Practically Classics Forum

'Morse' type Jag just went by my office, heading along the A127 toward Sarfend.

Only spotted it as i happened to be on the stairs between floors at the time.

Went for a lengthy walk this morning despite the doom and gloom weather forecast it proved to be a nice sunny day.

Quiet a haul of cars too.

This Ford 100e Prefect:



Very rusty and lop sided Beetle:



Ford Granada Estate:



Renault Vel Satis;



Not too sure what the story is on these but I know Renault people get pretty enthusiastic when one is spotted.

VW Corrado (with flat tyre), haven't seen one of these in ages:



And this Ford Escort "XRV" van;

DoloMIGHTY wrote: Renault Vel Satis;



Not too sure what the story is on these but I know Renault people get pretty enthusiastic when one is spotted.

I take it you didn't notice the Beemer sat in front of it then?.......

while on my travels ive seen these

Tanks very much. Was there a big sign there saying "Warning, Live Mine Field"?

Wow! Every picture tells a story eh. Speechless. No, really, I am.

its the local military playground...

They look like relics of the latter part of WW2. I'm not sure whether the bit about the military playground is a joke (I wouldn't expect people to have access to that) I would have expected WW2 relics to have been taken for scrap long before now, if they are on public land. If these tanks are relics of the war, resting where they were knocked out, I'm guessing at somewhere in Normandy, perhaps near Fallaise Not a nice way to go, inside a burning tank (Is there a nice way?).

Oddly enough, the cushion on this stool came out of a captured German tank (Furniture wasn't easy to come by then and my grandfather collared two of them and made two stools; I got one of them stuck on my head when I was a child ). It has been recovered since the war.

Rich, I thought you had come home to Wales and gone for a stroll around Castlemartin tank range. There are dozens of knocked out tanks there used as targets. Most came from the end of the cold war in the nineties. When you see the damage done by an armour piercing shell the last place you need to be is in a tank. Used to spend hours sat on the front porch roof watching the tanks driving to their firing positions near Freshwater beach.
Saw one of those Renault thingies driving around Milford Haven last Friday,a rare beast indeed. I have just bought an Austin Maxi, cant be many of them left now.

honest chaps its the local military playground.. i drive through it regularly, & as these were not too far from the road i took a little walk its near fontevraud l'abbaye, where most of Richard the lionheart was buried..In the nearby town we also have a tank museum & some of the exhibits are quite gruesome...