Spotted Ordinary Abandoned Vehicles

[Wheel_Turned_Out]

Khonda said:

I drove past this a couple of weeks ago. That is one busy front garden! I wonder what the neighbour thinks especially with their driveway being blocked.


I can’t seem to be able to post the google map link, but this is the code:

8F4Q+JR Bury Saint Edmund

Can anyone tell the year it was taken?

Only a couple of years old.



Apparently it has been an ongoing thing for quite some time though!



Edit- a slightly better shot of the older photo.

Edited by Wheel_Turned_Out on Wednesday 3rd March 14:16

[blongs]

A 2for1 here with them both not moving for 10 years at least according to Google maps. I've lived here 5 years and they haven't moved. The house looks the same so I assume deceased owner.

Loads of lower body rust and flat tyres all around

[glazbagun]

Grass still cut and the Punto has a taped up reg, which is unusual. Maybe just the same as so many on this thread- people got old and stopped taking their cars out but saw no need to get rid of them.

[Zippee]

Not sure if this is really right for this thread but found this on a lock down walk

[Steamer]

Extensive bodywork damage and staining to the upholstery?!

Sorry... first thing that sprang to mind!

[pzero64]

Steamer said:

Extensive bodywork damage and staining to the upholstery?!

Sorry... first thing that sprang to mind!

Ouch!

[Khonda]

KTF said:

Khonda said:

Can anyone tell the year it was taken?

It says April 2019 at the bottom of the screen on the desktop maps view.

Thanks for that, the car at the front (white Astra?) looked in a much worse state so the photos being a couple of years old makes sense.

[Khonda]

saladdays said:

The front and back gardens are full of cars. About 30!

Plus there looks to be no rear garden access so some of those are properly blocked in.

[Khonda]

S16KBW said:

Richard-390a0 said:

As much as we're all interested in cars on this site you've got to feel sorry for the neighbours either side / opposite etc having to live next to that & no realistic chance of selling your own property for its full market value due to this property. They could be the loveliest most helpful people but fk me!!!

Thats always my thoughts too, I've seen a couple personally now nice enough streets and one house just looking like a scrap yard making the whole street look ste

I feel sorry for them as well. I know it’s self inflicted but it must so detrimental to every aspect of their lives.

[Nickbrapp]

This duster has been sorn, MOT ran out January 2020, it’s parked outside a house in central Cardiff that also looks abandoned, I park by it most days and the curtains are always closed. Easily worth £350k, strange one

They also had a corsa outside, which was just as mouldy but it was removed by the DVLA as it was untaxed on a public road.

I do wonder what’s gone on.

[anonymous-user]

Nickbrapp said:

I do wonder what’s gone on.

Get a parcel with some tat, go knock on the door or neighbours and report back..

[Blakewater]

Nickbrapp said:

This duster has been sorn, MOT ran out January 2020, it’s parked outside a house in central Cardiff that also looks abandoned, I park by it most days and the curtains are always closed. Easily worth £350k, strange one

They also had a corsa outside, which was just as mouldy but it was removed by the DVLA as it was untaxed on a public road.

I do wonder what’s gone on.

I know of a few abandoned houses. Sometimes people are in prison. Sometimes they've fled the country to avoid some sort of trouble. Sometimes the owner has died and no one can find anyone who should inherit it.

[anonymous-user]

Steamer said:

Extensive bodywork damage and staining to the upholstery?!

Sorry... first thing that sprang to mind!

Still on the road i think.

[GIYess]

blongs said:

A 2for1 here with them both not moving for 10 years at least according to Google maps. I've lived here 5 years and they haven't moved. The house looks the same so I assume deceased owner.

Loads of lower body rust and flat tyres all around

Now that's a car I've not seen on the road for a while.
I used to want a punto sport. (Did it have yellow seats and a 1.4 engine?)

[finlo]

Nickbrapp said:

This duster has been sorn, MOT ran out January 2020, it’s parked outside a house in central Cardiff that also looks abandoned, I park by it most days and the curtains are always closed. Easily worth £350k, strange one

They also had a corsa outside, which was just as mouldy but it was removed by the DVLA as it was untaxed on a public road.

I do wonder what’s gone on.

£350k for a Duster!

[Teebs]

These 2 near me

Jag hasn't moved for ages and the VW van has a 'not for sale' sign on it..

[Wheel_Turned_Out]

Teebs said:

These 2 near me

Jag hasn't moved for ages and the VW van has a 'not for sale' sign on it..

Both a real shame, only 80k on that Jag. Guess they don't love it enough to cure the rot.

Real mystery is the Transporter though. Just 15k on it when it had its last MOT in 2016. I'm sure they have their reasons - majorly curious as to what they might be.

[BFleming]

I'm always intrigued when I see a "Not for sale" sign on stuff. This always made me think "who would want to buy it":


The guy had a limo here previously, and a similar (or possibly the same) "Not for sale" sign adorned it. Come to think of it, it may have been a Volvo...

[WarrenB]

Wheel_Turned_Out said:

Teebs said:

These 2 near me

Jag hasn't moved for ages and the VW van has a 'not for sale' sign on it..

Both a real shame, only 80k on that Jag. Guess they don't love it enough to cure the rot.

Real mystery is the Transporter though. Just 15k on it when it had its last MOT in 2016. I'm sure they have their reasons - majorly curious as to what they might be.

The Transporter is an odd one. Seems too new and valuable to be laid up, similar to that Fiesta a couple of years back.

[talksthetorque]

Perhaps a mobility conversion that someone isn’t able to use any more due to carer/driver passing away?