Cobblers on the road photos FEAT. NORTH YORKS MOTOR MUSEUM

[cobblers]

Alright pop pickers, I woke up on Wednesday and remembered that I had a fucking camper van in the garage and a mountain bike in the kitchen, so I went into work and blagged a couple of days off to use them both.

 

I went up to Dalby Forest, it's a cracking place. Loads of skinny men are riding wanky bikes around the place near york so I decided to stay WELL AWAY and ignored most of my satnav instructions, so ended up going a different route to what I normally do, On the way in I spotted what looked like a car lot, and there was a fuppin beige Sierra out on the front, so I reckoned it would deffo be worth a run down one morning when I had some time to kill.

 

Anyway the next morning I ran the van down to this village, had a nice breakfast and then decided to go and take a few pics. Turns out that this place is some kind of car lot cum auction cum museum cum all over the place type thing, it was fantastic! There was an honesty box where they want you to put a quid in. I put TWO in because I was so excited and I am a high roller and couldn't wait to brag about it on internet websites.

 

ON TO THE PICTURES. You'll have to bear with me, a lot were taken with my cheapo wide angle lense to get them all in shot, and I haven't got time to crop out all the vingetting so they will look a bit trendy.

 

Obligatory van/bike/beer/sunset photos:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's what you see as you pass the place:

 

CHECK OUT THAT TRANSIT (I bet the bloke that lives in that house behind fuppin loves looking out of his kitchen window)

 

ANYWAY MORE OF THAT TRANSIT!!!

 

 

 

I loved it. It was deffo an EX BT van or somert cos it was "that" yellow underneath, Tyre blacked bumpers and the lot. BUT WAIT, Look on the back of it!

 

 

Yes, a method of vehicle recovery that was pretty much outdated and probably illegal even when the thing was new. It had a choke so I reckon it was probably a 2.0 Pinto, I reckon with a high compression one it would be quite a goer. 

 

 

Heres the back of that lovely old Vauxhall whos name I don't recall:

 

 

 

And a Rover that was quite clean

 

 

 

 

And a Saab that was much much less clean than the photos suggest. LOOK AT THE MEGASQUINT I have on here!!!!

 

 

 

Anyway I was wandering about the outside cos the "Museum" was shut up for a bit while they moved somert round. Here's the "main entrance" to the museum:

 

 

 

 

I decided to walk round the corner and have a look round the back. Not a lot hanging round but CHECK THIS BASTARD OUT:::

 

Some old tractors and a fuckin MONZA. Anyway now I wandered off for a bit to kill some time while they finished moving stuff about. I came back and the bloke could tell I was BURSTING AT THE SEAMS to get at the chod inside, so told me to just get in there and not get run over or owt.

 

Here's the layout of the insides:

 

 

Some is for sale, some not, some sold. Check out that Monza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

It's even better inside

 

 

 

There's a few bits scattered inside but nowt idiots like us would in interested in. Here's a Caterham/Locost/Robin Hood/Brum/lotus 7/Brasso advert which was very well turned out but I don't know enough about to really comment on. The other stuff was very very old, I reckon if it's got wire wheels on then it's past fuppin bothering with so I stayed out of the way.

 

 

 

 

 

Up at the end of the museum there was a door to a yard which looked promising. Not sure if it was part of the museum or whatever but it seemed to be part of the auction stuff so I went out there. First to greet me was this bubbly but actually solid looking old prefect:

 

 

 

Knackered flaps, not Katie Price/Mel B/ etc etc

 

 

 

 

Next up, the actual batmobile:

 

 

 

 

 

The pictures really don't do justice to how absolutely bogged up and hanging this thing was.

 

 

#WORLDCUP 2014, UP THE GUNNERS

 

 

 

 

 

I didn't actually use the wide angle lense here, the bulk of this old tub actually distorted the space/time continuum to give this effect. it also was hanging:

 

 

 

A less clean but more respectable rover:

 

 

 

Obligatory TR7 (again probably worse than the photo suggests)

 

 

I'd done the lot out there really so I went back inside. Not sure where the museum ended and the "workshop" began so I just poked about a bit, there was nobody around like.

 

Nice old cortina:

 

 

And something else that was much older

 

 

 

Through the next door was this lot:

 

 

But there was a wheel balancing machine next to the door. From my many years walking into garages, it's never "OK" to walk past a wheel balancing machine, they are like the unwritten boundary of how far the bloke off the street can go.

 

 

 

AAAANYWAY if any of you were wondering if those tubs outside were still for sale, here's the list. The masking tape on the wall had gone seethru so I suspect its been up there for quite some time:

 

 

Some of the cars aren't even out there anymore, so I presume they have dissolved completely.

 

On my way out I spotted the Psyren that had initially drawn me to this place! Beige early sierra!!!!

 

 

But what's that written in the window??

 

 

Pull the other one mate! This place had a load of testimonials in the window from celebrities and a stock list with stuff that had sold to all over the fuppin world, I reckon they are just making a lot of it up to seem like INTERNATIONAL JETSETTERS to me cos I know from the mk1 escort lot that Cyprus is litterally BURSTING AT THE SEAMS with base model, non rusty old Ford chod, they certainly don't need to come over here to buy it.

 

All in all it was definitely worth a few quid and 45 minutes nosying around. A++++++++

 

 

[Grundig]

 

Nice old cortina:

That "Cortina" aint a tina - tis a "Corsair" 

 

Nice way to kill a bit of time - can you post a link up to it??

[cobblers]

I'd blame autocorrect for that but I'd be a liar, I always thought they were Corsair Cortinas for some reason? Like the Consul Capri thing, or did I make that up too?

 

 

It's here:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/11+Pickering+Rd/@54.2363968,-0.7236288,19

[sheffcortinacentre]

Vauxhall outside is a royale coupe.

[Grundig]

 

It's here:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/11+Pickering+Rd/@54.2363968,-0.7236288,19

 

KIA Dealer in Wallasey ??

[mrbenn]

Ah, Mathewsons. Great place, spent some happy time looking around here!

 

http://www.mathewsons.co.uk/

[Richard]

I'd blame autocorrect for that but I'd be a liar, I always thought they were Corsair Cortinas for some reason? Like the Consul Capri thing, or did I make that up too?

 

 

Ford went through a phase of prefixing their medium size models with Consul, so the Mk1 Cortina was the Consul Cortina (the bonnet badge said Consul) and the Corsair was the Consul Corsair.

 

That looks like a great place, I might accidentally come across it when we're in the area on holiday next week.

[HillmanImp]

Been in there a few times and had a chat with the guys in the garage at the back about the cars they are working on. Always got something interesting in.

 

Here is a shot of when I was there with the Imp Club a few years back:

 

[Jon]

Great photos and a nice write up. Non-dangly mirrors and side rubbing strips present on that Sierra, but it has a BASE model grille? Holy grail stuff going on there, surely.

 

I decided to camp overnight with my then girlfriend (now missus) in a tent at a campsite near Dalby forest (in West Rigton, I think) in the first week of January a few years back. Funnily enough, we had the place to ourselves. Naturally, it was bloody cold and our bike ride lasted about an hour, due to turning up mid-afternoon; great planning there. Spent most of the time keeping warm at the nearby Dennison Arms pub, which served absolutely massive portions of food and affordable pints.

[Spiny Norman]

Great day out and ace pics Cobblers.

Never seen a white Vauxhall Royale before.

[cobblers]

I'll try again with the google link. half of it got cut off last time so it just found the nearest "11 pickering road" to wherever you are.

 

https://goo.gl/maps/rxgjf

 

 

Great photos and a nice write up. Non-dangly mirrors and side rubbing strips present on that Sierra, but it has a BASE model grille? Holy grail stuff going on there, surely.

 

I decided to camp overnight with my then girlfriend (now missus) in a tent at a campsite near Dalby forest (in West Rigton, I think) in the first week of January a few years back. Funnily enough, we had the place to ourselves. Naturally, it was bloody cold and our bike ride lasted about an hour, due to turning up mid-afternoon; great planning there. Spent most of the time keeping warm at the nearby Dennison Arms pub, which served absolutely massive portions of food and affordable pints.

 

I was bloody glad I wasn't in a tent on Friday night - at about 6pm it started pisspouring down just as everyone was arriving to put tents up, didn't stop raining til the next morning. 

I'm definitely going to have to go again off season, I much prefer cycling in the cooler weather with a bit of mud about. Also seems like I picked the wrong pub, I went to the Fox and Rabbit inn, which was a bit upmarket for my tastes. I was jonesing for a steak but it was £22 and I only had a twenty on me for food and a pint. Still, it was nice enough snap so I went back the next night just just took more money this time.

[RichardMoss]

I'll be back in that area for a couple of weeks this month (away from the hot dry, dusty, shitty, roasting, boring, f***ing hot, scorchio, United Arab Emirates) so will try to gt round to checking it out. 

 

As for the Vauxhall Royale - it's just a badge engineered Monza anyway, just even more rare.  Was the Monza or Royale for sale?

[cobblers]

The Royale was going through the auction. Monza was just an exhibit IIRC. Both looked very clean.

[skattrd]

Nice pics Cobblers.

That motor museum looks like an ideal place for an AS gathering sometime.

[brickwall]

Nice to see a museum with proper cars.