The car dealership that stood still for 12 years

Kaiser D

This might be of interest to people on here. Its a car dealership in the UK, that closed in 2002 when the owner's wife died. There have been many plans put forward to demolish the place and build houses but they've been refused time and time again, luckily. Link here. I'm told the owner still shows up every now and again, and the cars are actually for sale too. There are some proper gems in there.

The building:









And the cars:
1991 Lada Samara



1993 Renault Master



1991 Rover 820




More to come.

Kaiser D

1992 Skoda Favorit




1986 Vauxhall Astra




1990 Volvo 440



1990 Rover Maestro



1985 Austin Metro



1990 Vauxhall Cavalier (1.4!)

carchaeologist

Old pics. Most of the cars are now gone.

Kaiser D

carchaeologist wrote: »

Old pics. Most of the cars are now gone.

Well, funny you should mention that. I only made this because a friend of mine uploaded photos to Facebook today. This is how the place was yesterday (21/02/14)

oceanman

most of them are not old enough to be worth much..

Red Kev

oceanman wrote: »

most of them are not old enough to be worth much..

Thing is though most of them should all be in good condition bodywise, the mechanicals can always be done up.

Of all those cars if I was given the choice I'd take the Maestro. No idea when I last saw one. Drove a Montego turbo from the north of Scotland to London once, frightening turbo lag, but insane acceleration, there's a very rare Maestro version with the same engine, only about 500 were built.