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

Premeditated Joke · 24-02-2020 11:56pm

Type 17 wrote: »

Jaguar XJS

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

Took this photo years ago

Carson10 · 30-03-2020 5:50pm

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

robie5 · 06-04-2020 10:45pm

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

kaizersoze · 07-04-2020 12:32am

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 · 07-04-2020 8:13am

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 · 07-04-2020 9:28am

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

BrianD3 · 07-04-2020 2:05pm

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 · 07-04-2020 7:53pm

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 · 11-04-2020 3:07am

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 · 11-04-2020 1:48pm

That is sad to see.

BonnieSituation · 13-04-2020 1:34am

That is criminal.

pablo128 · 13-04-2020 1:44am

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

w124man · 13-04-2020 9:19pm

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

welder · 14-04-2020 11:10am

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 · 14-04-2020 1:41pm

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 · 14-04-2020 8:43pm

welder wrote: »

anyway theres only one Eamonn......

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

RWD · 15-04-2020 2:30pm

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

Garzard · 25-05-2020 7:01pm

Saw this laid up at a place near Booterstown.

Duke O Smiley · 25-05-2020 7:32pm

Thats there a long time. Its an AX van

JabbaTheHut · 28-05-2020 4:29pm

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

tc20 · 29-05-2020 9:59am

^ 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 · 29-05-2020 10:13am

Renault 21

BrianD3 · 29-05-2020 10:13am

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

JabbaTheHut · 29-05-2020 12:29pm

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 · 26-06-2020 3:52pm

Hartstown, Dublin 15

hoodie6029 · 26-06-2020 4:12pm

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

davidglanza · 27-06-2020 12:25am

Spotted this
Lotus carlton

Garzard · 27-06-2020 12:48am

davidglanza wrote: »

Spotted this
Lotus carlton

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

IrishPlayer · 27-06-2020 7:26pm

Dublin 15

Type 17 · 27-06-2020 7:34pm

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

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

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

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