Hi guys!
A lot of cars disappear every year.
But not because they get stolen.
It’s hard to believe but every single year thousands of cars get abandoned just about
anywhere.
Parking lots, airports, shopping malls, forests…
You name it!
People forget their cars in most peculiar places.
Even expensive and super exclusive cars are sometimes found in garbage, quite literally.
Alright, let's have a look at them, shall we?
. Mercedes-Benz 300SL A guy by the name Tom Velmersgot his 1955
Mercedes-Benz 300SL from his parents as a humble present.
He was driving that marvelous car up until the point when transmission started acting
funny.
In the early 70s he let the car rest in his garage where it spent the next 40 years.
Over the course of that long period of time the car got buried under the piles of garbage
and old computers.
It took them two days to dig up the car from under all that mess.
After they finally got to it, it turned out it wasn’t just a regular 300SL, it was in
fact a rare lightweight body version with Plexiglas mirrors and reinforced brakes.
It was decided to restore the car.
Now it is very likely that the beauty will be sold at an auction for over 1 million dollars.
.Ferrari Enzo.
Laws are very strict in Dubai.
Which is why immigrants often leave their cars with keys and credit cards inside and
get the hell out of the country.
Just take a look at this abandoned Ferrari Enzo.
It costs over a million dollars.
And it shows just how strict the rules are in Dubai.
The owner of the car is an English gentleman.
He received a couple of massive speeding tickets and thought it would be wiser to just get
the hell out.
After a while the car was confiscated by the police.
.Dodge Charger Daytona 1969 Legend has it that this rare Dodge was bought
in the 70s by a judge from Alabama as a gift for his wife.
The lifeline of this vehicle is a mystery but it was found in 2015 in the same state
and in the same neat condition.
Just like on the photograph.
This Daytona is a specialCharger version and there are only 503 of these in existence.
Probably less now.
With a seven liter engine inside it used to be a NASCAR legend.
The Doge found its way to Mecum Auctions with a starting price of 150 thousand dollars.
It’s in great condition and it has one very distinctive characteristic – a huge wing
in the back.
. Rolls-Royce Phantom Centurion.
What you see isn’t just some Rolls-Royce Phantom, it’s a very rare Centurion version.
It’s one of a kind actually.
It was build for some really wealthy businessman from Las Vegas.
Some timelater it was sold to Russia where it was found and photographed in a ditch near
some rail road.
So looks like it’s a big mystery what happened there but it’s a pretty bummer situation,
considering how rare this car is.
.Lamborghini Miura.
This Lamborghini Miurawas bought by a Greek ship baron Aristotle Onassis for Stamatis
Kokotas in 1969.
It wasn’t an easy life for a supercar because the owner was a big rally fan.
After a few severe races in 1972 the engine got worn off.
They took the engine off and send it to Lamborghini fabric to fix it.
The car itself was left at the Hilton parking lot in Athens.
The owner seemed to have lost all the interest to the vehicle and decided not to pay Lamborghini
for the fix.
The wonderful Lamborghini Miura stayed at the parking lot for over 30 years.
When it was finally put for an auction in 2012, the starting price was $483,000.
. Bugatti Veyron.
This 1.5 million dollar Bugatti Veyron is one of the most expensive cars in the world.
And it’s also one of the fastest supercars in existence!
Although some Russian owner didn’t seem to think about it much.
When some Aston Martin kissed his ass in the middle of the street, the guy just left it
there and never came back to pick it up.
.DeLorean DMC-12 In North Caroline abandoned vehicles is a
common thing.
Often, those are rare and expensive.
So it’s not surprising at all that after several interesting findings, car enthusiasts
keep coming to North Carolina hoping to find new interesting models.
A wonderful DeLorean DMC-12was found in the woods!
It was hiding amidst vegetation and got all covered with leaves and dirt.
The owner never showed up.
What made him leave the car in the forest, nobody knows.
. This gorgeous Ferrari was found in a garage in North Carolina where it spent 27 years.
The garage was standing near an abandoned house that was set for demolition.
Imagine the surprise on the workers faces when they found two rare and very expensive
vehicles inside.
One of them happened to be Ferrari 275 GTB/2.
When the car was discovered, it’s price revolved somewhere around 4 million dollars.
A very rare and expensive 1967 Shelby Cobra 427was also found.
By the way, when they cleaned them up it turned out they were in almost perfect condition.
Soon after the cars were discovered, they were put for an auction.
. You may not believe this but there is a very old park in the Chinese city of Chengdu
where some people left two Bentleys, two Land Rovers, three Mercedes-Benz and a motorcycle.
But those are not the only abandoned vehicles out there.
It seems like there are over 200 different cars on that God forsaken parking lot.
The best one of them is Bentley Continental GT.
Most of the cars that were left there are somehow connected to crimes and their owners
can’t come back to pick them up.
Also, there is one more car that seems pretty interesting.
It is Bentley Flying Spur.
Both Bentleys cost about $400 000.
It’s quite sad that all those cars are just there without use.
The weirdest thing is that the number of abandoned cars is growing every month.
. Bugatti Type 57S Atalante Coupe 1937 This stunning 1937 Bugatti ones belonged to
Earl Howe – the British racers club president.
Later on the two door beauty was owed by a couple of other guys until it finally found
piece in the Harold Carr’s garage in Newcastle.
It was resting there since the sixties.
The car was found back in 2007.
The Atalante version is different from those other 57S.
It’s got aluminum body panels and a solid windshield.
This car was sold at Bonhams in 2009 for 4.4 million dollars.
. Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider There were only 37 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California
Spider.
Each had a 3 liter v12 engine with 3 carburetors.
Ferrari 250 tend to be rather pricy and California Spider is no exception.
Some unknown collector bought the car for 18.5 million dollars at Retromobile auction.
What’s interesting about this California Spider is that it’s got quite a history.
For instance, Alain Delon used to have one just like that.
. Jaguar XJ220 Not all Jaguar cars are fast.
But the Jaguar XJ220 is an exception.
It’s hard to believe but it seems like the maximum speed of this guy is 350 kmph!
Enough to raise up your hair.
The car appeared on the market in 1990s!
And even today this kind of speed seems crazy for most car lovers.
So that’s quite rare for those years.
XJ220 used to be considered one of the fastest cars in the world.
And it’s very rare to.
There were only 275 of these made.
This particular car was left in a desert in Qatar.
. Lotus Esprit Bugatti, Bentley,Ferrari,Lotus, Porsche – these
are the types of cars that require care and attention.
Unfortunately, in Hong Kong they don’t seem to care about these types of cars.
Parking lots in Hong Kong are kind of pricy.
It’s like a flat rent in New York or Moscow.
So a lot of people there don’t owe cars.
Or if they do, they sometimes just leave them on the streets because they can’t keep up
with the upkeep.
Later on the cars are all brought to dumps where they meet their final doom.
Not so long ago Lotus Espritwas spotted at one of the junkyards near Hong Kong, imagine
that!
. Aston Martin DB4 is a rare one.
Later it was upgraded to DB5 but the classic DB4 is an absolute icon.
They started producing these in the late 1950s and stopped making them in 1963.
Over the course of that period of time over 1185 cars were made.
The minimal cost of a car like that is no less than 500 000 dollars.
So what would you say if you saw this car left in a forest?
That’s exactly what happened.
Somebody found Aston Martin DB4 in a forest in Massachusetts.
Rumor has it that it spent there 50 years.
Unfortunately, old father time did a lot of damage to the car.
Nevertheless, the car was restored and sold at an auction for 500 000 thousand dollars.
. Bugatti Type 13 Brescia A very interesting collection was found in
the west part of France in 2014.
It belonged to Roger Bayon and it had 100 very rare cars.
One of the most interesting ones was1925 Bugatti Brescia.
Bayon bought it in 1953 and by the time they found it, it looked pretty okay.
Artcurial put it up for sale last year.
Some guy bought it for 830 thousand dollars.
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