|
Author |
Message |
peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans
|
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:44 am Post subject: |
|
|
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. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
V8 Nutter
Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 587
|
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 8:34 am Post subject: |
|
|
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. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6316 Location: Derby
|
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:33 am Post subject: |
|
|
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. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
|
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:10 am Post subject: |
|
|
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
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22447 Location: UK
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Churchill Johnson
Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 359 Location: Rayleigh Essex
|
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:28 pm Post subject: |
|
|
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... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
|
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 9:07 am Post subject: |
|
|
It doesn't look very restorable!
Peter [/img] _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Crashbox
Joined: 30 Apr 2021 Posts: 139
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
|
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 11:46 am Post subject: |
|
|
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.
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3816 Location: The Somerset Levels
|
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 12:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Lots of interesting 'very' rusty vehicles, must be the salty sea air. _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
|
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 1:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
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 _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon |
|
Back to top |
|
|
consul 57
Joined: 09 Nov 2017 Posts: 487 Location: somerset
|
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 2:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
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! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
|
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 3:42 pm Post subject: |
|
|
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 |
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
|