Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[Rick]

Morning all,

Re-visiting the post about the decayed Mini convertable on ebay, got me thinking about awkward collections with regard to old vehicles. Have you ever bought a car (or whatever), and had to be quite ingenious about getting to it, and/or extricating it from its location?

RJ
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[peter scott]

A friend and dormant forum member (Ken Page) and I have had a lot fun with his dreadful wrecks of trailers. (Or was that wrecks on trailers?) I won't attempt to describe what happened here and to protect the innocent I should point out that the Clan Chieftain had no involvement in it what so ever:


On another occasion Ken had an immovable Wolseley 15/50 stored on a trailer for some months and when we tried to get it off the brakes were seized on and no amount of club hammering seemed to unfree them. In the end we took a more brutal approach and tied the Wolseley to substantial fence post and after some considerable wheelspin from the towing car we managed to slide it off the trailer by driving the trailer out from under it!

There have been several other adventures with Ken's trailers but I think they are too horrific to relate here.

Peter
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1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon

[baconsdozen]

I might have told this story before but............
I had an old scrap land rover that I'd removed the engine from,the chassis etc was about all that was left and I cut it up and buried it,later building a chicken run over it.
Years later a guy stopped as I was fiddling with another one in the drive and asked about the scrapper (he remembered it possibly because it was originally painted bright yellow). I told him what had happened to its remains and he asked if I wanted to sell it. I thought he was joking and said if he left everything as it was afterwards he could have it.
He returned the following day with a couple of mates,a trailer and shovels. They temporarily evicted the chickens,dug and enormous hole and dragged out the chassis,filled the hole back in,refilled the chicken run (much to the chickens delight,all new ground to scrabble in) and went away delighted with their hard won find.
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Thirty years selling imperial hand tools for old machinery(Now happily retired).

[Ronniej]

Three years ago I helped my pal unearth a car that had lain in a garden shed for almost 50 years. Not a barn find as it was known to be there.
Other buildings had been put up over the intervening years and the car was jammed in a corer and had to be lifted almost 1 foot. It took two days to unearth it. The restoration is now almost complete and a new reg no in the BF series has been issued by DVLA who proved to very easy to deal with in spite all the horror stories I had heard. The car is a Triumph Super Seven boat tail.







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[Penman]

Hi
Please put a line space between photo links in order to give vertical scrolling rather than horizontal.
It hasn't worked completely below because of the above post

[JohnDale]

That looks like a superb restoration Penman - certainly wasn't done over a weekend,cheers,JD.
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1958 Ford Zephyr Mk2 Convertible
1976 Ford Granada Ghia.

[Penman]

Hi JD
The congrats shouldn go to Ronnie J and his mate.

I was merely trying to make the thread readable.
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