The Heston Caddy

[tom13]

I would love to drive that as it is.

There is a style in Europe somewhere where they drive battered old American cars. I can't remember the name at the moment. I think they look good though. 

[sierraman]

Fiscally speaking someone might as well weld it up out of old washing machine carcasses and filler and then run it as is. Probably hand paint it. 

[Three Speed]

38 minutes ago, tom13 said:

I would love to drive that as it is.

There is a style in Europe somewhere where they drive battered old American cars. I can't remember the name at the moment. I think they look good though. 

It’s called Raggare and is practiced  in Norway and Sweden. It’s a whole lifestyle with a car part to it. The cars are all really well done under the skin but look as terrible as possible.

[tom13]

4 minutes ago, Three Speed said:

It’s called Raggare and is practiced  in Norway and Sweden. It’s a whole lifestyle with a car part to it. The cars are all really well done under the skin but look as terrible as possible.

Nice cheers. I was thinking raggatan in my head but I think that's some type of fast and furious music.

I follow that chap on Instagram, love all their cars, they must look ace when they are all cruising down the road together. 

[eddyramrod]

@Angrydicky the 59 is the halo model, much like a genuine Escort Mexico mk1.  The 58, as shown in your original post, is less well-loved but it's only a step or two down; think mk2 Escort Ghia with two doors and a 1.6 Kent. 

Several people have already said that this car is quite possibly strong and reliable behind the damage, and I would agree.  There's a good chassis under these things, and a big, tough, simply-engineered drivetrain.  Yeah it looks rough, but it's in London, so if nothing else, it could be rented out as a TV/movie prop for all kinds of shows, even as-is.  The pink is a bit noticeable, but it surely can't be beyond the wit of a good painter to falsify that level of patina in, say, blue or grey.  A couple of appearances in pink should offset quite a bit of the cost of doing that!

Anyway, that's all academic.  I would happily drive it as shown but that's also academic.  All we can really do is speculate.  And hope it can/will be saved.

[SiC]

A Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, which is still a big car, is 5.27m long.

This (according to Wikipedia) is 5.61m long.

My double width garage is a reasonable length compared to many but still only 5.4m long in comparison.

No wonder most of these have to live outside here in the UK. Even parking it in a standard pay and display car park would be tricky. 

I don't think even my storage bays are long enough. The biggest thing I've seen at storage is the ungainly big Hummer H2 in a few bays down from mine and is poking out a fair bit in the front. That's 5.17m for comparison! 

[Rustybullethole]

I wonder how much you’d need to offer for this. I am quite drawn to it.

[Ian_Fearn]

Another interesting old Caddy story here.