Anyone ID this OMGWOODSFIND?

[Pillock]

Went for a wander in the woods yesterday, came across this. At first thought I guessed it was an Alfasud that had been parked there during last nights rain but perhaps not.

 

 

 

Mk1 Fiesta?

[brickwall]

Pteridophyta

[eddyramrod]

That certainly looks like a Fiesta wheel, so probably...

[laser wheels]

I've no idea what it is, but I love stuff like this. There is - assuming it is still there - a MK2 Astra in the River Wear near where I live. Fatfield, along the bike trail, for those who know the area*. When the tide went out it would be visible again, and was still in much better condition than that above!

 

The early 90s were good/bad for this sort of thing. Almost every morning you would happen upon something dumped somewhere on the way to school in the morning - XR2i, XR3i, MK2 Astras, that sort of thing. Our Maestro Turbo was targeted on a number of occasions although they never managed to get past the immobiliser and one lot were actually nabbed by the fuzz trying to bump start it down the road. Austin immobilisers FTW!

 

*Note to self: much get picture.

[Tetleysmooth]

An undiscovered crashed World War 2 German aircraft?

[oman5]

There's loads of stuff like this scattered around merthyr tydfil. nicked/burnt out/left to rot

[saucedoctor]

That's a mark 1 Fester alright. Valencia-type engine, and I'd recognise that wee gearbox anywhere.

[Pillock]

I couldn't get over how much was missing.... Floor, rear wheels, the shell, interior. It was just the engine, front wheels and suspension and one and a half door skins, and a window mech. And half the grille, and a headlamp.

 

This was alongside.... Looked like it had been dumped much more recently.

 

[Asimo]

£30 if you drag it all out and weigh it in.

[Lankytim]

Mk1 festa, unless it's a mk2 with mk1 wheels on.

[Squire_Dawson]

Always amazes me how much of a dumped car just disappears like this. I mean literally rots away to nothing. Incredible.

[Hendry]

I was going to say if it isn't a mk1 Fiesta it could be a Talbot Horizon, there's one in the Glasgow Transport museum with wheels identical to mk1 Fez wheels and they were apparently standard.

 

I love shit like this too, I remember as a wee boy in the mid 90s going walks with my papa and the dogs we'd come across loads of stuff like this from freshly dumped stuff to burnt out stuff and others which had lay for years and I was always surprised how some of them had managed to end up where they were as there seemed no way they could've been driven there.

 

My aunt stayed in a particularly rough area back then and there used to be loads of burnt out stuff dumped in the disused kids swing park right at her back garden fence, some mornings there'd be freshly dumped burn outs and quite often of a Friday/Saturday night if I'd stayed with her I'd see the fire brigade out putting a blazing stolen car fire out.

 

Hardly see anything like that these days, can't remember the last time I saw a burnt out car dumped somewhere.

[beko1987]

I always keep an eye out for things like then when out in woods etc! This a fun game

[RedSparrow]

I've no idea what it is, but I love stuff like this. There is - assuming it is still there - a MK2 Astra in the River Wear near where I live. Fatfield, along the bike trail, for those who know the area*. When the tide went out it would be visible again, and was still in much better condition than that above!

 

The early 90s were good/bad for this sort of thing. Almost every morning you would happen upon something dumped somewhere on the way to school in the morning - XR2i, XR3i, MK2 Astras, that sort of thing. Our Maestro Turbo was targeted on a number of occasions although they never managed to get past the immobiliser and one lot were actually nabbed by the fuzz trying to bump start it down the road. Austin immobilisers FTW!

 

*Note to self: much get picture.

 

Yeah you're right. It was the same for me, I remember as a kid dumped or burnt out cars being all over the place!

Astras and Metros were definately TWOCing favourites.

[Pillock]

I once saw a Mk2 Astra abandoned on the Supertram flyover in Sheffield, where it curves round from the end of the station to the parkway P&R. Was causing havoc with trams, heaven knows how they got it there!

[Lankytim]

I used to love playing with dumped cars as a kid, nowadays cars are much harder to nick, plus have a higher scrap value so don't get abandoned at the end of their lives, plus the ones that do get nicked and dumped are quickly re-stolen and weighed in by enterprising hiabbers.

 

I feel sorry for today's generation, they will never know the joy of smashing all the windows on a Mini Metro dumped in a stream.

[RedSparrow]

Tsk. Yeah, it's all Justin Beavers and Playstations and buttplugs these days.

[fordperv]

I used to love playing with dumped cars as a kid, nowadays cars are much harder to nick, plus have a higher scrap value so don't get abandoned at the end of their lives, plus the ones that do get nicked and dumped are quickly re-stolen and weighed in by enterprising hiabbers.

 

I feel sorry for today's generation, they will never know the joy of smashing all the windows on a Mini Metro dumped in a stream.

My house was quite close to a lane (tillery lane, behind hem heath collierys pit hill at the bottom of the high school field's) where cars were dumped by joyriders when they had finished with them, I had loads of fun growing up peeing about with dumped stuff.

[chaseracer]

I was going to say if it isn't a mk1 Fiesta it could be a Talbot Horizon, there's one in the Glasgow Transport museum with wheels identical to mk1 Fez wheels and they were apparently standard.

That's normal wear & tear for a Horizon**. Hope they finish adjusting those tappets.

 

 

 

 

** Taxed worse... etc.

 

[Richard]

Wouldn't it be a Sunbeam GL in Glasgow Transport Museum? Similar wheels but RWD.

[Ratdat]

This one?

[laser wheels]

Tsk. Yeah, it's all Justin Beavers and Playstations and buttplugs these days.

 

And the strap-ons. Don't forget the strap-ons.

[Bren]

Went for a wander in the woods yesterday, came across this. At first thought I guessed it was an Alfasud that had been parked there during last nights rain but perhaps not.

Mk1 Fiesta?

 

A fairly solid example of a mk 1 ka?

[Richard]

This one?

 

Yes, except they've stuck the cars on the wall now to stop nosey parkers looking at them.

 

 

For some reason people have always confused the Sunbeam and Horizon.

[Angrydicky]

Despite growing up in the late 90's I remember finding burnt out and abandoned cars everywhere. They were a mixture, most were dumped because they had reached the end of their lives and the owners couldn't be arsed to pay to have them scrapped, the rest were nicked by joyriders. I remember finding a burnt out MK1 Fiesta on a country lane near my parents, and playing with a MK4 Escort van which was in a ditch just around the corner. That one I think had been twocced as the little window behind the drivers window had been smashed. I also remember going to Frinton on Sea circa 2000, and at least 1/3 of the cars in the beach car park were burnt out, it was like a scrapyard. Obviously a favourite dumping spot. Metros, Fiestas, Cavaliers, Astras, Novas and Sierras were all favourites.

[Richard]

There used to be a burnt out car dumped at a local disused lime works nearly every weekend in the mid-late 90s. Most of them were PSA or Renault diesels, which were dead easy to hotwire. They even dumped one down a limekiln pot, which takes some doing.

 

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[mercrocker]

Eeee....when I were a lad....etc.  However, we did used to play in a Mk 1 Zephyr Six dumped on a disused manor house orchard.  In one  of the  barns was an oval window Beetle absolutely complete (well it was till we liberated a few parts for a mate's Uncle).   I kept its aftermarket fuel gauge for long enough to sell  it to a scene-ster in the formative  years  of Beetlemania.    I have no idea  what happened to the cars but I can still smell that  Zephyr.   There was another ruined  house in the grounds of the oil refinery (getting in there was like getting out of Colditz) whose  garage was still standing and housed an upright Pop in the midst of being hot rodded (I reckon somebody had been hiding it in there).   The bugger that I wished I had fished out though was a  near-complete Messerschmitt in a local stream, God knows how it got there - we couldn't even ride our bikes  that far along the banks....I do still have a lowline Consul horn push lifted from a hedge-dwelling 375 de Luxe in Lincolnshire, though.

[Bren]

Lots of abandoned bikes and cars near where my parents lived in widnes - they used to get abused and burnt out on "the bongs" as it was and still is called.

 

Remember some lads hooning around on a seventies datsun with the roof cut off - you could see the car flexing when they drove past.

 

My mate had a c90 bog seat - we used to take turns pillion on it ( we were 10 or eleven at the time).

 

I remember seering a bike recovered from water - a 600 honda - it had been immersed for so long the aluminium frame was like rotten wood.

[tooSavvy]

My 'spots' run to a Hillman IMP, in the Tyne - jettisoned from the carpark just along from Bretts Oils [for those who know the locale] & some Nissan...err, Micra <mebbies>...on the beach by 'Camel island', Marsden [for those who know the locale] >> filled to the top seatbelt mounts with pebbles (sans Roof).

 

 

TS

[Hendry]

Yes, except they've stuck the cars on the wall now to stop nosey parkers looking at them.

 

 

For some reason people have always confused the Sunbeam and Horizon.

In my eyes they look familiar, I had actually originally thought before I posted my reply that it was a Sunbeam but thought it might be a Horizon so I googled Talbot Horizon images before posting so i didnt look stupid (that worked out well!) and some pics of cars looking like the car in the museum came up so thought it must be a Horizon.