The Daily Mail sez: 'Mystery car graveyard discovered inside a Welsh CAVE'

[laser wheels]

Soz about being from The Mail but thought this might be of some interest: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3454287/Mountain-abandoned-cars-70s-abandoned-MINE.html

 

Urban Explorer sez:

 

 

'My theory about the cars is that they may have accidentally been off the road and crashed down there.

 

He does realise cars have actual people inside them, right? I mean someone would notice if 'hundreds' of people went missing along one stretch of road in rural Wales, surely? Anyway, I wonder how long it is before this stuff starts turning up on ebay?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Some video footage from slightly deeper in the cave backs up his theory:

 

[Richard]

This site is pretty well known in mine exploring circles, in fact a friend of mine was there a couple of weeks ago https://www.flickr.com/photos/annwnspirit/24613051800/in/dateposted/

 

I doubt any of it will be taken out of the mine. Every picture I've seen is from the same position, which suggests that you can't actually get near the cars. Even if you could they will be utterly ruined, LP and I have found cars down mines before and everything is just a mass of rust, even if they look ok.

 

Unfortunately the access will probably be blocked as a result of this publicity. Fugging UE media whores.

[Lacquer Peel]

Urban Explorer sez...

 

It's sensationalist nonsense, mines are just another dumping ground for end of life vehicles at times when scrap values are low.

[trigger]

It's a load of bollocks from what I can make out, the photos are a few years old now and the cars are just end of life dumped one's which is painfully obvious to see, even for a DM reader.

[dave21478]

When I were a lad I used to live on a wee island in the Outer Hebridies. It used to be shiter heaven, but being a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic meant stuff rotted away fast. Nobody was going to be spending out on a ferry ticket back to the mainland to scrap a car so they got shoved off a cliff into the sea at a certain point on the coast, leaving a massive sloping pile tumbling down into the waves. That photo reminded me of it.

 

I guess that would be frowned upon these days.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

For about a year in the mid 80's I lived in the little white house on the right of this picture.

 

In the middle of the photo is an old silver and tin mine, the council did not collect the rubbish, you had to take it 3 miles down the lane to the next village, you can guess where everyone's rubbish went and had done for many years. You wouldn't get a whole car down the shaft , but I bet there's lots of bits of car down there. Sometimes kids would drop burning rubbish down and smoke would appear from the ground 100's of feet away.

This photo is quite recent, the elaborate safety fence wasn't there then.

The main* road finished at the mine, but I had my own personal special stage through the forest towards Devils Bridge. But on signing on day I could roll nearly 4 miles towards Aberystwyth without even switching on the engine in my Escort.

[Uncle Jimmy]

The area will be rife with Ford collectors from Essex trying to kill each other to get to a fragment of Mk1 Escort first. Result.

[Richard]

This is another well known example of throwing shit down a hole, taken by another friend.

 

Mapperley Stack by K-Burn, on Flickr

[Bren]

Not a cave - it's BV's garage.

[Eddie Honda]

Nobody was going to be spending out on a ferry ticket back to the mainland to scrap a car so they got shoved off a cliff into the sea at a certain point on the coast, leaving a massive sloping pile tumbling down into the waves. That photo reminded me of it.

 

Reminded me of Europa Point, Gibraltar.

 

19850507_The_Lewiston_Journal_Gibraltar_Scrap_Cars by E Honda, on Flickr

[Junkman]

He does realise cars have actual people inside them, right?

 

No, because he is a

 

 

IT Engineer

[STUNO]

That article is pure crap, even I knew about that cave years ago. Also, every driver and passenger in the hundreds (thousands?) of cars that  skidded off the road would have told Mr Plod about it on the off-chance that they survived and sauntered back outside. Maybe the whole missing persons register can be cleared up now.

Seems more of a fly-tipping spot than a mystery.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I haven't read the thing from the daily mail above but I saw the car pile picture on the news. The news? The picture they used has been round for ages and has been used loads of those "look at all this stuff abandoned" type websites

[dollywobbler]

Yup, turns out not to be a great secret and isn't even in the county they say it is. Still quite fascinating.

[sierraman]

What sort of cars are there?

[Richard]

Even on close-up pictures taken by an Aditnow member there are only a handful you can make out- Mk2 Cortina estate and saloon, Triumph Dolomite and Mk1 Capri.

[Negative Creep]

What sort of cars are there?

 

 

More importantly, how much are the explorers house's worth?

[PiperCub]

It's sensationalist nonsense, mines are just another dumping ground for end of life vehicles at times when scrap values are low.

 

Yeah, that was exactly my thoughts too. 

 

If you want to go scratching round a cave for a few rusted/munted bits of old motor then lots of luck, you'll need it. (I'm sure the OMG OSF crew will be there though - like DM readers, not too bright).

[sierraman]

Mines are deadly places. You wouldn't go down a coal mine that's for sure. There's loads near where I live, most filled in but others are empty and capped off with a vent underneath a manhole cover. The coal board has been out recently to put some palisade fence round one after someone dug down the side of the cap. Probably trying to dispose of an unwanted Cortina Estate!

[noseypoke]

I rekon the f/kin Aussies did it from their end,just to get back at us wingin poms

[dugong]

Daily Mail.

 

Daily Mail.

 

Daily Fail.

[Partridge]

"Is it not known how or why the cars got into the slate mine in Wales"

 

Random shot in the dark here, but maybe people put them there?

[matty879]

Is it just me but looking closely at that blue estate Id swear there was somebody in it

 

 

yeah hes got the window down having a fag,would be interesting dragging it all out to see what there is in there,then just chuck it back,i would do it if I had a spare million or two

[RichardK]

"Is it not known how or why the cars got into the slate mine in Wales"

 

Random shot in the dark here, but maybe people put them there?

 

[carlo]

Can't work out if that estate is a Peugeot 504 or even a Wartburg Knight, or maybe something else.

[flat4alfa]

It's a MK2 Cortina estate 

 

Yes it's years old. Surprised it's been plastered over news sites all weekend.

 

 

First I heard of this lot was Summer 2014 and I was late to the party

 

http://www.bcd-urbex.com/cavern-of-the-lost-souls-underground-car-mine/

 

Other vehicles identifiable in the heap:

Mini van 
BMC 1100 Mk2 saloon 
Upside down MK1 Escort estate 
MK2 Cortina saloon 
Ford Corsair 
Triumph 2000 MK1 front end
Triumph 1500 
Austin A60 Cambridge or similar Farina
MK1 Ford Capri

[Junkman]

So nothing of value, that's good. Imagine the uproar on this forum if a beige SD1 diesel would be in the pile.

 

Anyway, if I were Welsh, I wouldn't know about the cave. If I knew, they might prosecute me for fly tipping.

[flat4alfa]

Diesel Maxi ....GASP!

[lisbon_road]

Be awesome to get one out and fix it up though.

 

Just dreaming ok!