Garden Find

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

Interesting project maybe.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-52220174?at_custom4=B51CB2CE-79D3-11EA-BF19-12AC923C408C&at_medium=custom7&at_campaign=64&at_custom3=Regional+BBC+Yorkshire+&at_custom2=facebook_page&at_custom1=link&fbclid=IwAR3S-3OuSGDkeQyxWizOH-YcaSdcTEz36dL1lQyOAIEZTiyhWBfjW7pV49w

[kirton]

I have been told that there is a car buried at the far end of my garden: it being an rural ex council house I don't think it will be a 4.3 litre Alvis like the one the garage told me they had had buried in Bradford on Avon tip just a week previous,  I had seen the car so I know it's existence wasn't a myth

[bunglebus]

Always hearing about buried cars, 100E behind a council house and a motorbike in my girlfriend's dad's back garden for a start. Must be an easier way to get rid of them?

[Cavcraft]

Someone locally (years ago) supposedly buried a Reliant 3 wheeler in his back garden.

[sierraman]

When I was a kid my grandad told me at the end of the garden at their house a tractor had sunk into the ground years ago. Obviously me being a sad bastard used to dig like mad looking for it. Only years later did he tell me it was bullshit. Crafty old bastard he just wanted the garden digging over. 

[Kiltox]

 

[Out Run]

 

[garbaldy]

I know where an rs2000 was buried by a farmer.

Dodgy dealings from the early 90s was that.

[lesapandre]

Lord Brocket cut up his Ferraris to claim on the insurance and hid the bits on his estate. He went to jail when nabbed.

https://supercarnostalgia.com/blog/lord-brocket-the-ferraris-and-the-furnace

Its a good way to disappear a stolen car.

[lesapandre]

This daft thing too:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Belvedere

[Kringle]

12 hours ago, kirton said:

I have been told that there is a car buried at the far end of my garden: it being an rural ex council house I don't think it will be a 4.3 litre Alvis like the one the garage told me they had had buried in Bradford on Avon tip just a week previous,  I had seen the car so I know it's existence wasn't a myth

BoA had a tip? News to me

[Wingz123]

2 hours ago, Kiltox said:

 

Got tired of watching this guy

[Kiltox]

3 minutes ago, Wingz123 said:

Got tired of watching this guy

Yeah I’ve been feeling a bit like that recently too, I loved his stuff at first but it’s all a bit same-y. 

[HMC]

[kirton]

BoA tip; This was at about 50 years ago, so probably a desirable housing development now. I was in my early 20s and was asking for an acquaintance whose father turned out to have a large Alvis of that age. I had the complete Profile set of booklets so I knew what a 4.3 Alvis was. Garage is now the Texaco

[chaseracer]

<94th_person> Taxed worse, that'll buff out, etc. </94th_person>

?

[sutty2006]

5 hours ago, Kiltox said:

 

I’d love to see that being dug up next year! 

[maxxo]

4 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

I’d love to see that being dug up next year! 

There you go

[strangeangel]

6 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Always hearing about buried cars, 100E behind a council house and a motorbike in my girlfriend's dad's back garden for a start. Must be an easier way to get rid of them?

 

ISTR that back in the day you had to pay to get rid of scrap cars, and that scrap itself didn't have any value (as it doesn't from time to time these days). Certainly, djimbob's Dad cut up and buried the remains of an engine donor Thames 400E at the end of his garden when we were kids.

 

[sutty2006]

3 hours ago, maxxo said:

There you go

Yay a year has passed! Now can you find me the one where the other dude tries to get it going? ?

[omegod]

Here's something I came across in the wee hours somehow, quite enjoyed it , spoiler..they get it running again !

 

 

[omegod]

https://youtu.be/5P-gU1AJakE

[ETCHY]

10 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Always hearing about buried cars, 100E behind a council house and a motorbike in my girlfriend's dad's back garden for a start. Must be an easier way to get rid of them?

Yeah i'd have thought so too to, be honest but when you see all the cars that just used to be abandoned on scrap land, I suppose many just got left in gardens & perhaps gradually just sank or got earth piled on them perhaps?

[maxxo]

42 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

Yay a year has passed! Now can you find me the one where the other dude tries to get it going? ?

Helps being a fan of hoovies garage

it's pretty interesting

[Asimo]

I've lived in this village for more than 50 years.  45ish years ago I removed the rotten body of a B-plateBeetle from its floorpan, chopped it into lumps with an axe and buried the worthless bits of shell in a handy and large hole in Mums garden.

 You can just see it in this 1969 pic., before rust and my axe finished it. The hole is about 20ft from where the car was.

Every so often this info comes back to me from villagers, always wildly exaggerated, along the lines of. "So&so told me he'd heard your folks buried an early, rare and perfect Volkswagen back before they were valuable. You should dig it up. Like on TV. Worth ££££."

[bunglebus]

Still, a 64 bug! Worthless at the time but

[MikeR]

We buried a concrete clothes post in my sons garden..

It would not fit on the car ..

Some bugger will find it in the future ...

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

Up-date.

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/18394889.bizarre-mystery-car-dug-garden-solved/?fbclid=IwAR1duXLvKU1oRhqogFBWh08EUofjOAQITojHWpUhTQb2T4MfnIc_TafgNWE

[paulplom]

On 4/8/2020 at 9:28 PM, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

Interesting project maybe.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-52220174?at_custom4=B51CB2CE-79D3-11EA-BF19-12AC923C408C&at_medium=custom7&at_campaign=64&at_custom3=Regional+BBC+Yorkshire+&at_custom2=facebook_page&at_custom1=link&fbclid=IwAR3S-3OuSGDkeQyxWizOH-YcaSdcTEz36dL1lQyOAIEZTiyhWBfjW7pV49w

I reckon I could fix that, going off my bodywork skills on the bini.

[dozeydustman]

Did Vic Reeves bury an A40 Somerset? I seem to remember watching a programme about how he and Bob Mortimer started their act and I’m pretty sure he buried his car in that programme