Abandoned cars and barn finds picture thread!!!!!
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Ops, my bad for not fully realising that we are talking about that RX7. I got confused a bit.It was a very popular car in the early D1GP days some 18 years ago, and the car's owner left it in a field to rot since about 2002-2003 I'd say. Old school D1/Drift fans in general regard that car as a bit of a deity because of just how "cool" it was, even if it couldn't really drift all that well. That was before drift cars were built like drag cars made to go sideways, a much simpler, affordable and accessible era, where style was a more important thing than having 90 degrees of angle and 900hp.
Either way, someone found it in that field and decided to raise some funds to bring it back to life and make it look exactly like it did back in the day, but that's apparently not the case anymore.
So it's supposed to look like this:
But probably never will ever again.
Funilly enough, most of the "famous" drift cars from the early D1GP era are still alive and kicking in some way or other. The HKS Silvia that Taniguchi used to drive is now one of the Falken demo cars, Kazama's S15 resides in Norway somewhere, Kumakubo and Tanaka's S15s are still at Ebisu and have been converted to rally cars, Ueno's Soarer is still in his possession, Imamura's FD3S went to Apex'i USA and is also one of the Falken demo cars, and I think even Ueo has his Trueno still.
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Edit: Oops I posted in the wrong thread, please ignore!
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Came here to post that one, someone in the comments over there suggested it might be an ex-Yakuza car that's been left there to rot. Whatever the case, even with faded paint and flat tires, it just hammers home the fact Ferrari/Pininfarina have currently totally lost the plot when it comes to styling.
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The last ever RHD 1973 Porsche 911 RS 2.7 was recently discovered in Trinidad, a tiny Caribbean island. Out of the 1590s RS 2.7s made, only 16 of them were offered in Royal Purple.
It will be restored back to original condition by Porsche specialist Autofarm.
It will be restored back to original condition by Porsche specialist Autofarm.
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This Ford Mustang sitting under a tree..and a Continental
There was a nice looking early 90's Mustang next to these.
Once I can, I'll take pics of the Corvettes next to an abandoned auto shop
There was a nice looking early 90's Mustang next to these.
Once I can, I'll take pics of the Corvettes next to an abandoned auto shop
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While it would be awesome to see that fully restored, it almost seems too far gone.
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- a baby, candy, it's like taking.
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Is it, though? I'm of the belief that paint and/or trim color does not contribute to rarity. And it's even rarer because it lacks a desirable feature? I'll give it to you that the Drag Pack is special (by the way, it doesn't have the SCJ unless you get the Drag Pack and the SCJ was the only engine option for the Drag Pack), but the rest of the "rareness" of it is just BS.
This seems like one of those silly Nürburgring lap records that isn't really anywhere close to a record but for a very specific set of circumstances done for publicity.
Hell, it's suspiciously like an ad for a '72 Buick GS Sun Coupe for which I saw an ad a number of years ago. "Production figures for Sun Coupes are already low, but this is the only one made in yellow with a white vinyl top and interior as well as an automatic."
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Perhaps, though any T wearing its original paint would be rare at this point. Moreover, a T from the first five years of production in original black would be rarer still, as black wasn't a publicly available color option until 1914.
But you're splitting hairs, just as the article's author has done. If "Lime Green hadn't been enough to single this one out (by the way, there was no "Lime Green" paint option for '70 Mustangs--the green options were Dark Ivy Green Metallic, Medium Lime Metallic and Grabber Green), it may have been the optional 4.30 DP axle (most buyers favored the 3.91) or Decor Group interior package; whatever necessary to get it down to "one-of-one."
I'd wager even fewer ("none-of-none") Light Ivy Yellow '70 Mach 1 DPs were optioned out sans ram air, simply because I can't see that color having been chosen.
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I don't know if this has been posted on here, but...
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Well...once I decide to post them...
...and right next door was apparently the owner of the shop, with these in the yard
Here's the Google Street View, which hasn't been updated since 2011
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If you look at the 2007 street view, you can find a very nice Rolls-Royce silver cloud II
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3 Bugatti's found in a barn in Belgium.
And one funky Citroën:
All low mileage cars. The owner was a collector who loved them for their shapes, and not so much as cars.
They were found in a shed that was barricaded by piles of sandbags.
And one funky Citroën:
All low mileage cars. The owner was a collector who loved them for their shapes, and not so much as cars.
They were found in a shed that was barricaded by piles of sandbags.
TVR maybe?
