It Makes Me Sad.

"AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson) 05/30/2015 at 15:25 • Filed to: None

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I see this 6 series everyday as I drive down the road. It has been sitting there for more than a year, and it has gotten worse over that time.

It started out with a car cover, and at some point that turned into a blue tarp over the cabin. This was all almost a year ago, and for the last 8 months (at least) it has had nothing covering it. The reason why that is horrible is because the rear passenger window has no glass.

That’s right, that decent looking 6 now has a ruined interior and who knows how much water damage in the rear of the cabin.

I have watched for it on CL and it has never turned up. I apologize for the quality of the photo. Iphone from across the street at dusk isn’t the best. I felt like a faded filter suited its bleak future though. Here it is w/o the filter but still cropped.

It’s just depressing. It’s one block away dying a slow death from our frequent light rains and heavier storms. Plus our Hawaii sun gets to ravage it as well.

And I’m not sure that I would touch it now if I could afford it knowing how much water has gone into the interior.

Sad.

desertdog5051 > AdverseMartyr 05/30/2015 at 15:34

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Very sad indeed.

Klaus Schmoll > AdverseMartyr 05/30/2015 at 16:00

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I walked past this almost every day for 11 years until I moved away from Heidelberg three years ago. I’d bet that it still sits there. In the first few years it looked pretty good, but when I left it wasn’t even worth parting out.

AdverseMartyr > Klaus Schmoll 05/30/2015 at 16:12

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Well, I guess I shouldn’t complain then. You sir, just proved that someone always has it worse. :)

Klaus Schmoll > AdverseMartyr 05/30/2015 at 16:38

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Or some car. Buuuut, and this is only a small but, it still had all the windows so the interiour wasn’t flooded.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Klaus Schmoll 05/30/2015 at 16:53

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And that is why so few 240Zs are around, people left them in the yard uncovered and then the worst spots rusted out and it was toast. It makes me crazy when people put a car out to pasture and don’t cover them and take some kind of preventative measures.

Klaus Schmoll > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/30/2015 at 17:34

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“I’m totally gonna rebuilt that next month.... year.... decade. Oh has that really been sitting THIS long?”

I’m almost giulty of this as well. Wile I was studying at Heidelberg university I had a Simson Schwalbe like the one in the picture. Great little Scooter that even used a lophole in the German Unification treaties which allowed them to go 60+ kph, while other 50cc scooters are limited to 45 kph. At some point with the big finals and the date for my graduation paper coming nearer and nearer I just didn’t have the time to properly attend to it’s little needs here and there from time to time and it became a stationary object. But at he very least I always kept it under a cover. I just didn’t secure it properly because I thought that nobody would try to steal it anyway.

One rainy night some drunk kids stole it, kicked the headlight in to get to the wiring and hotwire it. Idiots! It doesn’t have an electric starter. They abandoned it in a field a few kms away. The 5-0 found it, gave me a lift there and I pushed it back all the way, on flat tires, in the rain. Put the cover back on and never looked at it again.

I finally sold it together a lot of parts to a Simson nut who put it back into shape for a song. Looking like this it wasn’t worth much anyway, and I rather wanted to take a loss but see it ending up in a good home.

I will totally buy one again, but only when I have a garage to keep it in. It’s a shame that prices are really picking up now.

AdverseMartyr > Klaus Schmoll 05/30/2015 at 22:18

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That happens with life.

I have a non-running 94 Ninja 250 that I just started to disassemble. It was at a guy’s house for 10 years just sitting. First discovery is that the tank is full of rust. Big flakes of rust. So it may be a loss as it might just put it into more than it is worth to fix territory. I may be selling it as parts.

It’s always a shame when you have to give up on a project.