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

Premeditated Joke

Type 17 wrote: »

Jaguar XJS

(There's a reason why you may not have seen one before...)

Took this photo years ago

Carson10

1996 Primera, 1.6, 90,000 miles. Parked since 2016. Washed summer 2019.

robie5

https://youtu.be/dJ8Nc2b6EL0 Don't think this has been posted before

kaizersoze

robie5 wrote: »

https://youtu.be/dJ8Nc2b6EL0 Don't think this has been posted before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLRzIimIlk
This was his first visit to the site in 2016.

Testacalda

robie5 wrote: »

https://youtu.be/dJ8Nc2b6EL0 Don't think this has been posted before

Great video, cool to see for sure,

although I don't think I would appreciate some stranger trespassing around my farm full of junk with a camera though :eek:

That's assuming he didn't have permission now...

sligojoek

There was a place like that outside Nenagh years ago. My father used to call it "The garden of rememberance."

BrianD3

robie5 wrote: »

https://youtu.be/dJ8Nc2b6EL0 Don't think this has been posted before

What's with all the rocks and what looks like cut vegetation/scrub piled up on many of the cars - an attempt to keep the elements out so that the cars can be used as sheds?

I think this video is of the same place, just the house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7XuisC-NUM

Quite unsettling to see it abandoned like that with everyday "stuff" as banal as firewood and tins of catfood just sitting there. My uncle's house was like that after he suddenly went into a nursing home and never came out. It does ram home various things about life, death, ageing, priorities etc. I'm thinking about this an awful lot these days anyway due to the coronavirus situation..

The Red Ace

BrianD3 wrote: »

What's with all the rocks and what looks like cut vegetation/scrub piled up on many of the cars - an attempt to keep the elements out so that the cars can be used as sheds?

I think this video is of the same place, just the house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7XuisC-NUM

Quite unsettling to see it abandoned like that with everyday "stuff" as banal as firewood and tins of catfood just sitting there. My uncle's house was like that after he suddenly went into a nursing home and never came out. It does ram home various things about life, death, ageing, priorities etc. I'm thinking about this an awful lot these days anyway due to the coronavirus situation..

One thing about house is that whoever lived there was quite affluent, the appliances date from the late 60s very early 70s, two top end fridges, washing machine, Stanley range even someone had been to France (Eiffel Tower)

gammygils

Weir Road Business Park Tuam. Posted this 71 Morris Minor (original colour grey according to Motorcheck) on The Classics thread around 3 years ago



But look at it now








And this Celica





What is Wrong with people?

SmartinMartin

That is sad to see.

BonnieSituation

That is criminal.

pablo128

That Celica comes up as a ST202. Are they 180 bhp or something like that?

w124man

That Celica's engine will be harvested and dropped into a Yaris and used for rallying.

welder

w124man wrote: »

That Celica's engine will be harvested and dropped into a Yaris and used for rallying.

Wrong Celica with wrong engine for that ! Needs to be '99 on with 2ZZ engine and anyway theres only one Eamonn......

Testacalda

This XJ40 isn't abandoned as such, more forgotten about in the back of a shed. Its a 3.6L straight 6 model. Original hubcaps on metric rims!

w124man

welder wrote: »

anyway theres only one Eamonn......

Indeed there is. I wouldnt know one Celica from another but he does!

RWD

This car has probably been posted on here before but I passed it again today,in the Lough,Cork

Garzard

Saw this laid up at a place near Booterstown.

Duke O Smiley

Thats there a long time. Its an AX van

JabbaTheHut

Looks like it's been a while since it's seen the road

tc20

^ without resorting to google or checking the reg, I'm wracking my brains trying to think what that car is..
Badging on the boot looks like Renault, but the rear lights look like an Opel or possibly a Rover?
I know i'll kick myself when someone says what it is...:o

ARGINITE

Renault 21

BrianD3

Easy peasy and you were right about the badging - Renault 21 phase 1.

JabbaTheHut

tc20 wrote: »

^ without resorting to google or checking the reg, I'm wracking my brains trying to think what that car is..
Badging on the boot looks like Renault, but the rear lights look like an Opel or possibly a Rover?
I know i'll kick myself when someone says what it is...:o

Well, I hope you got some entertainment from it. Good fun trying to guess cars you know that do you know, but can't place it.
It's all there. Well, for a car that's been sitting for a while. I'm not sure if it will be for long more, though. There's a planning permission notice outside the property for development of the site. I doubt the car is in the plans.

IrishPlayer

Hartstown, Dublin 15

hoodie6029

One less car on the road with those door denting reflectors is no loss..

davidglanza

Spotted this
Lotus carlton

Garzard

davidglanza wrote: »

Spotted this
Lotus carlton

Shame. Hopefully someone will buy that before it's beyond restoration.

IrishPlayer

Dublin 15

Type 17

Looks like it's getting some love, rather than being abandoned(?)

(Reg is Bologna, Italy, if anyone is unsure)