mark chandler
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 posted on 29/12/08 at 09:31 PM |
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Rust in peace, do not see many of these anymore
 
Austin 7 in the woods
Found this when walking my dogs, gradually being eaten by the woods. It still has front and rear axles, basket wheels etc, its just collapsed upon
itself with time.
Its amazing how small these little Austin 7's are, I thought my little car was small, this is in a different league!
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ashg
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 09:33 PM |
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thats sad 
im daft enough to rescue that lol. is the engine still there?
Anything With Tits or Wheels Will cost you MONEY!!
Haynes Roadster (Finished)
Exocet (Finished & Sold)
New Project (Started)
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mark chandler
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 09:37 PM |
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Engine and box gone, chassis is mostly fresh air. It has no plates so not worth digging it out.
I guess someone stripped it if useful bits 50 years ago then pushed into the woods
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chrisg
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 09:54 PM |
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One of my first memories is my dad and my grandad taking the gas axe to a V8 Ford Pilot to get rid of it.
Just an old car back then.
Cheers
Chris 
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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ashg
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 09:55 PM |
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shame
a girl i know has one in half restored state. she was meant to be restoring it with her dad but has lost interest and its been sat up for about
3years now. I keep pestering her to let me have it but she keeps saying no and that she will finish it
Anything With Tits or Wheels Will cost you MONEY!!
Haynes Roadster (Finished)
Exocet (Finished & Sold)
New Project (Started)
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StevieB
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 10:12 PM |
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Might be worth nabbing the axles and wheels and anything remotely useful - there might be abit of profit in there!
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JoelP
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 10:23 PM |
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theres a 50 year old chieftain tank rotting in the woods not far from me! 
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 10:36 PM |
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As a kid I used to play on 2 WW2 aircraft which had crashed on approach to Rufforth Aerodrome alone Grange Lane which leads to Acomb, York - I suspect
they are gone now, but I still have the compass out of one of them in my loft!
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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A1
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 10:39 PM |
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you should restore it....that would be quite some locost
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Z20let Corsa
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 11:04 PM |
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haha thats awesome. i say we get everyone that knows where things like this are to get pics. its incredible what must be lying around!!! best we get
round here is pushbikes whice have been stolen and dumped!!!!
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Simon
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 12:57 AM |
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Mark,
When I was between 11 to 15/17, used to play in/ride through (horse) the wood at Petteridge, and there was a couple of cars in a similar state back
then - now getting on thirty years ago
Happy Days
ATB
Simon
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 08:09 AM |
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That is so sad
I remember a few months ago seeing an austin 7 driving along the A27 doing 50mph in the rain
I think it is worth digging it out, if not to restore it, to put it on ebay. Make yourself a few pennies at least.
If i had a trailer, id come over and dig it out.
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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mark chandler
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 11:04 AM |
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Same for me Simon.
My friend dad had a farm so lots of 'old rubbish' left out to die including a Armstrong Siddeley so you could pretend to be Al Capone on
the running boards.
Cheers Mark
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Slowmotion
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 12:05 PM |
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I dragged an Austin 7 chassis which was very badly rusted out of a stream in Tonbridge many year ago.
It took me something like 10 years to restore but this is it now. Shows that almost anything is possible!
 
Austin 7 Ulster at Leeds Castl
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Simon
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 09:11 PM |
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Wow
ATB
Simon
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mark chandler
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| posted on 30/12/08 at 09:53 PM |
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Double wow....
Well its got 4 wire wheels, front axle with trunions, rear axle and steering box, just nothing in between really except for the windscreen surround.
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tomblyth
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| posted on 31/12/08 at 05:03 PM |
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apply for the log book ! its tax exempt!!!!
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