Where are they now? Supercars abandoned
8 Jan, 2008
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It’s one thing when someone has more money than driving ability. Take for example the STI crash, or the GT-R accident. But it’s an entirely different thing when someone simply leaves hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of automotive exotica, just so the elements can take care of it.
So when we stumbled across this collection of neglected beauties, you can imagine how we felt. Kind of makes your blood boil when you see it, doesn’t it?
Let us know how many you can identify.
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January 9th, 2008 at 12:14 am
I wish I could fix up that 300sl !
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January 9th, 2008 at 12:32 am
I’d have the Fuche’s (wheels) off the 911. Forget the Lancia, the electrics were bad enough when it was made.
Good article
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January 9th, 2008 at 12:40 am
1. 300SL
2. Jag E-type
3. Jensen Interceptor
4. Old Rolls (help?)
5. 1950’s Ferrari 166 (help?)
6. ????????(help?)
7. DeTomaso Pantera
8. Lamborghini muira
9. 60’s Silver Cloud III
10. 1960-70’s 911
11. 1980’s Ferrari 308
12. ???????
13. Maserati 3500
14. DB5
15. Early Bugatti ( no idea which one)
16. (Supercar?) Ferrari Dino
17. ???????
18. Lotus Europa
19. ???????
Poor 350 and 166 though : (
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January 9th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Oops! I thought the Jensen was a Lancia…sorry Jensen
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January 9th, 2008 at 1:48 am
6- Maybe Maserati jusdging by its quattroporte style vents?
12 is TVR
17 is countach…
Poor miura…I wish locations were posted where found…
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January 9th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Most valuable car there- Bugatti then Gullwing Mercedes?
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January 9th, 2008 at 7:04 am
It’s enough to make you cry… some people don’t deserve cars.
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January 9th, 2008 at 7:49 am
That is like taking a dump in the Louvre….
Can I have the Muira?
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January 9th, 2008 at 8:35 am
I get sad and almost cry when good cars are crushed in films. This just makes me depressed.
Now I’ll have to stop what I’m working on and go play Live For Speed for an hour or 5.
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January 9th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Some of the Rollers are easy to understand - in England they used to put salt on the roads for ice, and many cars including the Rollers were eaten away by the salt induced corrosion.
Saw lots of cancerous vehicles in the UK in 1973, couldn’t believe my eyes as a poor traveller; in those days everyones dream car was a Roller, and here they were with rust everywhere.
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January 9th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Whats the story here?
Are they for sale?
Grab them just for the id plates and s/n’s
Cheers
F-0
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January 9th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Go out to rural areas, there are yards full of this. Great cars wasted - I don’t know why.
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January 9th, 2008 at 10:28 am
You hear of these environmentalists and such going out to save animals and trees etc. I feel the same when I see all these neglected cars… just I don’t have the money to do so.
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January 9th, 2008 at 11:01 am
I recon the 300sl merc would be worth something, even in that condition.
If people spend so much money on cars, they should spend the same amount on maintaining it, especially these exotic ones.
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January 9th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Yes, it is sad to see but there so much \”good\” scrap out there - people think they are going to restore them but don\’t etc. The cars get rarer and values increase for the ones that do make it !
Anyway, this is a collection of pics from all over the world - US, Spain, UK and so on. Some cars which are basically worthless in one place (a old Roller in the UK), are worth more in other places. A old rusty Ferarri in Italy is probably worth little too ?
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January 9th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
#6 circa 1954 Ferrari 250MM Vignale Spider
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January 9th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
^ picture here of what it should look like minus aeroback
http://rides.webshots.com/phot.....8210gGqOoW
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January 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Would be pretty cool to have that 300SL sitting in my backyard…even if it was in that state..LoL.
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January 9th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Your E type Jaguar pic is a series 2 not 3. The s3 has flared wheel arches front and back, The s2 2+2 is very similar especially when the lower front panel is missing thus removing the air scoop only found on the s3.
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January 9th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Is the 12th pic a real car? It looks like a plastic prop or a toy.
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January 9th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
The Bugatti,it is the T57 Ventoux, http://www.bugattirevue.com
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January 9th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
^ Oz re #12
(not 100% certain) 1959 Ferrari 250 GT Pinin Farina Coupe
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January 9th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
#12 was the motorshow mockup for the tvr speed 12 and was a radical styling departure from both existing tvr’s and what the speed 12 eventually became, it was based on a fully functional cerbera prototype that the gutted, stuck a heap of fibreglass on, slotted a fancy 900bhp v12 engine in (not connected mind you)and they painted the windows so nobody could see it had no interior, was cut up and shipped to the dump when the russian business boy shut down the company and all the stuff that was left behind got carted to the tip. you can prolly find more info on www.pistonheads.com . lots of tvr nuts on there and bound to be heaps of info on this “car”
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January 10th, 2008 at 5:06 am
correction of previous post! (can’t count)
#19 1959 Ferrari 250 GT Pinin Farina Coupe
Thanks Vaggeli
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January 30th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Never would have guessed the picture of the miura I took would end up here…..For your info….the car is still there….The old lady who has it will NOT sell! Maybe one day I’ll get it!
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August 1st, 2008 at 10:31 pm
This is terrable, almost makes me cry.
Im not a merc fan but the SL certainly deserves better, its the finest car they ever made (my opinion).
The Aston, what can i say, but “WHY!”, it even looks structually intact! Few thousand hours in my shop and it would be good as new.
Dino ferrari, not my favorite but again “why”.
And then we get to the buggatti (no idea what model)……….. these people should be locked up! I cant even comprehend how someone could just leave that to rot, theres probably only afew dozen like it left ANYWHERE… its history! worth it weight in gold!
I wish I could rescue these cars…
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