Cyprus shite - May '11 update

[fotorabia]

yeah bro..great shots..im gonna have to buy another tripod..

[eddyramrod]

Actually yes, I have to echo those remarks. Most of my pics are simple record snaps, some of these on here are bordering on art! A very impressive set.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Thanks fellas. Brace yourselves for some daylight-taken updates coming soon, including the Tagora I promised earlier.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

IMGP6818 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

This is part of quite a tat haul...

 

Old Audis by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Fiat 131 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Peugeot 604 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

What's the Septic land yacht?

 

Audi 100 Coupe by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

TofaÅŸ Åžahin by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Near the border. You can tell a Northern Cyprus car by the red border on the number plate.

 

Morris Marina by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Daihatsu Charmant by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP6992 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Is this a Volga?

 

IMGP7017 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

This car scrapyard is close to the lorry graveyard on page 1.

 

IMGP7016 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Is DL 989 a Wartburg?

 

IMGP7031 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP7046 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Mystery pick-up, thought it was a Peugeot J9 but not so sure after googling

 

IMGP7052 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP7069 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP7053 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP7062 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP7074 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP7083 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP7092 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Toyota by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Is this a Corolla? It's a pretty funky looking thing

 

Talbot Tagora, Hyundai Pony by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Talbot Tagora by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Brace of shite icons

 

Daihatsu Compagno pick-up by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Opel Rekord by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

2.1 Diesel for extra misery

 

Citroen H-Van by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Hmm, no discernible vehicles here, just an auld tin shed. Have some tidier/road worthy stuff to make up for all the depressing wrecked obscurities

 

Fiat 131, Toyota Corolla by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Mini, Cavalier, RX-7 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

The Cavalier was up at €4500, including what looked like a hand brushed paint job

 

Fiat 600 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Ford Cortina Mk3 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP6981 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP6978 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

My holiday transport by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

My holiday car was full of religio-tat icons. The Lord didn't help it from nearly disastrously overheating when the bottom radiator hose burst, or from handling like the tyres were on marbles, but like any shiter I can grow to like almost any cars. I've even been looking at Proton Compacts on eBay...

[fotorabia]

septic land yacht is a Holden Premiere HQ..as usual..great spots mate

[eddyramrod]

I can see I need to get over to Nicosia! I'll soon have the Granada taxed and legal, so there's a nice run-out for it. The mystery land-yacht looks like a South African Chevrolet, but I wouldn't be able to give you a model name, I'm not well up on Afrikaaner cars. The white Wartburg might be exactly that, or might possibly be a Volga? The station wagon certainly is, and the Toyota certainly is a Corolla, an early-70s estate.

 

Thanks again Mr Hatred, for posting these delights.

[RedSparrow]

Fantastic! Thanks!

Some lovely 131s there.

 

What is the little red car on the top left here? Sure its not a Trabant...

[eddyramrod]

My vote goes to Autobianchi for the A112...

[Phrancofile]

Innocenti, I think.

 

Edit: Eddy's right. Autobianchi it is...

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Autobianchi, Datsun Cherry by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Pretty sure it's an Autobianchi.

Cheers for the ID on that land yacht Rab, makes sense since it's RHD. Is the estate in the background a Holden too? I should really carry a notepad with me... I half recall it being an AMC.

[eddyramrod]

I stand corrected on the Holden, no worries mate! Been trying to blow up the station wagon to get a better look, it's saying GM to me rather than AMC although both were building RHD at the time (late 60s/early 70s). Trouble is, big cars are worth very little here when they get old, because of the back-tax issue. If a 2.5-litre+ car has been laid up for only a couple of years, the accrued tax soon becomes excessive, then only a mad Brit will buy it, put it back on the road and use it. Like me, for example! That does explain why all these lovely old cars are just sitting around mouldering, which they really shouldn't. My eye keeps returning to the brown Cadillac in the background, and the bell in my head keeps tolling "you had one of those and loved it..."

[barrett]

IMGP7031 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

IMGP7092 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Apologies for reposting, but that top photo is amazing. Is that an early Sambar next to the Luce?

below that, I love the little Kei-van in the middle of the stack, but what is it?

The scrapyard photos are pretty depressing, but really they just look like pics of early '80s British yards (except everything is solid). It's nice that things like that still exist somewhere in the world.

 

17/10 points for having a 604, Tagora and Ro80 in the same spotted thread

[dollywobbler]

Your photo framing skillz0rz are great. And as for crap car content, I think the only word is spufftastic! I've never wanted to holiday in Cyprus until now! (mainly because I'm odd and don't like hot places).

[eddyramrod]

Now's the time, dollywobbler! Weather is distinctly British at the moment, but it won't last of course. Last winter was a bit earlier coming, but I could still work on a car in January, in a T-shirt. Ok, the sun sets earlier than it does in summer, but you can still get some tat photographed. Just check out my thread on the subject, and you'll see what I mean.

[Rusty Pelican]

Second picture just as great , Escrot , Imp , HA van and an early Civic , Its like going back in time

These posts should get an autoshite award

[eddyramrod]

I was thinking the same sort of thing. I can remember when UK scrapyards looked like this, right down to the content. Now the dreaded Elfin Safety has taken all the fun out of it... Not to mention of course, the frequent purging of steel-rich old hulks to make way for plastic-and-electronic modern tat.

[TagoraSX]

Wow, top spotting.

 

My dream garage.

NSU Ro80,

Audi 100 Coupe S

Audi 100 C1. 2 and 4 door

Audi 100 C2

[Lukas]

Your two "Corollas" are both no Corolla, but a Toyota 1000 Publica! The Estate at the scrapyard and the yellow one next to the ugly Fiat too.

[michiel]

GR8 piccies - I think the one next to the Luce's a Bongo:

 

[Mash]

Fabulous. That's all I can say!

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Your photo framing skillz0rz are great. And as for crap car content, I think the only word is spufftastic! I've never wanted to holiday in Cyprus until now! (mainly because I'm odd and don't like hot places).

 

I visited because my sister lives there, but it was a lot more appealing than I expected, especially away from the tacky, holiday apartment-crammed tourist areas. It was pretty pleasant in November, about as hot as a good British summer. The humidity is about 50%, so it's quite a 'fresh' heat.

 

Thanks for the IDs Lukas. I thought the 1000 might have been marketed as a Corolla in the UK.

[TagoraSX]

I've been drooling over some of these pics over Christmas and was wondering how hard is it to import a car from Cyprus?

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Yo, I found some more chod on the memory stick.

 

Seddon Diesel by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Ergomatics by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP6523 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Subaru Leone coupe by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP6536 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Isuzu Gemini by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Datsun pickup by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

FIAT Ritmo by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

IMGP6555 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Ford Thames Traders by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Lancia Prisma by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Rootes Arrow by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

Which Rootes Arrow variant is this?

 

Mitsubishi L200 by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

I only saw a couple of Mitsubishi L200s with this front end, they look great.

[eddyramrod]

Excellent work, Mr H. Your Arrow is definitely a Hillman. Being so plain leads me to suspect it could be a Minx, although the door badge has gone. The registration points to late 72 or early 73, not entirely sure they were still offering a Minx by then. Of course it might not have been new when it was registered.

 

I have some shite to post, but I'll open a new thread rather than dump into yours.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

I'd like to see that, I'm sure there's an equal amount of shite down your way.

I'm going to try to 'do' Northern Cyprus next time I'm over, I don't have much to base it on but I bet it's full of automotive horrors. Hopefully some Anadols.

[eddyramrod]

We were there last summer, I'll stick up some snaps in a few minutes. Sadly no Anadols but lots of recycled Renault 9, 11 and 12s, and Turkey's idea of Fiats...