Another one-owner farm hack

[pocket.calculator]

Spotted this at a farm in Dorset a few years ago. The farmer said he'd had it from new and it'd been years since the car had been MOT'd, but he used it every day. Looks like it, too...

 

 

 

 

[catsinthewelder]

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Theres an old giffer round here driving round in a really tidy J plate Skoda Favorit pickup. Must get a photo.

[blguy1975]

Quick,Sombody Ring Edd China!!

[Cavcraft]

Fair play to most farmers, they have an amazing propensity to just run shit for eons without bothering with 'proper' maintenance. Will never forget the farmer who complained about a puncture repair costing £3.00 (or thereabouts) years back at a place I worked, and when I opened the tailgate on his elderly Toyota estate I noticed the n/s/r quarter was held down with twine!

[pandamonium]

I think sometimes I'd rather see this - a car being used to oblivion, than some of the over-polished 'classics' you see at shows.

Especially the case with commercials. I mean, who wants to see a shiny Mk1 Transit?

[vulgalour]

I think this has to be the latest spin-off scene craze from Rat Look. Park a car in a field for a couple of weeks, let dogs/animals/rabid ramblers play in it while it's left unattended, never MoT it and drive around completely oblivious to the dangers presented to all. Perfect.

[trigger]

When i was much younger I had a Saturday job as a agricultural engineers assistant and one of our customers owned a large livestock farm, His farm yard hack was a Mk1 Fiesta Bravo, That looked just like that Justy, straw and bail twine everywhere and a dog eaten interior, I used to love racing across the fields in it!

 

That said this Justy also reminds me of the state of the cars Gun Hill scrap yard used to use to ferry you around the site to the scrapped cars along with a knackered tool box in the back.

[dollywobbler]

I seem to recall a Jag XK (can't remember which one) being discovered on a farm in shambolic condition. It was used to transport straw around! It's probably been restored and therefore looks just like all the others by now.

[RedSparrow]

'Shat-look' maybe?

 

I too like the idea of getting the full use out of a car, but I can smell that from here.

[Guest]

I think this has to be the latest spin-off scene craze from Rat Look. Park a car in a field for a couple of weeks, let dogs/animals/rabid ramblers play in it while it's left unattended, never MoT it and drive around completely oblivious to the dangers presented to all. Perfect.

 

Isn't that what the VW scene's about anyway, due to their obsession with spring bodging and stretched tyres?

[skoda_fan]

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Theres an old giffer round here driving round in a really tidy J plate Skoda Favorit pickup. Must get a photo.

 

Oh yes please please!!!!!

[skoda_fan]

Fair play to most farmers, they have an amazing propensity to just run shit for eons without bothering with 'proper' maintenance.

 

Yep that's true. My uncle was a farmer with a liking for Rootes stuff back in the day. Had a Husky, a Super Minx Estate, a Hunter Estate, then finally a ratty Datsun estate of some kind (all I remember was it was on a V plate) all of which he ran into the ground, never apparently spent a penny on, and kept using long after they were totally rotted out

[cort16]

My mates Dad had an A Reg Passat 1.8 with over 200k on it as his farm hack. He drove it all over the farm, up hills, into ditches with dogs, sheep and god knows what in it. I think it eventually dissolved to an unusable level at, which point they actually bought a quad.

[HBR]

Yeah I've know a few farmers that run an old motor such as these, if they happen to have tracks good enough to travel around the farm or lucky enough to have fields dry enough they can be a great alternative to the quads at almost no cost. Maintainace is laughable & it's really amazing just how much use & abuse they can take.

One fella is quite legendary around here for being able to keep a machine going with little mechanical knowledge long after most whould have considered it fucked beyond use. I've seen him at least twice driving with a piece of baler twine coming out the rear corner of the bonnet & in through the open window so he could operate the throttle after the cable had snapped!

Another time he rolled the old diesel pickup into a ditch, the engine oil ran through the breather, it ran on the oil & seized the engine. Once pulled out it stood a few days & I was asked to see if it'd run, with an 18" socket bar on the crank it wouldn't turn so I said it's knackered, sorry. On towing it back to the farm yard he tried bumping it in 4th but it trailed the wheels, so he tried 5th & the starter at the same time & it turned a bit & after a bit of this fired up & ran. Fresh oil in (non of what was left drained or a new filter mind!) & it did another year or more before he sold it to another farmer who got another couple of years out of it! Mabye it helped that it was a Toyota Hilux?

[Morgan84]

My friend in Wales used to drive a vehicle to death;in the 90's,the Isuzu Trooper was the thing to have there,as it could be abused even more than a Landrover,and would still keep going.They abused Troopers,a Panda and other vehicles - a new Sierra was killed within 5 years !!