jacko

there a bunch of lads that are ball into bmw,s and have a unit near us where they store and work on there own cars and they pop round to see us all the time

was talking to one of them the other day and he is a lucky fucker to nsay the leist

he was talking cars to some one and they told him they knew of an old bmw at a quarry so he went to have a look justout of interest thinking it would be hanging due to being sat in a quarry for years

it was infact sat in the carpark and had been there for years .no one knew who owned it and it had been sat for about 20 years

the owner of the quary basicly sold him it for £20 to put into tea money for the lads that work there

best bit is its totaly standard with no rot and its a 2002 alpina

Escy

Can't believe that one. You telling me that between the owner of the quarry and all the lads that work there, over a 20 year period, none of them worked out what it's worth?

You sure he's not pulling your leg. Even my gran in her 80's would know it's worth more than £20.

S1MATT

restored to decent condition, don't mean show he is lookin at havin a rare as fook motor or a fat wedge in his pocket! Looky Fooker!
Fair play!

andy escos

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yep that is a good find they must be like rocking horse shit nowa days .good car to in its day .

jacko

the cills normally fall of them this hasnt even got flaiky paint on them lol

wish i knew where stiff like this was

was talking to an old guy yesterday for ages who knows of a rs1800 a 2002 turbo and a csl all within 5 milles of middlesbrough that just sit doing nothing

nugnah

nice find, my best mate used to have a 5 series alpina, very quick, think it was a B5 or B7 1984/1985 reg. Dolphin grey and he paid a fortune to get decals from sytners.

jason

steanlol

It's a hard one to believe like said really , if i'd been working there for just a week i'd of been interested in finding out about it and it's weird nobody else did .

I reckon he could be pulling your leg a bit
20 years sat in a car park at a quarry , i've worked in and near places like that and the dust and muck thats in the air , and there's no flakey paint on it .

I'll reserve judgment on this one

jacko

he even showed us the pics on his phone

its blue and all the inlet and stuff is in the boot but other than that its all in one peice

dannyblackpool

how can a 2002 car have been sat for 20 years????? or am i being stupid?

jacko

yeh lol its the model not the year lol
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Dangerous Malcolm..

2002 is the model, not year!

-beefy-

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afpmsl at this , when i spoke to pete it had been sat at that quarry for four years

not twenty lol ,

scoobypete

RST

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Great find

Rhys

I love 2002's get some pics up of it.

dave cos4x4

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lucky man.

jacko

thats what the lad who actualy bought it told me so thats what i have wrote that ok with you

Ollie.

I smell shite

cozzy jeff

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cud of been 24 years!!!

4u2nvrs

i found the back to future car behind a bill board in safways carpark lol
i also smell bull poo poo, this forum cracks me up.
wake up and get ya face out of ya cornflakes pmsl

thebigyin

im not saying its shite as the op dont strike me as the type...but an alpina model 2002 sitting there for all those years and no one bothering with it? i doubt it, i think the chap is at it.

righthooker

i think some one is puling your pisser Jacko, 20 years is a fooooking long time for no questions to be raised,,, 4 plausable, but i would be asking questions after a week lol,,, i want to see the tax disc

morcheen

just checked it aint april 1st .who wouldn't check out somethings worth these days,the net makes it a 5 min job.but just maybe the bloke who has the mine is simple

jacko

they still happen we all know that

when i know is at his ill get pics

rickbartlett

look forward to the pics

Escy

Get him to take pictures of his pet Unicorn also

R4N SS

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love 2002s - get the pics up and jammy cnt

stigger_darlo

my cousin was told about a beemer in a quarry a couple of months ago. hopin this aint it or it could of been his lol

dawesy1700

yes this is the one dude, ask your mate if he wants the twin 40 webber manifolds that my mate took off it bout 6 months ago, n yes, the carbs were still on it, they're now on his mk1 escort, lol, n i dont know bout it bein an alpina, my engine builder who took the parts never said it was an alpina, he said it had a 2.0ltr in it, which i had dibs on, but he never got round to collectin it, nevermind, ggrrrr, hahaha

timrud

Did the quarry owner have keys/logbook then?

dawesy1700

not when my engine builder was wantin it, the story i got told was that the previous owner of the quarry had driven it in n left it there bout 4 year ago, no keys or logbook, n my builder didnt want to smash the steering lock to move it, but i cant be sure. though i would imagine that when he applies for a new logbook, the dvla always contact the previous owner and ask if its no longer their vehicle, he could say yes i want it back, that would b interesting, so to speak.

P412KER

Was the lad who got it from thorntree?

rs-tuner

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So basically he payed £20 to steal a car

dawesy1700

hahaha, suppose you could look at it like that, i dont know where the law stands, if its been left on private property for a long time i guess they have a right to get rid of it, but he may not be able to claim it as his and put it on the road, but then again, he could just break it for spares.

mozzy

no because there is a law covering this kind of thing, cant remember exactly what it is but if a car is left abandoned for a certain amount of time and unclaimed it can be acquired providing you apply to the dvla for a log book, the dvla then send a letter to the owner giving them 14 days to object if they ignore the letter after 14 days a log book will be sent to the person the applied for it making them the keeper, obviously it is adviseable to try and find the original owner first and check but if the owner of the car park where thew car was found does not know who it is, its on his property untaxed etc then he could pretty much do what he like withg it..
a mate of mine had a similar thing a few years back, he was buying a genuine ex btcc renault 19 16v that was originally driven by alain menu his plan was to make it road legal keeping the original btcc looks but with a basic williams engine and box etc but as the car was lhd he could not get hold of things like the pedal box etc very easily, he then heard of a dumped lhd renault 19 through the forums that was orriginally on polish plates , he contacted the police, they said if the car goes 6 months unclaimed he can take it. I am not sure what the outcome was and wether he ever actually went through with it all though

timrud

The car was on private land so you cannot reclaim it from the DVLA because it is untaxed.

mozzy

i used to work in a breakers yard, every car in our yard was untaxed and on private land, the dvla still have it on record as some of the cars we repaired and sold on we always just applied for the log book, never had a problem

timrud

I didn't explain myself very well.

You cannot keep an untaxed car in a public place so you risk it been reclaimed.

I can keep as many untaxed cars as I want on my land, and nobody has a right to them because of there tax status.

mozzy

i get you now, and i would imagine this bmw has probably never been sorned

timrud

What happened with cars that were not taxed when SORN started? I guess this is what happened to this car?