Channel Island Chod: Mystery old yad

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

 

 

More nice pics there

 

This looks like Europa Blue, only offered on Astra Coupe Turbos IIRC.

 

Its crying out for that yellowy-orange colour Vauxhall offered on its sporting models in the 80's, and some original Vaux 3-spokers

[mk2_craig]

 

Originally posted back in Jan, a major fire has ended the life of this Volvo bowser and reportedly 15-20 other shite dumper trucks/bin wagons/excavators on site

 

 

More pics HERE and HERE

 

Shame, seeing as this was one of those yards with myriad scrap lying around that I wouldn't have minded checking out. Guess it'll all get cleared and 200 houses shoved on the site.

[Richard]

Guess it'll all get cleared and 200 houses shoved on the site.

I imagine that was the whole reason for having the fire.

[Monkey_boy]

Escort mkIII saloon

What is that stuck on his bonet?

[Justin Case]

 

What is that stuck on his bonet?

Puts on anorak

 

The bonnet motif from a Mark 4 Zodiac Executive

 

Takes off anorak

[mk2_craig]

Here's an immensely varied update for you:

 

Cargo

 

Cargo

 

Cargo

 

Cargo

 

Cargo

 

Cargo

 

Cargo

 

Cargo

 

Cargo, x2

 

XR2 project! £400 ono. Looks ok? Not quite...

 

OK so the floor's holding water, but for how much longer? Both inner sills were ruined - o/s one's had a full-length repair done with sheet steel compared to what it should look like:

[Milford Cubicle]

 

A greatly inappropriate use of the Comic Sans font.

[VWPowered]

took me ages to read this post+1but wicked pics big thumbs up

[mk2_craig]

Hey y'all, guess what. An update WITH NO FORD CARGO LORRIES

 

Late 70s BL tin

 

Big ol' Jugular seen at full zoom

 

Visiting Renner 4 and newer Frogshite

 

Luxury Metroid

 

Mature Golf still looking good

 

Soob Coop

 

Nice ol' Lancia

 

Why have one Vitara when two will do?

 

V.low mileage Dolly at auction, 12k on the clock I think? Knocked down for only £1500

 

On the move, 1

 

On the move, 2

 

The only original style Ibiza I have seen in the last year

 

R5 turdo

 

The pink Ssangyong now has added crap screwed to it

 

Hey, I could supply a mirror glass for that

[Volksy]

The only original style Ibiza I have seen in the last year

 

OOh thats lovely, 1.5 GLX top spec one too!

[Milford Cubicle]

Those Jag Mk Xs/420 Gs have always looked weird to me, like they're too big for their styling. The comedy inboard wheels don't help much.I'll take the Subaru XT please.

[bigstraight6]

Blimey, that Ssangyong thing is truly shite Love the Ford Cargo overload in the earlier set of pics

[Split_Pin]

Keep the Ford Cargo pics coming I rarely see these now, save for the occasional Horse transporter.When working as the workshop f**kabout, a I remember quite a lot of the 7.5 ton models coming into the haulage company garage in the mid 90's for servicing, and I remember them as being easy to work on. They were a piece of piss to grease, which was a job I was always given and hated doing on the Volvos and Erf's. The only downside was that the cab had no hydraulic tilt mechanism on it and the floors rotted badly.

[Mr Lobster]

Excellent stuff as usual ! The Ssangyong thing is just beyond words...Loving the Cargos as well, first 7.5t I ever drove was a A plate Cargo car transporter. Had a slight air leak so the brakes tending to lock on and didn't like releasing the handbrake. Only way to get the brakes to unlock was to sit revving it to death until it built enough air pressure back up. Not ideal or very sociable when you are delivering cars around residential areas I can tell you.

[mk2_craig]

Good news! The Rover 114GSi in the Four bags of sand thread has just been reduced to £1795, and you still get the "free MP3 player"...

 

 

These things were stockpiled for use as summer rental cars and probably registered quite a while after production ended; still, I should imagine that this one will have done at least ten seasons now (incidentally I think there's a choice of colours too!!)

[mouseflakes]

Loving the Cargos as well, first 7.5t I ever drove was a A plate Cargo car transporter. Had a slight air leak so the brakes tending to lock on and didn't like releasing the handbrake. Only way to get the brakes to unlock was to sit revving it to death until it built enough air pressure back up. Not ideal or very sociable when you are delivering cars around residential areas I can tell you.

Ha ha! A Dennis Eagle dust cart I used to drive had the same problem. Caused merry hell picking my way though the Glastonbury Festival site when recycling cardboard there. Kept locking the brakes and I couldn't get folk to understand that I couldn't move until pressure built up again. I ended up surrounded by angry hippies!

[mk2_craig]

More summer spots, I make it look like it doesn't rain over here (it does)

 

Quite a few small Subarus on this thread and more to come, this one however is a bit barried and has since been further bastardised with a (black) XR2i front bumper. I kid you not.

 

Another Alto.

 

Nice to see one of these that isn't festering in a garden.

 

Civic, what are those wheels off? You can just about make out the chessboard roof stickers

 

X1/9, think this is the first one I've photographed over here, though it's been entered in one of the local general auctions a couple of times lately.

 

Integrale, fair few of these on the island actually.

 

Still some shit-looking Minis around. This mid-80s Mayfair is perfect, just like my mate's one that I had a quick spin in shortly after passing my test thirteen years ago... I quite liked it

 

Everything about this Metro is rubbish (+ bonus Astra)

 

Kubelwagen?

 

505 GTi

 

Lovely Rover

 

Remarkably, as mentioned previously DHL still have this Sunny hi-cube van on fleet strength, dunno when they stopped knocking these out but it must be at least ten years ago?

 

More 80s beigeness in the form of low-spec Ford family four-doors

 

Do I have a Fiesta mk2 for you this time round? YES

[Milford Cubicle]

Those Civic wheels are off a post-98 Renault Clio.Subaru Justy 5-door seems an odd car to 'Barry' - wonder how long until it gets some ill-advised '555' flashes on the side.

[seth]

SD1 looks great! An early one too?!

[fiatdaft]

any more pics of the 16v astra?

[mk2_craig]

Afraid not. I think it had been MODDED hence why I wasn't all that bothered about it. Here though is a more original example from page 3 of this thread, I have a funny feeling I have since seen this one in an abandoned vehicles compound however.

 

 

Sorry for the wank photo quality by the way; the combination of a dying Sony Ericsson W800i and the poor light in the ground floor of a public multi-storey car park does not make for quality images.

[Volksy]

Kubelwagen is a later Type 181, otherwise known as a VW Trekker or VW Thing.

[shite_meister]

Alright Shitmates?

 

Although I was raised on big RWD motors in these days of sky-high petrol prices I'm begining to lust after 80's hot-hatches but ONLY if they are original. This neatly brings me on to the subject of the metallic black Astra GTE mister craig snapped, I recently saw this beauty in a secret location and after having a sniff around was gobsmacked by its fantastic condition inside and out and it was a 16v to boot.

 

With moist pants I did admirably track down the gentleman in question and imagine my disappointment when told that it was going to have its engine rippped out the very next day and probably be scrapped. Such a shame-I can't remember the last time I saw a nice non-barry'd one of these.

 

It was originally towed away for whatever reason so there wasn't a logbook, a real shame as it was lovely in every respect-clock showed 36k although how genuine I don't know.

 

I weep I really do.

by the way that colc's old 7-seater Citroen BX loitering with no intent in the background.

[mk2_craig]

A definite drop in the amount of old toss rattling around on the roads of late, no doubt something to do with the removal of a vehicle import tax and its replacement by a 3% VAT-style general duty. Which, annoyingly, has been applied to things that are exempt in the UK like food and public transport fares, but has reduced the on-the-road price of Range Rover Sports and other gas guzzlers. Cheaper new cars = shite further down the food chain becomes even more valueless/less justifiably worth repairing. Anyhoo:

 

Shite_Meister may already have posted this one? From time to time there's other interesting stuff parked next to it as well.

 

I think this has also been posted by one of you who visited the island a couple of summers ago, or perhaps there's another similar one around too.

 

Integrale-to-population ratio is quite good

 

Randomly left in the middle of a park as if a joyride had ended here!

 

A Honda VFR400R, seemingly.

 

Old Daily, from this angle you can't tell that it's actually a pickup

 

Early low-rent mk2 Golf, appears to have escaped scene-ing so far although evidently hasn't escaped sacks-of-cement-in-the-boot-ing.

 

Occasionally a decent-looking UK car falls on hard times and ends up abandoned, probably to save on paying fees to register it here. This Rover coop in the same spot as the black D-reg Escort RS Turbo I saw a number of years ago now, which stayed intact on flat tyres until the night a "shift it within 7 days or we will" notice appeared in the local paper, the next day a window had been bricked and the Recaros had walked.

 

Creamy goodness

 

I think the owner used to run his concession from a mk1 Transit featuring Citroen CX hubcaps, wasn't all that long ago either.

 

Renault Extra, bit too new to be shite but hadn't seen one with this back end before.

 

Nice old 309. Still a bit too common over here to qualify for true shite status, but I liked this straight and tidy example.

 

RETRO RWD TRAMPDRIFT NOT RS2000 MEXICO RED OXIDE GR8 FOR UNDERTAKING

 

A later Granada than the pre-facelift one seen earlier in the thread, possibly also out of use.

 

Ford Fiesta Mk2 XR2

[garycox]

Occasionally a decent-looking UK car falls on hard times and ends up abandoned, probably to save on paying fees to register it here. This Rover coop in the same spot as the black D-reg Escort RS Turbo I saw a number of years ago now, which stayed intact on flat tyres until the night a "shift it within 7 days or we will" notice appeared in the local paper, the next day a window had been bricked and the Recaros had walked.

Haen't seen any abandoned cars for ages, due to the scrap price and stuff but a few years ago I came across this quite a lot. I remember a very nice Allegro 3 (i think it was an X reg) was left on our street. Looked in nice condition with unfaded red paint and generally rust free, and I admired it for about 4 weeks before realising it had no tax on it and that it had been abandoned... after about 6 weeks the council spotted it and put an 'abandoned vehicle' notice on it. within 48 hours it had no glass and every panel was dented. The council hiabbed it a few days later.

[Monkey_boy]

Civic, what are those wheels off? You can just about make out the chessboard roof stickers

It's from a Clio RSI

 

See here:

[VWPowered]

 

this is in my county

[mk2_craig]

Another round of island-bound tat. And no Fiesta mk2 seen this time

 

Prairie

 

Bluebird

 

Derelict Jersey

 

Mouldy

 

Jimmy Burgermac's car! (...allegedly; I am convinced there's like 50 of these dotted around the world, each purporting to be the "TV car")

 

Nova (I am told this model is very rare and sought-after)

 

Riva

 

Mini

 

CF

 

D

 

6

 

5

 

4

 

3

 

2 (ok, so I lied)

[Split_Pin]

Strange how the Clubman estate appears to (almost) be faring a little better than the Fiesta, which is weird. I love the early (pre77?) Clubman estates with the faux-wood down the sides.

 

 

This must be about the same age too going by the hubcaps and the squared off font of the '1000' badge.

 

Nice spots and good commercialage as well

[andrew e]

What are these alloys off? Its pissing me off