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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22807 Location: UK

Aft'noon all,

Are there any interesting semi-derelict classics in your area, perhaps gathering moss in a driveway, or crumbling away beneath a half-torn cover?

Bonus points for photos Smile

There were two or three Series 1 XJs spotted behind a house not far from here, this was a few years ago while walking our now-departed dog in a field. A look on Google Earth suggests that they may have now gone.

On the school run I pass a part-dismantled VW Beetle Cabrio (Karmann). A few years ago it was on the road, but now the wings are off and its clearly had surgery undertaken to its inner wings.

RJ
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Billf · Joined: 01 Jul 2011 Posts: 202 Location: North Cyprus.

Hi Rick.

Yes there are lots of "Relics" here. Unfortunately they are still being driven. Mainly Renault Broadways. Most of them in various states of falling to bits.

But they all get fixed up for the 3 yearly MOT.

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

I passed this P6 in Greenlaw a couple of weeks ago and it was covered in moss and I claim my bonus points.

Peter

http://tinyurl.com/p6greenlaw
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JohnDale · Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:40 pm Post subject:

[quote="peter scott"]I passed this P6 in Greenlaw a couple of weeks ago and it was covered in moss and I claim my bonus points.

Peter

Hi Peter,what were you doing there?(he said sticking his nose in). Were you looking to see if Jim Clark or Ecurie Ecosse had left any bits lying about Chaterhall? All the best,JD.
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

Hi John,

I was a passenger traveling back from a visit to Hull to see progress on a friend's MG SA that he's having paneled down there.

This is Ken's second SA and having sold his first one he can now afford to pay for work on the car below. (A sucker for punishment! That applies to me me too as I'll probably get sucked in for the mechanicals and electrickery.)

Peter

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BigJohn · Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire

According to my wife the worst derelicts in our parish are me and my friends...... Crying or Very sad

Rootes75 · Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 5:18 pm Post subject:

My fathers 1967 Cortina 1600E lies under a tarp in our yard, we get a lot of people enquiring about the 'derelict' car and how much we want for it!!
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Penguin45 · Joined: 28 Jul 2014 Posts: 384 Location: Padiham

D4B · Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Posts: 2083 Location: Hampshire UK

Gathering moss in a driveway not far from me:

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

Mog · Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 663 Location: Sydney

Looks like they need to fix the roof....

lowdrag · Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1600 Location: Le Mans

Funnily enough, they've gone. For years and years there were three triumphs sitting all forlorn next to a house on the Mulsanne straight. Two Heralds, one a convertible and a Vitesse convertible, grass growing all around, one with a big roll of barbed wire on the bonnet, but he just wouldn't consider selling. I only asked him so I could pass the info on to the Triumph club. Anyway, they've gone, and I hope salvaged to cannibalise since they were too far gone to save.

JohnDale · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:52 pm Post subject:

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

Hi John,

Here's his last one, and that took a few years:
http://www.a1classiccars.co.uk/node/163

It might have sold more easily if it had been sprayed in the same nice subtle colour scheme as George Rome's car in your photo.

If you scroll down to the last one here (at £11k):
http://www.svwregister.co.uk/cars_classified.htm

That's how it started out.

Here's the story of the engine rebuild and also rear axle but there was a lot more that I haven't written up.

http://www.scottpeter.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/new_page_30.htm

Peter
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JohnDale · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:19 pm Post subject:

Hi Peter,all very nice but too much work & a little too rich for my blood & at my age,hihi. I've just sold the Zephyr, to go away mid Feb, so now I'm down to only the Volvo, temporarily!!!. Georges car is incredible,better than new.
All the best,JD.
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