Summer Holiday Weekend Edition – Greek Island Beaters

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Moving on with the Summer Holiday stuff: here, we get to the beaters.

Abandoned cars, broken-down pieces of machinery, cars at the end of the rope; Rhodes is a smallish island, but home to a great big bunch of beater cars. Some of them still run, some of them are being taken over by weeds. Some of them are in the woods, and some of them are covered with random stuff that has no other place, apparently – the stuff piled on top of this Corolla wagon in someone’s garden can hardly be worth saving.

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Quite close to the Corolla was this ’70s Escort, hiding underneath some olive trees in the village of Vati.

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I shot this tired Peugeot 309 in Gennadi, as well as a host of other cars – including the Mazda trio below.

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The sun isn’t too kind on paint, as witnessed by this Hyundai Accent.

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Just how hot can it get inside this once-proud Celica?

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Pandas are plentiful, and probably disposable. Shame, and any Fiat will get beat on for sure.

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This BMW E34 520i caught my eye immediately, as I daily drive a white E34. This was in rougher shape by far, but had a leather interior.

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The roughest of the runners was this rusted and repaired and rusted Megane, shot in Rhodes town.

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This Hyundai Atos was rougher, but it had lost all of its wheels…

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17 responses to “Summer Holiday Weekend Edition – Greek Island Beaters”

  1. Doug Higgs Avatar
    Doug Higgs

    Noooo! Save the Pandas! Those Fiats are the only cool cars on the island, obviously.

  2. Toxic Avenger Avatar
    Toxic Avenger

    We have littered our planet with rusty crap!

  3. faberferrum Avatar
    faberferrum

    Cool pictures, thanks for posting them

  4. dr zero Avatar
    dr zero

    I guess some scousers have been to Rhodes.

    1. Rust-MyEnemy Avatar

      All Rhodes lead to Liverpool.

  5. junkman Avatar
    junkman

    I've been threatening to go after the Innocenti Mini and first generation Capri that have been sitting under an olive tree outside our village for the past eight years. They're still sitting and I'm still threatening.

    1. dead_elvis Avatar

      Is that you, Myron?

      1. junkman Avatar
        junkman

        My cover has been blown!

  6. Mombat Avatar
    Mombat

    Ah, sometimes last year I submitted a bunch of similar picutres, but usually older cars, i took in Cyprus….whatever happened to them?

    1. Rust-MyEnemy Avatar

      I have family in Pervolia and images like these are quite familiar. I like to think the layer of thick grime on my car in the UK would be warmly approved by my relatives.

  7. Sjalabais Avatar
    Sjalabais

    So all these posts…are the bankcruptcy blues? What do the IMF-officials drive?

  8. john365 Avatar
    john365

    Weird that no one stole the alloys on that Punto.

  9. schigleymischke Avatar
    schigleymischke

    I'm conflicted. My brain says stay away from such a decrepit place. My heart is looking up airfare.

    1. julkinen Avatar

      It's not decrepit, it's actually lovely. I just dug deep into the places with the beat up cars.

  10. Van_Sarockin Avatar
    Van_Sarockin

    Beaters? Hardly even a love tap. Apparently, they don't enforce their high weed ordinance over there. Someone ought to get on that.

  11. HTWHLS Avatar
    HTWHLS

    I don't get it. They just leave the crappy cars on the streets…or do they have a vandalsm problem there?

    1. julkinen Avatar

      Not really on the streets, but the villages have nooks and crannies. The stripped Hyundai was found next to the police station, and the E34 was close to a garage.