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Dec 28, 2006 19:42:48 GMT
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I was walking along a riverbank today (as you do) and something in the water caught my eye. Unbelievably (me being a VW nut) it was a carburettor from an aircooled VW engine    There was some other retro stuff as well includine a wolsley(?) cap;  And what I remember being fitted to every Datsun in the early eighties;  Other spots were rear axles, citroen 3 bolt wheels, exhausts and other assorted car parts. I really cant get over tripping over a VW carb but, need to go down with waders and see if I can find the rest of the car  . Dave. |
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Dec 28, 2006 19:47:32 GMT
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wow - what great finds
what happened about the Mk3 cortina found in the canal a while back?
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mercmad
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Dec 28, 2006 19:53:46 GMT
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Thats fantastic!,I'll bet Tony Robinson and the rest of the Time team crew would just love to come and dig up your river and look for signs of early 1980's civilisation.It's almost like a scene from mad max .....
In our rivers we only have mud and boats and Fish,really boring stuff. ;D ;D ;D
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Last Edit: Dec 28, 2006 19:55:10 GMT by mercmad
Many years ago I changed my driving style to cope with rising fuel prices; I have now reached the stage where I am contemplating keeping my eyes shut in order to lower wind resistance.
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Dec 28, 2006 19:56:26 GMT
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Thats ace! it fascinates me when I come across car stuff in unlikely places like that. |
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Dec 28, 2006 21:06:20 GMT
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back a few years when myself and a mate were down near the local canal we pulled out a suzuki gp10 and a bit further along found a yamaha passola, saw some dumped microwave ovens there also, no cars bit ever though.
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Found by the riverbriandamaged
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Dec 28, 2006 22:48:56 GMT
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The mark of a true Retro-Head.....spotting some silt-covered automotive detritus in a riverbed and knowing what car it came off!!!
I can't get mustard-coloured Datsun 120Y's out of my head now!! :-)
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Dec 28, 2006 23:14:07 GMT
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That was an unusual find! I only hope you don't find any drivers of those cars in the river!
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Notice how the German and J stuff survived reasonably well and the brit stuff is wrecked
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did you take the carb home with you?
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wow - what great finds what happened about the Mk3 cortina found in the canal a while back? It's still embedded in the canal bank... ;D |
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Dec 29, 2006 10:37:13 GMT
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was that really a river bank or a garbage dump with water in it?,seems like a lot of building stuff mixed up with gravel and other stuff.I hope you took "hazard awareness measures" as per EU directives.
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Many years ago I changed my driving style to cope with rising fuel prices; I have now reached the stage where I am contemplating keeping my eyes shut in order to lower wind resistance.
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Dec 29, 2006 10:46:49 GMT
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ORSUM! Looks like the choke needs adjusting  |
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Dec 29, 2006 11:34:01 GMT
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u should of yoinked that carb out just for the story telling possibilities. only thing in my local rivers are super market trolleys and i once saw a dumper truck in there.
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Dec 29, 2006 11:47:18 GMT
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Great finds I found these a few years back whilst out on my bike...  Mitsubushi Colt ^^  Can't quite remember, may have been an 80's Rover 216  ^^Transit I think there was a Mk1 Fiesta in there somewhere to but it's been a while since I've been over that way. |
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Dec 29, 2006 11:54:23 GMT
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Deffinately a river bank. Everything I spotter was under this bridge.  I thought about taking the carb home but had no plastic bags and I wasnt putting it in my pocket. Might go back but as I was doing some research last night and some of the bricks are rare and valuable to some collectors it would seem. |
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Dec 29, 2006 12:14:47 GMT
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Brick collecting? Fantastic! ;D
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Found by the riverDarrenW
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Dec 29, 2006 13:38:40 GMT
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Brick collecting? Fantastic! ;D I'm sure there are a good few members of the Volvo Owners Club that are well into it ;D |
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Dec 29, 2006 13:53:15 GMT
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;D
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I remember seeing a mk5 cortina saloon somewhere in darkest Dorset (totally forget where) It had crashed off an A road in the middle of nowhere, plunged down a very steep bank towards a river and ended up wedged against a tree after obviously rolling several times about 75ft down. It looked like it had been there for many years as there was moss growing out of the seats and small trees were growing out of the floor. Really weird!! It was too difficult to get to because of the steepness of the bank it was on and you could only really see if if you were lucky to look in exactly the right place. don't know if there was any skeletons inside it, maybe I was the only person to know about it!
Keeping on the cortina theme legend has it that in Barrow in Furness theres a bricked up store room that used to be part of a warehouse with a cortina abandoned inside it. Been there atleast 10 years and it was heavily vandalised by local kids before it was cocooned by developers. Its near KFC if anyone knows the area.
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i remember a couple of years ago someone found a Jag in a carpet warehouse bricked up to hide it from the bankruptcy administrators
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room. |
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