Today I saw an abandoned classic and took a pic thread!

fancy pigeon

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

I love that rear reflector panel

w124man wrote: »

I hate that rear reflector panel

I middlin that rear reflector panel

Tis all subjective though and an 80's thing...

hi5

I hate the reflector... and the spoiler!

tc20

this little MGB is looking sad and neglected (Bray), there's a Nissan 100NX/Sera just beside it looking in a similar sorry state

Cocoon

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

I cant seem to find a photo of it but YZC801 is a customised Opel Olympia.
Lovely two door estate.
It was customised by a poster on here, he might come forward with a pic?

A late reply but came across a pic of the Opel Olympia from 2002.

caoimhin1980

Cocoon wrote: »

A late reply but came across a pic of the Opel Olympia from 2002.

I haven't seen that car in years

Wishbone Ash

In the Dublin Mountains this morning:

Duke O Smiley

Looks like a Standard 8 or 10, perhaps?

Nice house, nice photo.

Car and house growing old rather gracefully in their own way

Red Kev

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

In the Dublin Mountains this morning:

Are the two Mk 1 Escort estates still rotting away in the field to the left of the house? Haven't been up there in 5-6 years.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2512844,-6.2517867,3a,75y,38.09h,74.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sACNgq7GDfxdH9UnBosNWbQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

red sean

Red Kev wrote: »

Are the two Mk 1 Escort estates still rotting away in the field to the left of the house? Haven't been up there in 5-6 years.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2512844,-6.2517867,3a,75y,38.09h,74.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sACNgq7GDfxdH9UnBosNWbQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Looks like everything has degraded a lot since the google car was around in 2009. Is the VW also abandoned since?

Wishbone Ash

Red Kev wrote: »

Are the two Mk 1 Escort estates still rotting away in the field to the left of the house? Haven't been up there in 5-6 years.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2512844,-6.2517867,3a,75y,38.09h,74.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sACNgq7GDfxdH9UnBosNWbQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Didn't notice them although I wasn't looking that way so possibly still there. I'll have a look next time I up that way.

Silvera

Sorry no pics but...

Today I spotted an abandonded Lancia Thema and Volvo Estate (940 ?) just outside Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford...in a place called Carleys Bridge. I can PM more precise location details if anybody needs them.

Testacalda

Some photos of 'Abandoned Classics' that were on the Barn Find stand at the NEC show this weekend.

The link is to a photo album on my club's facebook page. (you can look at the photos without having to sign in)

lots of them for sale apparently

https://www.facebook.com/pg/shamrockcarandmachineryclub/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1378435145549677

PaulK_CCI

that's a nice collection of barn finds. I particularly like the blue Jensen Interceptor FF: featuring 4 wheel drive + ABS braking system!!

kaizersoze

The quattro.........I've 2 kidneys. I only nee 1.

Hearse 1

Red Kev wrote: »

Are the two Mk 1 Escort estates still rotting away in the field to the left of the house? Haven't been up there in 5-6 years.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2512844,-6.2517867,3a,75y,38.09h,74.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sACNgq7GDfxdH9UnBosNWbQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2520237,-6.2514749,3a,75y,140.2h,66.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suMm06rBc-CEifTHMnHZmxg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Not quite abandoned, but next door to the previous Google location

lepoatnam

Cocoon wrote: »

A late reply but came across a pic of the Opel Olympia from 2002.

There was an article in the July - September 2011 issue of Irish Vintage Scene Retro Classics magazine on this Opel Olympia - http://www.irishvintagescene.ie/retro-classics/summer-2011/

Greg81

Small town in the middle of nowhere in Colorado.

alastair

Silvera wrote: »

Sorry no pics but...

Today I spotted an abandonded Lancia Thema and Volvo Estate (940 ?) just outside Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford...in a place called Carleys Bridge. I can PM more precise location details if anybody needs them.

There's a breakers there, with a load of older stuff scattered about.

Silvera

alastair wrote: »

There's a breakers there, with a load of older stuff scattered about.

I wasnt aware of a breakers yard there nowadays?

I heard that a father and son set-up had loads of old cars but were forced to remove most (all?) of them by the county council a few years ago. I didnt get a good look into the place as I drove past, but there didnt appear to be very many cars there.

jca

Silvera wrote: »

I wasnt aware of a breakers yard there nowadays?

I heard that a father and son set-up had loads of old cars but were forced to remove most (all?) of them by the county council a few years ago. I didnt get a good look into the place as I drove past, but there didnt appear to be very many cars there.

I've never heard of a breakers out in Carleysbridge and God knows I've been to all of them over the years.. There's a traveller in the council bungalow who always has interesting stuff outside, tractors, pierces fans agricultural equipment etc. He had a shocking condition 1500 Hunter outside one day, I stopped to have a look but it was completely rotten.

Falcon L

The breaker in Enniscorthy is to the east of the town in Drumgoold villas. He must have 300 cars there. Easy to see on Google earth.

jca

Falcon L wrote: »

The breaker in Enniscorthy is to the east of the town in Drumgoold villas. He must have 300 cars there. Easy to see on Google earth.

I know that, Padraig Donohoes in Clonhaston. I'm trying to figure out where the elusive breakers are in Carleysbridge.

jayo26

jca wrote: »

I know that, Padraig Donohoes in Clonhaston. I'm trying to figure out where the elusive breakers are in Carleysbridge.

It's not a breakers just a couple lads with loads of oldish cars and as someone else said they used to be lots more parked right up to the gate. It was just on the corner as you turn in off the enniscirthy to clonroch road I think there used to be an old cream coloured Peugeot estate parked at the gate for years.

Carleys Bridge Rd

https://goo.gl/maps/X7eZd65qwAq

jca

jayo26 wrote: »

It's not a breakers just a couple lads with loads of oldish cars and as someone else said they used to be lots more parked right up to the gate. It was just on the corner as you turn in off the enniscirthy to clonroch road I think there used to be an old cream coloured Peugeot estate parked at the gate for years.

Carleys Bridge Rd

https://goo.gl/maps/X7eZd65qwAq

I have it now, I was thinking in the wrong direction, on the way out rather than on the way in. He was a bloke with an English accent a very nice fella, very obliging would help you if he could. Just can't think of his name at the minute. Rumour has it that a local busybody reported him to the environmental pen pushers who took great glee in taking all his stuff. A couple of so called "classic car enthusiasts" were ripping him off too. Myself and my father warned him about one individual in particular, a slimey bucko indeed.

w124man

That 'yard' has had all sorts of stuff in it over the years. There are a few BJ40 Landcruisers there. There used to be Willys Jeeps and Austin Champs amongst all the crap.

Wishbone Ash

In a field somewhere near the Ballinabarny Gap, Co Wicklow.

(A Landcruiser I presume?)

SmartinMartin

A BJ40

kev1.3s

Must be worth at least €50 k.

Bus Boy

Very sad, I'd buy it just for the wheels to have a spare set.

Odelay

Hard to imagine that's Wicklow, looks like the outback to me.