lying up to rust away.

manta mad

came across a fellas yard on thursday half way between moate & glasson
he has a few old school cars scathered around his field. the alfa is running but the front wings& shock mounting points are rusted. the green car, is it an mg of some kind,he says there is a super charger on it ? & running fine dunno
also there is a xr2 running with passenger side door damage. lots of 2 door golfs in good order.mk 2 scirocco,opel calibra,& a few mercedes of various kinds all with the bodys in good order.
have his number if anyone wants anything.

mike65

*me shakes head*

Mike.

junkyard

I love scrapyards! I could spend hours there, especially one's with classic car's in it. Have you anymore photo's manta mad? Here are a few of the ones I have.

corktina

what a pity, some rare stuff there....

dubtom

Would something like that P5B being worth someones while restoring. They dont go for huge money in A1 nick, I suppose it would have to be a labour of love.

Blue850

the green car is an upmarket version of the Austin 1100, possibly an MG, Vanden Plas, Wolseley or Riley. wouldn't have a supercharger as standard but there was an Shorrock supercharger aftermarket kit available in the 60s for the A-series engine, valuable item today

Esel

Must be a bitch to cut the grass!

green-blood

crikey, imagfine if there was a shorrock on there... i'd stretch to 20 quid for it!!! would sort out the power issue on our 66 850 mini !!!

Alfasudcrazy

Pity to see the sprint rotting away like that. I loved scrap yards too but the council here have cracked the whip with all the scrap yards to clean up their act and many fine classics have been crushed.:(

Cyprus is the place for classic car scrap yards - obviously most are heavily sun damaged but a great place to source parts.

Btw if anyone sees or knows of any alfasud headlamps I would like to know. The lamps on the later sprints won't do as the glass is flat - I need the curved glass headlamps - with obviously no rust on the chrome reflector.

On that subject does anyone know if its possible to get headlamp backings rechromed?;)

MercMad

On that subject does anyone know if its possible to get headlamp backings rechromed

............yes its possible and cheap enough too !

Search for "The genius of the lamp"

Torq

Blue850 wrote:

the green car is an upmarket version of the Austin 1100, possibly an MG, Vanden Plas, Wolseley or Riley. wouldn't have a supercharger as standard but there was an Shorrock supercharger aftermarket kit available in the 60s for the A-series engine, valuable item today

Hi Guys,
a mate has just had a look at it for me, there is no supercharger as far as he can tell (he's a watchmaker, not a mechanic!) but he's sending me on a couple of pics to confirm. I've (in the past 5 minutes) forgotten what model the car is, it's either a Wolseley or a Reilly. Suspension has depresurised and it sounds like one of the steering joints has also gone.
Keep well,
Torq.


Quick update. My mate spoke to the guy selling it, the supercharger was removed before he got it. It has a set of 13inch (1 inch too big) minilites and he's looking for €1200 for it, which is way over the odds in my view. Oh yea, thats not a shadow on the bonnet, it's a big hole for an air scoop.
T

Gary ITR

Anybody seen the collection of old opels at the side of the road just outside Nobber on the way to Navan? Lots of classics, even an 'A' type Manta

manta mad

Onkle51 wrote:

Anybody seen the collection of old opels at the side of the road just outside Nobber on the way to Navan? Lots of classics, even an 'A' type Manta

yes/ yes/yes/ seen them & the fella wont sell any for parts, some are beyond repair im afraid pity cos there are some rare cars there,

Gary ITR

yes/ yes/yes/ seen them & the fella wont sell any for parts, some are beyond repair im afraid pity cos there are some rare cars there,

Whats his game? He's just letting them rot rather than let them go to somebody who would love to restore them?

MercMad

Go up and steal one then !!

junkyard

Here are a couple of Jags I came across lately, they're both for sale if anyone's interested P.M. me for details. Correction a Jag and a Daimler.

overdriver

Onkle51 wrote:

Anybody seen the collection of old opels at the side of the road just outside Nobber on the way to Navan? Lots of classics, even an 'A' type Manta

I know, unreal. He's recently added one, some sort of imported 70's Opel estate. I saw it on the way up and it was gone when I was coming home, so unlike the thers, it's mobile. He's got an old p-4 I think.

manta mad

i was up that way to day & got talking to the fella that owns those cars,
hes not going to sell any says hes going to put them all in a shed
theirs about 5 opel reckords+ a very rare 2dr 69 reckord & what looks like an v8 opel diplomat .
that red estate is an ascona 1.9 in very good nick he just bought in england.
he also has an early 2dr ascona looks like it was used in a rally a long while ago.
some could be done up maybe but it wouldent be for the faint hearted:rolleyes:

kadman

Place over near Collinstown has Rovers , mercedes , jags austin princesses, in great shape, about 20= if memroy serves me well.

At the edge of a lake over there, I did work for the guy.

Tim

MercMad

Wheres Collinstown ? Or which Collinstown ?