| Author | Message | ||
     Geoff Wootton Grand Master Username: dounraey Post Number: 741 Registered: 5-2012 |
No comment. Can't think of anything to say.  | ||
| richard george yeaman Grand Master Username: richyrich Post Number: 302 Registered: 4-2012 |
Geoff that must be a first for you, I wonder where in the world that this car would get sitting there with all these parts still left on it I wonder how long the flowers will last when all the bright stuff gets stolen. Richard. | ||
| Geoff Wootton Grand Master Username: dounraey Post Number: 742 Registered: 5-2012 |
Richard Lol. You're right. I guess the security cameras will keep the car intact. Alcorn's say on their website it's a scrap car, but it does make one wonder if they realise the value of all that brightwork and the other parts. Geoff | ||
| Brian Vogel Grand Master Username: guyslp Post Number: 1349 Registered: 6-2009 |
I have to say that most people have no idea of the value of the parts from these cars. There was a one-series Shadow that I used to pass in Berkley Springs, WV, that sat at the back of the same auto parts store for over 10 years, and was visible from the road. A bit after that it was sold or given to a used car dealer just down the road (and having looked at the condition of the interior alone, it was only suitable for parts after the amount of time it sat). I never noticed a thing stolen from it in all that time. I had no idea of what most of the parts were worth on my cars at one time. It's sad to me that the cars are worth far more parted out than as fully functioning automobiles. Thus is the current situation with the SY (and SZ too, I'd say) series cars. Brian | ||
| Robert Noel Reddington Frequent User Username: bob_uk Post Number: 58 Registered: 5-2015 |
Although the value of the parts is high. What happens is that the popular parts sell well but once sold its gone. Then you get left with 3/4 of a car nobody wants. Depends on how long you are prepared to sit on the parts. | ||
| Vladimir Ivanovich Kirillov Prolific User Username: soviet Post Number: 275 Registered: 2-2013 |
This photo is the ultimate in bad taste. I would not do that to a Shadow even if I was a billionaire. That said, if the parts go missing I am the one in the balaclava on the CCTV. | ||
| Brian Vogel Grand Master Username: guyslp Post Number: 1351 Registered: 6-2009 |
Vladimir, Until or unless you get an SY series car with standard coachwork, don't you dare show up there in your balaclava!! There are others that might be there ahead of you and we'd hate to have to hurt you!! Brian | ||
| Bill Coburn Moderator Username: bill_coburn Post Number: 1569 Registered: 4-2003 |
Seriously it would be interesting to get some pictures of SY 'conversions' for reference. Hopefully not in the Alcorn style but still at least useable. Locally we have a station wagon which is in regular use and somewhere there is one with a wobbler protruding through the bonnet. The Australian Govt had 2 four door cabriolets both of which finished up in The States many years ago. | ||
| richard george yeaman Grand Master Username: richyrich Post Number: 303 Registered: 4-2012 |
BILL I haven't seen one of those for a long time WOBBLER that is!!!! Richard. | ||
| Robert Noel Reddington Frequent User Username: bob_uk Post Number: 59 Registered: 5-2015 |
I suppose as a landmark the shadow works. But I see no connection to flowers. I raided the place last night with some leprechauns and dead headed the flowers. Planting flowers in old cars is an old idea. Normally a 2CV. I want the over riders. My two front ones are horrible. I replaced the rear with new in 92 and they were 86 quid each. Now near 300 quid each. Hence a recent posting from me suggesting a way of how to make. I wonder what the triangular hole in the back is for. |
