Greetings from Gozo!

[Mat.T]

So i'm currently staying with friends on the Islands of Gozo nr Malta. The island although tiny is full of old cars, cheap beer/wine!

 

thursday was my first full day here, I was tipped off about a scrap yard on the island by a Maltese chap off the jnc forums, so we went hunting! Our transport with my host:

 

the yard was of corse closed as the island was having one of many public holidays

 

Mazda 929 coupe in the distance some transits in the foreground

any one id this?:

2.1d!

 

corolla and 626

 

walking around the island

mini van

 

 

[Mat.T]

general spottings:

 

for hirst

 

lots of these charades here apparently exhire cars

 

 

 

[Mat.T]

more jdm yo hilux

violet

toyota 1000

[Mat.T]

I got to drive the metro! no sincro on 2nd or 3rd and we got a puncture. 1euro gets it fixed because all the cars here are running inner tubes!

 

 

mazda 1000 wagon

 

escort

 

marina

 

hunter

 

busses

 

ford laser ka!

 

celica

 

120y coupe drive by

 

323

 

hilux and colt

 

cabstar

[Mat.T]

racey cherry

 

120y

 

mazdawagon2

 

excellent to see this still in service as a taxi!

 

120coupe walkby

 

isuzu kb

 

and an earlier one

 

 

my hiace!

 

and another

 

corolla

 

another hirst mobile

 

and a suzuki jeep getting a nice wash - from the sea! + small dog

 

another one getting a salt water wash

 

escort

 

 

 

estelle

 

transit

 

cortina

 

miafiori

 

estelle mini

 

504

 

supermiafiori

 

[Mat.T]

 

this was the wolsey version

[HillmanImp]

Whats this? Its cool as milk.

[dollywobbler]

Wow. I went to Malta/Gozo in 2003. Don't think I saw half that many retros! (Certainly didn't capture as many on camera...)I do remember seeing quite a few cars driving around sans headlamps at night, just relying on hazards! It's got to the shite-spotting heaven really.Thanks for the pics!

[pompei]

Any pics of the hot women? That rusty 132 in the yard belies the myth that it never rains in the Med and that Italian steel only rusts in the UK.I went to Malta in about 1991 and it was amazing then too. The first thing I saw upon exiting the airport glass door was a Zephyr 4 taxi.

[retrogeezer]

Wow - what an amazing amount of spots - cheers for taking the time to upload them.

 

Whats the red Fiat is this pic? A Punto we don't get here? (at least, I don't recall seeing that rear end)

 

 

And the purple thing in this pic?

 

 

Loving that pale yellow Mk1 escort and some of the alloys are really cool.

[Milford Cubicle]

Amazing, looks like a real sanctuary for old grot.I like the Granada 2.1D, it's been upgraded to a turbo via a marker pen.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Mat.T: Some lovely pictures there, and truly excellent shite-spotting skills !!!

 

From a tourist point of view, Gozo is everything that Malta should have been. And, as you have proven, it's an autoshitter's paradise too ! I have to disagree with you regarding the hot women, though... Not much to write home about, unless middle eastern women are your thing.

 

 

retrogeezer : The red Fiat is a Palio. It's supposed to be a 'world car' sort of concept, designed for disadvantaged/developing countries (...like Malta ?!?!).

 

The purple thing is a Kia Avella, designed for disadvantaged American college students and the occasional greedy European rent-a-car company.

[Mat.T]

Well i found another scrap yard this morning much bigger than the previous one i found. No photos as the owner didnt want me to take any, he did let me wander round though. the place was full of 60/70 british stuff and the odd bit of j-tin. Sadly due to eu regulations the goverment has ordered the owner to close and clear the yard. As you can imagine he wasnt very happy about this explaining the Gozo people will now have to go to malta to a central modern brakers.GrumpyOldMan :I went to a concert on the island on friday (which was very good pink floyd cover band and small local band) Most of the girls there had a more Italian look about them especially the lead singer for one of the bands. Stunning! I've been driving the metro around today driving here is quite frightening: right of way is given to the biggest vehcles but new cars on the island will give way to scruffy rusty ones!HillmanImp: Gold thing is a toyota 1000

[Pillock]

The purple thing is a Kia Avella, designed for disadvantaged American college students and the occasional greedy European rent-a-car company.

LOLZathon!"I'm so poor, when I went to college mummy and daddy only bought me a Kia."I had to buy my own stinking pushbike at uni!

[Richard]

You had a pushbike? Bloody luxury etc.

[Justin Case]

You had a pushbike? Bloody luxury etc.

I had to leave school at eight so I could work down the pits 16 hours a day. Walking to uni was a luxury I could only dream of............ BTW the shell in the third photo looks like an L type Vauxhall Velox/Wyvern of about 1950, I wonder how long that had been there.

[Mat.T]

well i had a mazda 323 when i was at uni

 

more stuff

 

 

taxi on the move

 

fruit n veg truck

 

cherry estate

 

corolla

 

faded mini

 

hillman

 

another mini

 

modern cedric taxi

 

saw 2 of these in a short space of time, both very tidy

 

sunny coupe

 

toledo! very well picked over

 

austin 1300

 

120y

 

suzuki, sierra, renualt dodge

 

sunny

 

laser

 

accord

 

liteace

 

german 2cv

 

fwd escort + rwd offset wheels

 

anglia and starlet

 

stuff

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a219/RetroMicra/gozoooooo/DSCF4187.jpg

 

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a219/RetroMicra/gozoooooo/DSCF4186.jpg

 

hunter

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a219/RetroMicra/gozoooooo/DSCF4191.jpg

 

and spot of the day and possibly the holiday:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a219/RetroMicra/gozoooooo/DSCF4182.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a219/RetroMicra/gozoooooo/DSCF4183.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a219/RetroMicra/gozoooooo/DSCF4184.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a219/RetroMicra/gozoooooo/DSCF4185.jpg

datsun 210 bluebird!

[michiel]

Bickle!

[nigel bickle]

Yup-I'd drive that home-anyday!Its an early 320

[55bloke]

Absolutely fan-bloody-tastic!! Hillman Hunters seem to be popular! I spy a Mk 2 Cortina (red) in the scrap yard. The Anglia is the pick of the bunch for me- and just imagine if you could fetch one of those Mk 1 Escorts home? You could fund shite-hunting/collecting trips for the rest of your life!

[Mat.T]

more! before i go out for dinner

 

have another hunter

 

 

 

 

astra

 

 

1100

 

rwd 626

 

gemini

 

corolla

 

 

cherry

 

125p

[andrew e]

.............BREAKING NEWS..................

 

Today the Bedford CA owners club announced they were to fold after this photo was shown at the annual AGM and the whole room was en-gulfed in a YOGHURT STYLE SUBSTANCE

[dollywobbler]

Wow. Got any shots from the cliff tops? Might just have been Malta, but loads of classics had simply been pushed off the top when I was there!

[Mat.T]

the cliffs

and as as ever any piece of rusty metal has the ability to be interesting, i found this:

 

bearing the ancient inscription MOWOG 1622- so b-series right?

[Mr Lobster]

Awesome! Thanks for uploading them, they are without exception incredible Not somewhere I have ever been but definately looks worth a visit.Surely it can't be that difficult to export one of them Mk1 RHD Escorts then sell it back here and retire?

[Guest]

well i had a mazda 323 when i was at uni

 

 

austin 1300

 

 

Looks like an AA badge on the grille, I wonder how much stuff on Malta/Gozo starts out in the UK and finds its way there mid-life?

[MrRegieRitmo]

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to reminisce, even though it was only last August! I'm already looking forward to going back in November. We went over to Gozo for the day, it was dirt cheap to get across on the ferry. You're right about Gozo, it's Malta with more charm & a more extreme level of shite about the place! We spent the day walking round the capital Victoria & I spent a good deal of time wandering off on my own in search of interesting shite. Looks like we came across a few of the same vehicles! Off the top of my head (because I can't view the pictures from work), the taxis, the buses, the blue MkI Accord coupe on the sloping main street, the orange 120Y coupe outside the toilets (it's almost like these cars don't move), I think that white Mazda 1000 estate rings a bell as well. Can't remember if there were others you've shown I saw but I certainly covered a lot of ground, I remember that square area where you snapped that Granada Hearse (although I didn't see it), I also walked upto where you snapped that MkI Astra although I don't think I saw it. You saw it by the temple / cathedral on top of the hill where you get great views across Gozo. I walked the length of Victoria in both directions in the 80 degree heat until I hit open road / countryside. I had the blisters to back that up!

[Karmann Ghiaman]

any one id this?:

 

Could it be an early Velox????!

 

u r in Paradise

[Mat.T]

more

 

910 bluebird

 

charade

 

corolla

 

bedford

 

transit

 

corolla

 

lada

 

gemini

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323 bd

 

sporty corolla sr

 

that metro again

[pogweasel]

Nice parking brake on the TK