Slideshow Part5 Kaufdorf car graveyard Spring 2010
Kaufdorf Autofriedhof - Switzerland's vintage car graveyard.
It was the biggest graveyard of its kind in Europe -- a vast metal jungle of more than 1,000 rusting vintage cars including forgotten British Wolseleys, "sit up and beg" Ford Prefects, rotting Porsches and even the wreck of a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud.
The collection of decaying old-timers, which go back to the late-1920s, sits in makeshift corrugated iron garages and among trees on the edge of Kaufdorf some 10 miles south of Switzerland's capital Bern.
After surviving for 75 years, the authorities have declared that the collection is an environmental hazard and decided to clear it by court order. But the plan has provoked uproar among concerned Kaufdorf locals and more than just a few other Swiss residents. A campaign to preserve the site was started when an open day was held. The organisers expected about 50 people to attend, but 10,000 turned up. Franz Messerli, whose father founded the car cemetery, said: "We never expected such interest. Our aim is to preserve it for posterity as a national work of art."
Mr Messerli's father, Walter, opened what was originally intended as a vehicle breaker's yard in 1933. A part-time racing driver and scrap-metal dealer, he was fascinated by cars and even taught himself to be a mechanic. At its peak, his collection numbered about 2,000 vehicles.
220 Ponton leaving the salvage yard
1954 Daimler Benz 220a takes a ride
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1928 Buick Country Club Coupe 1st Start in 50 Years
My Great Grandfather bought this car in 1929 from the Buick dealer in Perryman, Md. with only a few hundred miles on it. He paid $900 for it, a hefty sum considering most new cars at the time were under $400. He was the last one to hear it run until today. By the way, I could not tell while looking through the camera if the lights were on or off.
Vauxhall 10 - First start in 41 years
My new project - I bought this in September 2008 as a barn find - it had been stored in a barn for over 40 years. This is the first time anyone has attempted to run it, note the 6V electrical system being Boosted by a 12V jump pack - OK for short periods if the 6V battery is good.
The fuel system is still unproven at this point, so running was achieved by pouring a small amount of fuel directly down the carburettor - there's no reason why it shouldn't fire up straight away in normal use, but here it presumably starts out flooded. Oh the joys of carburettored engines!
Forgotten Volkswagen Single Cab
Forgotten Volkswagen Single Cab
Took the Syncro for a Sunday drive and spotted an old single cab in the foothills outside Idaho Falls. This is nine hours worth of digging condensed into a 15 minute video. It had been sitting in a wash since 1967. It was buried under two feet of dirt but it's extremely rust free given the circumstances. The drop gates hadn't seen the light of day for 45 years. IF YOU HAVE A VOLKSWAGEN THAT NEEDS RESCUED OR KNOW OF ONE GIVE US A CALL AT (208)200-6053. We also consign volkswagens if you have one you want to sell. Thanks Skeeters.
VW saved so far because of this video:
1960 VW Double Cab out of Missouri (been sitting since 1965)
1973 Westfalia Camper Van out of Swan Valley Idaho
1969 Baja Bug Ririe Idaho
1975 Standard Beetle Ririe Idaho
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How to Start a Yamaha after it's been left for years in the garden
Here we have a 1985 Yamaha FZ750. It is the very rare 2GH model as ridden by Eddie Lawson in the 1986 Daytona 200 to victory with full livery by Troy Lee Designs. Sadly it has been left for years outside in a garden with the sea air/rain on it with nothing but a sheet over it. I have removed the petrol tank to access the fuel supply and have repaired some of the faulty wiring which probably was the cause of this superbikes demise. I am now going to completely strip the bike down and restore her to her former glory.
The Old German: Mercedes W124 230E -88 Video 1
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This car has belong to my grandpa since 1991 and for all the time ive always loved this car. About five years ago it didnt pass the 'inspection' so it werent used and about three years ago it was put here on my aunts yard, and have been sitting with a leaking windshield ever since.. more vids on the first start-up and drive for three years. :)
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save a mazda rx7 after 16 years "rx7 jungle"
this rx7 was abandoned since 16 years in a garden,
after 1year of negotiation the old man sold with 50euro
i start and take the road after 16 years,
the car have 30.000km!!! but after 16years in garden the body is very rusty! i just take the engine, the rest is dead...
thanks to watch my vidéo and comment ;)
mazda rotary is a magic car!
my forum: www.KamikazeNipponRacer.be
(belgium)
in french:
cette rx7 était abandonnée depuis 16 ans dans un jardin,aprés 1an de négociation le vieux me l'a vendue pour 50euro,la voiture n'avait que 30.000km!! mais aprés tout ce temp dans le jardin la caisse était toute pourrie,je l'ai redémarrée et j'ai pris la route,je l'ai vendue juste pour le moteur
merci d'avoir regardé ma vidéo et d'avoir posté un commentaire
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(belgique)
1967 Chrysler Newport First Start After Sitting For 20 Years
I went to check out this car because it was advertised as having a "valuable 440" which I wanted to rebuild and put in my 73 Challenger. When I got there I found out it was a 383 2 bbl car in incredible shape with 69990 original miles. It had belonged to his grandfather and was parked in 1990/1991 and never started since, nor was it ever registered in anyone else's name, so I am technically the second owner. It wasn't what I came for but I had to take it home.
This is a video diary of getting this great old girl running and will probably only be enjoyed by true car enthusiasts.
November 28, 2012 Update: I haven't been here in quite a while and at first I was a bit dismayed that there are so many lonely aholes in our world and how they tend to flock to the internet. I considered pulling the video but realized there are many people who enjoyed it and that is who I posted it for.
To all of those experts who know so much more than the rest of us please keep your negative comments to yourself.
To those of you who say I should have done more before trying to start, I did.
- The previous owner had pulled the car out of the field with a tractor and his buddy "may have" put the car in gear to slow it down. If the rings were rusted the engine could have been destroyed by that action alone, there was some resistance when I turned the crank pulley over by hand and I was surprised it turned over that easily, but with the engine sitting that long the rings would not be sealing to build up pressure in the cylinders. Therefore I concluded that there was no rusting/seizing so no risk of cylinder wall damage, or that the engine was possibly toast due to "transmission/engine braking"
- The oil was not milky, still "felt" oily and I only planned on running the engine 2-3 minutes to get it off the trailer and onto my hoist to do all the fluids, so I determined it had enough viscosity left to protect it for a short period of time.
- Even an old fuel filter will stop any major contaminants from reaching the carb. So why spend a bunch of money, with the steps I took the chance of me causing any damage at all was miniscule.
For those who were so concerned about our safety, come on. We grew up on a farm before the days of fuel injection and many farm vehicles do not get regularly started so this is a very common practice. The risk is MINIMAL and calculated, note that there is a fire extinguisher at 8:43 in the lower left corner on the trailer. The jerry can is very full by design, gas liquid does not ignite but the vapours do, note that when the gas starts to come out of the spigot that the top of the jerry can is full of gas, not fumes! I don't believe at any time was my brothers face over the carb, these big old girls are so big you pretty well have to stand in the engine compartment to do that. We did our best to slowly feed the engine as little gas as possible to avoid flooding the engine and possibly causing her to backfire.
Anyways, I guess I shouldn't feel like I need to defend myself against a bunch of morons who obviously have nothing better to do with their time than to creep youtube videos so they can leave moronic comments that allow them to feel all high and mighty ... but at least it might stop a few from wasting our time as we try to enjoy videos of common interest.
Thanks to all for the positive comments and feedback.
Me and my dad see my dad's old car for the first time in 20 years.
He sold the car over 20+ years ago when he was an alcoholic. Said he probably would have died in it. This is the first time he saw it since he sold it over 20+ years ago. The car does look in relative good shape, we have no idea what has been done with the car over the past 20 years. It obviously wasn't sitting there for 20 years and nobody claims it to be. Pay attention, people. 1964 Buick Rivera. 425 Wildcat V8 w/ 427 horsepower.
1,4 Million KM Mercedes 300D Sat 7 Years
Was put away in 2003 because of rust and the engine was worn, it didn't start in the winters and it smoked real bad. It sat for 7 years another place, so it was moved to this place, but not started because we used a truck. Over the 7 years we lost the key for it, so I had to redneck wire the glowplugs and starter.
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1,2 Million KM Mercedes 300TD Winter Start
Here's a video of the worn Mercedes 300TD starting on a pretty cold day. It used to be a taxi, and has over 1,2 million km on it.
Mercedes-Ponton-Crash-left.mpg
Der Mercedes Ponton Crashtest - Linke Seitenansicht
Im Rahmen des Jahrestreffens der Mercedes Benz-Interessengemeinschaft im Juni 2010 für die Ponton-Manufaktur auf der Crashanlage des ADAC in Landsberg/Lech.
Eines der Highlights beim Jahrestreffen 2010 der Mercedes Benz Interessengemeinschaft (MBIG) in München: Der weltweit allererste Crashtest eines Ponton-Modells nach dem aktuellen EuroNcap-Schema - ein Verfahren, das deutlich schärfere Anforderungen als der reguläre Zulassungstest stellt. Die spannende Frage dabei: Wie verhält sich ein Modell aus dem Jahr 1957 in einem Crashtest, der erst 40 Jahre später, im Jahr 1997, eingeführt worden war?
Die Konfiguration sieht vor, dass ein Fahrzeug mit 64 km/h seitlich versetzt gegen eine deformierbare Barriere gefahren wird - eine extrem hohe Beanspruchung für die Karosserie-Struktur. Hiermit wird recht praxisnah der seitlich versetzte Frontalunfall im Gegenverkehr simuliert. Diesen Anforderungen musste sich auch der kleine Ponton (180er) stellen.
Abweichend vom üblichen EuroNcap-Verfahren waren Fahrer- und Beifahrerplatz allerdings nicht mit einem Dummy mit Sensoren besetzt. Dies ergab sich daraus, dass das Risiko einer Beschädigung der extrem teuren Messpuppen als sehr hoch einzuschätzen war - schon deshalb, weil der Ponton nicht über Sicherheitsgurte verfügte. Insofern konnten zur Verletzungsschwere der Insassen keine Messdaten erfasst werden.
Der Versuch fand als Bestandteil des Jahrestreffens der MBIG im Juni 2010 statt. Das Fahrzeug wurde von der Ponton-Manufaktur, Thomas Hanna, in München-Hallbergmoos zur Verfügung gestellt. Der Crash fand im ADAC Technik-Zentrum in Landsberg/Lech statt.
Wie die Aufnahmen der Hochgeschwindigkeitskameras zeigten, blieb der „Überlebensraum" des Passagierabteils umfassend erhalten. Die rechte Tür ließ sich problemlos öffnen, die linke hätte leichtes Werkzeug erfordert. Stark verformt wurde - wie es sein soll - der Vorderwagen.
Hier zeigte sich bereits die „Knautschzonen"-Philosophie des Mercedes-Entwicklers Béla Barényi, obwohl sämtliche Elemente seines Patents aus den Jahren 1951/52 bei der Ponton-Baureihe noch gar nicht umgesetzt waren. Komplett findet sich sein wegweisendes Sicherheitskonzept dann in der Heckflosse wider. Was umso beachtlicher ist, als der ADAC im vergangenen Jahrzehnt etliche aktuelle Automodelle auf seiner Crashanlage hatte, bei welchen die Karosseriezelle deutlich kollabierte.
Nachdem beim Ponton-Crash die Dummies Pause hatten, konnten folgerichtig keine Belastungen auf die diversen kritischen Körperteile ermittelt werden - insofern ist ein direkter Vergleich mit anderen EuroNcap-Ergebnissen nicht möglich. Negativ fiel jedenfalls auf, dass Lenksäule/Lenkrad bis zur Oberkante des Windschutzscheibenrahmens hochgestiegen waren,
mit abschätzbar schwerwiegenden Folgen für den Fahrer. Eine einfache Maßnahme wie ein Gelenk oder ein Deformationselement in der Lenksäule hätte diesen Effekt zumindest abmildern können. Nachträglich lässt sich derartiges leider nicht einbauen.
Zur Reduzierung der Risiken hätte ein (Dreipunkt-) Sicherheitsgurt aber beitragen können. Und der lässt sich ja bekanntlich nachrüsten, wie auch Kopfstützen, welche die Halswirbelsäule beim Heckaufprall entlasten. Womit dieser Crashversuch nicht nur eine Hommage an Béla Barényi und die damaligen Technik-Vorstände beim Daimler darstellt. Er gibt auch einen Hinweis, wie der Ponton-Fahrer länger gesund bleiben könnte - im Fall eines Unfalles.
Manfred Groß / Copyright: Thomas Hanna 2011
1975 Mercedes Benz 300D VERY Cold Start Winter W115 OM617 (-19F)
(Temp -19F)
((Look at my new cold start video, all the bugs are fixed))
I only paid 300 dollars for it, the guy thought it had a blown engine, but it turned out the timing on the injector pump was way off. I ended up taking the injector pump off and putting it on the right teeth, and doing the drip test, and etc. It has rolled over twice now, it has finally just broke in at around 230,000 miles. It runs great and I put about 45 miles a day on it. Best diesel ever made in my opinion. Keep in mind it is VERY cold sometimes in North Idaho, and this afternoon it was a cold day, and it finally started. It starts way better in 30 degrees and up weather! :-)
Verrotteter Opel Rekord C
Rundgang um einen Opel Rekord, der seine besten Zeiten lange hinter sich hatte.Tausende Opels im erheblich besseren Zustand wurden damals in die Schrottpresse getan. Dieser Wagen wurde bestimmt im Wald abgestellt und vergessen, weswegen er heute noch vorhanden ist. Jetzt ist das Gejammere groß, warum dieser Wagen in dem schlechten Zustan ist. Warum eigentlich ? Der ist jedenfalls noch da.
