fotorabia Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Im just out of Gerolstein..which is 100km's from Luxembourg...in a wee place called Schonecken... Empty farm-village houses...and shite.. 17M Taunus twice burnt out house 1718 schoolhouse for sale upstairs neighbors boyfriends at the fleamarket in Bitburg mate..im already stuffed..cull? Dutch passat Yankee Gone Home circa 1991-2 Empty farmhouse. Luxembourg today. report will proceed with travels..all good me buddies... Alexg, theorganist, brickwall and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Were those jeeps for sale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theorganist Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Very nice photos, I love the run down farmhouse and that Range Rover looks lovely. fotorabia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Autoshite don't do Grand Tours, but if they did... fotorabia and jonny69 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotorabia Posted May 2, 2014 Author Share Posted May 2, 2014 Now in Berlin..my old stomping ground from the mid 90s...staying on a wagon site...cheap sweet and primitive..my bed is an old 608 Merc van..that leaks....a said abode below on the left neighbors limo Good old 1989 Scorpio... Other neighbors W123....luverly Vintage Merc mobile home Bussing somewhere..in the east Merc 710...fond memories of scoring two of these free back in 1994 Standard wheels for the cheapskate Berliner Our breadvan family wagon Neighbors family wagon As seen from the lights Opposite our studio offices down in Ostkruez Ovlov love..again opp. our creative den So generally heapsa old tat around...nice to be back here again. Junkman, danthecapriman, michiel and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucketeer Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Superb stuff.I'm counting the days 'til I'm back on the continent, wading through torrents of tat. If you find yourself needing butterfly or caterpillar advice, I know a very nice professor in Berlin who could help. fotorabia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseflakes Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 1718 schoolhouse for sale Imagine some little urchin stood looking up at that on their first day at school. Terrifying! anonymous user and fotorabia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotorabia Posted May 7, 2014 Author Share Posted May 7, 2014 Im staying over in Lichtenberg...might be here for a while..no plans on returning to Scotland for a while..however..im on a bike now..so nrly crashing into speeding Germans whilst shite seeing... For Fred..lotsa of these around.. Local garage advertiser If i get sick..im calling this.. Outside the studio just now..230.-4 Cool old Simson 51..i had one of these back in the 90s.. Common and garden Saw this whilst at the supermarket so had to go back for a photo..nrly bought one in Munich 1991 For sale yard gone quiet Still lotsa breadvans around Around my locality is littered in huge empty buildings and wasteland Sad Espace For Fred again..outside the coolest old hanger garage rented by associates of our travel site Sad and bubbling Pug Coupe..aint moved in a while Not sure what this is..a Micro Ferrari? Thats all Volks! mouseflakes, anonymous user, Bucketeer and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brickwall Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Wow. Some really, really nice stuff there. Old tranny vans in good nick? Witchcraft I tells you. fotorabia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 its like the clocks stopped in 1996 brickwall and fotorabia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 zwei turen Connie....Scheisse! brickwall and fotorabia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_Fearn Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Did they actually sell Chevy Caprices in mainland Europe brand new? I always seem to see a few about when i'm loitering abroad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dupart Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Love the yellow Granny/Consul/whatever, didn't realise there was a 2 door saloon version fotorabia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Did they actually sell Chevy Caprices in mainland Europe brand new? Yes. The Euro-spec ones were sold through the GM/Opel dealership network, the US-Spec ones by independent importers.Apart from that a not insignificant number were sold as used cars by GIs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_Fearn Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Yes. The Euro-spec ones were sold through the GM/Opel dealership network, the US-Spec ones by independent importers.Apart from that a not insignificant number were sold as used cars by GIs. Seems really odd that these would sit in the dealer at the side of 80s Opel Corsas and Kadetts. Especially when we had the euro Rekfords etc. I suppose its no different to a VXR8 with a Agila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saucedoctor Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Did they actually sell Chevy Caprices in mainland Europe brand new? I always seem to see a few about when i'm loitering abroad.Original owners were probably U.S. Military personnel, I'd say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Seems really odd that these would sit in the dealer at the side of 80s Opel Corsas and Kadetts. Especially when we had the euro Rekfords etc. I suppose its no different to a VXR8 with a Agila When Opel ditched the Admiral/Diplomat in 1977, the then newly downsized Impala/Caprice was practically the logical successor, with the huge advantage, that finally an estate version became available. A weak Dollar made them very attractive buys indeed. Another huge seller was of course the Blazer in the just emerging SUV market. Camaros/Firebirds and Corvettes always had their market anyway. Only the Malibu got a bit trampled in this US-car stampede, mainly because not really much more money bought you a Caprice. There was so much of this yank chod back then. They can't all be smoldered in now. Please no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Didn't GM assemble in Antwerp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 At that time not anymore. But they still had a huge parts warehouse on Noorderlaan, the remaining content of which I bought in 1988 on behalf of John Woolfe Racing.Remember when all those original AC-Delco spares flooded the European US car scene in the late Eithties? That was courtesy of me. fotorabia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotorabia Posted May 8, 2014 Author Share Posted May 8, 2014 Theres a bit of other Amerikanisher shite floating around...but becos im actually residing in the former East..and theres quite a bit of sentimentality for the old Ossie stuff ..i saw a transporter full of Trabants yesterday..i gives u the ultimate..a Racing Wartburg.... inconsistant, Junkman, KruJoe and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucketeer Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Thanks very much. You've now just ruined me for all other cars.That is just uber-moistening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
406V6 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Fascinating. The uncaptioned yank-shite near the top is, I believe, a Mercury Sable wagon and further down a Chevy Caprice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 I may be imagining this ,but I think Caprices were sold in Britain in the late 70's early 80's. Blazers definitely were as were Cadillac Seville and Coupe deVille . I still remember The Good the Bad and the Ugly sum up in car-'As flash as a rat with a gold tooth'.Not sure if they were available through Vauxhall/ Opel dealers or just Lendrum and Hartman or whatever they were called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.welfare Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Caprices defo sold in the UK for a bit, some with the RHD conversion. I have a Brooklands Road Test book for the Caprice here, with an Autocar test from '78 of an L&H supplied model in right hook form. They were less impressed than the contemporary Yank publications. NorfolkNWeigh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 I had a 1983 Caprice that was sold new by Bauer Millett. fotorabia and NorfolkNWeigh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oman5 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 I had an '81 caprice with RHD conversion (that weird chain drive system under the dash with absolutely no steering feedback) and I've seen at least two others with consecutive number plates from mine over the years. same batch from the same dealer I guess. I'd love another, they make excellent every day cars. not prohibitively thirsty if it matters to you (up to 25 mpg from the 305) but with enough grunt. Junkman and fotorabia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forddeliveryboy Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Good to see 124s, they're still worth decent money 'over there' and seen as sensible transport. In the UK you're seen as an oddity if you're not in a car less than ten years old. fotorabia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I had an '81 caprice with RHD conversion (that weird chain drive system under the dash with absolutely no steering feedback) and I've seen at least two others with consecutive number plates from mine over the years. same batch from the same dealer I guess. I'd love another, they make excellent every day cars. not prohibitively thirsty if it matters to you (up to 25 mpg from the 305) but with enough grunt. LHDs have equally zero force feedback, as do all yanks btw.The best of the bunch is the '78 with the 350/350. Probably the bestest car of EVAH. oman5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotorabia Posted May 29, 2014 Author Share Posted May 29, 2014 Looks like Im living here now..in very unfashionable Lichtenburg..old east town...quiet apart from the loon Nazi broadcasting to 30 cops and babies in prams just now...living in a former East Hotel owned by friends of mine..building sustained heavy damage in the war..so only the front house...and the bomb created a nice big back yard...living with Spanish..Italians..german..Latvian and Lithuanian...Urkrainian...so multi lingual kitchen...im on me bike...but still oodles of old tat..Berliners cherish old cars..This x 5 for the local Loony Nazi Tunes being broadcast out of his window....he sings..DJs and does a wee Lord HawHaw kinda speeches.. I live near Monsterland St. 80s West to East Dead outtatown Bemmer Dead wee Panda with Japanese sized friend long forgotten. LDV came to Berlin and stayed..outside my mates studio..along with a Volvo...100euro anyone? In Friedrichshain..where i lived in the early 1990s...was a dead town then..so super fashionable..busy and desirable.. Nice American muscle.. another sad BMW Opel Admiral My mate Tonys Punk Defender getting a new gearbox Classy wee Mitsi in fine order 240D-3.0 and lush patina'd Fiat 124 on the correct rims.. Junkman, Jon, Bucketeer and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madman Of The People Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 What a grim looking place. What happened? Has Berlin become the European Detroit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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