Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[droopsnoot]

Halmyre said:

On a similar note, I was watching Banger and Cash recently and they mentioned a Jaguar XKR(?) sitting in their compound that was sold at auction and presumably paid for but no-one has come to collect it and they don't know who the new owner is. So they're stuck with it.

I remember that, and I remember thinking how badly that reflected on their business management that someone has taken part in and won an auction, paid, yet they can't find the details. Of course, the buyer could just have realised what they'd bought, changed their name and emigrated just so they didn't have to take delivery.

[Gareth1974]

20v Turbo

[Dapster]

finlo said:

Risonax said:

Doofus said:

Skyedriver said:

That stretched Range Rover look like it's had the front end of a Metrocab grafted on![url]

|https://thumbsnap.com/nug2oRo3[/url]

That I think is a Rapport Excelcior with a nose off of a pre facelift mk 2 Granada





Rapport Engineering made a few oddities including an XJS based coupe/convertible with a folding hardtop decades before the Mercedes SLK and a Triumph Acclaim based Ritz. They made an ill advised move to a hugely expensive Park Lane showroom which eventually sank them





https://www.rapport-forte.com/rapport-internationa...

Edited by Dapster on Tuesday 30th May 00:13

[Doofus]

Somebody on here owned a Forte briefly.

[5 In a Row]

Dapster said:

finlo said:

Risonax said:

Doofus said:

Skyedriver said:

That stretched Range Rover look like it's had the front end of a Metrocab grafted on![url]

|https://thumbsnap.com/nug2oRo3[/url]

That I think is a Rapport Excelcior with a nose off of a pre facelift mk 2 Granada





Rapport Engineering made a few oddities including an XJS based coupe/convertible with a folding hardtop decades before the Mercedes SLK and a Triumph Acclaim based Ritz. They made an ill advised move to a hugely expensive Park Lane showroom which eventually sank them





https://www.rapport-forte.com/rapport-internationa...

Edited by Dapster on Tuesday 30th May 00:13

The nose also looks very similar to an Austin Ambassador :O

[GTRene]

Dapster said:

hm, not now that one, some sort of concept?
looks not to long, a bit strange and somehow I like it :-)

[bumskins]

Gareth1974 said:

20v Turbo

Love these, make a great noise and rare in yellow.

[Yertis]

Doofus said:

Somebody on here owned a Forte briefly.

Did they give up on it? I remember reading the thread and thinking "sooner you than me". It looked an awful lot of work for questionable reward.

[Doofus]

Yertis said:

Doofus said:

Somebody on here owned a Forte briefly.

Did they give up on it? I remember reading the thread and thinking "sooner you than me". It looked an awful lot of work for questionable reward.

I think he gave up, yes, and sold it on pretty quickly. A convertible IIRC.

I could be wrong, but I have a feeling he doesn't like to talk about it. Maybe he deleted the thread or something?

[5 In a Row]

bumskins said:

Gareth1974 said:

20v Turbo

Love these, make a great noise and rare in yellow.

MOT expired 5 1/2 years ago. Mileage at last MOT was under 100k and although it consistently failed most of its MOTs none of them was particularly tragic.

From that single photo it looks as though somebody might've started a bit of a restoration on it, although currently given up.

[Rumdoodle]

GTRene said:

Dapster said:

hm, not now that one, some sort of concept?
looks not to long, a bit strange and somehow I like it :-)

This German Jag specialist owns two of them, including the one that briefly featured on a PH thread http://jaguarclassic.com/ueberuns/Old-Mill-Tales/R...

[classicaholic]

link to the Forte thread https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[GTRene]

Rumdoodle said:

GTRene said:

Dapster said:

hm, not now that one, some sort of concept?
looks not to long, a bit strange and somehow I like it :-)

This German Jag specialist owns two of them, including the one that briefly featured on a PH thread http://jaguarclassic.com/ueberuns/Old-Mill-Tales/R...

Lovely, also that front lights spoiler-ish, open the lights and it becomes a bit like a front spoiler-ish hah, cool

http://jaguarclassic.com/ueberuns/Old-Mill-Tales/R...

[sidewinder500]

GTRene said:

Dapster said:

hm, not now that one, some sort of concept?
looks not to long, a bit strange and somehow I like it :-)

Me too...

[Skyedriver]

Resting in a Northumberland village

[ClaphamGT3]

In Olhao southern Portugal. The Mercedes has been abandoned in the corner of the fire station yard for at least two years

[Skyedriver]

Can you deliver the Fulvia Coupe to Scotland please?

[ClaphamGT3]

Skyedriver said:

Can you deliver the Fulvia Coupe to Scotland please?

Not sure you'd want it - despite looking OK from a distance it was as rough as with the tell-tale front wheel arch crown splits of doom

[Skyedriver]

ClaphamGT3 said:

Not sure you'd want it - despite looking OK from a distance it was as rough as with the tell-tale front wheel arch crown splits of doom

Oh dear, hence the trailer, doubles the value.

[OutInTheShed]

Skyedriver said:

ClaphamGT3 said:

Not sure you'd want it - despite looking OK from a distance it was as rough as with the tell-tale front wheel arch crown splits of doom

Oh dear, hence the trailer, doubles the value.

The trailer is also having a wheel arch crisis in sympathy!