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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: richard on November 24, 2013, 07:55:43 PM
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hardly a new idea but i love pictures of cars totally neglected and at peace - you would find it hard to beat these - wouldn't you ? OCG 7 now owned by one of our forum members is now an award winning car
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Jim I Can't even make out a car on my small screen - must be a good 'un . Sorry malcolm great pic BUT off topic ! To be here it must be IN PEACE ! Not picked up and shown off or on a trailer or driveway - very different !
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Jims pic is a USA spec Isetta with funny lights and bumpers. A lick of Hammerite and it will be as good as new! ;D
Can a fiberglass car rust in peace ? We may have to think of an alternative title for that one.
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Well I have one so we can :)
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Jim I Can't even make out a car on my small screen - must be a good 'un .
There is also a short walk-around video that goes with that image:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTw8ea_s-0o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTw8ea_s-0o)
also- that Isetta is no longer by the river bank, it is now in my backyard garden.
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Are you keeping it as a piece of outdoor art work Jim? A Henry Moore sculpture?
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If it's a really scruffy mess it might be more like a PATRICK Moore sculpture :D
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Are you keeping it as a piece of outdoor art work Jim? A Henry Moore sculpture?
The garden is littered with other rotting bits of memories.
it can handle another one.
I don't think it is art as it is not really making a statement about anything. I just like looking at it.
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Yes indeed Richard, here are some from the archive, most will have seen the Clipper but the others have never been shared.
The red Mark G Bond (780 HPX) was only 30 feet from OCG 7
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great stuff ! and fit the criteria perfectly well cheers Nim
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Qualify?
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Just seen this on an abandoned buildings exploration site, may not be rusting but a not too common sight these days.
Very interesting website in general too, there may be more micros hidden away, who knows??
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/mansions-manors-country-houses/86075-forgotten-country-house-nr-brandon-suffolk-dec-2013-a.html
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What a find. My parents lived in Brandon but I don't recall that house.
Wonder if the pickled onions are still good.
No doubt those push-bikes will soon disappear.
Also:-
http://www.rollermobilclub.ch/waldfund/
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great stuff ! and fit the criteria perfectly well cheers Nim
Well here's another, the chassis does rust on these. In the grounds of an abandoned girls school in Kent
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68557470@N04/6327844831/in/photolist-aDaRNX-aDd8YR-aDgC8C-aDc7J2-aDc7mc-aDfhyu-aDbe6K-aDdi5r-aDd1z4-aDcGiZ-aDc1HK-aDbG6z-aDdhzT-aDgecC-aDgdF1-aDc2qD-aDaUrk-aDcYYX-aDeUXJ-aDkp18-aDaSy2-aDc6Tv-aDbUAt-aDcZrR-aDgKJS-aDcRJ2-aDcEov-aDcDQK-aDfHmj-aDbqvp-aDfdrW-aDeX7o-aDhCAL-aDdEcD-aDf2FA-aDb49v-aDckst-aDc6bR-aDfsqf-aDeXsy-aDdtKt-aDh3z7-aDgKgQ-aDbvpg-aDbtZc-aDbmUZ-aDsjTt-aDgUwY-aDd5KZ-aDcqmk-aDgd39/lightbox/?q=lillesden+college
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hi nick ! does sandra know you were looking at such dodgy sites ? :)
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hi nick ! does sandra know you were looking at such dodgy sites ? :)
Well Richard it's like this, erm, I mean, in fact, no!
These guys get a buzz from getting through security and photographing what they see, interesting but I would not do it. Saying that, several of us in our yoof went to Ribbleton Lane in the early seventies and scaled a wall festooned with Securicor guard dog notices to get our hands on a pile of Mark D petrol tanks, that was a long time ago though. As you may expect I still have one.
Here is yet another of a Mark D in Aberdeen, shame as I remember this one at both Burford and Morecambe rallies a couple of decades ago.
EHF 519, that's from Up your Peninsula is it not Richard?? (starring Kenneth Williams & Barbara Windsor of course)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marypfaeinsch/5791359738/in/photostream/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/23482975@N05/2243621535
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yep AHF/ EHF Wallasey
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I thought it was LHF 519? (About half way down the page)
http://home.clara.net/peterfrost/bond.html (http://home.clara.net/peterfrost/bond.html)
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I can't make it out on my handheld , but interestingly KHF is a plain yellow G saloon on the same page lower still . Wasn't Mr. Robb busy !
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I thought it was LHF 519? (About half way down the page)
http://home.clara.net/peterfrost/bond.html (http://home.clara.net/peterfrost/bond.html)
Well done in finding that picture, exactly as I remember it.
It is definitely EHF, as Richard has pointed out KHF is a Mark G and there were some LHF Mark Gs in the early days.
My mate Robin was an avid collector of Bond numbers at that time and he has kindly given me his spreadsheets so I can confirm that EHF 519 is a May 1957 Mark D Family (Chassis no. I / 05 / 13707RF) and Glass's guide tells me that EHF ran from November 1956 to March 1958
Trust that assists and apologies for the anorak stuff
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are you still adding to it nick ?
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or this one on Google images EHF 712 a cream MK D recent photo i cant download - sure someone else can
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or this one on Google images EHF 712 a cream MK D recent photo i cant download - sure someone else can
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/23482975@N05/2243621535
Truly amazing. That's how it used to be.
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Back to RIP
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9/10 Barry well done - have you made a resolution ? But to be properly RIP in my post the object is not meant to be positioned on beer barrels or whatever . The car should ideally have slid into obsolescance in a quiet unnoticed way .my garage is actually full of them now I think about it ;)
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I know it looks awful but its probably still restorable!
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Back to RIP
well this car is back on the road!
See more: http://www.rollermobilclub.ch/die-ultimative-kr200-restauration/ (http://www.rollermobilclub.ch/die-ultimative-kr200-restauration/)
(http://www.rollermobilclub.ch/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/PICT4972.jpg)
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Here, another collection of pics: http://www.rollermobilclub.ch/kleinwagen-wracks/ (http://www.rollermobilclub.ch/kleinwagen-wracks/)
(http://www.rollermobilclub.ch/wp-content/gallery/kleinwagen-wracks/fund2003b.jpg)
(http://www.rollermobilclub.ch/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/15019-messerschmitt-honda-50.jpg)
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absolutely AMAZING Oliver ! RESPECT
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Somewhere in Malaysia
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=574708159287634&set=gm.586483924767133&type=1&theater
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Is it 4 wheeled? If it is, rare as an elephant peeing on Blue Peter.