Mash Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 This is one of the 57 Metros won in a competition by Heinz around 1990, there used to be one round here but haven't seen it for ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 RE the Metro with "57", I believe there was some promotional thing with the Metro and Heinz.EDIT: beaten to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 Did they all have '57' in the reg plate too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted May 22, 2009 Author Share Posted May 22, 2009 They didnt make a very professional job of it then.. it all looks a bit half arsed on the car.Wonder how many of the 57 survive? cant be many now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 That Capri looks particularly fruity, I hope its a 1.3L or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gallondrunk Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gompo Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Is that a Quantum? Nice update... I hope that BMW, Rover etc arent just abandoned in themiddle of nowhere?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 actually, I've no idea what it is! never seen one before. BUt those look suspiciously like post 1990 sierra tailights to me.The BMW, Triumph etc are lying on a farm near Thornton. Although it doesnt look like he's exactly looking after them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 LOLZ, look at that! I reckon i would get an almost erotic sensation from punching a damn great hole in that wing with my bare fist right there in the car park. I would do it in the name of AUTOSHITE, an underground movement where people relieve the tensions of their crushingly pointless existence by publicly (and violently) exposing chronic structural rot on parked cars at night, a little bit like 'fight club'. The first rule of Autoshite is: 'You must wait many months for your application to be processed' etc. Looks to me like an engine donor for a metro anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotorabia Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 nice shots with Scottish backgrounds..makes me 'home' sick...the Metro does prove a point about certain cars being like baked bean cans..and the latter Mini proves that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted May 31, 2009 Author Share Posted May 31, 2009 Couldnt resist sticking this one up.. especially for Hirst... finally found out where the Charmant I got a crap pic of before lives and got a decent shot of it yesterday Its pretty tidy, although the paint is quite flat which suggests its not particularly loved. Funnily enough the "57" metro is in the same street... shame not beside the charmant which would have been a shite-tastic pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrogeezer Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 Is that a Quantum? Nice update... I hope that BMW, Rover etc arent just abandoned in themiddle of nowhere?!?Yep, thats a Quantum - looks like a good build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Not done any spots for er... two years so here's a couple taken on my trip to Upullit yesterday. not much in of Interest apart from the egg roll and the Minor, which has been there for months now. It was a wastage scheme victim... and is near enough pristine Prices have shot up at upull - I bought a 14 inch ford rim and tyre to replace my dodgy spare and got hit for £25... could have just gone and put a brand new tyre on the old rim for £30 odd. Noticed the prices to buy the rights to strip a car have rocketed as well... most at least £400 even for 12 year old lowly spec heaps- which is too rich to be worthwhile IMO. Shame - it was great while it lasted. in the car park outside... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cade Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 I saw a Mk4 Cortina 2.0 S yesterday, but didn't have my camera at the time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted April 19, 2011 Author Share Posted April 19, 2011 a pretty damn shabby mk4 cortina with a stoved in wing at the mo sadly ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Have you ever seen that Black mk4 2.3v6 Ghia I bought off you anywhere Dave?I sold it to a guy over in fife about 3-4 years ago with a load of new panels but haven't seen or heard of it since.They guy's on buysellcortina but there's never any mention of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted April 19, 2011 Author Share Posted April 19, 2011 Aye he still has it. Its more or less fully restored now, he's spent a fortune on it and just needs to actually bolt it back together. I feel guilty for selling you it now, having seen it in bits.. it was completely rotten ! looked alright too. I dont think it could have lived on much longer as it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 It's worse then I thought it was as well then.I had a complete new Ford Front end for it including bumpers, wings, front panel and bonnet I gave him to him for hardly anything as I thought it might need it.I enjoyed having it. I sold it for £500 or something then got a bargain xr4i from ebay so I didn't really lose anything. It did look good from 20 feet away or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain2Stroke Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Shiteseeing - well every time I go past the neighbour's garage I see this: There again everytime I go to my car I see this: Sounds shite as well !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tysonian Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Wartburg 353/Tourist!!! Awesome!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 My mate in Czech ran this for years... and yes, the 'chimney' was fully functioning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted April 20, 2011 Author Share Posted April 20, 2011 that astra is top notch. gaffer taped over rustholes has to be one of the ultimate hallmarks of a truly shite vehicle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 Okay.. smallish update time.. been meaning to grab a pic of this Alfa 6 for ages.. its been lying in a garden in Kirkcaldy and hasnt moved in over a year.. a bleak future I presume. It's reasonably tidy too. Another trip to Upullit last week to get a cd player for the primera... not a huge amount of interest in... this was a shame though, in the new arrivals section you're not supposed to go in... 33k and utterly immaculate er...apart from this bit Sunny Coupe which has "sell" chalked in the window so may go into the section where they flog on some of the scrappers as complete runners rather than part them out This is for sale complete - its really quite shit though and they want £750 Nice Ventora Near Aberdeen... Sitting just off shot was my old Capri !! Was pleased to see it still looking decent but the pic I took came out blurry. Always strange to stumble on one of your old motors Both these grannies are at a garage near Cullin.. I fear the track awaits... Interior in the white one was mint Also nearby... In Dundee and my mate has just bought this.. I love it Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 Just been to tesco's and saw this so thought I may as well tag it on to the end... Looks like it was quite tidy until the baseball capped muppet that owns it now got his hands on it. Hey ho. ...Oh and he parked in the disabled bay just to affirm his twattishness Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 are you a month ahead of the rest of us? Reminds me of an IM chat I had with a friend from Athens. Luxo: I'm in Melbourne. It's nice and warm here.Friend: What month is it in Australia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 whoops... Futureshite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted September 29, 2011 Author Share Posted September 29, 2011 I'm just back from a week on the shiteseeing mecca of Malta- Sadly because my phone was stolen a couple of days before I left I had to rely on borrowing the missus' camera any time I wanted to snap some shite, so some fantastic spots were missed. There's actually so much tat there that after a couple of days when the umpteenth Yugo or Marina has passed you actually stop even noticing them. Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted September 29, 2011 Author Share Posted September 29, 2011 Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michiel Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 ^wow^ (was meant to appear under the 929....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadworkUK Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 ^wow^ (was meant to appear under the 929....) Wow indeed! That's amazing and I want. Like a Lagonda / Escort mk3 hybrid from the front three quarters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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