50 replies to this topic

[miniman86]

my jaw just dropped as i read that! pics are amazing! id love 1 of them pickups!!

[miniman86]

the red cabriolait mini, next to the white elf/hornet, is that some kinda crayford or the like? just noticed the tail lights.....

Edited by miniman86, 13 December 2010 - 09:00 PM.

[FWN]

Im Up for a salvage trip.......

You could combine it with a charity trip,

Any Mad mini drivers willing to drive to the cape say for children in need 2011 (With a stop at said yard?)

[jimmyH]

The guy who owns it used to restore minis, he was saying he had more but got rid of them. There is alot of usable stuff there, very little rot. Saw a few with the assembled in Rodesia stamp badge.
Would be a hell of a long trip down, just driving up to the congo, which is not that far in comparison would take you 3 days driving, with a truck a little longer. Then border fees, the congo is a bit funny at the moment, specially the interior. And there no paperwork for any of the cars, making border crossing even more difficult than they already are.

Can you tell i though about this?

But it would be a fun road trip!!

Edited by jimmyH, 04 November 2010 - 07:13 PM.

[FWN]

A "Mini" adventure !!!

[LuckyThe1275]

Yeah, my initial thought was the difficulty getting them back over here without paperwork etc. in such a country... Shame, pickups are rather rare

[yousmeg]

What a waste

[Jacko-lah]

My mothers Aunt and Uncle Lived in Zim, and their son, was a Lecturer at a university. Does that make him a third cousin to me ?

Anyway, when I was a child I remember them visiting the UK and him telling me he owned 5 classic cars, in various lock ups, but had no way of getting them out of the country. He said the value of what he had was worth about 250K in the UK and about 15K in Zim.

[jimmyH]

There are alot of classic cars hanging around, alot need money spent on them. Heard alot of storys of old willis jeeps being left on farms when they were booted. We had a very old ford something, willt ry and a find a picc. But when we left it was ok ish, but couldnt take it. Now its just a shell.

If ever the farms are farmed again and the grass is cut back, alot of people will be in for some suprises.
Being a once colonial power, and not putting salt on their roads there are alot of the cars that we love there.

[jimmyH]

Here it is, when we went back to our farm a few months ago. We got thrown off in 2001.



Anyone know what it was ? a ford something

[ado15]

Prefect maybe?

Yep. Looks like the early E93A.
http://www.british-c....aspx?page=8952

Later ones seem to have the headlights integral to the wings.

Interesting to 'meet' someone who was personally involved with what went on out there. Is it getting better now? You don't tend to see much in the media now it isn't current news, well at least as the papers see it. I don't know about others here, but when you said you were kicked out in 2001 I found it quite emotional. It must be so depressing going back to see what's left of the farm.

Edited by ado15, 05 November 2010 - 03:21 PM.

[jimmyH]

There was not much left at all really, was sad to see. It could be said the country is on the up, especally after they started to (unoficially) use the US dollar. Now prices stay the same rather than change by millions each day. Getting work quotes ect is much easier. Safety wise farmers are still being killed here and there sadly.
But going back soon i hope, i am in love with the country.

Edited by jimmyH, 13 December 2010 - 09:12 AM.

[jimmyH]

Was looking through this old thread seeing if Photobucket had let me back in, and they had.
Though i would put up some other pics of Zimbabwe.
Met alot of people here at uni who hear about it in the news but only hear bad things, automatically branding it as dark and unappealing. Thought i might give a little perspective..
















































The faithful truck let took me 35,000 km around Africa without fault .....

Edited by jimmyH, 13 December 2010 - 09:28 AM.

[jimmyH]

Other Pics of Africa

South Africa



Botswana

Botswana

I have more if people want to see, but being a forum on cars not Africa trying not to flood it too much

[minispaniard]

beautiful, thanks for sharing!!!