Some German spots

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Hallo meine liebe Autoshiters.

 

As promised a few spots from where I'm currently living. Been doing some private work this weekend for a friend of a friend for CASH MONEYZ and he just happens to have some interesting bits of tin cluttering up his barns

 

My personal favourite, Mercedes -8, from 1972, 167, 000km on the clock. Hasn't run for three years, apparently some dodgy fuel pipes put the shits up the owner (Herman the farmer) and he's just not bothered fixing them. Very solid, hardly a speck of rust to be seen.

 

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Next up a VW 181kubelwagen, originally sold as a civilian vehicle. Herman has the german registration documents to prove this, painted a pretty shade of pink at some point, probably after a few beers.

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Next an ex deutsche post VW golf (read GPO ford escrote van or bedford HA/beagle) Herman tells me that by blanking out the rear windows, you can insure and register the car as a van, hence cheaper insurance and road tax to the tune of about €90 per year. Amazingly this has Tüv (Gerrman 2 yearly MOT equivalent, notoriously picky, I'm currently shiteing bricks over my merc's sills and rear subframe mounts, Tüv due in September) and can be driven on the road. Herman however prefers to use it when he's cutting the drives for the organised deer shoots he runs on his land!

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can keep your Cayennes, this is my sort of porsche

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Next, from L to R, a Simson moped, in regular use, a Schwalbe moped, needs new carb, Simson moped for spares and a VW beetle. Herman just shook his head when he mentioned the beetle, yet another unfinished project.

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1986 BMW R1000, for sale, Herman needs the space.

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Patriotic Renault chamade

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Very shiny, probably giffer owned from new opel kadett 1.4 ls, probably same as a UK merit spec?

 

Apologies for the topless pipe smoking work colleague.

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Rained off this morning at half 9, worked from 7 till 9 and got absolutely soaked, but on returning to the yard, found my colleague had parked his Simson moped mext to where I park the works van (2011 sprinter flatbed, shite, but puts up with lots of abuse, 0.5m3 of concrete on the back and the other half metre in a trailer etc...). A bit "scene" with matt black paint and a couple of shit stickers, but goes like a bee in a biscuit tin. He also has a Trabant 601 kombi, with a truely dire drippy home paintjob, when the weather is better will try and get a pic.

 

Also on the bit of ground which serves as a car park for the firm I'm working for, spotted this escrote, with old style w i d e s p a c e d numberplate, my old man had a similar model in the UK on a J plate, 1.4 seem to remember it was pretty gutless and unremarkable.

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Ah! The ubiquitous mundane Escort

 

I'm loving that Porky tractor.

[Junkman]

How much does he want for that rubber cow?

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Probably not a lot. His missus is horsey, therefore they're skint. I believe it has been restored and he said it was a runner, next time I go there I'll ask. Might be this week might be next, he's putting on some kind of dressage event early August so I have been blockpaving and tarting about in diggers and loading shovels to clear the tat and make his yard look half respectable.

 

Changed diff oil on my merc today, stinky and gloopy, and also the rubber bushes between gear lever and gearbox. Happy chappy, simple things and simple minds and all that.

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A few more from out and about

 

Big audi estate driven by big fat bloke. He works for Debex, an independent postal carrier rival to the German national service Deutsche Post. Must be something about these Debex chaps, I've seen another Debex delivery man driving a ratty green VW polo fox with mismatched steel wheels, must get a pic....

 

 

Old VW pisswet on the outskirts of Berlin

 

 

Peugeot 205 with the clap. Looked very original with dealer stickers and number plate frame.

 

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Went to the breakers on Wednesday to get a new headlight (see my post in the news 24 thread)

 

Chap who works there was trying to replace the leaky heater matrix on his XM, inwished him luck and swiftly buggered off in the opposite direction

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And some mercs in various states of repair / decay

 

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Went to Berlin yesterday doing touristy stuff as the missus is visiti g for a few days. Spotted this lovely old W123 240D still giving sterling service as a taxi

 

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RHD rolls royce on a 1976 P plate on a polish registered flatbed, sorry its a crap photo.

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Nice old Merc 407 diesel tipper having some work done to brakes at the Lebanese run merc breakers in Spandau

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Crusty DDR chod of the wartburg variety. Driven by an old Doris in a headscarf, at a supermarket in Potsdam.

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Granada hearse advertising an undertakers in Berlin. The H on the number plate means its an "oldtimer" over 30 years old and registered as a classic vehicle, cheaper tax, less strict emissions test at MOT/TÃœV time and cheaper insurance. To get a H numberplate however the condition of the vehicle must be good to very good, and only period accessories e.g. original pushbutton radio, original wheeltrims/alloys and everything well kept and looked after.

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Another Wartburg, this one a 311 spotted today at a bootfair. Wasn't sure if this could go in the cars and girls thread....

[Inspector Morose]

^ and an early one, looking at the badge (the car). Earlier warty badges were multi coloured but later ones and ones for the bodily similar 312 were black.

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Some more supermarket shite. Be honest, when did you last see one of these in the flesh? Used to be loads about when I was a kid, mostly in this red, now very thin on the ground.

 

 

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1.2 special edition with catalytic convertor. Original wheel trims too!

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This one has a lovely paedophile rapey deathtrap vibe going on. Lots of old yellowy grey computer gubbins and childrens clothes on the back seat, and driven by a stooping old man with a beard.