Subject: Junk yards and abandoned cars
08/07/2009 @ 19:42:51: ingo: Junk yards and abandoned cars
Great pic, many thanks. :smile:
Surely I've send them immediately to "tinhunter". :wink:

The red "Mercedes Benz???" is(was) a Borgward Isabella.
08/07/2009 @ 22:36:06: atom: Junk yards and abandoned cars
Quote From: CarChasesFanatic


Tell us tells us :ddr555:

He told me that he was attending a car exhibit somewhat close to where I live so I went to see it.

What could this be?, I think, is a Ford (UK) Zephyr Mk.II; the other is a Zodiac Mk.II.

Thanks, I had a hunch it would be something
Brittish.


Great pic, many thanks. :smile:
Surely I've send them immediately to "tinhunter". :wink:

The red "Mercedes Benz???" is(was) a Borgward Isabella.

Hope he likes them. I'm not sure if they are still there we found them because they had cleared alot of forest for a new motorway, if they haven't done it we wouldn't have found the cars, but they have obviously also seen the cars so there is a risk they have sent them to the cruscher.

Ah now when you say it I recognise the tail lights, I couldn't fit them to any Mercedes but I thought the front looked a little like a Mercedes with a missing grill.

And when I searched pictures of Isabellas I saw that the picture with the "Interesting fueldoor" also is from an Isabella but an older model.
09/07/2009 @ 10:59:56: ingo: Junk yards and abandoned cars
About the two mentioned junkyards I've asked a Swedish friend (with him I made nice junkyards-trip around Vesteras and Avesta in 2000).
He answered me, that it seems, that the exact location of them shall be a secret further.

Bad for tinhunter, resp. his vacations. :ohwell:
14/07/2009 @ 19:21:28: ingo: Junk yards and abandoned cars
A 1925 Bugatti, salvaged after 82 years out of the Lago Maggiore:
http://www.meinklassiker.com/de/magazin/menschen/ein_bugatti_fuer_damiano_aus_de- m_lago_maggiore/7/1/2208

Perhaps somewhere in the www you can find the story in annother language.
21/07/2009 @ 11:40:48: ingo: Junk yards and abandoned cars
The cars of the legendary junk yard in Switzerland shall be sold by auctions:
http://www.meinklassiker.com/de/magazin/oldtimer/oldtimer_galerie_toffen_verstei- gert_autofriedhof_kaufdorf/2/1/2223

So this place will be cleared off now, after 25 years of discussions and arguments.
24/07/2009 @ 00:14:50: ingo: Junk yards and abandoned cars
Hello atom,
do you have maybe some informations about junkyards around Kalmar? My best friend will going there for vacations on Saturday. Sure, that it would be fantastic, if he could find K 70's there. :smile:
15 years ago he and his wife had made wonderful vacations in Sweden. Wonderful, because they had been very successful and have found many K 70-wrecks. So they had filled up their VW T3-Bus with the rare and nice Swedish goodies (lamp washer-systems, bumpers for that, right mirrors, mudflaps -the bigger Swedish ones, laminated front screens, back safety-belts, H4-lamps and so on...)
Nowadays there will be much less K 70 (if anyone at all), but this is not too bad, because he has not that much space any more. Randomly he drives annother VW T3 again - but he also has four children. :wink:
24/07/2009 @ 01:37:22: atom: Junk yards and abandoned cars
Sorry ingo, I only know about a few wrecks around here where I live (those that I have posted pictures from).

BTW I sure you know of the biggest Swedish salesite, there is currently four K70s for sale: http://www.blocket.se/hela_sverige?q=K70&cg=1020&w=3&st=s&ps=&pe=&rs=&re=&ms=&me=- &gb=&fu=&ca=16&md=th

I talked K70 with my uncle some time back, if you remember he who said that K70 only was for music and sewing-teachers. Anyhow he had a Golf Mk1 GLS, and he got the brilliant idea to put a K70 carburator on his Golf because that was 40/40(?) and his was 38/40(?). He went to the local VW dealer to get some nozels/jets, the guy behind the counter thought it was a stupid idea but he helped him anyhow, he finetuned the carburetor and later he pushed the Golf up to over 190km/h, he also said that I wasn't alowed to tell my mother or grandparents :grin:
24/07/2009 @ 10:09:28: ingo: Junk yards and abandoned cars
Oh, interesting, that this was possible. The main problem of the Solex-Double-carburator of the K 70 is the size. It's very big (some BMW's and Alfa's had a similar one).

How he could manage it to mount it? Normally he had to built an extra intake between carburator and engine, because others don't fit.
14/08/2009 @ 18:04:11: ingo: Junk yards and abandoned cars
No-limit-auction of the cars from the legendary Swiss junkyard:
http://www.oldtimergalerie.ch/d/auktion/September09.htm

Good, that they make it in this way, not like Carlo Vanlingen in Houthalen-Helchtern (B), who has crusehed all the old cars, he had.
O.k., you must admit, that they were scrap since many years. It's not too different at the Messerli-place.
20/08/2009 @ 22:14:55: BlackIce_RS: Junk yards and abandoned cars
Another old guy with very many cars died:
Jalopnik: Epic 275 classic car junkyard collection headed to auction
One day, I hope to be such an old man. (With many cars, not dead)
24/08/2009 @ 23:51:40: Road Wars Fanatic: Junk yards and abandoned cars
I found some on the net But I have now deleted them because I don't Own the Images.
06/09/2009 @ 17:12:39: subzero: Junk yards and abandoned cars
unknown


it would be great, if someone identify this car




Fiat 128 1300CL



BMW 730 3.5L I6 E23
06/09/2009 @ 18:01:33: ingo: Junk yards and abandoned cars
The first car is a big Alfa Romeo, a 2000 Berlina.
http://imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=Alfa+Romeo&model=2000+Berlina&modelMatch=1&modelInclModel=- on
28/10/2009 @ 21:58:44: atom: Junk yards and abandoned cars
Went to my favourite junkyard today...

DKW F107:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5972/img5835.jpg
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1165/img5839l.jpg

Opel Rekord [D]:
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/636/img5836p.jpg

Two american cars and a fintail Merc (called Fen-Merca in Sweden) in the background:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5461/img5837c.jpg

A tower of Volvo PV 544's (a red one also behind the blue one):
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7568/img5843.jpg

1974 Volvo 142:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9206/img5841t.jpg

1970 Mercedes-Benz 250 CE [W114]:
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/9018/img5842q.jpg

1963 Volkswagen 1200 Limousine [Typ 1]:
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/1929/img5844l.jpg

Volvo P210 Duett:
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/462/img5845z.jpg

1977 Fiat 127 Special:
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/8468/img5846o.jpg
29/10/2009 @ 06:23:49: marioman3138: Junk yards and abandoned cars
Some poor cars there :sad: Whats with them all still having plates? The VW still looks in good nic. Why is it there? The Recford looks nice to...
29/10/2009 @ 16:54:25: CarChasesFanatic: Junk yards and abandoned cars
In spain junkyard owners don't bother removing the plates either.
30/10/2009 @ 11:11:08: ingo: Junk yards and abandoned cars
It has a reason, why Sweden is popular for the best junk yards of Europe. :wink:

@marioman: it depends on the country, if the plate is seen as an document or not. For example in Denmark, Austria and Switzerland it's impossible to keep the old plate, when a car is wrecked. They have to be destroyed by the authority. In Switzerland -in Belgium, too- you can use the plate for the next car again.

In Britain and Sweden the plate is not important. There the registration-sticker at the windscreen is the evidence for the registration. So the plates have no special meaning. In Germany the small silver sticker on the plate is important. When it's on the plate, it's an document, when it's scratched off (neccessary, when you change the registration), it's just a piece of alumimium and you can do with it, what you want (except using it again in the traffic).
30/10/2009 @ 11:21:43: ingo: Junk yards and abandoned cars
@atom: are the prices on the junk yard for parts fair ot is the owner an idiot?
If the prices are good, it could be senseful to make a checklist of the classic cars and the left over usable parts and ask the freaks, if something could be interesting. Sometimes you can get really money at Ebay. :wink:

So I've done in the past with many classic VW-parts, my Swedish friend has picked up for ridicolous prices on junkyards. I've sold it at Ebay and we've shared the money. :smile:
21/12/2009 @ 17:52:43: Neon: Junk yards and abandoned cars
Very nice pictures atom!

I have found a 1971 Lancia Fulvia Berlina abandoned in a parking:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2579/4202551105_2fa488f8cb_b.jpg

IMHO, It's a shame to see a so beautiful car in this state in 2009 :angry:
21/12/2009 @ 18:42:53: Lateef: Junk yards and abandoned cars
Here are some pictures from my visit to Crete in 2003. These cars were found just outside the village of Analipsi near the town of Hersonissos. I'll bet this junk is still there today.

Autobianchi:

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/407/img0003uu.jpg

Ford Corsair:

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/7366/img0005vl.jpg

AMC Gremlin:

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/1525/img0004j.jpg

Hillman Convertible

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6083/img0006ub.jpg

Also there was this old Mercedes-Benz nearby in considerable better condition, it probably belonged to the owner of the junkyard.

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/8459/img0002jr.jpg
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