The future of cars?

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  • Something, hopefully, that both rabid cyclists and the car-appreciation people can both enjoy.

    Last weekend I visited Kaufdorf and saw this amazing "car graveyard".

    I'll post some grainy cameraphone pics when I work out how to use technology, but meanwhile here are images from the site that I found the place on to begin with:

    For anyone near Switzerland, Kaufdorf is between Thun and Bern. You walk down pretty much the only street and then haggle with a nice old man in a scrapyard.

    It's well worth a visit - especially before the owners build walkways all over the site, which they've started to do.

  • Quick! Someone with a lot of money buy this and restore all those lovely things, please!

  • I was thinking the same thing , some real beauties in that lot

  • that's cool. Bern is great

  • Yeah, it's a lovely city. It sort of reminds me of the place where Natalie Portman lives in Star Wars.

  • Are you talking about Bellagio in North Italy? I went there a few years ago, beautiful place.

  • Admittedly when I first read the title this sprung to mind:

  • Are you talking about Bellagio in North Italy? I went there a few years ago, beautiful place.

    Ha! There's a heated swimming pool in that picture belonging to one of the more expensive hotels. I got thrown out of it - or more accurately thrown back in to the lake - when I was sixteen having sneaked in like a Navy SEAL.

  • is no one trying to buy up some of those and restoring them?

  • Looking at cars like that makes me upset that most modern cars are unbearably boring to look at.

  • Last weekend I visited Kaufdorf and saw this amazing "car graveyard".

    Isn't that like what you used to have as an avatar?

  • Isn't that like what you used to have as an avatar?

    I'm flattered that you noticed! :)

    That was a snap I took in New York, of a car half-buried in someone's garden.


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  • I'm flattered that you noticed! :)

    That was a snap I took in New York, of a car half-buried in someone's garden.

    I always used to like that avatar.

    What's with the tyres?

  • Well they were meant to turn around, but I fell foul of the complicated rules for animated avatars and they ended up being much, much less exciting than I'd hoped.

    As it happens I was thinking of switching to a Kaufdorf pic. I'm fond of images of cars (and other machinery, buildings, etc) decaying. Really can't wait for whichever dystopian Sci-Fi scenario happens when North Korea turns all the remaining oil into Swine Flu.

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