Can anyone top this ?

[BertiWooster]

Parked on the drive of a house is a car ( the type / make you see on the streets of Cuba , for example i.e very old ) that has been sitting there - in the same spot - for the last 30 years plus .

All the bodywork is rotted and has been that way for the last 30 years plus

Each time I drive past - i'm tempted to stop and knock on the door and ask why they are keeping it .

What similiar example do you know of - not necessarily a motor vehicle , but an object that you would not expect to be still where it is ?

[R1Geezer]

well usually it's a restoration "project" that never got going. There's a house near me with a 60's Zephyr rotting in the front garden. The person probably doesn't even think about it anymore and if they do they just don't want the hassle of getting rid and admiting to themselves that they can't be ar5ed.

[lardhelmet]

Could have been their dear departed father/mother/granny's car and they just can't bear to get rid of it (also known as "Can't be @arsed")

[welshlibranr]

a house near me has a Ford Anglia in the garden, it's obviously been there for some years, as the it's in a corner not near the now driveway, my guess is that it was parked there before the drive was laid, I don't think it's going anywhere!..............

[wildwood]

Yeah. When my family emigrated to NZ in 1961 there was a hull of a homemade 60' concrete boat sticking out high above the 6' fence of a somewhat err... wellworn home, on the corner of two rather busy streets. Since getting married and have moved around a bit, we still try to make an bi-annual pilgrimage to NZ/australia to visit the grown family and everytime I make a point of going past that place to make sure the boat hull is still there. The property has changed hands a few times and every time the new owner has plans to finish the boat off but it recently appears that the hull is made of the wrong concrete and will sink like a stone if put in the water.

So, it has been there for at least 50 years and despite being an eyesore, it has become a bit of an icon and the council has so far not even considered serving a removal order as it is surrounded by commercial buildings, no other homes.

If you have Google Earth copy this into the search box so you can see it, at least from the top.

43°32'34.27"S, 172°39'54.85"E

hope it works.

[jno]

is that Nathan Astle's sister over the road? He hit the fastest test double century, against England a few years back. Christchurch boy.

[rojash]

My next-door neighbour has an enormous silver coach rotting in his garden. Periodically he turns up with a load more junk to shove inside it.

[mibn2cweus]

Possible link to Wildwood's boat: http://maps.google.co...&cbp=12,303.8,,0,8.74

(click on box at upper right of image to expand to full screen)

[R1Geezer]

Heres' the zephyr:
http://maps.google.co...&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

[R1Geezer]

sorry link didn't work

[R1Geezer]

try this:
http://tinyurl.com/324bznb

[BertiWooster]

Here it is - (click on box at upper right of image to expand to full screen)

http://maps.google.co.uk/

[BertiWooster]

Well that didn't work - did it .

What have i done wrong chaps ? - i've got the google picture up on screen - i've copied and pasted the address bar

[jno]

Geezer, I think that's a 50s Consul rather than a 60s Zephyr - Zephyrs had chrome boot handles, Consuls' were painted. (My uncle had one.) He probably can't move it because of the fence.

So Berti, that's somewhere between Bergen and Santander?

[merciasounds]

For as long as I remember, there has been this not shed exactly, not that big, but can you imagine a wooden structure with a roof on it, say - something the size that would house a toilet. Anyway in the high wind storms during the 1980's, a tree blew down and half demolished it - and it's STILL there now, the tree has long gone. Curiosity got the better of me one day last year and I parked up, checked for any marauding bulls in the field and went and had a peep - it housed a stand-pipe tap! But I don't know why they either don't fix it or pull it down, the farmer has to drive the tractor around it !

[BertiWooster]

jno - behave

All the above links, have letters and numbers after the .co.uk
There isn't any letters or/and numbers in the ULR which brings up the picture

If anyone can suggest what to do , then i'll have another go - i'm not a teccki at this stuff

[R1Geezer]

You're probably right jno,. I'll have a closer look next time. I think the fence may be more recen than the car, otherwise how could the car be put there?

[R1Geezer]

Berti, if you get to the picture you want then clink on "Link" top right then you can cut the actual link, I recomend using tinyurl otherwie it's massive.

[R1Geezer]

Hey jno, the fence panel would slide out, to get the car out.

[BertiWooster]

Try this

http://tinyurl.com/2wfessh