Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[4rephill]

tapkaJohnD said:

Maybe I'm biased, but there is one that looks good, in hard top or open versions - TR7





Wasn't bad, even with the soft top up

Definitely looks better as a convertible than a hard top!

I could never get on with the TR7 coupe's rear window/boot treatment, and always felt it would have looked better with XJS style flying buttresses, as demonstrated by one of my all time favourite TR7's (and a blast from the past!) - "Seventh heaven" (Had to edit the picture to make sure it was not removed by the mods - Full story and more pictures here: http://theamazoeffect.blogspot.com/2013/02/diggin-... ) :



Not to everyone's taste (the car at least! ), but for those of us who remember the late 70's/early 80's, and used to read magazines such as: "Street Machine" and "Custom Car" (I bought it for the cars and articles - Honestly! ), it was quite a striking machine "back in the day"

[Dapster]

Let's not forget the rest of Crayford's chamber of horrors:

C123 "St Tropez"





Apparently they sold a few hundred of these.

Unlike the C107 "Condor". The prototype was shown at the 1980 NEC show but they didn't receive a single order so binned the project



Another estate botch - this time the W116 S Class with a side rear window carefully selected to not match anything around it



The real beauty, the "250 GTO" of the range, the whats-wrong-with-four-side-windows-anyway? Marina convertible



I get the fact that you might want an estate version of the worlds premier luxury saloon, or an unusual "breadvan" of a desirable sports coupe, but who the hell would spend what would probably be Stag money on an asthmatic relic of a Marina convertible?

Edited by Dapster on Wednesday 22 April 13:45

[gforceg]

Dapster said:

Let's not forget the rest of Crayford's chamber of horrors:

C123 "St Tropez"

Edited by Dapster on Wednesday 22 April 13:45

Blimey, it looks like the did the exhaust too.

[Brads67]

Distinct lack of rotting cars.

[GT6 Jonsey]

Unfortunately these aren’t current. While on holiday in Dorset around 1996 I found an advert in the local paper advertising the sale of Triumph parts due to a business closure. At the time I was running around in a Spitfire mk3 with a whining diff so thought I’d pop along and see what was on offer.
These pictures are just part of what i was confronted with not to mention sheds and garages full of spares, everything for sale and at very reasonable prices. Needless to say I found what I was looking for and ended up spending a considerable amount more after getting a loan from my dad

[GT6 Jonsey]

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[Dapster]

GT6 Jonsey said:

Oooh, that's a 205 Gti 1.6 sneaking in on the right!

[ClaphamGT3]

Dapster said:

Let's not forget the rest of Crayford's chamber of horrors:

C123 "St Tropez"





Apparently they sold a few hundred of these.

Unlike the C107 "Condor". The prototype was shown at the 1980 NEC show but they didn't receive a single order so binned the project



Another estate botch - this time the W116 S Class with a side rear window carefully selected to not match anything around it



The real beauty, the "250 GTO" of the range, the whats-wrong-with-four-side-windows-anyway? Marina convertible



I get the fact that you might want an estate version of the worlds premier luxury saloon, or an unusual "breadvan" of a desirable sports coupe, but who the hell would spend what would probably be Stag money on an asthmatic relic of a Marina convertible?

Edited by Dapster on Wednesday 22 April 13:45

Caruna did the Mercedes convertible so much better - here is the Dutch Royal family’s parade car;

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

A few thoughts.

The TR7 is a dog, full stop. It's an abomination. If it were a new born baby the doctor would slap its mother.

Secondly, I'd never heard of Crayford, my god their creations look crap.

[Bodo]

They weren't all bad. 140k DM for the conversion alone, but with a nice alcantara interior included. More pictures here https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/sponsored...

[Turbobanana]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

A few thoughts.

The TR7 is a dog, full stop. It's an abomination. If it were a new born baby the doctor would slap its mother.

Secondly, I'd never heard of Crayford, my god their creations look crap.

Thanks for the insightful comments.

In other news, some of those Triumphs didn't look too bad. I know the chassis and body is separate on Heralds, Vitesses, Spitfires and GT6s but the bodies looked OK. Were they just being stockpiled or were they really "end of life"?

[mog1275]

GT6 Jonsey said:

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Should enter this one into the Chelsea flower show

Edited by mog1275 on Wednesday 22 April 23:20

[GT6 Jonsey]

Turbobanana said:

Thanks for the insightful comments.

In other news, some of those Triumphs didn't look too bad. I know the chassis and body is separate on Heralds, Vitesses, Spitfires and GT6s but the bodies looked OK. Were they just being stockpiled or were they really "end of life"?

I think it was a collection built up over years by a small Triumph spares and sales business that was winding down. I remember dealing with a lady named Rachel that was selling it all off. None of the cars had MOT’s but the ones that look ok probably only needed minor work to get back on the road. I came really close to giving those two Herald coupes a new home but didn’t have the space at the time unfortunately

[wibble cb]

Crayford -not the best conversion convertibles

Treser - quite possibly worse, its the red neck pickup version no-one ever really asked for

Edited by wibble cb on Thursday 23 April 03:40

[p4cks]

These convertibles should have been abandoned and let to die/rot and then they'd be worth posting on this thread.

Alternatively, it might be an idea to make a st convertable conversions thread where you can post these disgusting looking things

[DickyC]

Not a fan, no?

[StuntmanMike]

p4cks said:

These convertibles should have been abandoned and let to die/rot and then they'd be worth posting on this thread.

Alternatively, it might be an idea to make a st convertable conversions thread where you can post these disgusting looking things

Agreed, this thread is ruined by hijackers.

Sad as it was quite good.