Don't they have trailers for that?

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From the far ends of the internet I bring you… shenanigans!

Having done flatbed work for the last couple of months, I’ve seen some pretty odd load configurations, but can anyone here figure out why three sports cars might be loaded like THIS? http://www.autoweek.com/article/20140509/CARNEWS05/140509876 Because it really escapes me.

Even better, we can all guess by the colour scheme just which of the UK’s finest, most professional and distinguished logistics(!) companies is carrying it!

So I’m curious, is this some mad loading, or is there a good reason for it?

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I think its photoshopped, its been doing the rounds for weeks on facebook

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I am thinking they are shells, used for the film industry as props :wink:

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Huh, either photoshop or prop? :laughing:

■■■■, and here was me thinking we could flog a dead horse some more. I’ll put away my stick now…
Tbh it wouldn’t really matter who was hauling it, if they were/are real cars that’s pretty mad.

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:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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just seen a post on pistonheads, it would seem its not a photoshop and they were as stated above plastic shells for film props

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chaversdad:
just seen a post on pistonheads, it would seem its not a photoshop and they were as stated above plastic shells for film props

Well if they were plastic shells someone done a good job making them. Perhaps I could have one plonked on my drive that’ll get the neighbours talking.

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They cant even get the type of trailer right :open_mouth:

Three Aston Martin DB9s of indeterminate vintage are being hauled on a flatbed trailer big enough for only two

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And no BB you work as a lorry driver no-one would believe you :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
Mind if you drove a V8 Scania that could be different :wink: :wink:

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apparently, they are Aston Martin pre production, development cars which cannot be sold, and, as such, need destroying, hence the way they have been loaded, it doesn’t matter if they get damaged :wink:

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I had seen a post somewhere that they had been at MIRA or the other place that tests cars. They are now only allowed to be scrapped so transporting them like this wouldn’t have made any difference.

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living close to MIRA, i have seen heavily disguised Aston Martins going in and out of the place

also, a new Range Rover, looks like a new model of that squashed thing :open_mouth:

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It’s probably the new discovery their making it look like all the others

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shuttlespanker:
living close to MIRA, i have seen heavily disguised Aston Martins going in and out of the place

also, a new Range Rover, looks like a new model of that squashed thing :open_mouth:

he new range rover passed me on the M4 last week and went off into Slough, had all the black and white camouflage wrap on it :sunglasses: :sunglasses: :sunglasses: :sunglasses:

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wildfire:

shuttlespanker:
living close to MIRA, i have seen heavily disguised Aston Martins going in and out of the place

also, a new Range Rover, looks like a new model of that squashed thing :open_mouth:

he new range rover passed me on the M4 last week and went off into Slough, had all the black and white camouflage wrap on it :sunglasses: :sunglasses: :sunglasses: :sunglasses:

yep, that’s the one, see it regular

living and working in the area that i do, i see a lot of these pre-production cars regular

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Not photoshopped, here’s a different load pulled by a mate a few weeks back.

No, not plastic either!
Off to the scrap man!!!

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Hiya…so i am in a scrapyard in Stoke. in drives a Rolls Royce , onto the weigh bridge then down the
yard the driver gets out the grab lifts the car into the fragger(machine rips cars to pieces) out come
clean bits of metal. the car was a test/learner car and was worn beyond selling.it was a complete car.
i must say it was in 1976/7
John

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TruckingHell:
Not photoshopped, here’s a different load pulled by a mate a few weeks back.

No, not plastic either!
Off to the scrap man!!!

Wheels and tyres are worth a few quid,why are they left on :question: :question: :question:

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TruckingHell:
Not photoshopped, here’s a different load pulled by a mate a few weeks back.

No, not plastic either!
Off to the scrap man!!!

Is this after they were on a Stobart cartransporter

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irish lorries:
Is this after they were on a Stobart cartransporter

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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seth 70:
Wheels and tyres are worth a few quid,why are they left on :question: :question: :question:

If you saw what stress and everything they have been through you wouldn’t really wanna risk having them on your car…
I’ve only ever bought 1 used wheel from a scrapper £5 and that was a steel rim with a good looking tyre for a get out of ■■■■ spare .never used it in all the time it was in the boot.