A few Spots (Wirral) - 12.01.11 Bonus Bus Shite

[Station]

I find when you are cruising around the back streets of working class neighbourhoods you find more shittle which is being 'restored', but hopelessly doomed to a life on the driveway:

 

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin 1, take that old couch to the tip, it's a Renault van:

 

 

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin 2, soak up some rays, it's the much unloved Cavalier convertible:

 

 

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin 3, take your missus to Rhyl for a dirty weekend, it's a Toyota R10 camper van:

 

 

And Bully's shittiest prize, it's my MR2 which is currently abandoned outside my folk's house:

 

[Minimad5]

haha nice work i know what you mean tho about "Being Restored" yet destined to a life of dying on the driveway This is currently happening to a nice red Escort Mk 2 that i so desperatly WANT !has no floor, bonnet edge is shot, been sitting there for a good 10 years +GUESS WHAT !"Sorry mate im restoring it, would never sell it" Why do people do that ?

[Guest]

Its like a masochistic pleasure, the joy of repeatedly rejecting offers to buy it and kidding yourself that the rotting shile of pit in your drive is therefore worth a fortune far exceeds either the optimum sale price or the ultimate scrap value (usually zero) once it has corroded half to dust.I would love to obtain something mainstream and worthless like a mk3 Fiesta, park it up as a garden ornament and wait for the doorbell to start ringing ten years from now.

[Richard]

There has been a MkII Spitfire parked in a front garden near me since at least 1978. It sprouted a "Not for sale" sign during the classics boom of the 1980s and got covered by a tarpaulin soon after that. I think it's had some logs dumped on top now.

[Torsten2001]

There a young lad i see round here that drives a blue Alto like this, Must try and get a picture.

And this one local to me is sooooo close

[keef]

This Vanden Plas was F sale Ebay 11 May 2008 330235500437.

 

Looks like it is currently on SORN. Any sign of it being worked on at all?

[55bloke]

The Granada next to it, however, has been sat there for well over 15 years and it is completely rotten

The Granada is surely a Mk 3 Cortina 2000E?

[michiel]

Did we ever get the answer to the tarp challenge? Here's mine once more:

Mid-80s 911?

[Station]

I've been meaning to take these for a while, but forgot to put the battery back in my camera so had to use poo mobile.

It's a mk1 Fiesta xr2, which has been sat for at least 10 years, I remember seeing it in 2003, and possibly before that. The bottom is totally gone, but it is still 'complete'. No doubt the owner doesn't want to get rid.

 

 

[Station]

I think that tarp mystery is a Porsche 914.

 

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en ... s&aq=f&oq=

[Guest]

Hey is the xr2 this one?

 

 

Been spotted before But values of these have perked up to the extent that I bet its now worth more money than it was in 2003, or even when it was parked up in a more structurally sound condition

[Minimad5]

Hey sorry for a slow reply the tarp challenge is in fact a MGB with horrid plastic bumbersWill get a better picture soon (ill try )

[Station]

Yes, the same one! I'd love to know some history on it!Date of Liability01 12 2009Date of First Registration01 01 1982Year of Manufacture1982Cylinder Capacity (cc)1593CCFuel TypePetrolVehicle StatusSORN Not DueVehicle ColourBLACKVehicle Type ApprovalnullHas anyone enquired inside?From another forum in 2007:

the only mk1 in my area is outside a garage in Mostyn, been sat there for 12 years.

So since 1995?

[michiel]

the tarp challenge is in fact a MGB with horrid plastic bumbers

Ah... cheers!

[Station]

Some Aldi, Prenton carpark spotz - taken with camera-phone which has a tendency to do mad things:

 

Top-Of-The-Range Proton with alloys:

 

 

Toyota Corolla saloon:

 

 

Same model as my old one:

 

 

With the really strange looking back end:

 

Not sure about these, but they're 19 years old - a retro faux-classic:

 

[Guest]

Those Figaros are fuggin everywhere now, I reckon the entire production run must have made its way over to the UK in the last few years. Maybe when the Japanese bust themselves out of long-term deflation they'll start buying them all back at top yen prices.

[Station]

Yeah, tend to see a lot of them. Can't say I was that amazed when I first saw one either. Some are starting to rust now as well!

 

Today's spots:

 

Ultra-shite Favorit five door, flat marigold, rusty primer, rusty steels, what more could you want?

 

 

Another Nissan human transporter that used to be everywhere, but now aren't:

 

Not a huge fan, but best bit of the day - spotting this German imported LHD, 2 door, B reg Golf 'GTD' with vinyl reflective tailgate panel - it looked wonderfully 'used', and I think the owner worked inside:

 

 

 

Have found a fairly decent cache of shite near me I will photo, some of it is pretty awesome (though it's probably already been captured). Don't think it's a scrappy either.

[VWPowered]

thats well cool that GTD, i 'ad one upped the boost went like a rocket and smoked just as much

[Guest]

That GTD has what the VW fap boys call a 'Heckenblade' on the bootlid.One 'very original' lad on RR paid over £200 for one.

[Guest]

What on earth! I'm sure I've seen a rather tatty Golf here with one of those, if I see it again I'll peel it off and bosh it up for sale. Madness.

[Station]

Irmscher produced one for the mk3 Astra:

 

 

 

They're just as rare, but not as expensive.

[pogweasel]

 

Ultra-shite Favorit five door, flat marigold, rusty primer, rusty steels, what more could you want?

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v25/stationmiek/photo/

Shag a cat that is awesome!

Mother-in-law used to have one in that colour & in similar condition - it was bought as a 'stop gap' when their Pug 505 expired but stayed quite a few years until superceded with one of our cast-offs. It was a truly dire example of a motor car, ultra-flimsy and with tappets you could hear a mile away, very different to the 'VW-era' Favorit my dad had/has (mothballed now for nearly 10 years )

[Minimad5]

Some nice spots =)Thanks for sharin them !

[Cavcraft]

My recent spot:

 

 

 

There is also a few more I have to photo: a yellow two door Escort driven around by a middle aged woman, a standard white Nova GSi driven by a very old man and his wife (complete with RAC badges on the front), a blue Opel Kadett Coupe.

Is that yellow Escort a mint standard one? There's a sort of 'fmaous' one locally (though not seen it in years) which is a genuine 'old lady owner' jobbie. Apparantly she got letters by the sackful through her door from people offering to but it.

[Heep]

Top-Of-The-Range Proton with alloys:

Love this!

 

Not sure about these, but they're 19 years old - a retro faux-classic:

 

They've been making their way to Canada by the boatfuls too, as we can import stuff relatively hassle-free that's 15 years old or more. I haven't seen any yet on this eastern edge of the country but I hear the west is flooding with them. Nice dashboards/instrument clusters.

[Station]

Is that yellow Escort a mint standard one? There's a sort of 'fmaous' one locally (though not seen it in years) which is a genuine 'old lady owner' jobbie. Apparantly she got letters by the sackful through her door from people offering to but it.

Yeah! I'd never even dream of offering, it'd be so cliched! 'I'll give you 200 quid for it darlin'. If I were her I'd just keep a £10,000 price tag in the window to repel all the dreamers. I saw it last year some time, it's still around. She's in her 40's I'd say.

[Station]

I fricking love these and nearly exploded when I saw it today. It's the second one in two days, but this, with it's pattern-part wing with label still attached really struck me!

 

 

Rear 2+2 seats flattened with a boot full of junk.

[brammy777]

speaking of blue ovals being used as everyday cars, unknown to the driver of what 'fortune' they're sitting on (possibly) the other day whilst i was standing outside college not one but two brilliant Fords went past. One was a mk 2 Escort, in white, with what looked like a 70s graphic down the sides, i think it was slightly dark orange and black? Anyone know anything? But definitely every day use, judging by the grime by the wheel arches, and faded badges on the grille. Then about a minute later a Mk 3 Capri in what can only be described as poo brown, went past in the opposite direction. It was a 1.6 Laser, and was being driven by someone in a high vis jacket. Looked really good, would have loved to snap them. Hopefully soon. Top spots by the way, supermarket carparks are a definite treasure trove for autoshite.

[Station]

Tried to ID the car on a local cruise forum. Didn't have much help, apart from 'it's horrible' 'it belongs in a scrapyard'. etc

[Station]

Something I found on a forum near me. Nissan Sunny Coupe shite dragged out of the river:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surprised I've never seen this before, I was by here only last night.

How the hell would it have got in this condition? Lifting out? Why is the engine bay full of concrete?