Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2
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Don’t know if this place has been on before. It’s a cottage on the back road to Falkirk from Slamanan. Must have been over 20 Volvos in states of decay. There was a lovely blue CRX as well. Over 100 cars in total just parked up all round the house.
I never got the chance to stop but I’m going to look on Google maps.
I never got the chance to stop but I’m going to look on Google maps.
Driveline Shunt said:
Mk2 / face-lift Nissan Almera, a favourite of banger racers. Suspect the Mondeo & Jag could end their days on the short oval too tho probably not the Omega.
With values of classic Jaguars climbing now it would take a particular brand of plonker who hadn't checked many classified ads recently to smash up a Series III banger racing at this point in time I think 
Ronaro said:
German definitely but you know that that Honda is a new battery and jet wash away from doing a week long road trip to the Lake District whereas the BMW is a one way ticket to heartbreak, stopping at never-ending central, bankruptcy junction and divorce parkway!shambolic said:
Don’t know if this place has been on before. It’s a cottage on the back road to Falkirk from Slamanan. Must have been over 20 Volvos in states of decay. There was a lovely blue CRX as well. Over 100 cars in total just parked up all round the house.
I never got the chance to stop but I’m going to look on Google maps.
Volvo Jim... well known around these parts, nice bloke too and seems he'll part with stuff / help others live on and so that's no bad thing as most breaker yards would just crush this sort of stuff these days hence a handy growing stockpile is a great asset if you have the time and space. I never got the chance to stop but I’m going to look on Google maps.
Dapster said:
German definitely but you know that that Honda is a new battery and jet wash away from doing a week long road trip to the Lake District whereas the BMW is a one way ticket to heartbreak, stopping at never-ending central, bankruptcy junction and divorce parkway!
Not forgetting "metric tyre cost and availability driving you to insanity halt"Dapster said:
Ronaro said:
German definitely but you know that that Honda is a new battery and jet wash away from doing a week long road trip to the Lake District whereas the BMW is a one way ticket to heartbreak, stopping at never-ending central, bankruptcy junction and divorce parkway!
But at least you’d arrive at the bankruptcy and divorce hearings in style (well, assuming it didn’t conk on the way). I’d still have the BMW over the Honda though
Escort3500 said:
Dapster said:
Ronaro said:
German definitely but you know that that Honda is a new battery and jet wash away from doing a week long road trip to the Lake District whereas the BMW is a one way ticket to heartbreak, stopping at never-ending central, bankruptcy junction and divorce parkway!But at least you’d arrive at the bankruptcy and divorce hearings in style (well, assuming it didn’t conk on the way). I’d still have the BMW over the Honda though
The correct thing to do would be to take both: weigh the BMW in and use the funds to buy the new tyres and battery that the Honda would need to be a viable long-term smoker. That way you'd get back from the divorce hearings as well. Free motoring.
Davie said:
Volvo Jim... well known around these parts, nice bloke too and seems he'll part with stuff / help others live on and so that's no bad thing as most breaker yards would just crush this sort of stuff these days hence a handy growing stockpile is a great asset if you have the time and space.
Cheers. Some amount of cars just lying about everywhereDavie said:
Volvo Jim... well known around these parts, nice bloke too and seems he'll part with stuff / help others live on and so that's no bad thing as most breaker yards would just crush this sort of stuff these days hence a handy growing stockpile is a great asset if you have the time and space.
Found some photos after looking up Volvo Jim.
That's an early Sierra Ghia on a Y reg! Quirky spec too, being the 2.3L V6 that offered no more performance or economy than the 2.0L Pinto. Could I be so rude as to ask for a photograph of the interior? Being an early Ghia there's a good chance it has the early interior with the wood finishers on the door cards, which seems to have been a one-year-only affair. From memory it may have been called 'Chatswood'.
If I have the plate right (452?) it doesn't show up as registered so has been off the road for a long, long time. I'd wonder what the original registration date is: the earliest I know of is 20th October 1982.
If I have the plate right (452?) it doesn't show up as registered so has been off the road for a long, long time. I'd wonder what the original registration date is: the earliest I know of is 20th October 1982.
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