Electric Leyland Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Realyloud has been. http://www.flickr.com/photos/reallyloud/516863324/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Long Term Parking. Its in the Sculpture Park at Chateau Montcel in Jouy-en-Josas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSparrow Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren t claim Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Didn't Pol Pot do a similar thing in Cambodia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSparrow Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Under the Khmer Rouge, cars were deemed reactionary, an so were confiscated and piled up at the roadside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owain-328i Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotorabia Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Blimey, there's a Honda S800 in there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Is that a Tagora in the top of Trigger's picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Alpine isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Yes, wheel arches are wrong for a Tagora. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Thats an awesome thing! I wonder how the exposed panels haven't rusted away though? Lol at someone trying the door on the 1100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Its like a game of automotive Jenga! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWPowered Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 what i can guess from top http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com ... 527405.jpg 204 - Alpine - Beetle504 - Simca 1100 - 504404 - 304 - RekordGS - Simca 1100 - R4 F4Rekord - R16 with Simca HucapFiat 500 - 204 - R10504 sat on Simca 1000 - Simca Aronde - BMW 2002 sat on Omgz Fintail and Renault DauphineRekord - 104 - MiniChysler 180 - 126 - R6R16 - Ami6 - Simca 1100 the others i cant see enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWPowered Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 i found the other side it has DS, Traction Avant, K70 http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8403/u ... itures.jpg big image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWPowered Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 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 àJouy-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, àl'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 àl'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 àla 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompei Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Looks like an automotive salami Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWPowered Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 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' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWPowered Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 nice 12 around the corner too http://www.panoramio.com/photo/35432227 you could buy said art... chateau for sale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 The for sale ad is from three years ago. Is it still on the market? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 [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] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWPowered Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 not sure if the domine is still for sale; looks like a renault caravelle on top of the chrysler 180 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave7 Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Leyland Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 . 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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