Spotted Shite in Germany

[TheScrapman]

Gah, not been on here for ages...

 

As some will know, I moved to Düsseldorf, Germany this time last year. This city is.. well, rather affluent so it is awash with big modern expensive German toss. As such, when a nail is spotted, it really does stand out like a rusty beacon.

 

Have a few photos:

 

Saw this old Opel last week. It is for sale and advertised as having a genuine 19800km from new. Must have been airport fodder or something. Would make such an interesting camper

 

 

Old Roller dumped in a pub beer garden. Aren't these things valuable? It was full of hay and stuffed chickens.

 

In car park of aforementioned pub. Class.

 

Parked in the corner of some beer festival. It looked new, even everything underneath was shiny.

 

More RR than Autoshite, but this is the only custom I've seen since living here, so in my mind worthy of note.

 

Next four photos are from a small display one Saturday on the Rhine.

 

 

Mmm, brown Opel

 

I can't remember the last time I saw a Giulietta. Pleasant base-spec looking 1.6

 

Seen this mini ice cream van a few times since taking this photo. Great to think it is probably someone's livelihood!

 

Random caravan bolted on an old truck.

 

 

Cool 'ped on the back though...

 

Cracking looking Merc lorry. Probably an utter pig to drive.

 

Snapped just around the corner from my apartment. Not seen it since.

Bent bumper/front wing damage looked very fresh, otherwise mint.

 

 

Battered Mundaino. Yeah, I know... but I'd drive it...

 

2CV estate, complete with trailer

 

It's a Beewow! So named as a mate had one for years with the numberplate B something something WOW.

 

 

Again, just around the corner from here. Spotted regularly.

 

 

Not too many of these about now, even in France. Was lucky enough to have a drive of Wuvvum's a while back.

 

Roller parked up a few blocks from here. On UK plates, with no tax disc, so presumably been over here a while.

 

And painted on the door of said Roller...

 

Not at all Autoshite related, but restaurant opposite that Roller raises a smile every time we walk past

 

Old bus with man lift thing. In daily service by the town council. Very pleased to see this in action.

 

Utterly mint Fiat. Unfortunately not seen since

 

And the promotional vehicle from next doors cafe.

 

That'll do for now. Next instalment when I can be bothered...

[eddyramrod]

Nice spotting, thank you for these!

[chaseracer]

That Econoline is, as they say, full of WIN.

[TheScrapman]

That Econoline is, as they say, full of WIN.

 

Surely to be "full of WIN" it would need to be sat dangerously below the scrub line?

I hate that expression. Especially now that it appears to have made it into office speak.

Apart from the colour it is completely stock, and the owner appears to be using it daily for deliveries. It's two fingers up to the low emission zone in which we live, and for that I must salute him.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

There's more shite in the cities than in the kountry in Germany. Tons of old chod in Hamburg when I lived there in the 2000's, even had W123 taxis. Minis (old ones) are everywhere as are some very nice old Mercs and BMW's from the 60's and 70's. Nearly always summer use though by the trendies.

 

The red number plates are basically trade/short use ones with limited use. The ones with H on the ends are for classics - the H stands for Historische. H plate cars are exempt from having a catalyst and have cheap tax. You can run a later car with no cat legally but it costs a LOT of money to tax it. There is a coloured DEKRAS disk on the plates to show it passed the TuV and Au tests.

 

Frohe Weinachten!

[Shep Shepherd]

That Audi 100 GLS is pretty nice

 

I've noticed that the further east you travel in Germany, the less tat you see. I went to Magdeburg in The Volvo* in the summer and apart from the odd late 1980s Kadett, Golf and Merc, there was very little on the roads over 20 years old, not even the odd Trabant or Wartburg. Reunification might have benefitted the former DDR in many ways, but it's made its car stock as boring as anywhere else.

 

 

 

*Which got some very strange looks from some older people. Must have been the Erich Honecker association...

[michiel]

Sie haben sehr gut gespottet!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

That Audi 100 GLS is pretty nice

 

I've noticed that the further east you travel in Germany, the less tat you see.

 

 

It all went to Poland and Eastern Europe when catalsts became mandatory.

[dollywobbler]

Cracking stuff. That R16 is just beautiful.

[Lord Sterling]

Cant see any pictures

[seth]

Nice spotting Scrapman. Nice to see you here again too! Hope all are well.