Car found in the floor of a house....

[mat777]

...and you thought builders leaving rubble under the floor was bad....
Anyone able to guess what car it is/was?

 

[D.E]

If it was underground it's probably a Metro.🙃

[JJ0063]

My late Grandfather was a very hardworking, traditional Polish man who was very set in his ways.

If anyone ever digs up the garden of his old house in Brandon, Suffolk, they are in for one hell of a surprise.

Anything too big for the wheelie bin he’d just bury in the garden. Got a new bicycle and don’t want your old one? Grandad will get rid of it for you. 
 

Bikes, scooters, old BBQ, 99.9% sure there’s at least some of a mk4 cortina estate there too. 

[Doctormop]

For some unbeknown reason I'm thinking Fiat x19. 

[Burnside]

That wrap round bumper looks like something from the 80's, possibly PSA related? 

[RichardK]

Simple beam rear axle and shape makes me think it's a Fiesta Mk1/2, back end and upside down.

[junkyarddog]

I think it may be a VAG of some sort.

Looking at the rear axle and plastic wrap around bumper I'd reckon it's a Mk1 Golf.

[eddyramrod]

I'm assuming it's now a Crime Scene?  Surely you'd only bury a car like that if you intended the driver to "disappear..."

 

Or do I just read too many crime novels?

[DSdriver]

Shouldn't that be in the "Cars you didn't know existed until very recently" thread?

[Ghosty]

My dad lived in Australia in the 60s, he found a Jowett Javelin buried in his back garden.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

https://m.facebook.com/groups/634005276735737/permalink/2796000123869564/

^ Linky

Apparently it's a 2003 house and the car is a small bumper mk2 Golf. The house owner is hoping there's nothing inside of the car...

[andy18s]

I think I mentioned previously of a Talbot Sunbeam Ti that's under a school playground.

Owner was a ground worker who rarely turned up but left it onsite.Whilst sitting the Lotus alloys got stolen. 

By the time I found out it was available, rounded up some wheels, and got over there it was already underground.

[HillmanImp]

I read that they found Shergar in the boot. 

[brownnova]

9 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

My late Grandfather was a very hardworking, traditional Polish man who was very set in his ways.

If anyone ever digs up the garden of his old house in Brandon, Suffolk, they are in for one hell of a surprise.

Anything too big for the wheelie bin he’d just bury in the garden. Got a new bicycle and don’t want your old one? Grandad will get rid of it for you. 
 

Bikes, scooters, old BBQ, 99.9% sure there’s at least some of a mk4 cortina estate there too. 

Our garden is like that from the previous owners. I planted fruit trees on Thursday, after I had removed the remains of a mattress and a shit load of old broken Lego.

Previously I’ve unearthed a pram, an alternator, several oil filters, steel car wheels, cameras and the buried remains of a corrugated tin roof! 

[jon.k]

21 minutes ago, brownnova said:

Our garden is like that from the previous owners. I planted fruit trees on Thursday, after I had removed the remains of a mattress and a shit load of old broken Lego.

Previously I’ve unearthed a pram, an alternator, several oil filters, steel car wheels, cameras and the buried remains of a corrugated tin roof! 

The man who used to live in my old house proudly told me that he'd buried an entire Austin 7 in the garden, and the remains of an Isetta after he'd burned most of it. 

 

[sierraman]

My mate found a shit load of lead buried in his whilst building something. No idea what it came from assuming it was some sort of air raid shelter. 

[sierraman]

Barn Find! Vin tags present, I know what these are worth etc etc 🤣

[chaseracer]

18 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Barn Find! Vin tags present, I know what these are worth etc etc 🤣

If it's MOT exempt too...

[MiniMinorMk3]

4 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

I read that they found Shergar in the boot. 

And Lord Lucan in the driver's seat

[JeeExEll]

My parents found the remains of a Fiat 127 when digging  for the installation of a new waste-pipe.

WTF?  Why not  just scrap it and get some £££ ?

It's  still there.

Will take a bit of work for it to be presentable and get through a MOT.

[Asimo]

31 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

Why not  just scrap it and get some £££ ?

There have been periods when scrap was worthless and you had to pay to have a dead car removed. I once cut up a VW beetle body and buried the useless and awkward bits. Not under the sitting room floor though.

[sutty2006]

Yup. At one point in time you had to pay cash to get rid of old cars. 

[MikeR]

4 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

Yup. At one point in time you had to pay cash to get rid of old cars. 

hence the buried cars ...

my son had a concrete post under his lawn ....  I cant help wondering what the expletives will be like when its found ... 

somebody he knows suggested it rather than trying to get it to the tip !

[Low ontime]

1 hour ago, sutty2006 said:

Yup. At one point in time you had to pay cash to get rid of old cars. 

Indeed, 2000 maybe? 
 

do remember being told from a scrapyard   “we will only collect it if there is at least a set of alloys in it, if not a charge will be issued” 

On the other hand, many dumped on the road cars vans etc got raided for fuel, parts etc.., like the scrapyard version of public blackberry bushes popping up.

[sutty2006]

4 minutes ago, Low ontime said:

Indeed, 2000 maybe? 
 

do remember being told from a scrapyard   “we will only collect it if there is at least a set of alloys in it, if not a charge will be issued” 

On the other hand, many dumped on the road cars vans etc got raided for fuel, parts etc.., like the scrapyard version of public blackberry bushes popping up.

Yes definitely around that time. I remember my brother had to pay 20 quid to get rid of a Saab 900 that had failed it mot on welding. 

[HMC]

Yeah around 2000-2002 it was very common to find dumped cars in the street i lived in leeds, as abandoning them was less expensive than paying to have them scrapped. Nothing new…..

 

 

 

[worldofceri]

When I moved to Coventry in 1999, our student house was worth £30k, a mint* early Saab 900 was abandoned outside for weeks, and our elderly neighbour couldn't give away* his VW bay window camper when he wanted to upgrade to something with power steering.

The joys of hindsight.

The most interesting item I dug up from the garden was an enamel Lyons Tea Sold Here sign.

*a rose-tint paradigm may apply.

[chaseracer]

No mention of the Suez crisis, oddly.

That Victor at 1:56 was no more than six years old... 😳

[gadgetgricey]

17 hours ago, D.E said:

If it was underground it's probably a Metro.🙃

Agreed, they just found the Bat Cave.

 

[Low ontime]

39 minutes ago, worldofceri said:

When I moved to Coventry in 1999, our student house was worth £30k, a mint* early Saab 900 was abandoned outside for weeks, and our elderly neighbour couldn't give away* his VW bay window camper when he wanted to upgrade to something with power steering.

The joys of hindsight.

The most interesting item I dug up from the garden was an enamel Lyons Tea Sold Here sign.

*a rose-tint paradigm may apply.

The boy racers at the time loved it! 
 

Quite a few novas where abandoned due to galloping inner wing rot, friend had a early style SR with the checked fabric seats and slab style front bumper outside his house for a few days then it vanished….

maybe it’s the barn finds of today?