Neil@FastFord

fair play to ya mate , cant fault ya at all. i cant say id be happy if that was my car BUT if id claimed a cozzy for £450 id be one happy chappy!

essexrsturbo

whos the pikey fook now who cant even afford a motor

AlexF

I cant stop laughing at all the jelous people on here!

He got it cheap DEAL WITH IT!

matts1

I think the owner could possibly have parked it up, gone off to do something, been in an accident or took ill and died and nobody was aware that he owned the car, or where it was.

Could have been single, with elderly or no parents, family that didn't really know what the car was worth so took no notice of it and didn't notice it wasn't about!

May have lived in a flat and so tax reminders and the dvla letter would have been ignored

If the owner was arrested and sent down, he would have had a crowny collect it for him.

FordKid

love to see pictures of how it look now, would'nt yous?

ryan_belfast

Maybe, it was involved in a Gang murder.

Maybe, the driver was stopped at lights, trailed out of the car, shot in the face, then buried down a ditch

Alps Pacino

What is the owner thinking. It would be good to hear the previouse owners story or where they are now and why it got left.

MWF

yeeessssss and?

RSCossieGaz

iTrader: (6)

lol to all the folks who think its stealing

i went through all the correct procedures to get this dvla,police etc so i did absoulutely nothing wrong. c'mon its not like the car was a month or 2 out of tax this was 2 1/2 YEARS OUT OF DATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the moment i saw that i thought right im gonna do something about this because i could guarante someone else would.

me and my mates still to this day cant think why or explain why it was left just parked yes parked on a public road for so long,dont know how long it was there before i came across it but as stated before tax was well out of date.

the only bit of damage on the car when i went to see it after getting log book was to the drivers door the top part had been wenched ajar abit so someone had also clocked on it had been standing.

well this all happened end of 2002 start of 2003 and today im afraid i no longer own the car i sold it to a mate who when heard about all this wanted 1st dabs at it.so i sold it to him in the state i got it as in the pics you see ant the start of the thread(and yes he knows full well the full story of how i got it,made a dam good bit of money on it too)

heres how she looks today




and yep the reg plate has been changed since

boXXer

i think its a wicked story. Good on ya mate!

dave cos4x4

iTrader: (5)

thats one way to get a cheap escort cossie.




Dave.

Tylow77

Fair play to you mate .....................but while reading lots of the other posts just got me thinking bout Sean Bean going to get his Merc in essex Boys

Mike C

iTrader: (1)

all I can say is well done. All the legal ins and outs are another matter tho. As said about "Mr. Armed Robber", could be dodgy even if it all legal ad above board, but I wish to god someone would point out to me an abandoned car like that that I could get for peanuts

ryan_belfast

I too also say fair play to you....the twat was stupid enough to leave the car there for 2/3 years, obviously they have no intention of having it....fair play...

Wanna sell me the gearbox out of it

Mike C

iTrader: (1)

just out of interest, obviously you won't answer this if u don't want to, but how much have you spent in total from 1st enquiring about the car to how it looks in the new pics u just posted?

EIL132

For a car like that to be lying all that time and police, pikeys, traffic wardens, typical little scrubbers, etc not to notice, then good luck. Must be a big time gangsters car

bassboy

Gaz what road was that parked on how the fook did i miss it

good find and fair play to ya! went through the correct channels and no one came forward!

as for the druggies around our area....none of them owned a Cossie not the ones you have to worry about anyway

bassboy

RSCossieGaz

iTrader: (6)

where i found it wasnt amillion miles from where i use to work

Tony Rs

iTrader: (9)

anyone that doubts this story believe me this as real as it gets, i still to this day cant believe how lucky gaz is for getting it in the first place i always say to him its like winning the f#cking lottery its a one in a million chance, specially with an escort cossie
and as said before its 100% legal and everything was done right

CarCrazyChick

Bloody hell your a bit lucky aren't ya

Didn't realise you could do that with abandoned vehicles

Fair play to ya tho m8 what a find

RSCossieGaz

iTrader: (6)

well now you know it can be done,what put the idear in my head was that tony mentioned someone he knew had done simular thing to a fiesta and got it.

BILLY

I don't blame the previous owner. I would of dumped the bag of sh*t too

saff_cossie

Thats a really good story, just read this thread right through.

What type of road was it sitting on as I used to come accross stolen and dumped cars fairly regularly in the country near my parents place (one even had a safe in! ) but they were always stripped or burnt by kids who would have walked miles to get there. I used to see them on my training rides when out in the sticks.

I reported the odd one to the Police but they were always cleared within a day or so.

Cool story though. I wonder if anyone on hear knows or knew the previous owner being such a huge site.

Cue all the people now wandering the streets looking for cars with out of date tax by a day or two and the DVLA being inundated!

Fudgey

iTrader: (4)

my 3 doors got no tax

but its in me garage

and you can fook off if you think your avin it

R4N SS

iTrader: (6)

well done Gaz

Demon

That’s a cool story dude, I can understand why the dvla gave you the car. U gotta at it in the sense that if say an old guy owned it and had passed away and knowone has taken the car then why should it just sit there. So that’s a damn good bargain for a car though aint it £450 for a cossie damn cool, wouldn’t even get my car for that.

U defo cant get arrested for theft as you’re the registered keeper of the car so basically in the eyes of the law its your car now. Only thing the original owner could do is to take it up with the DVLA, as if they are gonna bother after leaving it there for 4 years.

Phil

iTrader: (1)

Seen it done a few times, all perfectly legal and above board. If you don't like it then write a letter to someone importnat telling them so

rstoughy

iTrader: (5)

Well done and top marks for trying

If it had been my car id be hacked off if someone done that to me but then again i wouldnt leave mine at the side of the road for 2+yrs

Way te go

Robmk6

dunno if its already been said once, but did it not have a hooge steering lock?

Gra

was the car ok? i mean was there any reason for it being left? ie blown engine or anything or did it start fine and had no probs?

rog

iTrader: (2)

Jammy git, i'm sure anyone else would have done the same thing given the circumstances despite what they say. I think anyone that "forgets" about there car for about 2 1/2 years isn't really going to be that bothered, and having gone through the PROPER channels you have the law on your side. Best of luck to you mate!

Doh

i doubt it would of been there since 2000, it must of been somewhere else since then and maybe got moved there shortly before Gaz found it... by who and why is pretty irrelevant

no contact from the existing owner is fairly easy to explain, what if he/she had moved? DVLA maybe send a letter or 2, new house owner sticks it straight in the bid (LOL i know i do)

D19 STE

Nice one mate and to think if you had got it as soon as you got your papers it wouldnt of been nicked and it could have been yours for free

ronf42

iTrader: (2)

a guy I used to know had a turbo'd orion and he left it in his ex missus' garden when they split up, after a while , he still hadn't done anything about the car and his ex got onto the cops with regard to possesion. they said that as it hadnt been taken away it was the 9/10ths of the law thing and she broke it for parts , the coont didnt have a leg to stand on , and he is a tosser to boo

A.Moore

Did you HPi it ? If the owner was not bothered about it, then why would they park it and put a huge steering lock on it?

Doh

maybe it was abit like the ebay esprit his misses got the arse, drove off in it and parked it somewhere to pish him off but forgot were! he didn't wanna look stupid down the cop shop "err.. my missus lost me cossie" so gave up on it... LOL i bet she got a few digs to the kidneys

FordKid

Doh, are u talking bout the wife of a radio dj who put his sports car on ebay for 0.50P coz he said he'll leave his wife and kid for that ugly rich bitch jodie bird with sacky tits??????

AD-RS1600i

I bet the original guy who owned it is probably either dead, locked up, or on the run in another country, that's just something you don't forget to take care of...... Might even be a lottery winner or something?



Fair play though, and well done, if you didn't have it someone else would have done!!

RSCossieGaz

iTrader: (6)

exactly what me and me mates reckon- theres no other reason why u would just leave a car like that