For those interested in old cars.

[Killybegs]

5 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

"Doesn't post to France" so that's that then. 

 

Or Ireland!

[Sidecar Racer]

 

Now this is one hell of a barn find . 

 

 

[russ p]

Not so much old cars but old garage forecourt equipment 

 

 

Edited June 28, 2020 by russ p

[boxbrownie]

10 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

Now this is one hell of a barn find . 

 

 

Wow...an American who calls a hood a bonnet......what ever is the world coming to? 

[runs as required]

REPAINT OF 'CAKEBOX' FERRARI

The Old F@rts got a treat this weekend being shipped down for a family 'metre plus'  get-together near Oxford.

Highlight for me was a trip to collect eldest's 8V Dino*  from Roberto's workshop in Leicester on Saturday morning.

 

Rob's is a classic Italian backstreet highly skilled craft workshop where nothing is impossible - all with that unequalled Italian feel for style. 

There were some spectacular vehicles in (can you identify the respray on trestles in the top centre pic?), a Stratos almost entirely re-created from a total wreck, the cinquecento +, a MotoGP Ducati , and the Aston.  

Rob's take on the Aston is that DBs started in the early 1940s entirely Italian inspired, then because they were mainly sold in the US, became increasingly heavy until the one we were looking at is a two pedal automatic. Rob is Bilingual, but can only speak in gestures, both parents being from Calabria.

Sadly the drive back turned was through heavy thunderstorms, (last pics are at Watford Gap). Eldest reckons that despite Rob's heavy Waxoiling, that vibrant Ferrari 'Cakebox' yellow will be bubbling again ere 6 months are out. 

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*originally bought undervalued from a short-lived fraudulent cake-shop c#m car-restoration  studio in present day Co-op at Wylam

[Fat Controller]

I remember that establishment in Wylam...

[runs as required]

11 hours ago, Fat Controller said:

I remember that establishment in Wylam...

A great pity - it could have had great visitor attraction potential.

The 'Oxfords' were up visiting us,  and went off for a walk in the afternoon along the river.

Very young granddaughter came back with a cake-box for us, saying "and daddy bought a yellow Ferrari." 

We understood this to mean a sortt of car-shaped yellow iced spongecake! !

 

It turned out the car was not actually being worked on, but was a straight sale for someone up near Rothbury who did receive their sale price.

Our solicitor son lost out only on paying the owner of the establishment the cost of it being transported 4 miles to our house.
Some 4/5 years later I gather the full case is still being investigated by Northumbria CID; though the owner has been cleared of money laundering, a good many did lose on not receiving a restored car.

Our local son towed the 308 across to Longton near Preston where Vic, a Dino specialist (who'd already rebuilt eldest's original front-engined Fiat 6V Dino that I've posted about a number of times) quickly sorted the 8V's mechanics.

Edited June 29, 2020 by runs as required

[Rugd1022]

7 hours ago, runs as required said:

REPAINT OF 'CAKEBOX' FERRARI

The Old F@rts got a treat this weekend being shipped down for a family 'metre plus'  get-together near Oxford.

Highlight for me was a trip to collect eldest's 8V Dino*  from Roberto's workshop in Leicester on Saturday morning.

 

Rob's is a classic Italian backstreet highly skilled craft workshop where nothing is impossible - all with that unequalled Italian feel for style. 

There were some spectacular vehicles in (can you identify the respray on trestles in the top centre pic?), a Stratos almost entirely re-created from a total wreck, the cinquecento +, a MotoGP Ducati , and the Aston.  

Rob's take on the Aston is that DBs started in the early 1940s entirely Italian inspired, then because they were mainly sold in the US, became increasingly heavy until the one we were looking at is a two pedal automatic. Rob is Bilingual, but can only speak in gestures, both parents being from Calabria.

Sadly the drive back turned was through heavy thunderstorms, (last pics are at Watford Gap). Eldest reckons that despite Rob's heavy Waxoiling, that vibrant Ferrari 'Cakebox' yellow will be bubbling again ere 6 months are out. 

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*originally bought undervalued from a short-lived fraudulent cake-shop c#m car-restoration  studio in present day Co-op at Wylam

 

What a gorgeous collection - made my day that has! Up on uno tresselonio is a fabulous Fiat Dino Spyder 

 

Are those 16'' alloys on the 308 GT4....?

Edited June 29, 2020 by Rugd1022

[runs as required]

4 hours ago, Rugd1022 said:

...  Up on uno tresselonio is a fabulous Fiat Dino Spyder 

Are those 16'' alloys on the 308 GT4....?

Correct about the resprayed Fiat Dino Farina spyder on the trestle - you have an excellent eye for detail !

What a beautiful shape displayed like that -  ma zero punti per l'aerodinamica in sticking to the road ?

I thought it was black, but my Huawei spy camera detects a hint of dark blue/purple "so deep yer could fish innit" as my old Wigan carriage painter would say approvingly of a good RR Hearse.

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I will check the alloy wheel size (they look so to me) 

[Joseph_Pestell]

4 hours ago, runs as required said:

Correct about the resprayed Fiat Dino Farina spyder on the trestle - you have an excellent eye for detail !

What a beautiful shape displayed like that -  ma zero punti per l'aerodinamica in sticking to the road ?

I thought it was black, but my Huawei spy camera detects a hint of dark blue/purple "so deep yer could fish innit" as my old Wigan carriage painter would say approvingly of a good RR Hearse.

2

I will check the alloy wheel size (they look so to me) 

 

Definitely coming out quite purple on my laptop screen. Alfa had a similar purple tone in the 70s called Aubergine which could look black in certain weather conditions (as indeed do aubergines).

[peanuts]

bit of a fixer upper 

[Erichill16]

17 minutes ago, peanuts said:

bit of a fixer upper 

VW transporter?

[runs as required]

Yup, the original split screen, opening double doors job..

Can't think of a more beautiful residual structure for a glorious late June./early July Gertrude Jekyll style flower bed.

Isn't the Garden Rail Editor from Royal Leamington Spa one of our moderators?

Hint Hint - Wot about a narrow gauge German roundy-round interacting with such a carefully planted  significant rusting relic?

Edited July 1, 2020 by runs as required

[Mountain Goat]

2 hours ago, peanuts said:

bit of a fixer upper 

 

Can it be restored?

[Joseph_Pestell]

5 hours ago, Mountain Goat said:

 

Can it be restored?

Might not be quite enough of it to retain the original registration with DVLA.

[Joseph_Pestell]

There is a big Cortina fan in NW Herefordshire. A very bright yellow Mk3 saloon (I don't recall that as an original colour) and a Mk5 Crusader estate. Both in top condition.

[Joseph_Pestell]

On 28/06/2020 at 23:17, Sidecar Racer said:

 

Now this is one hell of a barn find . 

 

 

Perhaps the greatest barn find ever. Not only six cars of the same type but all, apparently, in condition that requires minimal restoration.

 

By coincidence, I was thinking of Frogeyes only the other day. Very nostalgic to me as a colleague of my Mum's had one and we would occasionally get a lift home in it. Great fun blasting up the Leatherhead By-Pass with the top down. Nearly 60 years ago!

[PatB]

7 hours ago, peanuts said:

bit of a fixer upper 

Original and unrestored. 

 

I'd be curious as to how it got like that. It's clearly not been moved, but the visible surroundings don't really show any indication of being particularly hostile. I've seen cars sort of dissolving from the bottom upwards in acidic leaf litter, but never one that's disintegrated as a whole so comprehensively. 

 

Photoshop? 

[great central]

1 hour ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

There is a big Cortina fan in NW Herefordshire. A very bright yellow Mk3 saloon (I don't recall that as an original colour) and a Mk5 Crusader estate. Both in top condition.

 

Brother had a yellow mk3 complete with black vinyl roof, rusted pretty quick from memory needed serious attention to wings around 5 years old. Helluva job to match the paint.

[boxbrownie]

3 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

There is a big Cortina fan in NW Herefordshire. A very bright yellow Mk3 saloon (I don't recall that as an original colour) and a Mk5 Crusader estate. Both in top condition.

Yes, there was bright yellow available we had several on the fleet at an advertising paper I freelanced for in the 70’s, which looked quite smart at the time as the MD had a bright yellow Dino 246 sitting alongside in the paper’s car park. The name escapes me for the moment (might have been sunrise or some such) and also there was the dreaded “nappy yellow”......

[boxbrownie]

3 hours ago, PatB said:

Original and unrestored. 

 

I'd be curious as to how it got like that. It's clearly not been moved, but the visible surroundings don't really show any indication of being particularly hostile. I've seen cars sort of dissolving from the bottom upwards in acidic leaf litter, but never one that's disintegrated as a whole so comprehensively. 

 

Photoshop? 

It is slightly suss.....the grass has been kept very nicely all around it......who looks after their garden like that and leaves an old VW to rot away for 40 years or so?
 

Funny though.

[Enterprisingwestern]

7 minutes ago, boxbrownie said:

also there was the dreaded “nappy yellow”......

 

AKA baby's first effort!

 

Mike.

[petethemole]

1 hour ago, boxbrownie said:

It is slightly suss.....the grass has been kept very nicely all around it......who looks after their garden like that and leaves an old VW to rot away for 40 years or so?
 

Funny though.

 

It's sitting on top of fairly short grass, so I reckon the remains have been removed from elsewhere and neatly arranged for the photo.  Note there's no lump where the engine should be.

Edited July 2, 2020 by petethemole

[PhilJ W]

5 hours ago, PatB said:

Original and unrestored. 

 

I'd be curious as to how it got like that. It's clearly not been moved, but the visible surroundings don't really show any indication of being particularly hostile. I've seen cars sort of dissolving from the bottom upwards in acidic leaf litter, but never one that's disintegrated as a whole so comprehensively. 

 

Photoshop? 

This had appeared on Facebook a little while ago. Apparently it was a camper and it caught fire. It was left were it was for a number of years and then it was 'rediscovered'. It was dragged out of its resting place and the photograph was taken before it went for scrap.

[rocor]

54 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

This had appeared on Facebook a little while ago. Apparently it was a camper and it caught fire. It was left were it was for a number of years and then it was 'rediscovered'. It was dragged out of its resting place and the photograph was taken before it went for scrap.

 

Went for scrap?, Iron Oxide must be valued at an all time high. But why was it scraped?, the application of a few gallons of T-Cut and it would have been as good as new.