Chod on Google maps.

[EyesWeldedShut]

This guy wins it for me though;

Place called Trisant - it has featured on some YouTube shite/trespass vids. 

[Stinkwheel]

11 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

This guy wins it for me though;

Place called Trisant - it has featured on some YouTube shite/trespass vids. 

Ah yes, i know this one as well, only about 10 mins from where i live. Its a serious collection thats for sure

[eifion]

Nothing's going to top those Range Rovers, but here's a Citroen DS that has been sat by the side of the A6 between Hazel Grove and Disley since 2016. 

 

[louiepj]

Lonesome Lane is on a cut through I sometimes have to use between Horley and Reigate.
Google Maps: 51.206410,-0.188008
Looks like they keep every car that ever fails on them!

[Yoss]

I've moved on to Serbia now, and bingo. 

A Trabant and Deawoo Espero. 

[Pieman]

A few I've spotted while out and about and subsequently found on Streetview...

Yank tank (annoyingly when you go up the side road on Streetview the pics are too old for it to be there) in Brownhills, Staffs.

Absolute chodfest of a garage in High Peak, Derbyshire.

Leek, Staffs - 260C I think, and what looks like a Skyline next to it.

And me in my old 206 caught by the camera way back in 2009 - what you can't see there is the dent in the bonnet where I'd clipped the back of a van a couple of weeks earlier!  Note also the Proton on the left, now long gone.

[EyesWeldedShut]

Sprog doing some vicarious house window shopping found this

Next door is better though

2010

2015

2021

[JJ0063]

Me in a £120 Citroen AX in 2009 and then an old Passat and a couple of land rovers on the same road in someone’s garden: 

 

 

[mk2_craig]

Conversation in the office this morning about A-framing and reminiscences about the time I dragged an old Fiesta back to Leicester from somewhere near Mansfield.  It was pre-Google Streetview but a quick virtual trip down memory lane reveals a Bedford horsebo11ox casually parked up in the same housing estate:

Unusually the registration mark hasn't been blanked out - perhaps whatever algorithm Google uses for that doesn't work on the Serck font?

 

[Yoss]

On 20/01/2024 at 08:23, JJ0063 said:

Me in a £120 Citroen AX in 2009 and then an old Passat and a couple of land rovers on the same road in someone’s garden: 

 

If we're going to expand it to finding ourselves, here's me with a mk1 HCT (High Capacity Trolley) in  June 2012! Times have moved on, I have a mk2 now.

[GR8 PL8 M8]

On 22/01/2024 at 11:21, mk2_craig said:

Unusually the registration mark hasn't been blanked out - perhaps whatever algorithm Google uses for that doesn't work on the Serck font?

I recently accidentally opened the Google Streetview of my mechanic's garage, and found this uncensored modern font number plate on a Transit...

[EyesWeldedShut]

Dussac, 2019 

Back right there's what may possibly be me old neighbour's RHD Range Rover? Not spoken/seen him/been there in 24 years though 

[eifion]

Three rather forlorn-looking Peugeot 205s in Colne. One of them looks to have been there since the Google Streetview car first went past in 2009.

[mk2_craig]

Bored at lunchtime.  Decided to go for a virtual drive around Malta and Gozo.  Starting in a random lane and instantly finding a rich seam.

I might not get much work done this afternoon.

[EyesWeldedShut]

7 hours ago, mk2_craig said:

Bored at lunchtime.  Decided to go for a virtual drive around Malta and Gozo.  Starting in a random lane and instantly finding a rich seam.

I might not get much work done this afternoon.

Is that a Bedford TL at the back?
<story> My uncle came out of Malta in the 1970s when Mintoff's wranglings made things untenable for the RAF. He brought back a Renault 8 that was mint. Two years of Scottish road salt and living by the seaside in Ayr killed that car very quickly  .

[Uncleben]

An pair of harlequin polo's

I spotted these in real life when looking at a car for sale about 10 yrs ago, took me a while to remember where they were, I just remembered they were by a church and I drove through Wooten wawen on my way there! Wonder if they are still there?

 

 

[Yoss]

Holy shit, I've hit the jackpot. 

Two Lancia Dedras! This is not the same car twice, this is looking in both directions from the same spot, that spot being near Ruse station on the Bulgarian/Romanian border.

 

And in between the two Dedras, two dodgy blokes messing around with an old Passat.

 

And all three together.

Shame it was 12 years ago, I doubt they've lasted this long.

[SEATMad]

Setting the date back to 2009 and scouting my local area for shite has become my latest obsession 

[mk2_craig]

Piece on London area Beeb news earlier, blokey running the Tube network or some such caper. Conspicuous in the background is a Honda Acty, a glimpse of the side road name plate takes me straight to the location. It probably hasn’t left the premises for at least two decades. 

 

[Lord Sterling]

Oh dear, there is going to be a lot....

For some years now, if I have any reason to look at an area, I often  tend to find myself sometimes losing myself in Google Maps. Along the way I'll spot chod and screenshot it. But other times, they'll always be people who'll put up shots or videos of chod but be as vague as possible about the location, and rightly so. However, this then awakens my detective senses and I have to look for it, so long as I have at least a few small clues, I can try and put the rest together....

NOT my car.

Back when Vectras were the serve of yer "salt of the earth" types 😆

I've mentioned this 800 before. I thought it had an AS sticker on it. Seen in or around Manchester area iirc. The tiny housing estate is now derelict.

MX5 with an unusual front and rear end treatment seen in Wales somewhere.

Jaaaags seen near Wolverhampton. House no longer has these sadly.

A few doors away from a shiter I was dropping a car to. I needed to have an idea of where I was heading, Google Maps last passed this road in 2008.

Building shite. Something to with VOSA or something before it was demolished.

Right, so the 2 above are actually the same house. This house has always had 2 garages and a Vauxhall Velox outside. I didn't realise, until recently, that the lady who owns it, simply replaced with another rotting heap (the pink one) when the other one (the white/blue one) presumably turned into a pile of rust. So it really is a garden ornament. 

The 2 infamous Ealing Rover 200s. From around when they were first seen by the Google car and then the last time the Google car passed.

Same driveway above in 3 different years.

Spotted on the IoW. The Gold Mazda 323 lives on with a young chap, I spotted it on Facebaulk last year.

[neil72]

9 hours ago, mk2_craig said:

Piece on London area Beeb news earlier, blokey running the Tube network or some such caper. Conspicuous in the background is a Honda Acty, a glimpse of the side road name plate takes me straight to the location. It probably hasn’t left the premises for at least two decades. 

 

A few doors down is a 70s Land Rover that has sat there forever and a day too.

[JJ0063]

These are both from my road I live on now, the Maestro rotted away and disappeared when the house was sold, the XR2 has been there easily 10 years with no wheels on and is still there now, I walk past it every day with the dog. 

[tul66]

One of my old Lancia Themas outside a house we rented in Lossiemouth when we were working up that way around 2008.

[sierraman]

The problem is a lot of these are pretty much an open invite to being towed away by these types that go knocking on doors. 

[Yoss]

I've been studying Eastern Europe again and found another 75!

This time in Svilengrad, southern Bulgaria, right down near the Greek border. And yet again its in that dark blue that seems to be the only colour available in Eastern Europe. I still wonder how anybody managed to buy one over there. What sort of a dealer network was there in Romania or Bulgaria and where did you go for spares? But I usually see at least one every time I'm over there and they are always dark blue. 

[Lord Sterling]

On 25/01/2025 at 08:18, Lord Sterling said:

Right, the infamous abandoned DB5 in Wales that was parked forever and day appears to have disappeared around or before 2022. I wonder where it is now?

Edit*

Been doing a little digging. The reg us "KPJ 86C"

It appears that a new V5 was issued in 2018:

Typing in the reg doesn't give me any details. Hopefully it's under some sort of cover or getting a resto.

[ProgRocker]

April 2024. Think the red Corolla has since disappeared.