jr
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[quote="Al Rush"]This isn't all about Fords, but it interested me, so I thought you might like a look. Ok, there now follow some pics of crashed cars, which may upset some people. If so, I apologise in advance. The thread will take aeons to load up too, so go and put the kettle on now. Anyway, today, I went to the Universal Salvage auction house in Beds for a preview of what they had coming up for sale. I was lucky enough to travel by Bentley Type R. WHAT a car, but thats another story..
The place is amazing, its where we bought our trackie Rolls a few months back, and they have a fascinating and diverse selection of vehicles for sale. Lots of them tell a tragic tale, but as was said to me earlier, they’re just lumps of metal when all’s said and done. You can spend hours wandering around, playing fantasy car buying games. I’d go for a Porsche 968 I think, that’d do me. Or perhaps that Fireblade Fury. Maybe even that S Class Merc (that’ll make someone a cracking buy and no mistake). More than likely though, a vandalised Bentley for a few grand, and then lpg it. You may be interested in the Fords, scattered throughout.
To my way of thinking, buy elsewhere and you can pay cheap money for a car, that’ll have a mark up on it, and be possibly crap. Here, you’re paying not a lot of money for a car, which mainly is only off the road because it has had a prang. Choose wisely and you’ll never go wrong. If you want to go, get in touch and we’ll meet up for a brew. The auction is on Sept 16th for most of these, see the link at the bottom for more info, or the ad in the next issue of PPC.
Here are a selection of the cars, there are literally farsands there, so apologies if even my small selection takes so long to load up, there are lots of fots. Keep an eye out for the new Astons further down, and the promo Jags which were as new, but destined for the crusher. They are all jumbled up too, and there are too many for captions. I should point out that some of the cars with people around them are NOT destined for the auction, they were far too good for that. 'Enjoy' is probably the wrong word, but I hope you appreciate the cars in the fots, every one tells its own story I guess.
ALERT ALERT!!! .........
The flag lasted longer than the car..
Hell hath no fury like..?
 
NO’OOOOOOO...
 
[Edited on 17-12-2006 by mav]
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Robin
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Adam-D
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fucking hell there some random stuff there
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Jamie
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The bemmer at the end - CHRIST
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James
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Location: Surrey
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Did that pigeon have a curry the night before?
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corb
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Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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That astra makes me feel sad 
Red mini, blood 
Some nice looking motors in there
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MarkM
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Registered: 11th Apr 01
Location: Liverpool
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Surely them cars have lots of parts still resellable?
That Lancia must be still worth a few bob
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CorsAsh
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That's like a sweet shop  I want to go! Shame about that astra, just proves that car + nitro mors doesn't mix.
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Robin
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that's quite near me, I might pop down and have a look one day 
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VegasPhil
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Location: Fareham, Hants Drives: Octavia VRS
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Jesus!
I reckon the Valeter took this one for a cheeky spin round the block 
Tyre Shine, and the Interior Looks pretty mint. 
Rolls Royce thing that was on its way to a wedding by the look of it makes me sad. Astra is . And the beemer at the end .
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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SAL
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is this sale in september did you say 
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Ojc
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What idiot done that to that Astra, needs to be hung.
All those nice cars and I am moaning about the Astra 
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dannymccann
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it amazes me how people can have cars such as jaguars, astons beemers etc end up here, just take ur fecking time comes to mind???
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Joe
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Not always that simple, found this on my local forum today
http://www.southportforums.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=50368281
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
Location: Maidenhead, Drives: VXR Arctic
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I want that cossie
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JM_16v
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Location: Essex Drives: GLC63S
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i want the lancia delta some very nice cars there... lots of pics
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TNM
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Location: Nottingham Drives: VW Tiguan
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some very nice cars. some dont seem to have much damage though
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GT4Brody
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woah, some nice cars there, bet members of the public cant just turn up there??? some of those cars must only be cat c,s or d,s prob just beyond economical repair due to ferrari, porsche aston etc labour charges....
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Jules
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Registered: 26th Nov 04
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Those poor Porsche 911's!
Give me any of them, but especially this red one:
Timeless classic - so sad to see it sitting there unloved
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
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we do alot of work for people who buy cars there and you can get soem cheap stuff for sod all money if you kinow what your buying!
Ive never been there personally but would ove to go as it is huge!
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gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
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i feel sad after seeing that.
Shame about the astra as it seems to be only the paint. Some of the others had be properly pranged though
Drives supercharged Tec with torque  
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abdus
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EarlofBarnet
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Location: West Cumbria
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What a mint scrappie! We have nothing like that around here, ours are full of rotting mk2 astra's etc.
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Carl
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WHats the crack with that place? i don't get it? Most have wheels on and leather left in, is it not open to the public or what, or do they not sell bits on etc?
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Ryan_G1
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Registered: 29th Aug 05
Location: East Ayrshire
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Its not a scrap yard, its a salvage auction
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