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

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    #4592
    Blue850
    Registered Users Posts: 2,558 ✭✭✭Blue850


    kaizersoze wrote: »
    Still there as of last week.

    Owner won't part with anything. There was a Reliant SS1 parked behind the Lotus the last time I passed that way.


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    #4593
    swarlb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭swarlb


    In Kildare area, could be useful for parts. I can provide location if anyone is interested.


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    #4594
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Nice find

    Interestingly enough the plates look recent enough, they're those typical motor factor jobbies. I wonder if someone tried in recent times to get it back on the road but gave up?


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    #4595
    swarlb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭swarlb


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    Nice find

    Interestingly enough the plates look recent enough, they're those typical motor factor jobbies. I wonder if someone tried in recent times to get it back on the road but gave up?

    From what the land owner told me, the car was driven there 20 years ago, and was only 'found' recently when he cleared the undergrowth.


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    #4596
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,772 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Unidentifiable (to me) wreck at the foot of a mountain. I don't know how it drove up here as the track is pretty impossible for all apart from 4wd tractors.


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    #4597
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,772 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Unidentifiable (to me) wreck at the foot of a mountain. I don't know how it drove up here as the track is pretty impassible for all apart from 4wd tractors.


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    #4598
    swarlb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭swarlb


    sugarman wrote: »
    NCT due date is showing 1/8/2018, so could have been on the road until recently although it looks to be have been sitting up much longer.

    I think it's been a long time since it's seen the inside of an NCT centre. Regardless, as soon as the rest of the area is cleared, it's going to be crushed.


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    #4599
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Unidentifiable (to me) wreck at the foot of a mountain. I don't know how it drove up here as the track is pretty impassible for all apart from 4wd tractors.

    Steering wheel is (to my mind) something Japanese..can’t put my finger on anything though


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    #4600
    Type 17
    Registered Users Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭Type 17


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Unidentifiable (to me) wreck at the foot of a mountain. I don't know how it drove up here as the track is pretty impassible for all apart from 4wd tractors.
    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    Steering wheel is (to my mind) something Japanese..can’t put my finger on anything though

    Possibly early 80's Toyota (Land Cruiser or HiLux?), based on the horn buttons, other switch-gear and seat fabric, but it's pretty far gone alright


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    #4601
    Bigus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭Bigus


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Unidentifiable (to me) wreck at the foot of a mountain. I don't know how it drove up here as the track is pretty impassible for all apart from 4wd tractors.

    1979 Toyota carina

    1979-toyota-carina-1322084-1217837.jpg


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    #4602
    Type 17
    Registered Users Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭Type 17


    That's why it all looked familiar - we had a 1980 Carina (545 EZI) for a year or two (my parents never liked it, so it got sold) - the dash was different, but it did have that steering wheel and some of the switches.

    That one probably got joyridden up there and then abandoned when it got stuck/broke.


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    #4603
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    I had a Mk1 Accord and the steering wheel had loads of horn buttons on the various spokes - thats what gave it away for me as being something jap anyway


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    #4604
    Lofidelity
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭Lofidelity


    The photo of the old Lotus reminded me that i think i seen one last summer outside a farmhouse on the Galway/Clare border. Its black, and has a wedge shape so possibly an Eclat.

    If anybody is interested in saving one ill try to give directions.


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    #4605
    unkel
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    sugarman wrote: »
    NCT due date is showing 1/8/2018, so could have been on the road until recently although it looks to be have been sitting up much longer.

    NCT due date is meaningless. NCT certificate expiry date is where it's at and the Fiesta doesn't have any, which means it never passed an NCT test :D

    It most likely either failed the test in the year 2000, when it was due. Or the owner knew it would never pass. And it was moved to the field some time after that...


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    #4606
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,641 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    Nice find

    Interestingly enough the plates look recent enough, they're those typical motor factor jobbies. I wonder if someone tried in recent times to get it back on the road but gave up?

    That style of plate has been around since at least the '90s, I guess it was just made well as it's lasted.


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    #4607
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,772 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Type 17 wrote: »
    That's why it all looked familiar - we had a 1980 Carina (545 EZI) for a year or two (my parents never liked it, so it got sold) - the dash was different, but it did have that steering wheel and some of the switches.

    That one probably got joyridden up there and then abandoned when it got stuck/broke.

    Doubt it. Too old and too remote for the joyriding types.
    An old cottage that looks unoccupied nearer the public road, owner could have lived there. New landowner probably chucked it up there out of the way with a tractor and loader, judging by the other more recent random stuff dumped here and there.


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    #4608
    Type 17
    Registered Users Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭Type 17


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Doubt it. Too old and too remote for the joyriding types.
    Joyriding may be older than you think - it was huge in the early 80's - I remember seeing a newish, burnt out Mk1 Golf GTI one Sunday morning on a back lane behind Wilfield Road in Sandymount - I still remember noticing how the tops of the Pirelli P-rims had melted and flowed into puddles beside the car, leaving the P's open at the top :(
    whisky_galore wrote: »
    An old cottage that looks unoccupied nearer the public road, owner could have lived there. New landowner probably chucked it up there out of the way with a tractor and loader, judging by the other more recent random stuff dumped here and there.

    In that case, it probably wasn't driven up there...


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    #4609
    supersaint3
    Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭supersaint3


    Sorry i know there is a dreamers thread in the main motor forum, I thought there was one here couldn't find it but I think this almost qualifies as abandoned...

    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/hillman-avenger/21057680

    A thousand euros!!!


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    #4610
    Aska
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭Aska


    Seen this car for a long time now just buried, not sure the Audi model but it's a lovely colour. Doubt anyone can see it from a car while driving by, even Google street / road view only barely grabs the roof, But I've passed it so many times in the truck that I finally stopped and got out and took a photo of it.


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    #4611
    Harry Palmr
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    Aska did you ever own one of these


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    #4612
    jayo26
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,779 ✭✭✭✭jayo26


    Aska wrote: »
    Seen this car for a long time now just buried, not sure the Audi model but it's a lovely colour. Doubt anyone can see it from a car while driving by, even Google street / road view only barely grabs the roof, But I've passed it so many times in the truck that I finally stopped and got out and took a photo of it.

    It was a nice Audi 80 coupe by the looks of it one of the run out models??? Lovely colour indeed.


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    #4613
    jayo26
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,779 ✭✭✭✭jayo26


    Not really a classic but most definitely abandoned :)

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    #4614
    Duke O Smiley
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    Bet that'd come up lovely!


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    #4615
    jayo26
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    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    Bet that'd come up lovely!

    It's there couple of years now most parts looks intact.


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    #4616
    Wishbone Ash
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    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    Bet that'd come up lovely!
    No - they were awful looking when new.


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    #4617
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,957 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    I'm presuming this is sort of 'abandoned' as it's in the same position each time I pass and has been there for a long time.

    (Not sure why it's outside the fence either rather than parked inside with the other Rolls, Bentleys, Jags, Mercs,)

    Ey9sfMrh.jpg


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    #4618
    kev1.3s
    Registered Users Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    Spotted today in gorey


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    #4619
    clogher71
    Registered Users Posts: 561 ✭✭✭clogher71


    This has been in a lock up garage for as long as I can remember, I had forgotten it was there or even still existed , but recall it peeping out occasionally over the years. The undertaker is long passed on also. I pass today and it's outside it's home, the roof is falling in where it was kept for the past 35+ years at a guess it's now getting ready for its final journey........


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    #4620
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    clogher71 wrote: »
    This has been in a lock up garage for as long as I can remember, I had forgotten it was there or even still existed , but recall it peeping out occasionally over the years. The undertaker is long passed on also. I pass today and it's outside it's home, the roof is falling in where it was kept for the past 35+ years at a guess it's now getting ready for its final journey........

    That looks like the aftermath of a car bomb.

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    #4621
    Thinkingaboutit
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    supersaint3 wrote: »
    Sorry i know there is a dreamers thread in the main motor forum, I thought there was one here couldn't find it but I think this almost qualifies as abandoned...

    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/hillman-avenger/21057680

    A thousand euros!!!

    Dad's first new car was one of one of those. Even now looks less of a rust machine than his next car, a Fiat Miafiore 131, bought brand new and had lost a few inches of door skin by time of sale / trade in. Nice patina...


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