Can you imagine you dad passing away and having to figure out how to deal with these cars then finding out this lot has riffled through everything and to top it off stuck it all over the Internet. I just hope the family haven't been left upset with it all.
@@alanlansdell7533true It’s a twin turbo 850 bhp I think it was conceived by Rod leach in the 1980s. I remember seeing it at a car show forty years ago He also had a XK 120 with the number plate XK120.
@@alanlansdell7533 But that is still the details referring to COB 1, as recorded with DVLA on its government website, whether the COBRA in the video is the same one is neither here nor there.
Well Colin, hats off to you on the wierdest collection I've seen. The Cobra replica is actually a replica of a famous car. COB 1 is the legendry monster built and I think still owned by Rod Leach, who is one of the world's leading experts on AC Cobras. His business "Rod Leach's Nostalgia" was trading up until just before Covid. He's an old man now and I am aware of some legal trouble, but I don't know any more.
Hi Colin and guys what a find,this must be your best one to date.Those cars need saving its a crying shame for them to be left to rot away. Like you said Colin what has happened to the owner,the money in all those vehicles would be unbelievable!!! Nice bit of jungle challenge at the start,great commentary Colin and see if you can better this video next week. Take care all.😀
I saw Cob 1 at power engineering in Uxbridge back in 1993 being tuned with twin turbos think it made 700+ horsepower beautiful midnight blue with the signature plaques on the engine 👍🏻
I've had multiple trespassers recently on my property, wandering around filming like they own the place. I have cams up but live 2 hours away. It's incredibly annoying and stressful.
Make it nicer & they won’t come. Clearly define the border with a hedge, that kinda thing. Tidy up the place. Not close board fencing because that’s ugly. Problem Solved.
@@DoubleOSeven007 Alternatively, acquire a decent set of values and then you won't consider it fair to trespass on someone else's property, make a video about it, and encourage others to think this is normal and acceptable behaviour.
So cool you found a old custom shop. Some of those body swap cars are very interesting. People in the USA still custom body swap. For example old pickup bodies on new frames, old volkswagen beetle on utv cage or Mini Cooper drivetrain, etc. I especially enjoy your automobile find videos. Great content
@@jeffreywarrensmith581 Yet how sad that the video host was unaware of the existence of the P4 '105' model. It sported the last of the run of the original 2638cc 108bhp engines with twin SU's , the immediate successor to the 105 R & 105S models of 1957 -58, now recognised as the crème of the P4 range , as I know from personal experience ,my father running one in the late 50's /early 60's.
Such a sad sight! Some valuable cars and license plates out there. I always just wish that at some point people could just take abandoned cars after a certain amount if years. Really sad to see them end up like this, especially the Jags, Rolls's and Cobra replica. Looks like the owner was a real car enthusiast who also loved a project. Happy they're not destroyed though
@@Captainperfection I am new here but did pick up things quite quickly! Its about someone who likes both cars and beards and films themselves showing a lack of respect for the law, other people's privacy and property rights. How would you feel if someone showed up at your place with a camera and started filming themselves rummaging through your possessions?
Great visual video the audio really grindes on you, I know beauty is a personal opinion, but I don't agree the morris minor I'd say a beautiful car say compared to jaguar E type
Definitely an amazing place it looks like sort of place that could’ve made movie cars. Potentially people who wanted H van but needed something more faster and realable for production use
It's actually very sad ....who ever amassed this collection was a very lonely person but had a inexhaustable amount of money and thought it could bring them happiness .......😢 by the way , that first XK150 was a replica .
You can imagine they were lonely but you really don't know. It seems likely that the collector died years ago & their heirs just abandoned the place. When the collector was alive, it might have been a neat & tidy place, possibly even a hub of activity. Whoever he was he clearly had a passion for cars & trucks. The sad part is how it's been abandoned. It was asked in the video what might happen to the vehicles. Sadly the answer seems obvious - they will continue to be ignored by whoever legally owns the collection & allowed to rust to dust.
@@rossmacintosh5652 Isn't the world lucky to have ASSUMPTIOUS clowns like you to make up the circumstances to allow everyone to hear your idiotic conclusions!
The ford galaxy or seat or vw convert to the classic Citroen is one of the strangest convert I have ever seen, I doubt it would be completed but it must be a true one of a kind. Love the cobra. That’s a classic I would love to own, but I’d happily drive the e34 5 series, had a lot of those in the past, my worst had the new type front which wasn’t my favourite but I would still happily drive one today. Apart from the road costs. This whole site must be the strangest cut a shut garages that got the concept of cut n shut idea very wrong
Awesome place & finds Colin collection of novelties best to describe the weirdness of them colin m8 ...pretty cool though and some real money machines too ..👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
My best guess, a rich eccentric with rather strange ideas on how to mod cars. Had a kid who did karting and maybe did a bit of racing themself. Sadly it looks like the usual story of someone passing on and having no one interested in saving the cars :(
COB 1 reg always used to belong to Rod Leach, famous Cobra man - his company was Rod Leach’s Nostalgia and he used to advertise it C&SC - he sold all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff … this must be something to do with him.
It's still registered to a blue 1968 COBRA, which according to the government website, has NEVER been through an MoT, yet strangely it was taxed up to the end of July 1995, and as we all know, our UK government is always well on top of everything, it couldn't possibly be a mistake made by one of their departments
@duviworthing As far as I can remember, anyone can apply for the V5 of an abandoned car, and DVLA will contact the current registered keeper, if there is no reply, the vehicle along with number plate is transferred to the new keeper! It's a fairly simple process to transfer the number plate to another vehicle I suspect this is how many cherished number plates unscrupulously change hands, especially high value ones.
Rod Leach's COB 1 was widened - not a standard Cobra body. It was also twin-turbocharged, if I remember correctly. I saw it outside Rod's house as I was driving past and went back and talked to him about it. The COB 1 in this video is not that car.
@ I didn’t ask for your opinion. I was just expressing I love the 306 as I own one my self and you never see them anymore on the roads. There’s no need for your comment anyway, what has your 99p notepad got to do with this video?
@@TheBeardedExplorer thank you. I’ve been watching you for a while. 306s are just getting rarer and rarer especially phase 1 cabriolets. I have the yellow my stepdad has a Roland garros cabriolet as well as a few others 😂
This guy had a passion for hat cars would have been nice to see a bit more of the single seater race car but with that much to look at I know it's hard.
People die and their property gets left behind. These finds are all over the World. They were millionaires when they died and they never had anyone to inherit their stuff. Government can't be bothered to save any of it. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Great find. The COB 1 is a 1967 AC COBRA MK III TWIN-TURBO ROADSTER, and it sold in 1998 for GBP 188,500 at Christies. Some searching about, you can find who owned it, or at least did. A well known Cobra lover and classic car seller of the late 80s. A court case too, around this car possibly? Those cars have given me a Nostalgia trip.
Yes indeed, I parked next to this car in our classic car sometime back in the late 70s, at a regular monthly pub car park meet , remember the name well and as you say a dealer - extraordinary how such an important car can end up like this !.
I remember seeing COB 1 in a magazine many moons ago but I don't imagine this is the original COB 1 but you never know the chassis and engine number could be checked just incase
Can you imagine you dad passing away and having to figure out how to deal with these cars then finding out this lot has riffled through everything and to top it off stuck it all over the Internet. I just hope the family haven't been left upset with it all.
Props to the owner of the land and cars, for allowing you to explore and film them. Right?
Props to UA-cam for allowing idiots to explore and comment on their site, Right|?
Amazing!! The COB 1 is a 1968 7L blue Cobra, last taxed in 1995! The "Fury" is a Frogeye Sprite!
That is not the real COB 1, the real one is a highly modified and very well known car, that is a kit car with a vanity plate.
@@alanlansdell7533true It’s a twin turbo 850 bhp I think it was conceived by Rod leach in the 1980s. I remember seeing it at a car show forty years ago He also had a XK 120 with the number plate XK120.
@@alanlansdell7533 But that is still the details referring to COB 1, as recorded with DVLA on its government website, whether the COBRA in the video is the same one is neither here nor there.
I thought the Fury was a chopper bike made by Honda...
That 1959 Cadillac is a great find. Whoever took the factory bumper off and stuck that Vauxhall bumper off is a disturbed individual, though.
Mind blowing🤯 and heart wrenching at the same time 👍 keep up the good work!
Wow, what a collection from vintage to modern day stuff, nice find guys
Well Colin, hats off to you on the wierdest collection I've seen. The Cobra replica is actually a replica of a famous car. COB 1 is the legendry monster built and I think still owned by Rod Leach, who is one of the world's leading experts on AC Cobras. His business "Rod Leach's Nostalgia" was trading up until just before Covid. He's an old man now and I am aware of some legal trouble, but I don't know any more.
I hope that they save these cars before it's to late..
To the scrapyard with the lot of them!!
Stop saying Oh My God !
I agree!
Drinking game..Oops I'm drunk now!
..and the occasional oh my word thrown in with a smattering of ..its beauuuuutiful
Say GOSH instead, please 👍
Say goodness instead bud
Absolutely amazing 😍
Hi Colin and guys what a find,this must be your best one to date.Those cars need saving its a crying shame for them to be left to rot away. Like you said Colin what has happened to the owner,the money in all those vehicles would be unbelievable!!! Nice bit of jungle challenge at the start,great commentary Colin and see if you can better this video next week. Take care all.😀
Thanks!
Thank you Frank 😊
@TheBeardedExplorer Your welcome Colin.
I saw Cob 1 at power engineering in Uxbridge back in 1993
being tuned with twin turbos think it made 700+ horsepower beautiful midnight blue with the signature plaques on the engine 👍🏻
Reminds me of the neighbour Sid in toy story that took toys apart and stuck them back together to make monsters
Had to switch off after umpteenth "Oh My God"
He has his own God but can't find him. So he keeps calling.
@@dirigentmaarten9381 gawd 😂
Wow Colin, you have one awesome radar for these old car locations. Pity. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
That was definitely one of the best explores i have ever seen my freind. 🤜🤛
DAS IST JA WIE IM PARADIES ! SUPER VID . GRUSS AUS BAYERN ! CIAO !!😊
We built the original COB1 when I worked for AC Autokraft. That piece of krap aint it.
I think you built it for Rod leach in the 1980s. ??
@@russcooke5671 That's the one👍
@@Laxpowertoo 0 to 60 in 3,5 and 180 top speed. Twin turbo 750 bhp. I think.
I've had multiple trespassers recently on my property, wandering around filming like they own the place. I have cams up but live 2 hours away. It's incredibly annoying and stressful.
Make it nicer & they won’t come. Clearly define the border with a hedge, that kinda thing. Tidy up the place. Not close board fencing because that’s ugly. Problem Solved.
Sounds like you need some security.
@@DoubleOSeven007 Alternatively, acquire a decent set of values and then you won't consider it fair to trespass on someone else's property, make a video about it, and encourage others to think this is normal and acceptable behaviour.
@@DoubleOSeven007 I have my barn quite tidy and closed, but that doesn't stop people from breaking a window and get in, crawl over the cars and so on.
You are on about a totally different minority. But anyway crack on
Hi Colin, James and e everybody. Hope your all doing good.
That was a awesome video.
Love your videos bro👍😎Great content👍Keep doing that great work,and stay safe😎
Incroyable, il va y avoir des envieux!!
Brilliant video Colin as ever. Love the vehicle ones best. Keep well.
The Vauxhall front on the Caddilac really looks the part.
So cool you found a old custom shop. Some of those body swap cars are very interesting. People in the USA still custom body swap. For example old pickup bodies on new frames, old volkswagen beetle on utv cage or Mini Cooper drivetrain, etc. I especially enjoy your automobile find videos. Great content
Brilliant to see you both again. Just like the old days.
Cheers from Terry in the land of OZ
What an amazing find 😮
The Rover 105 with the roof chop looks like they were making a replica of the Rover Turbine Car (Reg JET 1). Original is in the Science Museum.
yes exactly what i thought
@@jeffreywarrensmith581 Yet how sad that the video host was unaware of the existence of the P4 '105' model.
It sported the last of the run of the original 2638cc 108bhp engines with twin SU's , the immediate successor to the 105 R & 105S models of 1957 -58, now recognised as the crème of the P4 range , as I know from personal experience ,my father running one in the late 50's /early 60's.
Such a sad sight! Some valuable cars and license plates out there. I always just wish that at some point people could just take abandoned cars after a certain amount if years. Really sad to see them end up like this, especially the Jags, Rolls's and Cobra replica. Looks like the owner was a real car enthusiast who also loved a project. Happy they're not destroyed though
The bearded trespasser more like!
Says the anonymous BOOTLICKER! 😂😂😂
Clearly you are new here and do not understand what the channel is about
@@michaelporter7361 like i said hes new here, i think hes lost
@@michaelporter7361 Hey c'mon, he's got 18 likes from all the 18 other teapots!
@@Captainperfection I am new here but did pick up things quite quickly! Its about someone who likes both cars and beards and films themselves showing a lack of respect for the law, other people's privacy and property rights. How would you feel if someone showed up at your place with a camera and started filming themselves rummaging through your possessions?
What an amazing place !! I just can't understand people leaving these wonderful old cars to rot like that, it's criminal.
Correct! Probably knocked off and hidden --then forgotten? Too hot to handle? * Caravans about may be a clue?
Great visual video the audio really grindes on you, I know beauty is a personal opinion, but I don't agree the morris minor I'd say a beautiful car say compared to jaguar E type
I wonder if some of the cars are movie/tv props 🙋🏼♀️
Definitely an amazing place it looks like sort of place that could’ve made movie cars.
Potentially people who wanted H van but needed something more faster and realable for production use
Yeah, I also thought about movie cars
Just wow
Sorry to say but we know where this is and we know the story and this place is not abandoned
Can you tell us any of the story behind it?..
@colmburke7106 sorry no it's not my place to
Sun is ready to selll everything... thats marketing.
Were abouts in Cornwall. Don't want a exact location
@chrishosking27 sorry I can't tell you as the son of the man that died here is very angry
Love your videos man. Always excites me seeing your finds and your passion for It. Thanks 🙏
It's actually very sad ....who ever amassed this collection was a very lonely person but had a inexhaustable amount of money and thought it could bring them happiness .......😢 by the way , that first XK150 was a replica .
Proves that you cant take it with you! Lookes like they enjoyed themselves whilst they could!
You can imagine they were lonely but you really don't know. It seems likely that the collector died years ago & their heirs just abandoned the place. When the collector was alive, it might have been a neat & tidy place, possibly even a hub of activity. Whoever he was he clearly had a passion for cars & trucks. The sad part is how it's been abandoned. It was asked in the video what might happen to the vehicles. Sadly the answer seems obvious - they will continue to be ignored by whoever legally owns the collection & allowed to rust to dust.
@@rossmacintosh5652 Isn't the world lucky to have ASSUMPTIOUS clowns like you to make up the circumstances to allow everyone to hear your idiotic conclusions!
A 2003 MX5 is all a man needs to make him happy 🕺
The ford galaxy or seat or vw convert to the classic Citroen is one of the strangest convert I have ever seen, I doubt it would be completed but it must be a true one of a kind. Love the cobra. That’s a classic I would love to own, but I’d happily drive the e34 5 series, had a lot of those in the past, my worst had the new type front which wasn’t my favourite but I would still happily drive one today. Apart from the road costs. This whole site must be the strangest cut a shut garages that got the concept of cut n shut idea very wrong
That boat just before the Cadillac couldn't have been there too long since the Yamaha outboard is a fairly recent 4 stroke.
Frankenstein’s workshop, sadly much gone to waste
Another great find, and explore, Colin. Such a great variety of Collectible Cars; shame that they're in this Condition.
Absolutely incredible
Awesome place & finds Colin collection of novelties best to describe the weirdness of them colin m8 ...pretty cool though and some real money machines too ..👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Amazing find. It would be interesting to uncover the story behind it all. A search at Land Registry would tell you who owns the land.
My best guess, a rich eccentric with rather strange ideas on how to mod cars. Had a kid who did karting and maybe did a bit of racing themself. Sadly it looks like the usual story of someone passing on and having no one interested in saving the cars :(
Nareszcie coś dobrego ciekawego pozdrawiam z polski❤
COB 1 reg always used to belong to Rod Leach, famous Cobra man - his company was Rod Leach’s Nostalgia and he used to advertise it C&SC - he sold all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff … this must be something to do with him.
It's still registered to a blue 1968 COBRA, which according to the government website, has NEVER been through an MoT, yet strangely it was taxed up to the end of July 1995, and as we all know, our UK government is always well on top of everything, it couldn't possibly be a mistake made by one of their departments
Leachy! 🕺
Such a shame,wasted cars,Frankenstein bunch of motors,looks like owner lost his marbles ❤
Even a shitty shitty bang boom ❤
That 'Jag 2' number plate must be worth £250k easily! 😲😳🤔
It's on an E Type which is taxed and it's been on the car for years. This is just a fake plate, like COB1. This is all crap.
@duviworthing As far as I can remember, anyone can apply for the V5 of an abandoned car, and DVLA will contact the current registered keeper, if there is no reply, the vehicle along with number plate is transferred to the new keeper!
It's a fairly simple process to transfer the number plate to another vehicle
I suspect this is how many cherished number plates unscrupulously change hands, especially high value ones.
@pdtech4524 The car has to have an mot or at least a recent mot for plate to be transferred.
Excellent video mate
Hello from Ireland again. Great video again Guys 😅😅
Some cool old vehicles there, Al needs that Merc truck in his treasure collection!! Cheers Colin 👍
Thank you for all of these ,i always rewatch especially the ghostly ones.😀👍
Cob 1 says it’s a Cobra , 7000cc on dvla 1974 , off road since 1995
Rod Leach's COB 1 was widened - not a standard Cobra body. It was also twin-turbocharged, if I remember correctly. I saw it outside Rod's house as I was driving past and went back and talked to him about it.
The COB 1 in this video is not that car.
The truck is a Mercedes Benz 911 from 1969. It was widely used at that time here in Argentina as a bus.
amazing ,mind blown
Like a guy who starts a project, and never finishes them
Incredible find
Love the 306 cab. I have a yellow phase 1 cab
Do you? Well I have a 99p writing pad, only one owner & never been used!
@ I didn’t ask for your opinion. I was just expressing I love the 306 as I own one my self and you never see them anymore on the roads. There’s no need for your comment anyway, what has your 99p notepad got to do with this video?
Love the 306, yellow was the best colour 😎
@@TheBeardedExplorer thank you. I’ve been watching you for a while. 306s are just getting rarer and rarer especially phase 1 cabriolets. I have the yellow my stepdad has a Roland garros cabriolet as well as a few others 😂
59 Cadillac needs saving urgently. I thing the person who owns this lot has lost his mind and as a result ruins classic cars.
Nice one Colin would love to know the back story on that place so much cool stuff being reclaimed by nature
The red Rover P6 is a TC 0ne don't see them now it got the twin SU carburettors.
Imagine pulling up on your property and there being 5 geezers walking around. Better hope the land owner doesn't have a gun on them.
Couldn't agree more. My 55kg dog would have a field day if I came across this lot sneaking though my stuff, overgrown or not.
@@cameronpollard9212thanks in advance for the compensation payout
Shotgun???
Wtf
@@cameronpollard9212right
Love to see a walk around with so one how knows the story about this find that would be amazing 👍🇬🇧
The old car with Vauxhall vectra badge was tested until 2019
8:13 E39 dashboard
This guy had a passion for hat cars would have been nice to see a bit more of the single seater race car but with that much to look at I know it's hard.
COB 1 is showing up with a 7 litre engine, yes SEVEN litre!
Amazing find guys 👍
We’ll slap my thigh and call me Roger! 😮
Cover me in jam I’m a jammy dodger! 🕺
That reg is a Renault scenic not a MR2 according to DVLA
COB 1 is a 1968 Cobra , that appears to have been off the road since 1995.
I guess you'll find the person behind all this in a mental care home nearby...😵💫 Devastating to see, madness. Thanks for sharing though.😉☝
Great explore colin 😊
People die and their property gets left behind. These finds are all over the World.
They were millionaires when they died and they never had anyone to inherit their stuff. Government can't be bothered to save any of it. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Good I like it😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Absolutely fantastic video Mate well done 👏
Big truck next to the yellow beetle is 1957 comma 7:34
It's a Home Office Commer 'Q' 4x4
I thought it was a Scammel
@ I did a reg check came back saying it’s a commer
You hit the jackpot brother!!!!
You can tell Ian’s voice from a mile away 😂
@6.38 Austin Healey (Frogeye) Sprite bonnet
@@nickb5391 ahh yes!!!!
@@TheBeardedExplorer I know the 50's -80's British stuff
Colin the. Car 🎉is a1959 caddy .with Vauxhall front .would love to have that car😊😊😅😅😅
I was curious to know if you watch any car repair or rebuild shows on youtube
Great find. The COB 1 is a 1967 AC COBRA MK III TWIN-TURBO ROADSTER, and it sold in 1998 for GBP 188,500 at Christies. Some searching about, you can find who owned it, or at least did. A well known Cobra lover and classic car seller of the late 80s. A court case too, around this car possibly? Those cars have given me a Nostalgia trip.
Yes indeed, I parked next to this car in our classic car sometime back in the late 70s, at a regular monthly pub car park meet , remember the name well and as you say a dealer - extraordinary how such an important car can end up like this !.
Excellent video Colin
Right - and the buyer tore out the original interior and replaced it with Jaguar parts 🤣🤣🤣
It’s a kit car with a fake plate
I remember seeing COB 1 in a magazine many moons ago but I don't imagine this is the original COB 1 but you never know the chassis and engine number could be checked just incase
That morris minor...woody needs saving
Outrageous
Leepu's house?
Princess Anne owned a Scimitar
@7.33 Commer 'Q' 4x4 (Ex Home Office) registration same as used on the Green Goddess's
What was the wheel on the front of the black green p4 pls
Shame about E36 did a reg check and it failed Mot in 2012
Clay Pigeon is in Dorset, not Hampshire. Would love to see the name on the trophies as I am sure i would know them
All nicked
Great video with an Explorer I watched this on Saturday the 23 of November
Keep em comin’ 😂😂😂
this is someones stuff mate, just leave it alone or go and see the owner and do it properly. it isn't lost, they know it's there.
Boot licker! 😂😂😂😂
You dont understand the concept of this do you?
@@Captainperfection i understand that it ain't yours. clearly you weren't brought up properly.
@kennethtalbott2233 you... do you know what? leave it there because clearly you havent got it in you to think like an adult 🤦♂️FFS
@@kennethtalbott2233 unlike you i was
A long stick would be useful to get the camera in the bushes to see the cars, or a scope camera maybe
Or a petrol hedge cutter!😅
would be good if his vocabulary went beyond "oh my God all the time" Great stuff though.
Il faut les sauver!
If a 50 year old car says 40000 miles on it, chances are its been around the clock once or twice!
Or even Thrice!
there are more people wanting 1959 caddy than there are actual cars. that caddy needs to be outta there