Channel Island Chod: GM landfill

[mk2_craig]

Looks more like Paxman to me Regie.

[Hertz]

 

How does JC have the nerve to lavish attention on a Renault Alpine after he single handedly destroyed that lovely A610??

What a peach Think that is a guy's from the Renault Alpine Forum.

 

Yes clarkson is a tw$t for smashing up that 610, less than 50 RHD now left

[mk2_craig]

It's rapidly getting to the stage where I'm taking photos quicker than I can upload them, this should mean I only stick to the real standout stuff but on the other hand I'm going to exhaust the shite stock on a 45 square mile island sooner or later, unless I give up my civil servant job and become a postman or something.

 

Morris-badged Mini Moke. Quite an old one. Out of use for most of this century. Fine, but...

 

...how the frig did it get in there?

 

Usually ignore an old Landy just as I would most MGBs, Minors, Beetles etc. But this is just about the right balance

 

Photo-d this at the tail end of winter, however we're now well into classic season and I'm sick o' the sight of these things now.

 

The AWD flatbed looks clean from here, I somehow suspect that it was making its final journey.

 

These sold quite well in Jersey.

 

Have I posted this before? Or maybe there's just a lot of white ones on the island. Wotevah.

 

Russian 4x4 nonsense

 

Fair few of these kicking about. This one looked to be pretty tired

 

Unusually long-lived for one of these

 

I think this is Mistral Blue, it would be nice to know for sure cos my Fiesta's this colour and the paint shop couldn't get anywhere near the shade when I gave them the code on the VIN tag

 

Not a clue!

 

Nice DS, dunno where it's from though?

 

Definitely the shabbiest Sierra Cosworth I've clocked that hasn't gone backwards through a tyre wall on a track day.

 

Cannibalised 70s saloon challenge

 

Mk2 XR2 corner, tidy. I owned red J76102 in 1996! Bought it off a lass who had stuffed it into a wall while trying to avoid a goose in the road. Result: car bent, bird dead, lass out of pocket by about 3 grand, Craig in receipt of superb 39k mile drivetrain that promptly got lobbed into an early mk3 1.1 Ghia. Shame I didn't uprate the brakes to suit

[Volksy]

Think the DS is an ex South African car.

[j-j]

Cannibalised 70s saloon challenge

- Mk 1/ 2 Escrote? maybe a Cortina hard to judge the size

[Split_Pin]

It's rapidly getting to the stage where I'm taking photos quicker than I can upload them, this should mean I only stick to the real standout stuff but on the other hand I'm going to exhaust the shite stock on a 45 square mile island sooner or later, unless I give up my civil servant job and become a postman or something.

 

 

 

Unusually long-lived for one of these

 

I think this is Mistral Blue, it would be nice to know for sure cos my Fiesta's this colour and the paint shop couldn't get anywhere near the shade when I gave them the code on the VIN tag

 

 

Love the Sherpa - sliding dorr and all.

 

I am pretty sure the colour you require for the Escort is Bermuda Blue. IMy Mate had a Mk2 Festy this colour.

[Ross_K]

Nice DS, dunno where it's from though?

South Africa. The letter on the end is the province - Transvaal.

[shite_meister]

Yep Ibuleve that Citroen DS is South-African, as with most of Craig's posts I have had the pleasure of having either worked on or driven most of the crocks of shit in his pics including that DS.

 

The garage I worked at serviced that DS, lovely car in amazing condition and without doubt the most comfortable seat I have ever sat on-highly recommended.

 

Owner Is minted from memory and has owned for a few years so tut-tut at not re-registering it etc etc.

[ChinaTom]

Difficult to tell with photos, but that may be "ceramic blue" - popular with base III's. There were always 3 rows of ceramic in the paint racks in Halfords.

[mk2_craig]

80s bilge night 2nite I think. N-JOI

 

Someone had tried to make a mk3 Escort van turbo estate thing here, I bet there's not more than 1118cc of throbbing OHV power behind all that filler'n'fibreglass.

 

Different flavour of Escort, possibly the only one on the island

 

Rare now these things. My family had two, both SGL not Anniversary so no leccy goodies for the young Mk2_Craig to play with

 

Honda's answer to the Prairie

 

And Toymotor's answer to the Shuttle

 

Dog-ruff Daihatsu (groan)

 

Tatty Transit seemingly painted in emulsion

 

Buggered Justy

 

Tidyish Metro

 

Yeah so it's outa focus, a quick early morning shot cos the dented driver's door convinced me that if I didn't take the photo the car would die and I'd have missed my chance, however this was some weeks ago and I saw it on the road again today.

 

Some American thing.

 

Not many Sciroccos here, I think they were rated as a good beach banger racer so most of them have been smashed to bits by now.

 

How about this early 21 Savanna, few and far between these days.

 

Bikeshite?

 

Turquoise Fiesta Festival (tatty) and CPTC

[Split_Pin]

Re: the Mk2 Astra: How do so many seemingly tatty and ancient motors survive with their original wheeltrims???? I say this with particular reference to MK1 sierras with the 2/3 vent jobbies.Dont see many of these Astras up in Scotland now

[MrRegieRitmo]

 

Some American thing.

I dare you to ask RayManBoy what it is!

 

 

 

 

Clue: Have you seen 'Freddy Got Fingered?'

[Rocket88]

Chrysler Le Baron [which I owned in the dim and distant]...............as piles of shite go, it was enormous. Body flex, scuttle shake, water leaks, [in all three compartments [boot, sorry trunk/under bonnet/hood, and the cabin] cv joints like castanets, the list goes on....plus the most gutless 2.5 4 pot in existence...sold it for £900, and breathed a large sigh of relief.

[Volksy]

FWD LEBARON RAYMANBOY CHINTZ DRIFT NOT AE86 WAFFLE JIBBER..they sound fantastically shite.. I like then even more now!!

[mk2_craig]

Smart Audi Koop

 

Early Renner Super 5, TSE I think? Nice diamond style alloys

 

Bluebird estate (Not a lot of Bluebirds over here, actually but Leicester was crawling with them so I've kinda gone from one extreme to the other.)

 

And just to contradict myself, here's a hatch in this triple shite spot

 

American people shed.

 

Shafted TK

 

Quite a fair few of these mid 1980s Civics still on the go

 

These though are scarce, only one I've seen

 

Dammit!

 

Top marks for numberplate alignment skills.

 

A CF having a tasty afternoon.

 

Ford R1014 ex-bus, only survivor of 33 delivered to Jersey Motor Transport between '75 and '83

 

R25!

 

Lancer wagon

 

Mk2 Fiesta

[MrRegieRitmo]

American people shed.

Believe this is a MkI Chrysler Voyager / Plymouth Voyager / Dodge Caravan, the likes of which wasn't actually sold over here, some just ended up over here, like the early Cherokees. By the mid 90s Chrysler was selling directly to us with their Neons, Voyagers, Cherokees & Wrangler Jeeps & they've never looked back since, even if we do!

[Ross_K]

www.thelongestfuckingwebsiteaddressevercreated.com

 

On a separate note, how's all that Yank dross ended up in Jersey? There seems to be an abnormally high amount of the stuff knocking about there...

[mk2_craig]

I believe that at one stage you could import a secondhand vehicle to Jersey without the need for it to be inspected, there was all sorts of stuff used to get brought in such as type approval testbeds, US/Jap spec motors etc. At least in the UK you needed an MOT first where things like the wrong headlamps would get picked up on. All been tightened up now mind - in fact it's gone the other way and you need an SVA-type test for anything non-type approved up to 25 years old (anything over 10yrs old in the UK doesn't require SVA)

[Rocket88]

www.thelongestfuckingwebsiteaddressevercreated.com

 

On a separate note, how's all that Yank dross ended up in Jersey? There seems to be an abnormally high amount of the stuff knocking about there...

Depends what you call dross.There's a guy over here with one of best collections of Mopar muscle this side of the pond. several nice 'Stangs, some tasty pick-ups, and then my stuff, which fits none of the above criteria!

[Split_Pin]

Like the R25 - reminds me of a Majorette model car I used to have in that colour!I remember a Mr Whippy Bedford CF that would stop at my parents back fence almost every day in the school summer holidays and you could get a tasty cone for 15p - happy daze!

[Volksy]

A girl i know bought a '99' Flake the other day, and was surprised to find it was £1.25

[r.welfare]

That's cheap! £2 last time someone bought one for me, a couple of weeks ago. And it had some strange blue gunk drizzled all over it, no doubt full of E (numbers).

[55bloke]

That's cheap! £2 last time someone bought one for me, a couple of weeks ago. And it had some strange blue gunk drizzled all over it, no doubt full of E (numbers).

I paid £1:40 for a "small" one at a car show on Sunday (Pics will appear on here eventually. Of the cars, not the 99!!!). What do you rekon the profit margin is on those damn things?

[Richard]

I imagine the profit margin is massive on Mr Whippy type ice cream, although the costs involved in licensing, complying with regulations and keeping the van on the road must be pretty high.I once tried to work out the true cost of the post mix fizzy drinks you get in pubs. I can't remember the figure I came up with but they make a healthy profit on them.

[mk2_craig]

Nothing much of interest. OR IS THERE??

 

I think this is the only 200-series saloon I've seen this year.

 

505 GTD turbo in the company of a Mini automatic posted on this thread about a year back.

 

A371 GROT

 

Delta looking grim.

 

Faded and bumped Golf

 

Browner than that brown Fiat 126 Brown wot someone seen recently.

 

Another Clubman estate, seen quite a few of these locally

 

Early Escort ragtop with added Duck tape

 

Clean old rebadged Honda

 

Rare French turbocharged saloonness

 

On second glance I think this Pony is US spec.

 

Something big and bargey

 

Ageing Landbruiser

 

DRIFT etc.

 

Multiculla Mk2, think this belonged to the granpa of a friend when it was new. Oddly enough there was a rasta livery XR2 knocking about a few years back, a mate's bro had that before its respray, not seen it lately and wonder as to what its fate was for we've established cars in wacky colour schemes tend not to live for too much longer.

[Ross_K]

That red Renner 21 does it for me.Nice.

[Guest]

 

Regieritmo moonlighting as a skip hire man eh

[Split_Pin]

I'm really liking the spots of the non XR3i Mk3 Escort Cabrios I also like the original dealer sticker in the back window of the Nova. My bet is that on the mainland someone would have a Redtop engine and banded the steelies on it before very long. Were Vauxhall one of the last manufacturers to offer brown coloured cars?

[Gompo]

That 505 is stunning, looks so clean on it's mint looking steel wheels. Worth a few bob I reckon, wonder what mileage it's on..Great pics anyway, cheers.

[mk2_craig]

You're welcome - have another batch.

 

Sunny but fading

 

Breadvan Polo, slowly dawning on me that these have nearly all gone

 

Mk2 Ford Focus

 

More performance VX junk, non-standard colour? Save for spoogey rims, looks quite good

 

Proton, interesting comparison with the next pic

 

Recent talk about pre-facelift Colts - it had never dawned on me that any facelift of this model had ever taken place. Turns out I photographed an early one with the long side repeaters a coupla months back

 

Nice Renner 21 hatch, automatic IIRC.

 

Motorcycleshite (while I can read the badging on this one other shiters will have to complete the captions on the bikes I've previously photographed for my PTW recognition skills are non-existent)

 

Pov spec Metro, shame I couldn't photograph the front end in all its recessed-headlamp glory

 

Cortina coop

 

2-tone J-tin

 

Boring tale warning: Kept passing a tidy silver Accord saloon (still with original wheeltrimz) and wondering to myself how long it had left. One day a black Vento appears in the parking space, Accord's whereabouts unknown. Hence why I photographed this one when I saw it, might not have bothered otherwise

 

Escort mkIII saloon

 

Have already mentioned that I tend to ignore even elderly-looking 205s (you can't tell the age of them from the plate over here of course), but I loved the combo of ageing automatic French hatchback and crap house

 

Heyyy, we haven't had a Fiesta mkII on here for a while