Being Russian, I bet half of them still work.
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Abandoned Vehicles Thread.
- Thread starter clio_mad
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Being Russian, I bet half of them still work.
S2000
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2004 1.5 DCi 80 Dyna
My claim to fame, I took the pictures below (check out my name in the dust on the car)...
A few more from Rover...
Also some other abandoned cars I have found not in car factories...
And if a burnt car wasn't enough...
Longbridge Car Plant...
A few more from Rover...
Also some other abandoned cars I have found not in car factories...
And if a burnt car wasn't enough...
Mate i cannot believe you are on here.
I saw those pictures on 28dayslater many moons ago when you first posted them and was just sat goggle eyed with my jaw on the floor. They were what got me interested in urbex'ing. Amazing.
That prototype TF always makes me wonder what if, and in a very schoolboy way the stories of complete cars with the keys sat in them make my mind race.
Awesome stuff.
On a seperate note, a mate of my dads has some really nice cars rotting away in his garden or in his warehouse. He's got some serious money, just buys cars off my dad, astons, E30 M3's, loads of stuff, uses them for a couple of weeks then doesn't use them again. He will not sell any of it either, he got a brand new Volvo S40 that was bought through an insurance company but wasn't recorded but was flooded etc, Volvo found out a couple of years later, he never used it and they wanted to buy it back off him, they could only get him to budge when they offered him a brand new one! Crazy guy lol Might ask the old man if we can go down one day and ill take the camera.
2004 1.5 DCi 80 Dyna
Thanks for the appreciation, it's much appreciated
If you liked my Rover stuff, then you might like my other photography...
www.photoaddiction.co.uk
2004 1.5 DCi 80 Dyna
Oh and btw...
There was a car, complete, with keys in and you could start it (I think, I got to the 2nd stage of ignition before I chickened out of turning the engine over as it would have echoed all the way to the security hut!)
The following pictures are of that car, these pictures are exclusives as they have never been posted on the internet before (the one you see inside the car was unfortunately hand held so a bit blurry, but you can see the dash lights from me turning the ignition key)...
There was a car, complete, with keys in and you could start it (I think, I got to the 2nd stage of ignition before I chickened out of turning the engine over as it would have echoed all the way to the security hut!)
The following pictures are of that car, these pictures are exclusives as they have never been posted on the internet before (the one you see inside the car was unfortunately hand held so a bit blurry, but you can see the dash lights from me turning the ignition key)...
rctempire
ClioSport Moderator
Is it actually possible to go see that plant now?
Oh and btw...
There was a car, complete, with keys in and you could start it (I think, I got to the 2nd stage of ignition before I chickened out of turning the engine over as it would have echoed all the way to the security hut!)
The following pictures are of that car, these pictures are exclusives as they have never been posted on the internet before (the one you see inside the car was unfortunately hand held so a bit blurry, but you can see the dash lights from me turning the ignition key)...
Fuuuuuuuuuu
Truly, everyone literally stopped what they were doing and walked out.
I cant tell you how nice it is to know the rumours i had heard were true!
Thanks mate
2004 1.5 DCi 80 Dyna
Officially no explorer has been to the plant with permission bar one in 2006 who documented all the tunnels I have done (there are more still out there).
Since MG Motors UK Ltd. got the contract for the conversion of TF's to right hand drive, it has been impossible to organize a trip, however people have been in, in 2009 there were about 3 trips of other explorers going in. Apart from all the body shells that have been removed and a selection of new cars made, nothing has changed.
They have however had multiple thefts from the site, mainly cabling and a few items from the flight shed (research and design area), this now means the area is patrolled by 2 separate security companies and a 3rd company watches the CCTV externally.
You can get in, but it is a fair amount of effort, not like it was in 2007, then you went through a gap in the fence, up a hill and in the door. It took less than 2 minutes.
rctempire
ClioSport Moderator
I see some cars are registered.
So why havent they been sold as road legal cars then?
So why havent they been sold as road legal cars then?
Love this thread. Cool pics Derelict!
2004 1.5 DCi 80 Dyna
found these 2 hidden in a back street in B'ham...
2004 1.5 DCi 80 Dyna
They have stripped a fair amount of it, it doesn't look like the pictures any more.
They have been building a new assembley line for a new model but that has gone over its completion date. I doubt very much if they will continue to build cars in Longbridge after this new model, it will be cheaper to make everything overseas.
That and the company who own the building site around it want to buy the factory land for redevelopment.
If it closes, I will go back to photograph the tunnels we have found entrances to since but never visited before (these are all new un-photographed tunnels too)
They have been building a new assembley line for a new model but that has gone over its completion date. I doubt very much if they will continue to build cars in Longbridge after this new model, it will be cheaper to make everything overseas.
That and the company who own the building site around it want to buy the factory land for redevelopment.
If it closes, I will go back to photograph the tunnels we have found entrances to since but never visited before (these are all new un-photographed tunnels too
)
2004 1.5 DCi 80 Dyna
most were built to be used as factories in the event of bombings during WWII so they could produce military equipment 24hrs a day bombing raid or not.
Another pic to add, found it in a multi-story...
More on there way
Some pictures lifted of RTOC of Mark Fish... repost?
