Parisienne Tower of Shite

[Electric Leyland]

Hope this isnt a repost (apart from I posted these up on the 1 Shite Picture per post thread but decided to make a new one of them).

 

Anyone ever been to this?

 

Surely the ultimate destination for Autoshite On Tour 2011?

 

 

 

[barrett]

Ah! 'Long-term parking'

I love this thing, there was a colour photo of it in one of my French textbooks at school and I used to spend hours just looking at it...sad! Oddly I've never met anyone who's actually gone to see it close up though.

[Lord Sterling]

Wow! That is simply stunning, I've been to Paris many times but never ever knew about this! Looks to have been done some time ago wen those cars were worth next to nothing. I get a feeling if we had a similar one here most of those cars would be vandalised/burnt/had bits knicked off them.

 

Green Mini looks like its either got a British or Netherlands numberplate on it. What anyone know the official name of this tower?

[Cavcraft]

Wow! That is simply stunning, I've been to Paris many times but never ever knew about this! Looks to have been done some time ago wen those cars were worth next to nothing. I get a feeling if we had a similar one here most of those cars would be vandalised/burnt/had bits knicked off them.

 

Green Mini looks like its either got a British or Netherlands numberplate on it. What anyone know the official name of this tower?

 

 

Shiteful Tower?

[RedSparrow]

Cool. Is it still there?

 

Coincendentally, I just found this on Facebook:

http://londonist.com/2011/01/vroom-vroom-new-sculpture-of-giant-hand-and-car-on-park-lane.php

[warren t claim]

Didn't Pol Pot do a similar thing in Cambodia?

[RedSparrow]

Under the Khmer Rouge, cars were deemed reactionary, an so were confiscated and piled up at the roadside.

 

 

[Owain-328i]

OMFG is that a mk1 Escort at the top of the tower in the last pic? pale blue. Someone pass me a ladder and a chissel lol

[fotorabia]

Theres a slightly smaller scale one in West Berlin made of Yank tanks...one of the 1st thing i saw when I arrived coming in from Hamburg in 92...

[trigger]

[chaseracer]

Blimey, there's a Honda S800 in there!

[trigger]

Alpine isn't it?

[Split_Pin]

Thats an awesome thing!

 

I wonder how the exposed panels haven't rusted away though?

 

Lol at someone trying the door on the 1100

[ProgRocker]

Its like a game of automotive Jenga!

[VWPowered]

what i can guess from top

 

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com ... 527405.jpg

 

204 - Alpine - Beetle

504 - Simca 1100 - 504

404 - 304 - Rekord

GS - Simca 1100 - R4 F4

Rekord - R16 with Simca Hucap

Fiat 500 - 204 - R10

504 sat on Simca 1000 - Simca Aronde - BMW 2002 sat on Omgz Fintail and Renault Dauphine

Rekord - 104 - Mini

Chysler 180 - 126 - R6

R16 - Ami6 - Simca 1100

 

the others i cant see enough

[VWPowered]

i found the other side it has DS, Traction Avant, K70

 

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8403/u ... itures.jpg

 

big image

[VWPowered]

 

just found something that says due to bad upkeep its no longer open to the public

 

La sculpture "Long term parking" de l'artiste français Arman. Inaugurée en 1982 à Jouy-en-Josas, cette tour de béton mesure 6 mètres de côté, 18 mètres de haut et contient 60 voitures! Le processus de construction s'est enchaîné comme suit : chaque véhicule a été rempli individuellement de béton, pour éviter l'écrasement, puis enduit d'un flocage de protection, avant d'être disposé, selon les plans d'Arman, à l'intérieur d'un coffrage aux dimensions de la tour. Après séchage et décoffrage du béton, le bloc était entièrement lisse sur toutes les faces, et c'est à l'aide de marteaux pneumatiques qu'ont été exhumées les parties aujourd'hui visibles des véhicules. une fois la peinture d'origine brûlée et les produits anti-corrosion appliqués, Arman a pu passer à la mise en couleur de sa statue.

 

Parmi les voitures visibles, un break GS de 71 ou 72 ! Et aussi beaucoup de représentantes du paysage automobile des années 60-70, voire antérieur : Ford Escort, Peugeot 204, Honda S800 coupé, Peugeot 104, 204, 504, 404, 304, Simca 1000, 1100, 1301, Aronde, Renault 5, 12, 16, fiat 500, Chrysler 180, Citroën Ami, et même une Traction avant !

 

Le parc où est situé la sculpture est malheureusement maintenant fermé au public, tandis que celle-ci subit les effet du temps, comme on le voit sur la dernière photo...

 

 

the man himself - http://www.armanstudio.com/arman-biography-42-eng.html

[pompei]

Looks like an automotive salami

[VWPowered]

found it on google maps but its got a massive wall around the place

 

interesting the wood itself 'bois de l'homme mort' translates to 'wood of a dead man'

[dollywobbler]

Just seems a waste to me. Some of my favourite cars are in there! A Honda S800?! And obviously all the French stuff. Art is bollocks. Witness this:

[VWPowered]

nice 12 around the corner too

 

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/35432227

 

 

you could buy said art...

 

chateau for sale

[flat4alfa]

[pedant mode on]

 

More likely that's a Poissy-built Simca 1307 up on the stack, not a Ryton-built Talbot Alpine...

 

[pedant mode off]

[VWPowered]

not sure if the domine is still for sale; looks like a renault caravelle on top of the chrysler 180

[Dave7]

Fantastic. I'd love to see it but its a long way from here. I did finally get to see Cadillac Ranch a few months back. Its in a similar vein. Outside Amarillo, Texas on the old Route 66. Ten Cadillacs nose down in a field. They have been spray painted on uncountable times.

 

[Electric Leyland]

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I'd be up for squatting in the empty Mansion, or at least doing some of that UrbEx there for half a day.

 

 

 

just found something that says due to bad upkeep its no longer open to the public

 

Also a bit more from the link you gave regarding the proposed sale (using Google Translator so my apologies for that), it says:

 

 

"Brief Summary

For over ten years, Crédit Agricole has a claim on the School Montcel SA, which owns the famous estate, arts venue with a listed park, the jewel of parks and gardens of Yvelines. The company is in liquidation, the Board did appoint an administrator (the reputation already degraded, but it seems very "protected" ...). The years passed, the liquidator remains, more than 8 years. And without liquidating the business, or so little that if the CA maintains its claim today. Why? The mystery continues! so far ...

 

 

And when in 2000 - so after 10 years of neglect and the passage of the 1999 storm, the Estate was partly destroyed - a motivated buyer, Alain Ellouz, appears to save him, everything is done to prevent conclude. And now even his company and its partners, tenants and operators of the legal area, in great danger today, after 5 years of procedural harassment!

 

 

6 million euros, CA sells his soul ...

Ms. Maljean representing Crédit Agricole d'Ile de France in this case, ask the lawyer Alain Ellouz kindly receive a very large European company that claims to want to buy the estate. The amount of the sale include an allowance of € 6 million corresponding to the sums invested by Alain Ellouz to rebuild the area, and the compensation of operating companies for their departure.

 

 

Undertake negotiations aimed in fact to abuse Alain Ellouz about the real intentions of CADIF (Credit Agricole Ile de France), while in the background CADIF up an infernal machine to "run" and definitely Alain Ellouz Area companies.

 

 

Violation of its interests administered, the court of Versailles lies through his lawyers are some of the methods used by the administrator - always mandated by Crédit Agricole - Master Jeannerot, to get to "snatch" a decision requesting expulsion of the very people who have spent 5 years of their lives, and invested all their funds back to life at the Domaine du Montcel.

 

 

There are more than 120 employees whose employment is suddenly threatened, and a loss of 6 million reported to the Bar of Versailles.

 

 

Crédit Agricole has obtained a gain additional 6 million euros, which is in addition to 4 billion euros in profits last year: there are no small profit!

 

 

But who will pay for 120 jobs sacrificed?

 

 

More information

http://www.montcel.net

Press Contact: Corporate Citizenship Montcel - Tel: 01 39 67 02 99"

 

 

 

I wonder how out of date that information is now though.

[Electric Leyland]

Ah, promising, this YouTube clip is from June 2010, some archaealogical dig of a 30 year old half eaten banquet (wow ), so if you can bear through that, the last 30 seconds of the clip very briefly shows the Chateau and the tower, bit tatty looking but still very much in tact.....

 

[Mr Lobster]

I'd love to see that. Suspect I never will though

[warren t claim]

I'd love to know how it was made. Surely he removed the engine and gearboxes before applying the concrete?

[Electric Leyland]

It appears made one level at a time, with each car filled full to the brim with concrete to cope with the weight. The cars' exteriors were coated before being covered, and looks like they chipped the concrete off the outside afterwards to reveal the cars within the structure. Genius if you ask me, pisses on anything Anish Kapoor has since done (althouh he is really good too).