'Mussel' car with familiar outline pulled the water after 22 years.

[Spiny Norman]

 

The Garda Water Unit were in Broadford, Clare a few weeks ago and a vehicle was recovered and brought to the surface. Transpires it was stolen in 1998!

Killaloe Gardaí spoke to a local fisherman who had picked up an image on sonar equipment.

The fisherman met the Water Unit and brought them to the location on the lake.

Further enquiries to be made."

https://www.facebook.com/132121904151566/photos/pcb.631551010875317/631550717542013/?type=3&theater

[Dick Cheeseburger]

That's fantastic. It looks structurally better than most which are still on the road to be fair. 

What's happening with it? If Tracey Emin can call a dirty, umade bed art, then this gem needs it's own display case in the Tate.

[strangeangel]

They should put it back where they found it - those mussels have made it their home! Despite being in better nick than some offered for sale recently that's about all it's good for.

 

[Spiny Norman]

Would the shellfish count as structural for an MOT I wonder?

[motorpunk]

8 hours ago, strangeangel said:

They should put it back where they found it - those mussels have made it their home!

 

This! What’s the bloody point of dragging it out now? No-one will want it and there’s zero chance of tracing the thief. Let nature reclaim it.

[sierraman]

Reminds me of the Capri that got pulled out of a river a few years ago, it had been stolen moons ago. Despite being under water for 20 years I’ve no doubt it ended up on eBay for £11 million quid. 

[HMC]

I used to play on a joy ridden and  abandoned 2 dr Mk2 escort that ended up in the middle of the rover croal as a kid. 
 

The difference between that pug and “my” escort is that even if it had dissolved to it’s vin tags someone would now want to buy them.

[Datsuncog]

In fairness, usually when the Garda Water Unit recovers a car from a lake, it's because they're expecting to find human remains inside. That won't be apparent until it's pulled out and examined.

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Michael 'Tony' Lynch (54) vanished without trace on January 6 2002 - and no clue as to what happened to him was ever found until an astonishing discovery prompted by members of the public who last weekend noticed "an anomaly" in Lough Corradilar, part of Upper Lough Erne, outside Lisnaskea in Fermanagh.

Gardaí said that PSNI divers, in a painstaking operation, recovered the white Mitsubishi Galant owned by Mr Lynch from the lake.

The car - with a registration number of TIL4670 - had vanished with Mr Lynch and gardaí believed locating the car held the key to discovering what happened to the 54 year old.

It has now been confirmed that PSNI experts found what are believed to be human remains during their painstaking examination of the interior of the silt-filled car.

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In October 2012, divers on an exercise in the River Blackwater in Fermoy, Co Cork came across a badly rusted Daihatsu Charade car partially buried in the river bed.

It was confirmed to be the vehicle of William 'Bill' Fennessy (54) who had vanished without trace in March 1990.
Partial bone remains were found in the car during a painstaking garda technical examination - and subsequent DNA testing confirmed the remains were those of Mr Fennessy.

https://independent.ie/irish-news/human-remains-found-in-car-recovered-from-lake-as-18-year-investigation-into-missing-father-continues-39223503.html

It's possible they have an historic missing persons enquiry on the books involving a 305 van - though on this occasion, it turned out to be a stolen vehicle rather than anything more sinister.

[puddlethumper]

Wow, a 305 mussel van.

[motorpunk]

Surely any witnesses to the original theft would clam up? You’d never be able to winkle anything out of them. 
 

I am so, so sorry for shit puns 

[juular]

2 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Surely any witnesses to the original theft would clam up? You’d never be able to winkle anything out of them. 
 

I am so, so sorry for shit puns 

You're just so damn shellfish.

[tul66]

Pity it's a 305, it could have been anything!

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/the-bugatti-from-the-lake-1925-bugatti-type-22-brescia

[junkyarddog]

Not that far from me,Lough Derg.

That 305 will probably end up in Conways yard.

Wonder would it run?

There was a VW camper pulled out of a Fjord in Norway a few years back,dunno if it ever got back on the road though.

[beko1987]

Do not paint... 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

11 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Do not paint... 

Salmon had to say it...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

18 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Not that far from me,Lough Derg.

That 305 will probably end up in Conways yard.

Wonder would it run?

There was a VW camper pulled out of a Fjord in Norway a few years back,dunno if it ever got back on the road though.

I was fascinated by this recovery at the time - can't believe it was a decade ago. Morten, the owner, drove it onto the stage at a Volkswagen show. It's structurally pretty good and is amazingly preserved considering so long underwater. 

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=372048&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=300

 

[davehedgehog31]

Bound to be fragile after so long in there, they'd really have had to limpet out.

[DoctorRetro]

Something fishy about the whole thing if you ask me. 😂

 

Also, how shit a mafia would you have to have pissed off to end up whacked in Peugeot 305? 

[Cord Fourteener]

On 10/24/2020 at 8:54 AM, sierraman said:

Reminds me of the Capri that got pulled out of a river a few years ago, it had been stolen moons ago. Despite being under water for 20 years I’ve no doubt it ended up on eBay for £11 million quid. 

'slight water damage, not serious'

[Cord Fourteener]

It's a slippery tale, this. High on the scale in fact.  I could carry on but you get the hook.

Right, I'm going for a gill before I crack another pearl. Don't get crabby.

Fin.

[MikeR]

a good spray of starter fluid and you should be able to limpet home ..

[Christine]

Bloody pike.... 

[Isaac Hunt]

On 10/24/2020 at 9:12 AM, Datsuncog said:

In fairness, usually when the Garda Water Unit recovers a car from a lake, it's because they're expecting to find human remains inside. That won't be apparent until it's pulled out and examined.

https://independent.ie/irish-news/human-remains-found-in-car-recovered-from-lake-as-18-year-investigation-into-missing-father-continues-39223503.html

It's possible they have an historic missing persons enquiry on the books involving a 305 van - but on this occasion, it turned out to be a stolen vehicle rather than anything more sinister.

I don’t suppose it is too easy to check the VIN when it is at the bottom of the lake.  There is also the risk that someone might have been stashed in the back rolled up in a old tarp before the thing was sent for a dip.

The original owner, it’s unlikely eel be wanting that back and the insurance company will most likely be stating that they always thought there was something a bit fishy with the original claim.

Does the police enquiry get scaled up or scaled down from this point ?

Get it running and it’s ready for a banger rally as a Peugeot 305 Atlantis, just an Ocean Breeze air freshener required

[strangeangel]

1 hour ago, TheDoctor said:

Also, how shit a mafia would you have to have pissed off to end up whacked in Peugeot 305? 

 

 

Probably still better than being found dead in an abandoned Sherpa camper.

 

[treehugger]

Worth about six squid now. 

[HMC]

Styled by Pinfinfarina.

[dave j]

Still looks more solid than the one FOAD had recently! 

[MikeR]

just noticed the steel wheels have not rusted !!!!

try getting that on a modern car ....

[New POD]

42 minutes ago, MikeR said:

just noticed the steel wheels have not rusted !!!!

try getting that on a modern car ....

You need oxygen for rust ??? 

[MikeR]

3 minutes ago, New POD said:

You need oxygen for rust ??? 

the shell fish survived , they have to breathe , hence oxygen is present ..