a shed or something?!

That ad is either a giant pisstake or a massive warning as to whom you will be dealing with.Take your pick

Shirley u meen tayk ur pik?

[guindilias]

The number of old Reliants, Yugos, etc. I've seen on the top of the converted shipping container "office" that fronts a breaker's yard, as their main sign, is ridiculous!
Also a good pointer to the sort of place that is likely to let you up the back to look round, and not just produce an alternator off a shelf.

[TCEvo]

For years there was a Reliant Scimiter shell balanced on top of a container in a scrapper in Stratford, E London - bit of a landmark heading in & out of town; long gone now with the redevelopment.

[Nik da Greek]

Very common practice; there's a scrappy at Gipsy Hill with a Riley Elf on top of a container and just round the corner at the next scrappy by Loughborough Junction is a Rover P6. Makes me sad every time I go past on the train

[P5BNij]

Until fairly recently there was a RR Silver Shadow perched an top of a container at a scrappy in Landor Street, Birmingham, just behind the Freightliner terminal, the shell looked as though it had been burned out but it had new shiny bumpers fitted front and rear!

[rolando]

Does anyone else remember the (pre-war) Morris Minor that was on a pole at a scrap yard by the A2 coming out of London (can't remember exactly where but used to see it when driving to Dover to get a ferry to France)?

[uk66fastback]

1985 525 been doing since 2000, the last time it was taxed. What a shame.

[zedx19]

uk66fastback said:

1985 525 been doing since 2000, the last time it was taxed. What a shame.

The house extension looks newer than the car

[Wooda80]

Dapster said:

pubrunner said:

I spotted this in Cefn Mawr near Wrexham . . . I'm not sure what it is . . . a Lancia ?

The red 146 next to it seems to have a full cage! What's the story there - real track toy or boy racer with a PVC drainpipe fake?

I had a red 146 in the BRSCC Alfa Championship back in the 2000s - Don't think it's mine though, mine ended up with some very distinctive dents on the roof.

[Tinky]

uk66fastback said:

1985 525 been doing since 2000, the last time it was taxed. What a shame.

Aberdeen registered 525e, I really miss my old ETA

[Mr Tidy]

P5BNij said:

RHD example for sale here, it's been for sale for a while now, not mint but very nice.... a while ago it was advertised elsewhere and was silver then so it's obviously had a respray at some point....

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1091289

Yes, and this one that looks similar to the green one in the photo seems to have sold for £9,995 last year.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C949369

I wonder if the owner of the green one knows it's potentially worth £10K!

[Dapster]

Tinky said:

uk66fastback said:

1985 525 been doing since 2000, the last time it was taxed. What a shame.

Aberdeen registered 525e, I really miss my old ETA

The 525e is very rare - a 2.7, not the 2.5 of the regular 525i. Auto only and geared to something like 35 mph/1000 in top. 20 years before "Efficient Dynamics" became a thing!

[Dapster]

Scammel Scarab found and restored from the Sri Lankan undergrowth!

[CAPP0]

rolando said:

Does anyone else remember the (pre-war) Morris Minor that was on a pole at a scrap yard by the A2 coming out of London (can't remember exactly where but used to see it when driving to Dover to get a ferry to France)?

Yes I do! It was around Swanley somewhere.

[P5BNij]

Mr Tidy said:

P5BNij said:

RHD example for sale here, it's been for sale for a while now, not mint but very nice.... a while ago it was advertised elsewhere and was silver then so it's obviously had a respray at some point....

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1091289

Yes, and this one that looks similar to the green one in the photo seems to have sold for £9,995 last year.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C949369

I wonder if the owner of the green one knows it's potentially worth £10K!

Let's hope that that one and the green one get back on the road at some point...

[Longnose]

This looks like one of those new autonomous cars where you sit around a table talking to your friends while the car does the driving. I assume this one arrived and parked neatly at the restaurant a few minutes before I arrived....

[DickyC]

Dapster said:

Scammel Scarab found and restored from the Sri Lankan undergrowth!

Marvellous. Thanks for sharing that.

[Etypephil]

rolando said:

Does anyone else remember the (pre-war) Morris Minor that was on a pole at a scrap yard by the A2 coming out of London (can't remember exactly where but used to see it when driving to Dover to get a ferry to France)?

I remember that. LB Spares, but thought that it was on the A20 somewher near Ruxley roundabout, if that still exists.

[rolando]

Etypephil said:

rolando said:

Does anyone else remember the (pre-war) Morris Minor that was on a pole at a scrap yard by the A2 coming out of London (can't remember exactly where but used to see it when driving to Dover to get a ferry to France)?

I remember that. LB Spares, but thought that it was on the A20 somewher near Ruxley roundabout, if that still exists.

You could well be right about it being by the A20. It was donkey's years ago.

[CAPP0]

rolando said:

Etypephil said:

rolando said:

Does anyone else remember the (pre-war) Morris Minor that was on a pole at a scrap yard by the A2 coming out of London (can't remember exactly where but used to see it when driving to Dover to get a ferry to France)?

I remember that. LB Spares, but thought that it was on the A20 somewher near Ruxley roundabout, if that still exists.

You could well be right about it being by the A20. It was donkey's years ago.

Yes, was on the (old) A20 definitely.