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Published 23/04/2009 @ 07:27:26, By ecclefechan
What is this?
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Published 23/04/2009 @ 08:51:49, By atom
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Published 29/04/2009 @ 02:15:39, By ecclefechan
First, I know this is a Citroen Jumper/Relay. However, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me which department of France it's from? I spotted this in Monument Valley, Utah and found it strange to see a French vehicle there. I was wondering if it maybe came from St. Pierre & Miquelon or one of the French overseas departments in the Caribbean?
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Published 29/04/2009 @ 09:02:39, By antp
Great find
85 is from Vendée:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Vendée-Position.svg
So that one is really from Europe and not from an oversea department (which have 3-digit numbers).
Latest Edition: 29/04/2009 @ 09:03:22
85 is from Vendée:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Vendée-Position.svg
So that one is really from Europe and not from an oversea department (which have 3-digit numbers).
Latest Edition: 29/04/2009 @ 09:03:22
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Published 30/04/2009 @ 04:23:53, By ecclefechan
Interesting, thanks. I wonder how they got it to the US. I guess it wouldn't be such a bad idea, as it would be far more economical than the gas guzzling American RVs.
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Published 22/05/2009 @ 23:57:42, By ecclefechan
Can anybody tell me if this is actually a US model?
A curious find. I caught this today here in Scotland. It has a UK pre-1962 registration with a fake California-style plate (which is completely illegal) and is left hand drive. According to the DVLA, it was first registered in the UK 1993 and was manufactured in 1962. So I'm wondering if this is actually a US import?
A curious find. I caught this today here in Scotland. It has a UK pre-1962 registration with a fake California-style plate (which is completely illegal) and is left hand drive. According to the DVLA, it was first registered in the UK 1993 and was manufactured in 1962. So I'm wondering if this is actually a US import?
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Published 23/05/2009 @ 21:33:45, By ingo
Hmmm, hard to say, because in the early 60ies there weren't that many differences between the European and the American Typ 1 (if exported or assembled there doesn't matter)
The front lamps maybe US-version, it's hard to see (legal in UK? In Germany they are forbidden) and the back lamps with the red indicators are US-version, too.
But this means nothing, they are available everywhere. And this car is not original at all. Just notice the Porsche 911-rims and the lowering kit. Maybe the chassis-platform is from annother year than the 1962-body.
I'm not convinced about the back fenders. I'm not sure, but they doesn't look 1962-like. My Typ 1-knowledge is not too big, but something says to me, that the shape of fender, lamps and bumper doesn't fit together. I think, the bumper-holder is longer than the original one.
The front turn signals are remade "tuning"-parts, also available in VW-classic-shops.
As I know,in 1962 the windscreen-rubber has a chrome-trim inside. The pure rubbers came later IMHO (1968+ ?), and only for the 1200 Standard.
So the 1962-regisration could be o.k.for this car, but I'm not able to say, if it was an US-version.
The front lamps maybe US-version, it's hard to see (legal in UK? In Germany they are forbidden) and the back lamps with the red indicators are US-version, too.
But this means nothing, they are available everywhere. And this car is not original at all. Just notice the Porsche 911-rims and the lowering kit. Maybe the chassis-platform is from annother year than the 1962-body.
I'm not convinced about the back fenders. I'm not sure, but they doesn't look 1962-like. My Typ 1-knowledge is not too big, but something says to me, that the shape of fender, lamps and bumper doesn't fit together. I think, the bumper-holder is longer than the original one.
The front turn signals are remade "tuning"-parts, also available in VW-classic-shops.
As I know,in 1962 the windscreen-rubber has a chrome-trim inside. The pure rubbers came later IMHO (1968+ ?), and only for the 1200 Standard.
So the 1962-regisration could be o.k.for this car, but I'm not able to say, if it was an US-version.
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Published 29/07/2009 @ 18:47:02, By ecclefechan
I forgot all about my last post until now. Interesting about the above VW. Didn't know they were Porsche 911 rims on it. Thanks for replying.
Anyway, I took a visit to a local scrapyard this morning and as usual was shocked at the amount of modern cars. However, one vehicle caught my attention.
Does anybody know that the small dark blue convertible sitting on top of the Audi A6 is?
Anyway, I took a visit to a local scrapyard this morning and as usual was shocked at the amount of modern cars. However, one vehicle caught my attention.
Does anybody know that the small dark blue convertible sitting on top of the Audi A6 is?
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Published 30/07/2009 @ 01:40:33, By dragonboy3000
That's the first copen ive seen with a folding soft-top
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Published 01/08/2009 @ 10:16:23, By antp
Strange to find such car there. As well as the Audi under it.
And a red Saab in bottom left
And a red Saab in bottom left
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Published 01/08/2009 @ 10:22:00, By taxiguy
Those cars are all so new to be in junkyard.... why are Europeans so wasteful when it comes to cars? I've seen so many European junkyards with cars only 10 years old or less, what's the deal?
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Published 01/08/2009 @ 19:30:47, By ingo
The newest cars on European scrapyards you find in the UK. This is astonishing, how new the cars are there.
In other countries the cars were mostly older. I say "were", because Germany wasn't the only country with a government-made wrecking-bonus to push on the car-industry. As I've heard, it was made during the last years in France, in Sweden, in Spain, too (yes, CCF, vilero?) and now in Greece, too.
Son in Germany until this January, when the "Abwrackprämie" was started, the scrapped cars were some years older, mostly 12, 13 years and more. Like using a switch, it has changed.
And -not only here, in Holland, Belgium and other countries, too, you nearly never have found Mercedes, BMW, Audi, bigger an medium-sized Japanese Sedans, never Jeeps, SUV's and Vans, because in the last years 80%(!) of the used German cars were exported. To Eastern Europe, the Balcan-states and -rougher ones- to Africa.
This was a reason for the "Abwrackprämie", because the statistics have said, that during the last 10-15 years the approximate age of the cars in Germany was getting older and older by year.
Before the Wall felt down in 1989, it was similar. Until this time you could find a lot of cars, younger than 10 years an German scrapyards. The was no big export, so low prices for used cars, and the cars of the 60ies and 70ies had bigger rust-problems. The worst rusty cars were made after the winter 1973/74 up to ca.1978/79. Many of them were crushed in the age of 5-6 years.
I remember scrap-yard-visits in 1987 and 1988, there were some 6-7-year old Skoda's, Lada's, but also Fiat's an Renault's.
France was known -for German old-car-freaks- as a paradise until they had founded a TÜV-like technical test.
In Sweden there were also many old cars on the road, until (in a year after 2000/2001 - @atom? ) the government has also offered a kind of wrecking-bonus.
Sweden had for a long time the reputation of the "Europe's best scrap-yard-county")
In Italy many old Fiat's were used (in the more humid countries they have rusted much faster . I remember a school-trip to Roma in autumn 1989. There the Fiat 500 was the most seen car there. More than a 126, a 127 or a Panda.
In other countries the cars were mostly older. I say "were", because Germany wasn't the only country with a government-made wrecking-bonus to push on the car-industry. As I've heard, it was made during the last years in France, in Sweden, in Spain, too (yes, CCF, vilero?) and now in Greece, too.
Son in Germany until this January, when the "Abwrackprämie" was started, the scrapped cars were some years older, mostly 12, 13 years and more. Like using a switch, it has changed.
And -not only here, in Holland, Belgium and other countries, too, you nearly never have found Mercedes, BMW, Audi, bigger an medium-sized Japanese Sedans, never Jeeps, SUV's and Vans, because in the last years 80%(!) of the used German cars were exported. To Eastern Europe, the Balcan-states and -rougher ones- to Africa.
This was a reason for the "Abwrackprämie", because the statistics have said, that during the last 10-15 years the approximate age of the cars in Germany was getting older and older by year.
Before the Wall felt down in 1989, it was similar. Until this time you could find a lot of cars, younger than 10 years an German scrapyards. The was no big export, so low prices for used cars, and the cars of the 60ies and 70ies had bigger rust-problems. The worst rusty cars were made after the winter 1973/74 up to ca.1978/79. Many of them were crushed in the age of 5-6 years.
I remember scrap-yard-visits in 1987 and 1988, there were some 6-7-year old Skoda's, Lada's, but also Fiat's an Renault's.
France was known -for German old-car-freaks- as a paradise until they had founded a TÜV-like technical test.
In Sweden there were also many old cars on the road, until (in a year after 2000/2001 - @atom? ) the government has also offered a kind of wrecking-bonus.
Sweden had for a long time the reputation of the "Europe's best scrap-yard-county")
In Italy many old Fiat's were used (in the more humid countries they have rusted much faster . I remember a school-trip to Roma in autumn 1989. There the Fiat 500 was the most seen car there. More than a 126, a 127 or a Panda.
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Published 01/08/2009 @ 19:36:53, By ingo
Here the actual listings of 1998+ Audi A6 Sedans:
http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/searchrefine.html?categories=Limousine&__lp=10- 37&scopeId=C&sortOption.sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&sortOption.sortOrder=ASCE- NDING&makeModelVariant1.makeId=1900&makeModelVariant1.modelId=10&makeModelVariant1.- searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant3.- searchInFreetext=false&vehicleCategory=Car&segment=Car&minFirstRegistrationDate=- 1998-01-01&siteId=GERMANY&negativeFeatures=EXPORT&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED- &export=NO_EXPORT&customerIdsAsString=&lang=de
Oh, I must admit, that I've expected higher prices. There are several for less than 4000 €.
When you check the 1998+ Avant-versions, too, the first and cheapest one is a RHD-car from Britain:
http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showDetails.html?id=112613476&__lp=1037&scopeId=- C&sortOption.sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&sortOption.sortOrder=ASCENDING&makeModelVariant1.- makeId=1900&makeModelVariant1.modelId=10&makeModelVariant1.searchInFreetext=fals- e&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant3.searchInFreetext=fa- lse&vehicleCategory=Car&segment=Car&minFirstRegistrationDate=1998-01-01&siteId=GERMANY&negativeFeatures=EXPORT&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED- &export=NO_EXPORT&customerIdsAsString=&lang=de&pageNumber=1
http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/searchrefine.html?categories=Limousine&__lp=10- 37&scopeId=C&sortOption.sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&sortOption.sortOrder=ASCE- NDING&makeModelVariant1.makeId=1900&makeModelVariant1.modelId=10&makeModelVariant1.- searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant3.- searchInFreetext=false&vehicleCategory=Car&segment=Car&minFirstRegistrationDate=- 1998-01-01&siteId=GERMANY&negativeFeatures=EXPORT&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED- &export=NO_EXPORT&customerIdsAsString=&lang=de
Oh, I must admit, that I've expected higher prices. There are several for less than 4000 €.
When you check the 1998+ Avant-versions, too, the first and cheapest one is a RHD-car from Britain:
http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showDetails.html?id=112613476&__lp=1037&scopeId=- C&sortOption.sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&sortOption.sortOrder=ASCENDING&makeModelVariant1.- makeId=1900&makeModelVariant1.modelId=10&makeModelVariant1.searchInFreetext=fals- e&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant3.searchInFreetext=fa- lse&vehicleCategory=Car&segment=Car&minFirstRegistrationDate=1998-01-01&siteId=GERMANY&negativeFeatures=EXPORT&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED- &export=NO_EXPORT&customerIdsAsString=&lang=de&pageNumber=1
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Published 03/08/2009 @ 02:02:05, By Gag Halfrunt
Any idea why a dealer in Germany would have an RHD A8 from the UK?
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Published 03/08/2009 @ 11:06:47, By ingo
There are several possibilites. A British citizen has sold his car here. For example a British soldier or a businessman.
Or someone from here has bought it in Britain and has sold it later on here.
So for me it's not too strange.
My wife had once a car-damage on her desk, involved was a RHD-car with German registration (a bigger Volvo, as I remember). It was a business-car (from a German company) and was used by a British guy. He had chosen a RHD-version, bought regulary at a German Volvo-dealer, because he want to take it back at home as a private car, when its use as company-car will be over.
Or someone from here has bought it in Britain and has sold it later on here.
So for me it's not too strange.
My wife had once a car-damage on her desk, involved was a RHD-car with German registration (a bigger Volvo, as I remember). It was a business-car (from a German company) and was used by a British guy. He had chosen a RHD-version, bought regulary at a German Volvo-dealer, because he want to take it back at home as a private car, when its use as company-car will be over.
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Published 03/08/2009 @ 18:29:31, By Neon
Any idea of the green car on the truck?
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Published 05/08/2009 @ 22:37:28, By ecclefechan
I think I have found the answer to what the mystery convertible in the scrapyard is. It does resemble a Daihatsu Copen, but appears to be a Metro based Banham X21 kit car:
http://www.aronline.co.uk/index.htm?banhammetrof.htm
Despite being based on a Metro, it's apparently pretty rare and the kit was only launched in 2001, so it's still a little strange to see something so novel in a scrapyard. I wonder why it's been consigned to the automotive dustbin.
Anyway, is this an Alfa Romeo Alfasud?
http://www.aronline.co.uk/index.htm?banhammetrof.htm
Despite being based on a Metro, it's apparently pretty rare and the kit was only launched in 2001, so it's still a little strange to see something so novel in a scrapyard. I wonder why it's been consigned to the automotive dustbin.
Anyway, is this an Alfa Romeo Alfasud?
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Published 05/08/2009 @ 23:39:52, By Neon
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Published 06/08/2009 @ 09:44:39, By ingo
Any idea of the green car on the truck?
http://www.ibfree.org/uploads/autoabbandonate/post-6-1237122993.jpg
http://www.ibfree.org/uploads/autoabbandonate/post-6-1237122993.jpg
Hmmm, it's difficult with cars with these plastic bumpers, when they are mounted off. With chrome-bumper-cars it's much easier...
I thought a bit about a VW Scirocco II, but I think, the roof-line is higher at the wreck. I also had a little idea of a Sunbeam Horizon (due the size of the back lamps), but this would be too rare. And the space for the bumper is very big, so it's probably not a 80ies-car...
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Published 06/08/2009 @ 09:50:13, By ingo
I think I have found the answer to what the mystery convertible in the scrapyard is. It does resemble a Daihatsu Copen, but appears to be a Metro based Banham X21 kit car:
http://www.aronline.co.uk/index.htm?banhammetrof.htm
http://www.aronline.co.uk/index.htm?banhammetrof.htm
A similar car, a tiny convertible, a design-mix between Audi TT, MG TF and Daihatsu Copen, has irritated me just yesterday in our village. There was no brand-emblem anywhere. But it looked quite new, newer than 2001. And British Kit-cars are very unusal here...
So I don't have any idea, what it was. Something Asian, probably.