Whilst visiting my local chippy the other day (not the carpentry variety), I noticed a 03 plate BMW Mini, sitting in a corner of a driveway, gathering moss, with a variety of maturing weeds and plantlife growing up around its wheels and body work.
It has obviously not been used in well over a year (maybe two), and is being allowed (scandalously) to rot.
Now, it may have some expensive fault or other, but surely if the owner intends not to fix it then they would be better off selling it as a fixer-upper rather than have it sit going to seed, rotting away in to the ground? Even as a fixer-upper it must be worth thousands.
Has anyone else seen a newer or more valuable car than this being allowed to decay?
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Yes, there is a 04 plate Passat sat in this shared parking area at the back of my partners house.
in the middle of the Slabed driveway the grass has grown so long, at the back (I dont know if its growing underneath), and at the sides.
as its parked in the corner, facing the fence It seems that the tyres have gone down as the car leans towards the front at one side, - its a shame as it would be a really nice car. it hasnt moved for about 4 months now.
Edited by redviper on 25/06/2009 at 13:01
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Neighbour had brand new Mercedes Sport for her 50th, two weeks later hubby & her sent to work in Dubai - car believed in storage
MVP
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a 03 plate BMW Mini It has obviously not been used in well over a year (maybe two) and is being allowed (scandalously) to rot.
Well! I didn't think that the big fat BMW MINI had inhereted anything from the original BMC one. Obviously I was wrong!
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Not new, but rare and probably valuable......An end terraced house near me has a small plot of land at the side.
For many years, and it still may be there, a rusting yellow Jensen Intercepter stood there....but not an ordinary one, this was a Ferguson Formula four wheel drive model. It's value was made considerably higher by it's reg. no. FF with a single no, I think it might have been 8.
I'll have a look next week and see if it's gone.
Ted
FF8 showing as a Merc. Also knew a local car dealer, Fred Fentom, who had FF1.
Edited by 1400ted on 25/06/2009 at 17:30
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I saw an 02 Micra being driven by an old lady today. I think the car was originally silver, but such was the green growth all over the car, it looked like it had been parked in a swamp for some time.
If you saw it parked in long grass you would think it abandoned! Made me laugh.
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I saw an 02 Micra being driven by an old lady today.
They're rarely driven by anyone else! ;-)
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i saw one today at close quarterswith the nice beige interior, or it was when it left the factory,it had a foot of detrious in the back and lots more rubbish in the front
the dials were black and the number plate was unreadable due to lamination
woman owner was in her 30"s possibly a teacher
did i mention more scratches than a chav with a tiger claw could manage
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BB I used to MOT and service a Mk 1 Micra for one of our best friends. Now moved to South London. She was a teacher and her car was awful...a deep patina of fag ash over everything inside and dents on every panel...hey ho....probably got better things in life to do !
Ted
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I saw a red Seat last weekend. About a year or so old, given the condition of the paint, which was still very shiny. But....each panel had a significant dent in it. I suspect given the nature of the driver that each panel had been very deliberately hit with a baseball bat or similar to teach him a lesson. Lets just say he looked like I think a drug dealer looks like!
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Not so much new, but valuable / rare. A 1986 Audi ur Quattro 10v that was dumped under a tarp when its MOT expired a couple of years ago due to its owner (a good friend) losing interest. I drove it a few months before and there was nothing wrong with it at all. Just a little smoky on start up (valve stem seals) but pulled like a train, sounded amazing, and handled like a dream. Tidy as well.
Still there rotting into the ground now. I last saw it about six months ago and it had rust bubbling up on the sills, A pillars and rear quarterlights. Going to seed indeed :-(
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woman owner was in her 30"s possibly a teacher
Perhaps she had borrowed Granny's car?
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House near where I used to live, ordinary suburban semi, with an Aston DBS and an old 70's RR of some kind happily rusting away. Really rusting. So sad. :-(
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Not really going to seed but sad never the less was the number of 'executive' saloons absolutely covered in filth parked on Station Road in Bakewell last Bank Holiday Monday. They'd obviously not been washed for weeks. The sight of all these 40K vehicles being neglected. Guess the owners have loads of cash or no time to wash them.
Steve.
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I saw a 52 reg VX VX220 with lots of mould and crap growing on it in a drive the other day. It looked like it had been dumped and is very poorly.
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Round the corner from us there's an old sports car, make unidentifiable but looks to be of the MG TF era partially covered in a tarpaulin which hasn't moved for decades (literally, we've been there over 30 years) and is rusting to pieces.
The running boards have big rust holes and look ready to drop off.
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A landed gentry-type and one-time colleague got a promotion which carried with it a new company Vauxhall Cavalier. About six months later someone in the office couldn't get hold of a pool car so he said 'Take mine, it's at home in Chelsea'. It was, under a tree, covered in bird lime and traffic dust with just the delivery miles and those from the office in EC1 to Chelsea. As he had a Subaru on the family estate and a shared Aston DB6, the Cavalier held zero interest.
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When I started my current job two years ago, I drove up Armoury Road in Small Heath past the Peugeot dealers and noticed a (then only a few weeks old) 07-plate Peugeot Expert van with moderate frontal damage in their yard - bonnet, front panel, one wing and some engine damage but intact and shiny from the windscreen back.
Last week it was still there.
Dave TD
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Not terribly valuable, but certainly fairly new - not far from me there's an '05' plate Ford Ka sitting under a tree with one hell of a covering of sap all over it. It's been there for at least two months. I wouldn't fancy washing that lot off...
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On the road between Harrogate and Skipton there is what looks like a disused filling station with about a dozen Jaguars outside.
They are mostly 70s/80s and all in various states of disrepair.
I think this is where Pugugly saw a Jag estate under a tarpaulin.
The whole places looks abandoned, but when I stopped for a nose recently, I'm sure I heard a radio inside the workshop.
No one came out to speak to me and there were no signs to indicate a business name/phone number.
There's a pub opposite, might ask in there if I'm passing again, they are sure to know what's going on.
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I drive past this garage lots, and the cars are "repaired" all be it VERY slowly. I called into the pub one evening for a meal with the family and popped over to take a look. Two weeks later the car I had been eyeing up was gone. Leave a note on their door and someone will get back to you.
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I drive past this garage lots and the cars are "repaired" all be it VERY slowly.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>Maybe they have a lot of sweeping up to do
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Same place - every time I passed seemed quite busy - no doubt the type of place that gets all the Jaguar related work that they want with no advertising effort !
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There is a similar one on the way down to Launceston from Holsworthy. Don't remember the road number, but I've seen E-type V12's in there.
MD
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Some interesting abandoned vehicles here: tinyurl.com/l6oz4d
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sure i know where the field full of trucks is
not going to say because i dont want half the world nicking bits
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Not far from home, an ordinary 30s semi...for a long, long time there were, in the drive under a tarpaulin, a 1930s Cord convertable, supercharged, in white and rust. In the garage a pre WW1 Le Zebre acting as shelves for paint cans, etc !
Both there 40 yrs to my knowledge.
Ted
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