Ambassador breaking on fleabay....

[outlaw118]

Just a heads up, don't knoe if anyone's spotted this, didn't want it to get buried in the chod on ebay tat....may be useful to someone on here...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120814627236? ... 1423.l2649

[morris_ital_lover]

Tayne you can't say that and not link it to this video, its the second most important code after the Reliant Scimitar princess ann had one of those

 

[theorganist]

1983 AUSTIN AMBASSADOR 1.7L BLUE

 

SPARES ONLY

 

COMPLETE CAR

 

63.000 MILES

 

RUNS AND DRIVES, CANT BE MANY OF THESE LEFT.

 

PLEASE E.MAIL FOR MORE DETAILS

 

And one less now!

[Skizzer]

Probably a stupid question, but if it runs and drives, why's it spares only? CoD issued already?

 

"CANT BE MANY OF THESE LEFT" - yeah, so let's make sure and kill this one

[Felly Magic]

I would say the CoD has been issued, as it is in a breakers yard.

[Craig the Princess]

I would say the CoD has been issued, as it is in a breakers yard.

 

It had, it was picked up by a VOSA check for being driven with no insurance we were told today. Sadly the CoD had been issued as the shell was quite solid . Sadly by now it has been lifed by a forklist a number of times. We went down today (along with Mrs the Princess, RichieG and his friend Kieran)

 

When we arrived at 11 there was still thick frost

 

Kieran needed a rear door for his Vanden Plas Ambo, we needed a fuel tank having taken the Brown car's one for the red car.

 

It's been ages since a scrapyard trip, espically one where we got to get in the mudbath

We needed to borrow the cars jack to spread the load of our trolley jack. A copule of axle stands for safety too . We still couldn't quite get the tank out as the car needed to be higher, so the forklift picked the car up (after moving three cars out of the way

The car was lifted an inch and the tank fell out, but we had a look under. The car was more solid than both my Ambassadors, it's a shame that it met it's end. We took some other bits, a parcel shelf, door pull, grille and wheel nut covers. Fuel tank was holding petrol and should have been spiked but the guys "forgot" to do that one which was lucky.

 

The car will be there for another two-four weeks but it's worth calling them before you go, they were pretty helpful and reasonable on price. PVR 0118 971 4417, they are in Aldermaston about 10 minutes off junction 12 of the M4.

 

So, other shite? Well amoungst the Pug 206s, Corsas and 3 half-buried Rover 75s and the like there were these

MG TF, not OMG HGF! but smashed up at the front

 

53-plate CityRover in pretty good nick.

 

Jag fallen on hard times

 

924 was complete and didn't look too awful.

 

Italian coupe in scraped-not-due-to-rust shock!

 

Then on the way out I clocked this

so went in for a closer look, last on the road in 2000 according to the tax disc and absolutly hanging

Next to it was this, a 3500 Vanden Plas no less

 

So all done, we vaulted a Corsa that had been moved earlier with the fuel tank and checked out Kieran's 53-red LDV Pilot which had just come out of the bodyshop for work to removed dents from this side. It looked like a new van!

 

After I saw this all I could think of was Bob Geldof getting a gig together to raise money for a weldathon on some old commercial vehicles.

[Felly Magic]

Doesn't surprise me that there is a Tata Indica in there, as they are worth so little, and cost a small fortune to run

[Guest]

Incidently, theres an ad on Gumtree with a bloke giving away Amclassador bits to a free home. Includes Hydraspasic displeasers, located Scotland.

[brammy777]

Good to see Padworth breakers has still got a few interesting motors hanging about, I always used to see a fair bit when I visited them. Out of interest, did they mention where it was tugged with no insurance? I only ask because I did actually see a similar looking Ambassador out and about in Blackwater nigh on 2 years ago, and the numberplate looks seriously familiar... The Alfa and the 3500 look to be in the DO NOT TOUCH corner, I think they put stuff of higher value over there.... hence why the CoD has not been issued. Also, Felly, there was a Tata Indica in that same scrapyard a few months ago:

Tata Indica DLX 1.4 Diesel Hatchback. by bramm77, on Flickr

[chaseracer]

MG TF, not OMG HGF! but smashed up at the front

Any evidence of remote-control gubbins and explosives damage to the rear...?