Sad day for one malachite green 1994 W124 estate...

[SilverSaloon]

no not mine , but on my way to work thismorning I was held up behind a low-loader who had stopped in front of me (blocking the road) to lift an identical age & coloured W124 estate (1994 malachite green) onto a low loader, off to the pound no doubt.

its been there for about 2 years now, and in use (as it moves and i've seen it out and about too). hopefully the owner has just forgot to pay his parking permits, but i suspect it may of been abandoned....

it was quite alarming to see a 124 estate swinging around by its wheels - they wern't particually careful as far as i could see.... at one point the rear was about 45 degrees above the front of the car!

 

[219]

Mmmmmm , could be an opportunity to acquire a spares car ?

 

[Shude]

Mmmmmm , could be an opportunity to acquire a spares car ?

Only if someone else picks up the parking fines and storage costs first, might be worth more than the car!

 

[SilverSaloon]

i thought about asking the guy where it was going, but didnt as i was in a bit of a rush to work.....

i've seen the car quite a bit and its got rusty wings, very low spec, and different engine to mine so not interested in much apart from the rear bumper insert and side skirt.

 

[Charles Morgan]

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Only if someone else picks up the parking fines and storage costs first, might be worth more than the car!

I recently had a bill for £250 to remove my car from the pound - it was a foot over a suspended space and was towed at 8.30 am precisely. By 10.30 am I had collected it. Oh the joys of living in Central London.

 

[Noodle-Pulp]

I recently had a bill for £250 to remove my car from the pound - it was a foot over a suspended space and was towed at 8.30 am precisely. By 10.30 am I had collected it. Oh the joys of living in Central London.

I remember running outside one day in my boxers at 8am in SE23 to stop them towing my car once.. no joy.. I'd left my keys indoors and my front door shut behind me.. oh what a day that was...

 

[d w124]

I remember running outside one day in my boxers at 8am in SE23 to stop them towing my car once.. no joy.. I'd left my keys indoors and my front door shut behind me.. oh what a day that was...

That car was not a volvo,was it?

 

[Noodle-Pulp]

That car was not a volvo,was it?

lol nope a Vauxhall

 

[Noodle-Pulp]

lol nope a Vauxhall

and the offending spot...

 

[stevesey]

and the offending spot...

Just noticed google have fuzzed out the road name on the street sign - then added a nice little overlay with the road name.

Although it just seems so stupid - I suspect the street view photos are automatically scanned by something that fuzzes anything looking like a number plate, so the street sign "gets it".

 

[Noodle-Pulp]

Just noticed google have fuzzed out the road name on the street sign - then added a nice little overlay with the road name.

Although it just seems so stupid - I suspect the street view photos are automatically scanned by something that fuzzes anything looking like a number plate, so the street sign "gets it".

Genius!

 

[d w124]

lol nope a Vauxhall

I only asked as i`ve seen the same in brockley rise .I`m very local to you anyway

 

[SilverSaloon]

Great news!

on my way to work today i noticed the green W124 is now parked around the corner (where the lowloader stopped incidently), and a big skip is now placed where the car was parked.

i assume the council or whatever needed to put a skip there so gave warning to the owner to shift the car, they didnt, so they lifted it and put it elsewhere?

can they do this? they certainly didnt take too much care in doing so!!

but atleast the car lives on!!

:bannana:

 

[Noodle-Pulp]

I only asked as i`ve seen the same in brockley rise .I`m very local to you anyway

lol I didn't think I could be the only unlucky person in SE London.. I must add this was in 1999, I don't live in Forest Hill anymore but I'm still fairly local.

Perhaps another sidenote to this, is that after this event, I took care to park my car a little further back up the hill and it got broken into every month at least once a month until I was forced to give and up and move further away (which in itself was one of the best moves I've ever made).

Each time when I reported it the police (I stopped after the 5th time) they ummed and ahhed and said "sorry mate we're nto going to come out to see the damage, we're not covering car burglaries this week".

Twice the lock was so badly damaged that they'd manage to tear the metal around it, once the end of their screwdriver was still still in the lock, and 3 broken windows..
Every single time there was nothing on display, nothing to provoke them.. why me?!

 

[d w124]

^ Same here and i`ve moved a month ago,but still work in SE23 though

 

[Charles Morgan]

i assume the council or whatever needed to put a skip there so gave warning to the owner to shift the car, they didnt, so they lifted it and put it elsewhere?

can they do this?

In Kensington and Chelsea they put up a sign three days before the start of the residents bay suspension, except in an emergency, and they hover until 8.30 am precisely and lift the cars on the dot. I have ended up being towed away twice (the first I was in hospital unexpectedly) and almost once, during the Royal Tournament in Earls Court. That and the break-ins, keying and having one's three pointed star nicked are the downsides of living here.

 

[SilverSaloon]

car was back in usual spot again thismorning.

i wonder if its a member on here...? there is a red W124 estate, the green W124 estate and a dark blue 124 coupe all parked near eachother. also a azurite blue convertable 124 the other day i think.

 

[Lugy]

Was this Edinburgh? If so where abouts? I recognise the convertible from Stockbridge, it's just round the corner from my mum's house.