Really cool Series pic
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03-02-2013, 11:02 AM
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Some quarries around my home town were flooded, and had cars that people had pushed off the cliff into the water. Usually they come to rest upside down (fifty feet) perhaps due to air pressure in the tires. Police pulled out stolen ones from time to time. The end of many Rovers these days is a few weeks in the boneyard, then compression, then off to the shredder where it takes about 15 seconds to reduce the vehicle to a pile of fist-sized chunks of metal. So the next can you pop the top on might have been one; raise a toast to the Rover gods.
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03-02-2013, 11:56 AM
Where I grew up on Long Island, there was a "lake" that used to be a rock quarry of some sort. Urban legend was that they hit an artesian well without knowing it one afternoon, only to return the next day to find their equipment underwater. Supposedly the cranes & bulldozers are still down there.
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03-02-2013, 12:46 PM
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Okay, got it now.
This picture was taken at a place called Chepstow Diving Lake in Wales. This old Rover was placed there for divers to enjoy. The "lake" started out life as Dayhouse Quarry. They flooded it in 1996, and it became a major dive site in 2003. At some point they put the Rover and some other attractions down there. It's also the deepest inland diving site in the UK at over 240 feet. That's serious technical diving territory.
As a Rover owner, I'm a bit sad to see it come to that sort of end. But as a diver, I like it. It looks like it'd be very fun to explore.
Anyway, here's another picture:
This picture was taken at a place called Chepstow Diving Lake in Wales. This old Rover was placed there for divers to enjoy. The "lake" started out life as Dayhouse Quarry. They flooded it in 1996, and it became a major dive site in 2003. At some point they put the Rover and some other attractions down there. It's also the deepest inland diving site in the UK at over 240 feet. That's serious technical diving territory.
As a Rover owner, I'm a bit sad to see it come to that sort of end. But as a diver, I like it. It looks like it'd be very fun to explore.
Anyway, here's another picture:
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03-02-2013, 04:21 PM
#15
03-02-2013, 04:22 PM
Some quarries around my home town were flooded, and had cars that people had pushed off the cliff into the water. Usually they come to rest upside down (fifty feet) perhaps due to air pressure in the tires. Police pulled out stolen ones from time to time. The end of many Rovers these days is a few weeks in the boneyard, then compression, then off to the shredder where it takes about 15 seconds to reduce the vehicle to a pile of fist-sized chunks of metal. So the next can you pop the top on might have been one; raise a toast to the Rover gods.
And you make a good point. This seems far more dignified.
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