Found an Abandoned Taxi Graveyard: Decaying Secret Collection
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- In today's episode, we uncover an incredible vehicle graveyard yet to be documented. Inside a dilapidated warehouse, we find many vintage taxi's forgotten in a mixture of foliage and roof tiles!
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I see those taxis and think of all the people that have travelled in them, their journeys and their journey through life.
That's a nice perspective! I see these and a feel a pang for how we've let thieves rob us of our industries and leave us with shadows of emblems of our nationhood. Yours is rather more uplifting!
@@hydorah I see that the new rifle the British armed forces have chosen is made in the USA.
Yes. I knew exactly how it felt to be in one of them. Can't afford black cabs any more sadly..
That's a great sentiment, all to be left in a decaying warehouse nowhere to be seen.
The one thing with all of your videos is how nature just slowly takes everything back. Its not violent or disturbing, but peaceful and beautiful in a way... Good job lads.
Completely agree, love to document nature's reclamation over humanity
The FX4 was the best shape taxi ever, a design masterpiece
I wish i could drive or restore one of these in style with or without a taxi meter !!
All those cars deserve to be restored :)
I used to be a trainee fitter ( mechanic) on these FX4 taxis when I left school in 1986,dirty horrible job,the Scottish taxis where rusty and the London taxis where solid and mainly automatic.
Man, you wait for a taxi, then 50 come at once! ;)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I have welded up old taxis in the past and seeing this was a real pleasure. I have shared it with many of my taxi related friends, thanks for this video. I really appreciate it and it has brought joy to many people.
Glad our video can have that effect, no problem
Fact about the black hack:the one reason for the insane turning circle is for them to be able to clear the tight turn at the ritz/savoy reception/dropoff area-thats it.
It’s just the Savoy, the Ritz you drop off outside in the road. Savoy Court is the only, to my knowledge, official road in the UK that you drive on the right legally.
I always prefare these older cabs than the gastly electric ones they have today
they like doing one point turns in the road too!
They are nationwide not just London..
❤ the old fx4 cabs were the best , the metro cabs probably the worst 😊
Gimme a metrocab that a TX cab anyday
Such a shame to see all those taxi cabs abandoned
Great video lads, but it really does make you ask why? These old FX4 cabs body wise could be rebuilt over and over and most engines/gearboxes had hundreds and hundreds of thousands of miles and then could still be rebuilt. Loved the decay and the environment, but also sad that these could be lost for ever. Thanks and well done.
Seen them with enough miles to have seen them go to the moon, back and been on their way to the moon again. In this age of disposable consumerism, things that are kept going loose their value to most unfortunately.
However to the few, the morph from beyond inanimate objects and develop a soul. They become a living entity and this should both be respected but, also and more importantly noticed. Take time from your busy magazine culture of things having a short finite life and respect the things that last. In 60 years no one will look at a Tesla mk1 with dreamy eyes, however they will at such things as taxis and minibuses that took them on school trips etc.....
Yes in the 90's we had a 1979 as a run about. The paperwork with it showing it has been round the clock 8 times, making around 860k miles.
Beautiful and sad. Well done guys.
Great Vid Lads!! Such a shame with all those classics, they should be in a museum, not wasting away, it`s just criminal!
The white BMW at 11:35 had an MOT until March of this year (2024) so it looks like the place has been partially in use in the last couple of years.
I noticed this aswell. It's fascinating how it's been there for so little time yet it looks like it's been parked up for easily a decade.
@@mickd94 probably had a fault not long after the Mot in 2023 and was parked up. Some of the taxis been there’s since 1997
Probably a ringer
Could be a chop shop
more like 10:00 NOT 11:35
Whilst the FX4 and Fairways are obviously interesting, one of those Metrocabs is an original Metro Cammell Weymann example. (Before the design was sold to Reliant). The MCW taxis are so incredibly rare. I’d love to save it.
Amazing find, a truly hidden gem, shown by the complete lack of graffiti and/or vandalism.
Great video
This places looks amazing! Well done guys absolutely loved the video 👌🏽
You should contact London Transport Museum and tell them about the location to see if they can contact the owner to save those taxis, then they can be restored and put on display.
The sad part of this is that someone's passion/business now just sat decaying.
Them black hacks gave London a landmark soundtrack-probably rarely heard now.
..and most cities
Every town and city. Not just London.
surprised to be early! i wonder if the owner or something passed away in recent years leaving the collection to just be abandoned? though as you mentioned it seems to be a repairs place too, and some of the cars are way more modern.. like the bmw near the end
definitely gonna show this to my granddad who used to be a cab driver. amazing video as usual!
It's an old taxi repair company that went into liquidation back in 2015. You'd think they would have removed the taxis as part of the liquidation. It's a shame that they've been left to rot like that.
Do yk what area this is in? Seems familiar
Did this feature in a bbc documentary back in the seventies
Where taxis went for road safety inspection😮😊
@@J.cd33 It's in Maryhill, Glasgow. It's surrounded by businesses and residential houses, which makes it even odder that it's been allow to rot like that.
I see on the comments said the company went liquidation in 2015 so why the taxis still sat there rotting as they could of been put back on the road or broken down for parts in amazed no body vandalised some really old taxis great find guys
@@petergrinnell2500 I guess there's little demand for these models now. Due to emissions regulations and licensing rules, you probably can't even operate these as taxis anymore. Certainly not in London anyway.
Nice one. My sister used to own a classic London taxi. It was a beast of a vehicle and the amount of time people tried to hail us, even though the yellow taxi light didn't work.
Anyway, I remember a couple of fantastic summers in the mid to late 90s rocking up to festivals including Glastonbury, Tribal Gathering and Womad (at Reading).
We were waved through with a smile to the inner section without paying. People assumed we were a stall or maybe that we were connected to the event management.
Happy days!
My old school art teacher owned an FX4 it had all the kids in school fascinated. To see a London cab in my hometown was rare in the 1980s (when I left school). This is so sad to see them like this maybe one day someone will rescue and save them.
TAxI GrAveYard Is my band and driver music ! There is a graveyard near me as well on clevand and washington street !
im speechless, what a shame, all those vehicles sitting to rot, an utter goldmine.
Is this in Glasgow, Maryhill, near the canal? There’s something similar you can just about see from across the canal there
I would say so looking at maps and street view there is all taxis outside 😂
So bitter sweet watching this upload someone would love to buy all those vechicles including the roller and the lovely Volvo (tank) and the Saab with all the parts fix them up and get some back on the road driving around in one of those 1980s taxis would get you more looks than most vechicles people asking asking about them i mean just look at the grills luv em.....red+black has to be a Liverpool taxi don't know about the Green maybe somewhere in Scotland and there was a blue one hard to see but there WOW it was shame you couldn't look inside them a lot more especially the older ones... someone please save these gems because when there gone there gone only wikipedia to look them up 🤗😆😆👍.... Great upload....
The old Saab, ( a 99?) was my pick of the bunch 👍
Wish i had one of those old cabs here in Holland.
There's an abandoned one here in Utrecht
Excellent.
It looks a bit like a vehicle repair place that specialises I'm tx taxis that went bankrupt or something.
What a location! Rare to find places like this anymore, great that you got to document it!
They are getting rare now,quite collectible.
Wow what a shame those taxis have been left to rot, you dont see black cabs anymore its a shame. Great find x
Thanks, this is where they all are!
I work for the bloke who owned all these in the 90’s along with my dad
What happened to him?
That’s really sad. A black cab graveyard, what a terrible waste of. A real bloody shame.
Profoundly beautiful and sad. Great choice of background music.
Glad you enjoyed our music selection
Gees some probably still could be restored & saved . Possibly bought back to a Road Worthy condition
I used to have a fairway as a family runabout, great motors. Would be worth getting a couple of the better fx4's into a less crumbly spot and sprucing them up. Great film props.
I really want to save that A-plate one that’s in the thumbnail of this video 😢 proper London registered cab as well.
I love the old Austin taxi. The real London cab. The current Chinese things are emblematic of modern bankrupt Britain. They are blobby, lack character and they're screwed together in Britain but they're Chinese. Not just a Chinese owned company, they are Chinese engineered and major assemblies are shipped in from China. These are the real deal. A modern rendition of these would be incredible
That’s the “overseas investment” politicians are always on about. In action.
I believe Khan did the rounds at that factory.
Those old Austin taxis have no competition unlike those Chinese clones based on the originals.
I wonder if any of these are salvageable or whether they're beyond help?
the FX4s are entirely salvageable, the Metrocab should be binned, should have been binned from new to be honest.
@@thomashogg2341 Yeah! How could an oversized plastic Austin Metro lookalike ever hope to be the icon of London that the FX4 was! I grew up in Plymouth, our City Council used London taxi regs so we had FX4s everywhere in the '80s and '90s. The Metrocabs got unpolite nicknames. Still, at least they were British and not a Geely product
@@hydorah I learned to drive in my Dad's FX4, used to "borrow" it regularly when he was asleep, he never did figure out why I only took 4 lessons to pass my driving test!!
Strange that the BMW 1 series had an MOT up until March this year, something weird going on with that
Utterly Amazing ,what stories those Taxis could Tell??
Incredible find guys thanks so much for sharing what a fab place
I used to own one. They do about 25 mpg around town and about 45 mpg on a long run.
I know these have been replaced by less polluting and more efficient models but it’s sad to see these just rotting away. Was that an old Rolls at ten mins?
What beautiful cars they are, you'd love to just find out who owns them and offer a price, just fix em all up, sell them onto collectors.
Did I possibly see a roller too? that's just so EPIC
Every back seat could tell a story i bet.
wow. Great content guys... keep up the good work
Thanks a lot, we will do
been left since 31st 2008 when tax ran out on N702 DMG
I want to save that 1977 Volvo 245 DL so bad. PKD 683S last V5C issued February 2005.
Black cabs could potentially be used for a film set in the past
Impressive find.
Great video such loss really enjoyed watching thankyou take care stay safe always 👍👏
The White BMW Reg YH62FMO just did a check. Although it’s untaxed and no MOT. The last time a log book was issued
31st March 2023
The one you're discussing at 2:33 & 5:03 is an MCW Metrocab. They are now almost non-existent. They were built from the mid 1980's to the late 1990's. I have to be honest. I do prefer the design of the Austin FX4 and Fairway taxi to the modern LTI TX2 (like the one I have) and TX4.
Thanks for sharing, that makes it quite unique that it was a one of few
We might see this in “Abandoned Engineering.”
I’m a London cabbie, great video.
Excellent discovery 👌 there are some old Cab's there I think the oldest one I seen in this video was a k- reg about 1990-91. I bet alot of the vehicles could be restored and used for nostalgic purposes. There is some motor history there if only they could be saved 😢
there's a V suffix reg amongst them too
Great video subject, shocking that the roof has been left unrepaired exposing interior to the weather, nature is reclaiming and taking over, another 100 years exposure and the contents will have rusted into the ground.
Precisely, glad we could document them before this occurs
Loved this, amazing ❤ thank you❤
Hi guys I'm just come across your video I cannot believe what I'm seeing what are waste
That green N reg taxi has been off the road since 2008, as its unlicensed. So that's been off the road for 15 years,.
Most taxis mot's ran out between 1997_2009 but the white BMW mot only ran out on 2nd March 2024 so someone must still have keys or ownership to the property
Very cool!!
I cant understand how the council say the bridge isn't safe enough for heavy vehicles but was safe enough for several vehicles full of film equipment, catering, wardrobe facilities to cross for a recent tv program.
This was a very interesting video very enjoyable 😊
Great Video, such a shame these have been just left
London black cabs convert to a stelth camoer really well. Loads of room
Great video lads. Same can't be said for the language in the opening line!
Great video, don't know location but it's not south of the river 😉
Bet them old cabs could tell some stories!
I would absolutely love to know where this is. I would save at least one of these cabs and bring it back to London
the rares one nowadays would be the MCW Metrocab as lot less produced than the FX4, especially the MK1 with chrome bumpers.
There is a taxi cab garagesales with graveyard cabs on Upper Chorlton Road, Manchester M16 ?. Its just shy of the junction of Withington Road and Chorlton Road and at the side of the Sri Guru Gobind Sing Gurdwara temple. Images show on Google Maps of the cabs.
I would be great if one of the Auto Auction companies pick up on this video. Hence follow up to see if they can arrange with the properties owner to have these vehicles, cleaned, and put to auction.
What a cool find!
Amazing, thank you.
Come on lads do one of the abandoned pontins camps might not be easy but might be possible with your experience!
It's too modern!!
Great video fellas, if a bit sad.
That’s not Beasley Engineering ? If so I used to sell them Bearings! Beasley was a character proper legend
incredible.
Gobsmacking. Just have to be saved , wait for them to get to 40 years old, put them back to work, ULEZ compliant etc etc. Real business opportunity for those who want something smaller than a Routemaster !
Or scrap ULEZ and bring them back into service now
@@bruceaisher in your dreams, not gonna happen, alas
I love your videos.😊
It’s a shame to see them all sitting there rotting away.. but what value do they have these days?? I’m sure there are collectors who would love to give these a Home.
What’s a real shame is all those newer and vintage taxis left to rot and decay but also newer cars like that Mercedes what’s also nice is to see that rose at the front of the taxis every taxi has a story every journey every emotion all those miles done their must be a reason why they were left like this why the vintage why couldn’t the roof be fixed at least to protect the taxis at least
Hiya Alistair, These cabs have character, you don't get them like this anymore, I wonder if they still run? I like the Rolls Royce, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
I highly doubt it, but maybe one would with a bit of loving!
This video is amazing
This might get buried but the land itself isn't abandoned, it's owned by a nearby business and taxi companies pay the landowner to leave the taxis there to be used as scrap (hence the BMW with the mot due march 2024). I sent this video to a friend since he lives in the area and thought he'd be interested - turns out he's friends with the landowner 😬
White BMW had a MOT done in March 2023
Lots of MCW
looks like the taxi repair place in Fulham.
I'm surprised by how many of the tyres aren't completely flat.
N702 DMG HAS BEEN THERE SINCE 2008
Makes the heart sink 😢
😢 those pore 🚖s so sad
I hope thease get saved before the vandlles find them or the building collapses 🙏 unfortunately there's not much demand for them as pretty as they are
Team up with one of those barn car cleaning channels to clean off the worst bird poop car. Seriously.
Without the roof being fixed there’s no point cleaning anything.
things only get taken care of if there are people still alive who are motivated to do so