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peter scott



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some here might remember this: http://www.allpar.com/history/auto-shows/time-capsule.html

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No one seems to have mentioned the untimely death of John Parry-Thomas when he rolled Babs on Pendine sands in March 1927. The car was buried in the dunes after the accident, and lay there until it was excavated at the end of the 1960's.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 8:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Back in the 1970's a country garage owner told me at the end of world war II his father had several pre-war cars he could not sell. They had been badly stored during the war and would have been too expensive to re-commission. They borrowed a machine dug a big hole and buried them at the back of the garage. The garage has gone now, the site is covered with houses.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

V8 Nutter wrote:
Back in the 1970's a country garage owner told me at the end of world war II his father had several pre-war cars he could not sell. They had been badly stored during the war and would have been too expensive to re-commission. They borrowed a machine dug a big hole and buried them at the back of the garage. The garage has gone now, the site is covered with houses.


I am sure many an Austin Seven has met the same fate.
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peter scott



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lowdrag wrote:
No one seems to have mentioned the untimely death of John Parry-Thomas when he rolled Babs on Pendine sands in March 1927. The car was buried in the dunes after the accident, and lay there until it was excavated at the end of the 1960's.


Slightly OT but another monster that raced on the sands was the Napier Railton that got resurrected after being pushed over the cliff (in the film anyway!) in "Rebecca" or "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman".

https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/forum/phpbb/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20778&highlight=cars+films



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Buried Pop to be exhumed?

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/04/20/car-buried-backyard/

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know someone not far from me who buried a Honda ss50 m/cyl in the garden then a Lada saloon, i also know of a Ford 4550 digger buried in back garden again not so far away...
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rick wrote:
Buried Pop to be exhumed?

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/04/20/car-buried-backyard/

RJ


Buried in the adverts is the story behind this Ford Pop..
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/18394889.bizarre-mystery-car-dug-garden-solved/?ref=rl&lp=1
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It doesn't look very restorable!

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 10:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shetland Abandoned Vehicles Facebook page. Lots to enjoy. I'm not on Fb but can still access the page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/512931722212710
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 11:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Crashbox wrote:
Shetland Abandoned Vehicles Facebook page. Lots to enjoy. I'm not on Fb but can still access the page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/512931722212710


Yes, island communities tend to keep their wrecks rather than paying for them to be scrapped on the mainland. Back around 1960 when on family holidays at a farm on Mull there were some really interesting vehicles to be found in boggy fields, even vintage types.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 12:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lots of interesting 'very' rusty vehicles, must be the salty sea air.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rootes75 wrote:
Lots of interesting 'very' rusty vehicles, must be the salty sea air.


I can remember my father saying: "Never buy a car with a PS registration."

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 2:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

when we were on holiday in the isles of scilly one of the boatmen took us to the point on st marys, the largest island, and showed us where all the scrap cars & trucks were just pushed off the cliff into the sea up until the early 70's as taking them back to cornwall would have cost too much!
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

peter scott wrote:
Rootes75 wrote:
Lots of interesting 'very' rusty vehicles, must be the salty sea air.


I can remember my father saying: "Never buy a car with a PS registration."

Peter Scott


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