20 hulks and remnants will be sold at prices expected to range from £200 to £4,000 at an auction in April,
tinyurl.com/c33pmh
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I don't know what brings more of a tear to my eye: the fact that these gorgeous cars have been rescued (in the nick of time by the look of it) or the nostalgia for the motoring era that once was when these cars were on the road...
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Fantastic! That these cars are being bought for possible restoration makes a strange comparison with the car scrappage scheme being discussed elsewhere on this site.
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I can't recall this getting a mention when they were first discovered.
Anyhow, in December the vehicles, some of them dating back to the 1920s, were discovered under a cloak of weeds, bushes and cobwebs in a series of outbuildings and chicken sheds in a south Norfolk barnyard.
The 25 hulks and remains of classic cars, including Riley Monacos, Singers and Morris Minors, fetched an impressive £26,000 as they were sold at Keys auctioneers in Aylsham on Saturday.
tinyurl.com/c2c58a
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Ready for the scrappage scheme ;-)
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I can't recall this getting a mention when they were first discovered.
Took a bit of searching, but....
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=73081&...f
{Well done Martin. I must go brush up on my forum search skills ;o) - thread moved to existing one}
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 07/04/2009 at 01:35
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Even when they were brand new, by today's standards they were rubbish. Give me a modern car any day. They don't make cars like they used to? ~ well, thank goodness for that! There's no place for nostalgia in my car-buying philosophy.
Edited by L'escargot on 07/04/2009 at 08:44
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Even when they were brand new by today's standards they were rubbish.
I think it depends on what your criteria are for a car ;-)
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i dont like old cars either
rotten leaking unreliable tin sheds
as somebody said the boat to china would have been better for them than selling them to do gooders with cheque book aspirations who then go on to claim they did all the work themselves (yes i know a few of them)
keep them in museums so we can drool but not touch ;-0
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They all looked like basket cases to me - the cars as well ;>)
I hope no-one here bought one.
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drool but not touch ;-0
At least you admit to the possibility of drooling bb. I know that deep down you have an eye for fine horseflesh whatever you may claim. I don't know how I know, but I do.
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i dont like old cars either rotten leaking unreliable tin sheds
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A bit of a sweeping statement - I'd sooner have my 1975 Rover P6 V8 as a daily driver than anything from the French, for starters. At least if something did go wrong with that (only the water pump in the few years I ran it), it was capable of being fixed!
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>At least if somethingdid go wrong with that (only the water pump in the few years I ran it) it was capable of being fixed!
>>>>>>>>>> have you ever welded a sill on an old car and found you finished up at the transmission tunnel
drained the oil and filter on a v8 rover and then found no oil pressure
come to undo a bolt and its all turned to dust and even heat is a waste of time because the thread has gone with the nut
happy days----------not
give me modern anyday
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even heat is a waste of time because the thread has gone with the nut
happy days----------not
give me modern anyday
Like a nice 2005 1.2 petrol Corsa for example bb. Or the sweet-as-a-nut, externally and internally tidy, very slightly smoky recent 1.8 petrol Mondeo that a cousin-in-law is scrapping because it has failed the MoT on emissions, probably oil contamination, rings it is suggested... something murky in its past no doubt. Modern is OK if it's looked after properly from new. And so was old, in its fashion. But those examples were always rare and still are. Best you can hope for is something that does the job fairly reliably without costing a fortune. It was like that then too.
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A bit of a sweeping statement - I'd sooner have my 1975 Rover P6 V8 as a daily driver than anything from the French
Did you even read that sentence? :-P
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>Even when they were brand new, by today's standards they were rubbish. Give me a modern car any day. They don't make cars like they used to? ~ well, thank goodness for that! <
That's a bit of a sweeping remark isn't it, Mr Snail?
You could say the same about any piece of 'old' technology but it doesn't mean it can't be appreciated for what it was at the time and what it contributed to progress.
What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia? Not to mention the sort of satisfaction, which you may of course not have experienced personally, in getting the best out of something that isn't designed to do everything for you.
I guess most people these days feel the way you do, which is why the sort of characterless, gizmo-laden tat sells so well. I think I'd use the word 'rubbish' for that sort of thing.
And anyway, weren't you involved in producing what you've just slagged off? ;-)
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characterless, gizmo-laden tat
Hear hear. But why waste breath on philistines mh? Some people just don't get it and never will.
I have to say though that those examples in the Norfolk undergrowth were far from the best I have seen. Highly desirable vintage and PVT cars that one could pick up in driveable nick for a few hundred quid when I was in my twenties - no MoT in those days either - cost tens of thousands now, having declined greatly in numbers since that time. For those with the means though they are still to be found in specialist outlets (as of course you know well).
In the early sixties the brother of a flatmate's girl friend turned up in a 1936 4.25 litre non-overdrive Bentley four-seat convertible, a fairly lightweight one. Took me for a spin up and down Westbourne Terrace, a block from Paddington Station, on learning that I liked cars, and hit an effortless if slightly illegal 70mph there without drama. It would be hairier today because of the silly wide bollards in the road, but a gung-ho driver could still do it.
They don't know they're born these days do they?
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And anyway weren't you involved in producing what you've just slagged off? ;-)
I like to move with the times. I might be old but fuddy-duddy I am not.
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You see, Mr Snail? A perfect example of nostalgia from Lud. ;-)
Mind you, I would never have been interested in the 4.25 litre NON-overdrive model, personally.
And even rusty hulks can present the sort of restoration challenge some people might relish. A couple of weeks ago I had an email from a guy in the former East Germany, who had seen my contribution on here, asking if I happened to know of a RHD Wartburg he could buy. I told him the last one I saw was in a hedge near my former home in Somerset and well on the way to returning to its natural state, but that may not have put him off...
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Oooo, Wartburgs! We found one in a barn when my Mum bought a derelict farm in Wales in 1985. It was the lovely dog turd brown they used to do, and an estate. It was used for several years pottering around fields and the like as we cleared the place up, but eventually gave out and was scrapped. There was also an old Rover of 1950s vintage knocking around, but the engine had been removed so that went straight to the scrappie.
Kind of regret that now, I loved the old Wartburg, and would have been delighted to put it back on the roads! I was 15 in 1985 and this was the first car I ever drove. Had a 2 stroke engine if I remember correctly.
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