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From the position of the steering wheel, and I think a steering rack boot on the far side, it might by LHD.
This one is rebodied and back on the road now
as this
This is such a cool thread!
I don't have a clue as to what the answer may be, but can I suggest, @maccruiskeen, that you submit that first photo to GCN as a possible winner of the cycling inspiration category. It really is incredible. There is something about it that brings everything I love about bicycles to the surface.
Here's something a bit more modern. I know what it is after a bit of detective work a few years ago as it was abandoned (presumed stolen) around 10 years ago. It was torched shortly after it appeared in the bushes near a footpath and has been rotting set ever since. I've deliberately left out a front shot as that would give away the make by the rocker cover, I have it's registration too as that was etched onto one of the wheel trims that survived.
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I don’t have a clue as to what the answer may be, but can I suggest, @maccruiskeen, that you submit that first photo to GCN as a possible winner of the cycling inspiration category. It really is incredible. There is something about it that brings everything I love about bicycles to the surface.
Man stops on top of slag heap to eat mini pork pie and take a photo? Really?
Going to have to look at the picture again!
I should add that it seems Car 1 can definitely be be identified as a Granada - Zippy's picture of one with its bonnet open shows that the internal wing around the above the headlight is the same and confirms it. (My hunch for some reason was that it would be an 80s BMW)
Hmm...it's a transverse engine and therefore front wheel drive but the suspension and mounting points have long gone so I can't tell what it is with any degree of confidence. I would guess that it had a torsion beam at the back, the only other clues are the lamp cluster shape and the discarded tyre.
I'll go for broke - Freelander?
Nah servo location
Pug 405....
It's not French and not anything 4x4ish (although there was a 4x4 hot version), more mundane family shopping cart.
double Chain driven cams in a 4cly transverse engine, which might be a N/A deisel looking at whats left of the exhaust manifold, or that could just be the remains of an EGR system.
Enigne mounts are pretty clunky looking, especially the off side one.
It had power steering, and split fold rear seats.
Rear bumper bar looks very sustantial, too much so for a small car, and the construction of the body looks chunky too, lots of big flat folded welded bits. It's unibody though, no seperate chassis.
If it's the exhaust sticking out the back, it's small and plain
Possibly leaf sprung, as what might be the front spring hangers are visible, certainly not torsion bar, because the fuel tank is where the bars would need to go!
I suspect it's not that old, late 80's early 90's?
Any other identifying features people can spot?
I think that is a Ford Sierra, probably the hatchback version. In white.
Passat? Hunch on a couple of bits.
Single chain: the cam moved when it was torched.
Petrol.
Engine mounts are alloy and warped due to heat, same with the top of the engine.
Bumper bar is large but made of thin metal.
Exhaust is indeed very small.
Not a European manufacturer.
Similar thoughts to all of the above. Chain cam and engine mount on rhs made me think Toyota. Is that an oil filter on rear of block? Is that a bolted flange for the lh drive shaft? VW stuff is usually a bolted flange.
Ok, i'm calling it, Nissan Almera, mid 1990's spec 1.6 petrol
Here's the GA16 engine
Cam cover has the crank case breather taping in the right place
Bent "angle iron" engine mount looks right
Alternator in right place, PAS in right place, plate and lump of front cover to access cam chain tensioner in right place
Lifting eye on back of block looks v similar
What do we reckon??
Corolla?
MK 2 Granada with my working
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FORD-GRANADA-GHIA-MK2-ALLOY-WHEELS-/323837606145
https://picclick.co.uk/Ford-Granada-28-V6-Rear-Axle-NO-DIFF-252833868022.html
This one stumped me until I visited it again!
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It’s going to take some work, I know that! As to what it is, absolutely no clue whatsoever.
Ok, i’m calling it, Nissan Almera, mid 1990’s spec 1.6 petrol
Close enough! It's a 1993 Nissan Sunny reg K86 BAX. Was silver when it was dumped!
Here's the wheel trim that survived and the front of it:
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Mk2 Escort estate or van?
Upside down car is an Astra or Cavilier SRI by my reckoning?
Vauxhall always used those pressed steel lower wishbones, and 8V C20NE enigne had exhaust at the front and intake at the back,so needed the exhaust to run under the sump, and SRI had a long secondary headers to make good low down torque
too easy! next! 🙂
Ok, here's one, well sort of, here's my first "car" built, from lots of scrap cars when i was 15, and used to raz around the friendly next door farmers fields (back when they used to let you do that sort of thing....)
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Now who can name any of donor the cars from which the parts were taken???? Good luck, you'll need to be a real 1970's car nerd to get em!
Circa 1980 my dad had a Morris Marina in 'that' beige. It was called Harvest Gold. Why do I still remember that...?
here’s my first “car” built, from lots of scrap cars when i was 15
Mad Maxtorque
We roamed the Didcot badlands in the mid 1980's, looking for fuel, taking our chance on the road......... 😉
Hopefully I can play this too, by coincidence my BIL sent my wife a couple of photos he took whilst taking his daily exercise. No idea what it is though!
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2CV?
The "meteorites" are probably conglomerated mass from self combustion within the bing.
Growing up in central Scotland there were always bings that would be smoldering away, as the almost coal in the overburden would be consumed. They were know as stinky bings, I remember one we would pass after coming off the old A77 to head along the coast to Ayr year after year smoldering and reeking.
Connect2's looks like a Farina Austin Cambridge.
I think educator is nearly right but it is an A40 Farina (wipers / scuttle panel give it away). Gearbox also looks right.
Yup def A40.
4 vents by wipers, same lifting eyes etc on top of engine
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This should slow you lot up a bit... (you will have to show your workings as I have no idea myself )
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Easy, that's a Landrover Defender.....
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The “meteorites” are probably conglomerated mass from self combustion within the bing.
Ah that would make sense, The only similar 'stuff' I've seen is the remains of old 'Vitrified Forts' - fortifications where the stone is fused together by heat (of which there are also examples in Ayrshire,
For Welsh Farmer's find...
Left hand drive points towards something European maybe? You see similar wheels on Daimler / Merc Benz trucks although finding a truck with a matching grill is more of a challenge
heres a L 4500
Left hand drive, conventional pedal layout (clutch->Brake-> Accel) Art-deco "dash" embossing, Flat style pressed wheels, i'm thinking 1930's small truck, maybe from the USA? International Harvester or something - looks to be a diamond shaped badge embossed on the radiator surround. It's not a V8 though, so perhaps not......
Vertical radiator, set back from front of vehicle, suggests earlier 1930's, as by the end of the 1930's cars started to get sloped back radiators as the "aerodynamics" of aircraft started to creap into their styling.
Top of the rad surround also sloped upwards in the middle, suggests a bonnet that wasn't flat that mirrored those lines, also seen in the line of the top of the firewall bulkhead. Perhaps suggests "Car" rather than "truck" in terms of coachwork?
The only clues I can offer are that it is definitely more truck size than car, and it is on Corsica so very high chance it is French (or German from WW2). Diamond badge could point towards Renault?
Edit. The lack of surviving bodywork and the remains of some wooden paneling on the left of the bulkhead, may suggest that large parts of the cab were wooden rather than metal??
Actually the lighter duty Daimler / Merc L2500 is a closer match for the wheel but this one wouidn't be a match for the grill. Maybe someone who shared a parts bin with Daimler though?
With mention of Corsica (and hence France) I was thinking Berliet. Then searching Berliet museum I found this Renault. Wheels and hub centre nut look the same. Grille is closer than anything else I found. So something along these lines I think.
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