Pictures of Rotting Vintage Cars

forget the spares, we cant help but, atleast they can maintain so that these cars dont get rusted,

its not easy to maintain these beauties napster. along with lots of money and resources, you also need lots and lots of passion to do it. most people of younger generation just think of fast cars, mods, engine remapping etc. i guess you get what i am saying.

yes i do, but atleast they need to show some respect to these oldies, they deserve some respect dude

saw 2 mustangs getting rusted in mumbai.
Will tell a friend who lives near that to send me the pics.

:frustration: people even started doing this to a mustang?
this is too much man, its a muscle car and show some respect to it :x

not just mustang napster. many great cars like ferrari are also rotting in different places.

dont make me cry now dude.. not with a ferrari now :frustration:

napster wrote:dont make me cry now dude.. not with a ferrari now :frustration:

yes. thats true. you can see one such example here.
http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/super-cars-imports-india/7292-hidden-unseen-ferrari.html

:x i would kill the owner for doing this to a ferrari

This Landmaster was a daily use car and was fitted with a
diesel (guess it was a Matador OM616) engine in the 1980's.The new silver
paintwork and the renovated woody dash with new plush interiors all done up in
the 1980's, made it appear dashing and its road presence then, in the company
of Premiers and Ambys was marked and felt.
But as they say all good things must come to an end, this car's owner-driver
passed away about five years back.His children love the car very much and do
not want to sell it at all. They have however not been using it since their
father passed away but have handed over this car to a garage for repairs and
restoration.Lets hope the car gets back on the roads as a Queen Landmaster!

That's great to hear about it. But I guess it'll require some big amount to restore this Landmaster.

wow. thats good to hear that the landmaster will be restored. :)

Wow.
I hope you will show us the final outcome as well.
:)

good that they want to restore it, lets see how it looks after restoration

Yes CC,i'm hummer freak,abhinav and napster the car will be restored but the job is yet to start. The garage people were saying that as soon as the money flow starts the job will start. Will keep you all posted.
CC I was guessing that only the body restoration will conservatively cost around Rs 50000=00 to which we can add the job to be done to the mechanicals and electricals.

50k only for the body restoration?? thats a big amount

napster wrote:50k only for the body restoration?? thats a big amount

yes napster. this is the reason people avoid restoring old cars. now you can imagine how much money will be required to restore a ferrari.

lol, but why soo much?

napster wrote:lol, but why soo much?

Working on the entire body will cost much. Once you open every part, you'd find many damaged/rusted parts and you have work on it. You can't say that only these are to be restored.

i can understand if the parts are expensive but denting and all is the same old procedure rite? i mean the same procedure followed on the cars of this generation rite?

May be anjan could help you more on this, as my knowledge is limited.

CC, napster and i'm hummer freak - it is a costly proposition. The entire body including the door panels are decaying and getting rusted, some window glasses are broken, the interiors are nothing to speak of, the tyres and tubes need to be replaced. Manual labour is involved. So a decent restoration of the bodyshell will cost that amount.
If the owner uses parts from junked Ambassadors, may be that works out cheap. Like the four doors of this car can be replaced with junked Ambassador doors that can be cheaply brought from Kolkata. And if retreaded tyres instead of new ones are put he can again save 50% costs. Many such body parts of junked Ambassadors can be planted in this car.
I got my Landmaster retouched in its original black shade, just a few months ago which had cost me some Rs 9000=00. And this silver Landmaster needs a full paint coat, after removing the rust, then welding and putting together panels that are rusted, in case the owner does not swap junked Ambassador body parts.
This is as far as the bodywork is concerned.
The Matador diesel engine, gearbox, suspensions and electrical repairs and restoration may also cost a huge amount apart from the bodywork cost estimated @ Rs 50 K.

are they going for an engine swap?

found this 1927 Austin 7. it was covered so couldnt take more pics.

napster engine swap I am not very sure. Because the mechanic siad he has to repair and make the car roadworthy.
i'm hummer freak the Austin 7 is a find.It may be one of the early examples.