Only In London......

[MancMike]

You can come and wash mine, although mine is a bit cleaner than that.

Where's the fun in that? Leave it under a tree for 2 years and I'll come clean it for you. :bannana:

 

[jaymanek]

Thats nothing.... Just look in the car parks to the rear of the Park Lane hotels... Ferraris just sat there for years on end, never used as the owners just keep buying newer models and never bothering to sell the old ones.

 

[Darrell]

There is a thread like this on the Alfa owners club showing a seemingly abandonned SZ in Hammersmith.

A pal of mine traced it with help from Google Earth and 2 other pals that are black cab drivers.

A stunning car with loads of potential but the owner won't sell (yet).

 

[DSM10000]

When we were buying the house a few years ago the owner asked if we would like him to leave the boat that was in the barn, he said that he had spent 5 years building it but would not have time to use it now he was moving to central Scotland, a quick look at the boat, the barn door and the door frames showed that there was no way the boat was ever going to leave intact, the barn is a listed building so taking it apart was not the easiest proposition. I declined his kind offer but made it a condition of sale that the boat was gone, either as a whole or in component form and the barn, if partly disassembled was put back to as it was before...................

 

[Howard]

A surprising amount of that goes on , there was a chap in teddington who built a large sailing boat in the garden of his terraced house. Took years , was craned out by an enormous crane in the end.

Trevor Baylis , who invented the clockwork radio and lives just down river from us , built a classic mercedes in his back garden , he lives on an island with pedestrian access only. It's still there , you can see it if you go past in a boat

Another neighbour of a local friend built a plane in his back garden , he's a well respected motoring journalist , another crane job. When the propeller was delivered , the chap wasn't in so she signed for it and put it in her hallway ! Huge great thing !

 

[BTB 500]

When my grandparents bought a 3-storey house in East Molesey there was a mast in the stair well ... I think it had to be cut up to be removed ?!

 

[Howard]

I used to work for a removal company and on this job one day there was a fantastic old wardrobe in the main bedroom that wouldn't come out because the owner had had a loft extension done that dropped the ceiling in the staircase too much.

Any ideas ? Says he

Yes sure , cut it in half we say , thinking take the doors off , cut the top , down the back and across the bottom , and get a chippy to join it all back together at the new place. You'd never see the cuts , and this thing was beautiful , French polished and glossy.

Off we go to move things from other rooms , shuh shuh , shuh shuh , shuh shuh we hear from the other room

All done , the owner announces, we go in there and were literally speechless for a couple of seconds. He'd sawn it horizontally although to be fair he had taken the doors off.

Ruined. Scrap.

 

[jotter22]

There is a thread like this on the Alfa owners club showing a seemingly abandonned SZ in Hammersmith.

A pal of mine traced it with help from Google Earth and 2 other pals that are black cab drivers.

A stunning car with loads of potential but the owner won't sell (yet).

Should see the stuff left in Dubai airport carparks!

Tony.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

I used to work for a removal company and on this job one day there was a fantastic old wardrobe in the main bedroom that wouldn't come out because the owner had had a loft extension done that dropped the ceiling in the staircase too much.

Any ideas ? Says he

Yes sure , cut it in half we say , thinking take the doors off , cut the top , down the back and across the bottom , and get a chippy to join it all back together at the new place. You'd never see the cuts , and this thing was beautiful , French polished and glossy.

Off we go to move things from other rooms , shuh shuh , shuh shuh , shuh shuh we hear from the other room

All done , the owner announces, we go in there and were literally speechless for a couple of seconds. He'd sawn it horizontally although to be fair he had taken the doors off.

Ruined. Scrap.

I'm guilty of something similar.

Moved to a Victorian house and the owner had left some furniture including a damp old 3 piece suite.

Eventually we replaced all their old stuff and the last was a dining table and the 2 chairs from the 3 piece.

Furniture dealer takes the table and comments that it was a shame we didn't have the settee to go with them as together they would be worth a few quid - that's the same settee that I had sawed in half to get it out through the front door then.

 

[Wearsthefoxhat]

Should see the stuff left in Dubai airport carparks!

Tony.

And the car parks at both ports !!!!


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