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Postby Damo » September 10th, 2007, 8:29 pm

Hey all, this has been annoying me all afternoon. After seeing the thread that lukey made about the cars in the barn, it reminded me of something I saw on AFF ages ago about a car manufacturing plant somewhere overseas. It was completely abandoned and there were still cars on the production line, and brand new cars everywhere. It was on a forum, something like Urban Explorer or something like that.

I was searching google for fecking ages, but I couldn't remember the country and manufacturer of the cars so it was hard and I failed.
Anyway if you know what I am talking about and can find the link for me you win a magnificent prize. Prize will be announced once i'm linked up.

k thanx by.
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby TUFED6 » September 10th, 2007, 8:31 pm

Sounds interesting. I will award an additional prize of 10psi of boost.
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby pHaT`eL » September 10th, 2007, 8:32 pm

Pretty sure that was MG in England or somewhere in Europe Damo.. Pretty eerie.. All the keys and stuff are there too :P Ill look for it now :)

EDIT: Found it..

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=9749
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby SgtBourne » September 10th, 2007, 8:39 pm

dude, that's insane!
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby bentls » September 10th, 2007, 8:42 pm

pHaT`eL wrote:Pretty sure that was MG in England or somewhere in Europe Damo.. Pretty eerie.. All the keys and stuff are there too :P Ill look for it now :)

EDIT: Found it..

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=9749

man that place is creepy
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby pully6 » September 10th, 2007, 8:49 pm

Fair dinkum? Thats weird... Who would leave a fully-equipped production-line like that?
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby Damo » September 10th, 2007, 8:51 pm

you're a legend Pete! that's it.

Now for that prize... err free MPI manifold + injectors. lol
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby TUFED6 » September 10th, 2007, 8:53 pm

Amazing.

I guess when the company went bankrupt they just downed tools and the administrators are still fighting it out in court. I guess all the tooling etc will eventually get sold off to pay off debts etc.
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby pHaT`eL » September 10th, 2007, 8:55 pm

MG went bankrupt, guess they just cbf taking anything. Wonder how many cars are left, lol! MG roadster body + boosted falcon inline6?
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby Damo » September 10th, 2007, 9:06 pm

I'd love to see how it looks today. Those photos were taken about 7 months ago.

Did anyone notice the name and phone number on the white board in the office area ?
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby TUFED6 » September 10th, 2007, 9:16 pm

Damo wrote:I'd love to see how it looks today. Those photos were taken about 7 months ago.

Did anyone notice the name and phone number on the white board in the office area ?


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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby DOHC-EB » September 10th, 2007, 9:19 pm

wow... thats so weird

reminds me of irobots when there in the factory that has no human input and is fully operation by itself spitting out 1000 robots a day
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby Schmee » September 10th, 2007, 11:06 pm

Those pics are rather eerie. I've done a fair bit of shutdown work at Ford, GMH and Toyota and you get that same feeling that everything just stopped where it was and everyone just vanished, after being inside all 3 plants while they have been running then coming back to nothing, just still, a very weird feeling indeed. Due to the tight restrictions on cameras in these sights I can't bring you any pics. I'd have loved to just to show how weird it feels but it just aint worth risking your job over it.

Not that it matters now as I dont work for anyone that works in there nowadays but glad I experienced it.

Xmas shutdown at Ford is always weird when you walk in its so quiet all the cars in various states of assembly on the line lights flashing to say gates have been opened and things have stopped

then there is the line up of shells with all hang on panels, painted with light plastic covers over them.

thats my 2 cents to add anyways

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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby Damo » September 11th, 2007, 12:00 am

yeah Kev it is definitely weird. How about that smashed up Mini? at end of one of the tunnels. How the **** did it get like that.

John - Yeah Terry Venables.

If I could have gone through there I would have got the keys too all the cars and ripped heaps of skids. The smoke would have made it even more eerie. lol Seriously though weird shit FTW, I explored many an abandoned building when I was a young dope smoking teen. Good times good times! There are a few buildings in Ringwood that are still accessable and date back to the days of the Ringwood blacks. Police seem to give upo after a while.
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby someLS1 » September 11th, 2007, 12:05 am

If you want something eerie to check out theres an abandoned mental asylum in bundoora/macleod, ive had alot of mates go and have a look and heard some interesting stories.. havent had the pleasure myself
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby Damo » September 11th, 2007, 12:06 am

rev head it's nothing like I-Robot, that was the worst movie ever!
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby Damo » September 11th, 2007, 12:19 am

max msn me kent.

I live about 5 minutes away from John Farnhams old house and studio which was abandoned many years ago. Gotham Audio was the name of the studio. We used to have piss ups at John Farnhams house and even slept the night there once. 7 bedroom house with a pool which was completely abandoned. Lots of his belonging were still in the house too, including furniture, letters and bills etc.The swimming pool was geeen and had a wire mesh over it so no one fell in. That **** must have struck it pretty damn ritch to just leave a house and studio like that.

Anyway some little **** decide to smash the shit out of the studio causing about 40k damage (smashed all the sound proof glass) and the houses were sold and renovated and an estate was developed around them. He still lives in wonga park afaik, his son used to pick on my brother at school, don't bame him lol.

Good times.

This was about 8 years ago BTW. lol :P
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby Damo » September 11th, 2007, 12:21 am

Damo wrote:max msn me kent.

I live about 5 minutes away from John Farnhams old house and studio which was abandoned many years ago. Gotham Audio was the name of the studio. We used to have piss ups at John Farnhams house and even slept the night there once. 7 bedroom house with a pool which was completely abandoned. Lots of his belonging were still in the house too, including furniture, letters and bills etc.The swimming pool was geeen and had a wire mesh over it so no one fell in. That **** must have struck it pretty damn ritch to just leave a house and studio like that.

Anyway some little **** decide to smash the shit out of the studio causing about 40k damage (smashed all the sound proof glass) and the houses were sold and renovated and an estate was developed around them. He still lives in wonga park afaik, his son used to pick on my brother at school, don't blame him lol.

Good times.

This was about 8 years ago BTW. lol :P
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby Damo » September 11th, 2007, 12:22 am

wtf I just edited my post to fix a spelling error and it quoted my post and fixed it. hmmm.
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby -jjM- » September 11th, 2007, 12:34 am

wow thats really kool, donno if id brave walking around there on my own tho

when we were out in between northern territory and south Australia near cooper peedy, my old man took us down this long dirt road, at first it was a road then it was just nothing, prity much driving over bushes and junk, till suddenly we got to this old station that used to missile testing ground of something, was just a dead zone now, but it was a massive station, had satellites, generators, garages, lookout tower, old school rusted up cars, parently it was used to just test missiles for australias army, for the life of me i cant remember where it is, was probly 12 at the time, but it is listed on a map as a massive red space saying "goverment land"

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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby Damo » September 11th, 2007, 12:42 am

Joe ask your old man, I think I know what you are talking about. It's cool seeing stuff that probably hasn't been looked at in years.
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby -jjM- » September 11th, 2007, 12:47 am

Damo wrote:Joe ask your old man, I think I know what you are talking about. It's cool seeing stuff that probably hasn't been looked at in years.


there was actually somewhere where you could go on the net to check it out, he looked it up one day and there was pictures of the place from when it was opperating to present day, was unreal what actually went on there, ill ask him tomorrow
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby XRated » September 11th, 2007, 8:39 am

Do a search on Chernobyl - a whole city abandoned.

There's lots of interesting and eerie places, stories, photos etc on those Urban Explorer websites.
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby Eb Barbie » September 11th, 2007, 1:32 pm

XRated wrote:Do a search on Chernobyl - a whole city abandoned.

There's lots of interesting and eerie places, stories, photos etc on those Urban Explorer websites.


Yeah, had a quick look. Few eerie pics on there. Especially ones of hospitals with dolls lying round. Freekie!
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby -jjM- » September 11th, 2007, 1:59 pm

pricks wont even let you do aerial shots over there, my IP must be blocked, damm AFF Chernobyl
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby TICKFORD_XR6 » September 11th, 2007, 3:59 pm

thats heaps crazy! wonder why they stopped

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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby pHaT`eL » September 11th, 2007, 4:29 pm

Prize is mine :P and John, about that 10psi of boost ;) haha..
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Re: Help! trying to find something.

Postby glenneaux » September 12th, 2007, 12:05 pm

SLOLS1 wrote:If you want something eerie to check out theres an abandoned mental asylum in bundoora/macleod, ive had alot of mates go and have a look and heard some interesting stories.. havent had the pleasure myself


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