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Old 11-10-2009, 10:36 PM
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Default Pigeon Shed find!!! S2 Turbo

dragged this out of a lock up in preston on saturday, 3 years in the lock up with some pigeons, the smell was.... distinctive...

also in there, a 1950's rover, and the mess you can see, is bird shit

opened the door to this



dragged it outside



the rover





Old 11-10-2009, 10:39 PM
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everyone is finding cars

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Old 11-10-2009, 10:42 PM
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After dragging it out.... you pushed it back in right?
Old 11-10-2009, 10:43 PM
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lol, no took it to my mates
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is he goin to resto it aj? or strip it

cheers james
Old 11-10-2009, 10:50 PM
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Nice Find mate.
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Fuk me i used to race pigeons! It wud take years for a build up of shit like that!

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Whats with all these barn finds at the moment? lol
Old 11-10-2009, 10:56 PM
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im waiting for someone to find a 3 door in that state! it will happen!
Old 11-10-2009, 10:59 PM
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the car has been stripped already, my mate using any good bits for his 3 rs turbos, car a right mess, the seats were covered in crap, the years worth of shit has just fucked the body, its rotten as they come, poor thing
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i for one wouldnt want to be breathing in the fumes from all that shite ,

but you country boys are probably used to it lol,


ohh arrr

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I recognise that street ? just can remember where it is ?
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im used to it beefy lol

mark, it runs adjacent to brook street, just of blackpool road near what was west end toyota, automatic transmissions is next door
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Originally Posted by AJC
im used to it beefy lol

mark, it runs adjacent to brook street, just of blackpool road near what was west end toyota, automatic transmissions is next door

i thought it was next door to Grahams place, who left them in their, some old customers of grahams ?

im sure he owns most of that down there
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from what he said he rents it, and had done for 43 years!!!!

the story i beleive is some lads rented it of him and never paid him any rent, ending up doing a runner and leaving the car there, from the looks of it, some one went back and took bits of it as it is missing turbo head ecu wheels etc
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Originally Posted by AJC
from what he said he rents it, and had done for 43 years!!!!

the story i beleive is some lads rented it of him and never paid him any rent, ending up doing a runner and leaving the car there, from the looks of it, some one went back and took bits of it as it is missing turbo head ecu wheels etc

and the roof of the building with it
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minging!
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Fook me thats horrible
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U gonna lick that shit off :S lol.

That's plain rank good power wash off suppose .
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What a shitter

I wouldn't want to have to deal with that and it must smell fucking rank.

The feathers on the roof of that other car are fucking nuts!
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I was stood next to this car tonight, it honked
Old 12-10-2009, 09:45 PM
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As someone said on a similar thread the other day...why oh why do people store cars with the windows down

rover 90 in there too its been ages since I've seen one of them knocking about


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Old 12-10-2009, 09:58 PM
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Thank god it aint a mk3!
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window down again!
Old 12-10-2009, 10:13 PM
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I wouldnt have even touched it man, looks ming.
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is window down to circulait air flow aroud the interior?

I stored my car last winter and it got a bit of mould on dash and a seatbelt yet was dry inside?? I was thinking of leaving window open a inch or 2 with the breathable cover over entire car

good or bad move??
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Originally Posted by studabear
is window down to circulait air flow aroud the interior?

I stored my car last winter and it got a bit of mould on dash and a seatbelt yet was dry inside?? I was thinking of leaving window open a inch or 2 with the breathable cover over entire car

good or bad move??
Good move, I did this with my S1.
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cool, i'm takin the battery off in the morning and the covers going on
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that car looks really shitty bud.
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Originally Posted by Ollie.
After dragging it out.... you pushed it back in right?
thats some diseased up shit push it Back lol
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Originally Posted by barnard
thats some diseased up shit push it Back lol
my thoughts exactly.... wouldn't get in that even if it had been acid dipped...
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Originally Posted by kidsRS
im waiting for someone to find a 3 door in that state! it will happen!
Big Ron from our local group (C&E Scotland) did a few years ago. There was a thread on the RSOC about it.
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Originally Posted by Lee Reynolds
Thank god it aint a mk3!
You know it LOL
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would it qualify for the scrapage scheme
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Originally Posted by Turbosystems
would it qualify for the scrapage scheme

Scrap it?!

It's in betetr nick than most rst's
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Originally Posted by Lambchop
Scrap it?!

It's in betetr nick than most rst's
FLMAO
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Nice find shame its in the state its in.
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interior has cleaned up mint lol
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what did you use.................... napalm?
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Originally Posted by Smiggy
Big Ron from our local group (C&E Scotland) did a few years ago. There was a thread on the RSOC about it.
link?

and you seem to find all sorts of cars sat around ajc,do people just come to you when they want shut of a old ford
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