battered shite..

[cms206]

Did anyone else notice that the '96' plate on the Father Ted Rover was clearly too young?

 

 

Only theoretically; the Irish system is actually more of a cockup than the DVLA is, with (purely bus based) examples I can think of off the top of my head relating to no less than four Leyland Tigers; 96-G-8200 (new as A21 GBC), 97-MO-5129 (ex MOD though first registered in the UK as WJI 3490), 98-MO-5415 (also ex MOD, first registered in the UK as WJI 3492) and the strangest of all I've found, 00-KE-13862, new as A167 MNE. Admittedly the UK is to blame for the last one, as for reasons unknown it apparantly was re-registered in the UK from OXI 525 to W386 HKL. At least three 1981/82 Leyland Leopards in Ireland also recieved 94-plates, making them technically still fall within the Irish 20 year schoolbus limit.

 

 

Sorry, went a bit bus geeky there... err... carry on!

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[Lord Sterling]

My old 827Si:

 

[retro80sboy]

 

 

 

[Guest]

So who wants one of these hijets?

Be carefull wont you

OUCH

[55bloke]

Posted before, but this was my brother's Consul Capri after being "joyridden."

[eddyramrod]

Mine, hit from behind by a 2002 Clio. I didn't mind the car being a write-off, but over 5 months off work was a bummer. As was the pain, which still shows up occasionally, 8 years later.

 

My Princess, destroyed by a Polo.

 

Not sure you can tell from this, but between rust and dents there wasn't one straight panel on my little Charade! It was a hoot to drive though.

 

If you're going to torch something, make it the rarest, most significant, most valuable car in the whole town, never mind in the garden of the flats you've just broken into... I'd really like to meet whoever did this.

 

My poor beaten-up A40. The filler on this wing was half an inch thick.

 

Should be getting my pickup's door repaired next week, all being well. Never found out who drove into it.

 

Definitely battered!

 

When trees attack...

 

The front of this is pretty comprehensively stuffed too, it was hit from behind and shoved into a parked truck. Fortunately it was parked and unattended!

[Captain Mainwaring]

You must have been absolutely gutted about the Nomad, I think they're pretty rare even over in the States. Some people...

[eddyramrod]

I was! I lived in the same town all my life* and had no inkling it was there, hidden in the garage (for what must have been years). It only showed up when the builders hauled it out so they could convert the garage into another flat, and this happened on about the second night.

 

*Better yet, when this happened, I'd been working literally round the corner for three years! Please God, I'll be really good, honest; just let me meet the scumbag...

[ifc63]

Here's one I 'battered' about 15 years ago :-

 

 

In the opposite way to a previous poster, I found going from years of RWD cars with predictable rear-end out handling to FWD slightly disturbing

 

Luckily it was my brother's car

 

And here's a scene of carnage from about 10 years ago when a middle-aged 'new' biker ran into the back of my mother's parked Micra. It was then pushed 8 feet into next door's Belmont !

 

 

Unfortunately the tw#t survived and then tried to sue my mother for £5000 citing she was parked illegally

[chaseracer]

What did you hit with the Escort - 200 yards of stone hedge...??!?

[Formula Autos]

Here's me battering the shite out of a Metro with a sledgehammer.

 

 

Take THAT Metro.

 

This event wasn't organised by a former 'Shiter of this Parish, Mr. Pogweasel, by any chance?

[andrew e]

A holiday spot like:

 

[ifc63]

What did you hit with the Escort - 200 yards of stone hedge...??!?

 

 

Close, very close.

It was the stone wall of the entrance to Sir John Barlow's estate in Bulkeley, Cheshire.

 

This should be the Google Streetview of it since my 'excursion' with the extra low wall at the front that my insurance copped for the building of.

 

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Bulkeley,+Malpas&hl=en&ll=53.085055,-2.694569&spn=0.000103,0.21904&sll=53.109303,-2.458878&sspn=0.006402,0.019205&vpsrc=0&z=13&layer=c&cbll=53.085122,-2.694677&panoid=-L7HBvsGAZ_DR_kyTLpcgA&cbp=12,205,,0,22.5

 

It was a lovely car as well, 1.6 Ghia with loads of extras, managed to salvage the radio out of it though

[Albert Ross]

Here's one I 'battered' about 15 years ago :-

 

 

In the opposite way to a previous poster, I found going from years of RWD cars with predictable rear-end out handling to FWD slightly disturbing

 

Luckily it was my brother's car

 

And here's a scene of carnage from about 10 years ago when a middle-aged 'new' biker ran into the back of my mother's parked Micra. It was then pushed 8 feet into next door's Belmont !

 

 

Unfortunately the tw#t survived and then tried to sue my mother for £5000 citing she was parked illegally

 

So he was going to hit the Belmont instead? What a cocknocker.

[ifc63]

 

So he was going to hit the Belmont instead? What a cocknocker.

 

 

No, he hit this first which was on the opposite side of the road waiting to turn right :-

 

 

He then ricocheted into the back of the Micra when was shunted forward into the Belmont. Weeks later when he felt well enough to try and sue my mother I kindly pointed out to him that had my mother not been an 80-year-old woman then the handbrake might had been a little more firmly applied and he would have probably died, the cheeky numpty then sent another letter stating my mother's car was not only illegally parked but that the handbrake wasn't on. TWAT

 

Bare facts were that he was going too fast (30mph limit), hadn't enough bike skills and his mind was elsewhere (we found out later that his father had died that morning).

I believe he actually managed to pin the blame on the white van driver in the end for bad road positioning at a junction and got paid out. Truth was that if he had been within the speed limit and in control it would not have happened.

 

 

Thanks for this ghoulish photo goes to the next-door neighbour as I was actually first on the scene before the ambulance making sure no-one took his helmet off and that his airway was clear. With what happened afterwards it makes me wonder why I bothered.

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My Mini after a Transit van driver did not stop at the end of a driveway