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Aug 18, 2008 17:51:27 GMT
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No expert but it looks like a Jowett or an Allard of some kind. Or a Connaught. Paul H would know  Front wings look like a Healey Westland? The rest doesn't though...  Agreed about the Healey aspect - definitely Healey wings. Could still be the Healey chassis under there (with Riley 2.5 engine etc). No other ideas though  |
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Aug 18, 2008 18:41:06 GMT
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I'd give a guess that they were in Somerset.... The pictures are of one of her dad's barns!  The green car.... Its an LVT. A one-off car produced in 1947 by an ex-TT rider from Swansea. The car was built for him to his design/spec. It has a tubular space frame chassis, Lancia sliding pillar IFS, a Riley rear axle and possibly Riley gearbox still? The original Riley engine (2.5 litre) was replaced by an Alto engine (a racing engine is all I know) and later for a Jaguar XK120 engine (3,442cc) when they became available. The XK engine, a twin overhead camshaft design, well ahead of any other engine available, was used right up to the E-Type and XJ saloon. The engine powered Jaguar to victory in both the C-type and D-type Jags at Le Mans. The body is aluminium and the front wings were from a Healey, probably a Healey Westland..       It's been pulled out of the barn to be restored  and before anyone asks, I won't give the location of the barn, nor are any of them for sale, nor parts for sale.... they'll be mine one day and I shall fix them all up! |
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garth
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Aug 18, 2008 19:06:26 GMT
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This thread is mad! It hurts seeing all this going to waste.
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Aug 18, 2008 19:19:58 GMT
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Sorry to say but by the time one day comes round there ain't going to be much left of that poor e-type, or 2CV! - but good look with the resto on the LVT it deserves to be put back to its former glory |
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Aug 18, 2008 19:24:41 GMT
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loving this thread fascinating stuff,
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Aug 18, 2008 20:23:31 GMT
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With that LVT I think that'll be the rarest car seen in Abandoned.............. a total one off!
Really stunning piece of kit, even decrepit and forlorn like it is.
*gets hankering for Rochdale Olympic again*
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Aug 19, 2008 20:58:40 GMT
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I'll post some more pics of the LVT during it's resto once it gets underway |
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Aug 20, 2008 17:47:10 GMT
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It's a Fiat but that's all i know. Anyone?  |
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Aug 20, 2008 17:48:24 GMT
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X1/9 obviously! Just like the Pug in the other thread, this was probably mint three weeks ago. Shockingly poor metal! |
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Aug 20, 2008 18:20:49 GMT
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thats an early one aswell,shame really.
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Aug 22, 2008 16:45:01 GMT
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doesnt even look that rusty (although being an early fiat its gonna be very soon lol) few from the last few months (i think ive photo'd most of the ones in my area lol) Bentley along side the A2 but now moved i believe  before  after  Volvo estates gone (probably to the crusher  to reveal the fact it was a viva estate and its also unearthed a Cortina Estate, and a clearer view of the Transit van. Transit camper and a reliant in there as well. MG midget removed from a garage in a very overgrown garden probably now dead also.  |
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Aug 22, 2008 16:49:33 GMT
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Nuffin some turtle wax cannot sort out ;D ;D |
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Aug 22, 2008 21:12:45 GMT
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  my sig ;D obv  the only 3 i have atm, sorry there all anglias ;D |
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Aug 29, 2008 16:59:07 GMT
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Aug 29, 2008 18:51:25 GMT
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From the back lights the transit looks like a Mk2 phase1, somewhere between 1978-83 |
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Aug 30, 2008 20:40:53 GMT
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1987 Maestro 1.6 HL perkins diesel conversion 1986 Audi 100 Avant 1800cc on LPG 1979 Allegro Series 2 special 4 door 1500cc with vynil roof. IN BITS. HERITAGE ISSUES.  |
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Aug 30, 2008 21:06:04 GMT
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Spotted in Droylesden, Manchester. great plate. a westie too, must be worth saving if possible. |
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Aug 30, 2008 21:12:55 GMT
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Its pretty ropey but I'm very suprised its sat there rotting with the value of those things.
The reg is interesting. I knew a guy with a beetle with the reg PEA 8L.
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Aug 30, 2008 21:35:04 GMT
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More pics! Droylesden again, this is a pub car park/scrap yard. The futre of these old motors looks pretty uncertain.  Another snap, this time near the Airbus factory not far from Sealand, north Wales (cant remember the exact location. Its a P4 this time!  |
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Last Edit: Aug 31, 2008 17:24:46 GMT by Lankytim
1987 Maestro 1.6 HL perkins diesel conversion 1986 Audi 100 Avant 1800cc on LPG 1979 Allegro Series 2 special 4 door 1500cc with vynil roof. IN BITS. HERITAGE ISSUES. |
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to reveal the fact it was a viva estate and its also unearthed a Cortina Estate, and a clearer view of the Transit van. Transit camper and a reliant in there as well.
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