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

Max_Damage

Saw this sad looking Dublin-reg. Fiesta Mk2 in the scrapyard across from the Red Cow :





Looked to be in restorable condition too.

There was also a Volkswagen Passat VR5 in the scrapyard aswell. It too was in a sad condition.

carchaeologist

The poor old fiesta got a bit of a bad end!!And they are getting rare now..

Redrocket

scrapped one of them last week, was sitting for 6 years without moving, put a battery into and got her going in 2 mins, drove her onto the trailer then to the scrap yard... had no time to organise somewhere better to send her

Hifive

Sad Citroen down by the harbour in Rush Co. Dublin

Dades

carchaeologist wrote: »

Saw this earlier while trawling the web,thought it was a nice shot!!How long has that car been there!!!Anyone hazard a guess as to what it is?

I don't have a clue what it is but I love the 'wood trim'.

Blue850

Just seen a MK1 Jetta in the back of a scrap collectors truck, looked pretty ok but its been lifted by a crane buckling the roof:rolleyes:

corktina

with scrap prices going up loads of old wrecks are getting cleared out....theres a place in west cork where several old fords had been in the briatrs for years...all gone on thursday when i passed...saw a Iirish reg Ascona in a scrap truck yesterday looked reasonable bwefore the grab lifted it....

carchaeologist

corktina wrote: »

with scrap prices going up loads of old wrecks are getting cleared out....theres a place in west cork where several old fords had been in the briatrs for years...all gone on thursday when i passed..

Was that down near dunmanway,there was a guy there with a couple of capris just off the macroom road,it was a few years ago since iv seen them though.
What is scrap making today does anyone know?

corktina

no it was on the main drag down to Skibb....one of the little villages

stewiegriffin08

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10759738@N06/

Wishbone Ash

Hifive wrote: »

Sad Citroen down by the harbour in Rush Co. Dublin

Where about? Harbour Road? Quay Road? I live nearby and have never noticed it!

Hifive

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Where about? Harbour Road? Quay Road? I live nearby and have never noticed it!

It's about 50 meters further on past the harbour wall on the right. Not sure of the road name.

Wishbone Ash

Hifive wrote: »

It's about 50 meters further on past the harbour wall on the right. Not sure of the road name.

I know where you mean - I must take a dander over there soon. Thanks.

8~)

carchaeologist wrote: »

What is scrap making today does anyone know?

40 Euro at the local recyclers for a car.

carchaeologist

Heres one i made earlier..:)
Myself and a friend chopped the back off this woodhall nicholson granada last year with the intention of making a pickup out of it,though it looked wrong with the high front doors the coachbuilders put on it so the project was shelved(way too much work to lower the roof line).Some fine work went into building these hearses originally,the timber and aluminium body was a work of art.Then they ruined it by putting crappy MK2 escort rear lenses on it,they looked totally out of place!!I thought the number plate was kind of funny too!

Max_Damage

^ Pity the '999' on the plate aren't upside down, to have '666'!

The number of the beast!

Max_Damage

I'm not sure if you could call this a 'classic', but here's a picture I took a while back of my uncle's '88 Citroen BX estate:



It's been sitting stationary since 1999. It has a crappy 1.9L non-turbo diesel engine in it, it could only hit about 80mph flatout! Engine still runs though, the car doesn't

They are as rare as hen's teeth now.

carchaeologist

A good car in their day,and as you say,rare now!!When did you last see a BX on the road!!Come to think of it theres a BX van doing the rounds in tralee....

Max_Damage

I haven't seen a BX estate/van in years, apart from my uncle's one above. The hydropneumatic suspension on them were rubbish, his one was constantly giving trouble. It eventually ceased working altogether.

zilog_jones

carchaeologist wrote: »

When did you last see a BX on the road!!

I see hatchbacks every now and then. And the French seem to love coming over here in their 20+ year old cars - there's a rather battered but functional Peugeot 505 on French plates going around Limerick recently. Students maybe?

Max_Damage

zilog_jones wrote: »

I see hatchbacks every now and then. And the French seem to love coming over here in their 20+ year old cars - there's a rather battered but functional Peugeot 505 on French plates going around Limerick recently. Students maybe?

The French are known for keeping their cars FAR longer than us. When I was over there last March, the amount of Renault 9, 11, 21, 25, aswell as Peugeot 505's and Citroen Visa's was quite unreal! These are cars that have long since vanished from the roads here. I even managed to see two Austin Metro's over there in the space of ten minutes. You'd be lucky to see one per year here!

Fair play to them I say, at least they have their priorities in order and don't feel the need to 'keep up with the Jones'.

Gary ITR

carchaeologist wrote: »

Junkyard'll break your neck if he see's that picture

Kevin_Herron

That has to be the tallest roof I have ever seen on a Granada hearse.
Look at how tall the windscreen is!

superboy

Hey what engine is in that Hearse???

Max_Damage

Most of them had the 2.9L V6 engine.

macautos

This is my first time posting here .Really love this thread .Like some of the rest of ye here i love finding old gems abandoned around the place .
Mainly Toyota below but theres is a couple of escorts thrown in there aswell


3X KP Starlets





Escorts

macautos

macautos

KE30

macautos

RA40 Celica



KE20


Cressida buried


Now that should keep ye going

Max_Damage

Excellent posts there Macautos.

It's such a shame to see many of these cars, which look restorable, going it such a state of disrepair.

Where did you take these pictures anyway?