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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK

Hi all,

Due to finger trouble on my part, while deleting a duplicated post, the previous buried thread was exterminated.

To sum up my own recollections of buried vehicles so far:

- the interred E83W van beneath a grassy hillock in N Wales.
- a group of 1950s classics, buried beneath a car park also in N Wales.
- remains of a pre-war car, found close to a "do not tip" sign, yes - in N Wales.
- remains of a pre-war Minor, close to the river in Betws-y-Coed (N Wales!!)

As you were .... Smile

RJ
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK

One of the most well-known buried cars, is the 1957 Plymouth nicknamed "Miss Belvedere", buried for 50 years as a time capsule:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Belvedere

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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

Back in the early 1960s my parents used to take my sister and me on holiday to stay in a farmhouse on Mull. When old vehicles were discarded back then they normally just got abandoned in a field somewhere as there was no scrapyard on Mull and transport to the mainland was expensive. I can remember quite a few interesting remains mouldering away in boggy fields. All pre-war and some 1920s. OK, they weren't actually buried but they were slowly burying themselves.

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Ronniej · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 9:25 am Post subject:

I found some more info on the "Gyrocar" I mentioned yesterday on the thread that was accidentally deleted.
Essentially, a member of the Russian Royal family, who seems to have had excellent engineering credentials, asked the Wolseley Motor Company to build an experimental two wheeled Gyrocar to his specifications. This was shortly before the outbreak of the Great War and the company lost touch with the customer. When Lord Nuffield took over the company in 1927 the car was buried in the company yard. It was subsequently exhumed and displayed in the company museum for a few years before being broken up for scrap. (Shame!)
To judge from the photos the car would not win many beauty contests but it was certainly interesting from an engineering aspect.
There is quite a lot on Google, including technical spec, about the car if anyone is interested.

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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

It looks a little better with the cowlings on.

Peter

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

Coincidentally, this has just popped up via MSN:

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/enthusiasts/haunting-car-graveyards-from-around-the-world/ss-BBmMHvt?ocid=mailsignoutmd

Cool

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4755 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi Ronniej

If you go back to your posting with the pictures and put a line break between the [/img} at the end of the first one and the [img} at the start of the second one, then the pictures will appear one under the other instead of side by side.

That should then also condense the thread down to a narrower view so we don't have to scroll sideways to read posts.
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PAUL BEAUMONT · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks

I may have shared this before, but about 30 years ago a friend had a Standard Atlas minibus to carry his largish family. It was getting more under-powered by the day and one day he met someone who claimed to have an engine, but he would need a day or two to "dig it out". Imagine my friends amazement when he arrived to collect the engine to find the vendor in a large hole in the back garden where he had buried a time expired Atlas some time before. Needless to say the engine was useless!

Paul

V8 Nutter · Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 587

I remember probably 30 or 40 years ago talking to the owner of a country garage. The garage had been built or extended in the late 30's. At the time his father owned the business and he had several old cars from the 20's and earlier he had been unable to sell. The old cars were simply buried beneath the building works. The only car the son could positively remember was a big Minerva from the late 20's which had serious engine problems that were not economical to repair. The garage has gone now, replaced by new houses.

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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4755 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
But you still need to put the line break in.
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Rusty · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 3:24 am Post subject:

A little story that might interest you !

Up in my district there was a farmer who had his fathers old International K5 truck that he arrived in the district with as a cartage contractor. He drove this truck for quite a few years then bought the farm and continued using the truck for farm work. When it was retired the truck was stored in a shed and sat there for maybe 20 odd years and was well known by vintage commercial enthusiasts some of whom made offers to buy it off the son of the original owner who just refused point blank to entertain any idea of parting with it. Now one day the local council had a bulldozer working in a gravel pit on the farm and the farmer got the dozer driver to dig a trench about 10 foot deep without telling him why he wanted it, he then went down to the shed, started the truck up and "drove" it into the trench, switched it off, took the battery out and then ordered the dozer driver to fill in the hole. The dozer driver still recons he could take you to within 50 yards of where it is buried but it is still there.

We were all horrified that he would rather destroy it than let someone else restore it, and lose money by doing so in the process.