THAT abandoned dealer again Swadlincole

[Split_Pin]

7 hours ago, SiC said:

Cavaliers are starting to be worth money now. 

I wish 😅

Didn't the yellow Metro survive for a bit?

[SiC]

2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

I wish 😅

Didn't the yellow Metro survive for a bit?

I mean it's not going to make anyone rich but they're certainly worth a fair bit more than when this thread first started!

[sierraman]

I was down there this time about 2-3 years ago, the garage block looked like it was ready to collapse, loads of masonry cracks. I’m actually surprised it hasn’t been demolished already, but it would be sad if that happened as it’s one of those institutions in that area. They looked like retailers of prime chod back in the day, it was called Jetberg LTD. 

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Didn't the yellow Metro survive for a bit?

Road Tax Status:  Vehicle has a SORN

There is no MOT history recorded for this vehicle.

Photo taken Oct 2012 and on a Leicestershire user's Flickr account.

Probably still on that bit of grass.

[sierraman]

Who went into an Austin dealers and went ‘I’m looking for a Metro, I don’t want anything gaudy like red or silver, I’d like something that looks like hungover piss in a toilet bowl’. 

[junkyarddog]

Really surprised that place is still standing.

Thought it would be cleared and built on by now.

As for the cars,probably a few parts worth having,but otherwise they're frag feed.

[barefoot]

8 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

...probably a few parts worth having, but otherwise they're frag feed.

They were essentially scrap when I saw them and that's going back a yonk. Chap is apparently willing to sell anything and everything  but his prices are silly for what he's left himself with.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Didn't one of the Samaras end up with Sam? 

[sierraman]

I believe there was planning for a number of flats on it at one point. Bizarre it seems then that he’d be farting about trying to get a thousand quid for that Cavalier when once it’s shifted he’s probably got £100k worth of land to sell. Priorities and that...

[Stinkwheel]

Something odd doesnt add up about the prices and rescued cars over the years at this place.

The rover 800 was 250 quid according to the advert where someone wanted to move it on, yet the cavalier is a grand?

 

[sierraman]

2 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

Something odd doesnt add up about the prices and rescued cars over the years at this place.

The rover 800 was 250 quid according to the advert where someone wanted to move it on, yet the cavalier is a grand?

 

I’m pulling that figure out of the sky, it’s been reported many times the amount he’s asking for is silly, the thousand quid is a silly figure. I don’t know the exact amount, it was intended to be illustrative. 

[Billy - Medhurst]

8 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Road Tax Status:  Vehicle has a SORN

There is no MOT history recorded for this vehicle.

Photo taken Oct 2012 and on a Leicestershire user's Flickr account.

Probably still on that bit of grass.

My FLICKR and nope its long gone from there.   Metro picture yard / Site is full of PT Cruisers now and has just sold for redevelopment. Last I heard years ago on FacebooK was Metro floor and sills were rotton and struggling to get repair panels.

 

8 hours ago, sierraman said:

I was down there this time about 2-3 years ago, the garage block looked like it was ready to collapse, loads of masonry cracks. I’m actually surprised it hasn’t been demolished already, but it would be sad if that happened as it’s one of those institutions in that area. They looked like retailers of prime chod back in the day, it was called Jetberg LTD. 

Planning permission renewed for redevelopment 

[Pieman]

Maybe it's a time slip.  If modern vehicles try to go near it, they can't touch it....  

[Dobloseven]

Must have been a strange place in its heyday, with cars in cages, like animals in a zoo. Do any period photos exist? 

[Dobloseven]

10 hours ago, sierraman said:

Who went into an Austin dealers and went ‘I’m looking for a Metro, I don’t want anything gaudy like red or silver, I’d like something that looks like hungover piss in a toilet bowl’. 

I had a gaudy red Metro of that era. It was still crap!Son had a two tone silver and grey one. That was crap as well! And a dark blue one. Also crap!