Found an Abandoned Taxi Graveyard: Decaying Secret Collection
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Күн бұрынIn 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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@mmatejka01 Ай бұрын
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.
@Urbandoned 11 күн бұрын
Completely agree, love to document nature's reclamation over humanity
@derrenleepoole Ай бұрын
Man, you wait for a taxi, then 50 come at once! ;)
@fionagreenwood3231 Ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Xenon777_ Ай бұрын
All those cars deserve to be restored :)
@user-xs1yx9tc9m Ай бұрын
I see those taxis and think of all the people that have travelled in them, their journeys and their journey through life.
@hydorah Ай бұрын
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!
@user-xs1yx9tc9m Ай бұрын
@@hydorah I see that the new rifle the British armed forces have chosen is made in the USA.
@thisperson5294 Ай бұрын
Yes. I knew exactly how it felt to be in one of them. Can't afford black cabs any more sadly..
@Urbandoned 11 күн бұрын
That's a great sentiment, all to be left in a decaying warehouse nowhere to be seen.
@stevedickson5853 Ай бұрын
The FX4 was the best shape taxi ever, a design masterpiece
@FoxRiverTaxi 17 сағат бұрын
I wish i could drive or restore one of these in style with or without a taxi meter !!
@valentine75 Ай бұрын
Such a shame to see all those taxi cabs abandoned
@RandallCrook Ай бұрын
Beautiful and sad. Well done guys.
@davidwebb8877 Ай бұрын
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.
@associatedblacksheepandmisfits Ай бұрын
❤ the old fx4 cabs were the best , the metro cabs probably the worst 😊
@stevedickson5853 Ай бұрын
Gimme a metrocab that a TX cab anyday
@madanto2394 Ай бұрын
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.
@claytonmckie3143 Ай бұрын
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.
@colindarling5552 Ай бұрын
I always prefare these older cabs than the gastly electric ones they have today
@spikebmth Ай бұрын
they like doing one point turns in the road too!
@thisperson5294 Ай бұрын
They are nationwide not just London..
@nicklarge007 12 күн бұрын
Great Vid Lads!! Such a shame with all those classics, they should be in a museum, not wasting away, it`s just criminal!
@nv400adventurer13 Ай бұрын
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.
@Urbandoned 11 күн бұрын
Glad our video can have that effect, no problem
@discogareth Ай бұрын
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.
@TheBeardedExplorer Ай бұрын
This places looks amazing! Well done guys absolutely loved the video 👌🏽
@frasermathers2287 Ай бұрын
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.
@nv400adventurer13 Ай бұрын
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.....
@jwm5165 Ай бұрын
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.
@spikebmth Ай бұрын
Amazing find, a truly hidden gem, shown by the complete lack of graffiti and/or vandalism. Great video
@unknownregions5014 Ай бұрын
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.
@barrie5852 Ай бұрын
The sad part of this is that someone's passion/business now just sat decaying.
@noangel2502 Ай бұрын
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.
@J.cd33 Ай бұрын
Do yk what area this is in? Seems familiar
@user-xz9dn2ub1x Ай бұрын
Did this feature in a bbc documentary back in the seventies Where taxis went for road safety inspection😮😊
@noangel2502 Ай бұрын
@@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.
@petergrinnell2500 Ай бұрын
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
@matthewgodwin3050 Ай бұрын
@@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.
@andydjbadger Ай бұрын
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.
@mickd94 Ай бұрын
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.
@AK.2425 Ай бұрын
@@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
@sirlordbabish3873 Ай бұрын
Probably a ringer
@billysollox7187 Ай бұрын
Could be a chop shop
@SEPK09 Ай бұрын
more like 10:00 NOT 11:35
@madanto2394 Ай бұрын
Them black hacks gave London a landmark soundtrack-probably rarely heard now.
@stevedickson5853 Ай бұрын
..and most cities
@thisperson5294 Ай бұрын
Every town and city. Not just London.
@FoxRiverTaxi 17 сағат бұрын
TAxI GrAveYard Is my band and driver music ! There is a graveyard near me as well on clevand and washington street !
@PLAYHOUSEWIFI Ай бұрын
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!
@DEAD-DROP Ай бұрын
What a location! Rare to find places like this anymore, great that you got to document it!
@davidnm21 Ай бұрын
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.
@lunarose7234 Ай бұрын
Loved this, amazing ❤ thank you❤
@rabbitwhisperer7525 13 күн бұрын
Profoundly beautiful and sad. Great choice of background music.
@Urbandoned 11 күн бұрын
Glad you enjoyed our music selection
@Knockseekfind Ай бұрын
Great video such loss really enjoyed watching thankyou take care stay safe always 👍👏
@bganonimouse2754 Ай бұрын
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!
@ianturner6954 Ай бұрын
Incredible find guys thanks so much for sharing what a fab place
@mattd5757 Ай бұрын
im speechless, what a shame, all those vehicles sitting to rot, an utter goldmine.
@janicecopeland9083 Ай бұрын
Amazing, thank you.
@fatimaali8645 Ай бұрын
This was a very interesting video very enjoyable 😊
@Fran_SG Ай бұрын
Very cool!!
@stephaniemcquillan1930 Ай бұрын
What a cool find!
@davidwebb8877 Ай бұрын
They are getting rare now,quite collectible.
@kieranbutler7927 29 күн бұрын
wow. Great content guys... keep up the good work
@Urbandoned 11 күн бұрын
Thanks a lot, we will do
@wjg276 Ай бұрын
I work for the bloke who owned all these in the 90’s along with my dad
@bruceaisher Ай бұрын
What happened to him?
@paulc1983 Ай бұрын
Excellent. It looks a bit like a vehicle repair place that specialises I'm tx taxis that went bankrupt or something.
@briandoyle6188 Ай бұрын
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....
@markgatland977 Ай бұрын
The old Saab, ( a 99?) was my pick of the bunch 👍
@unusualaquariumecosystems5805 Ай бұрын
Impressive find.
@kimclark4862 Ай бұрын
That’s really sad. A black cab graveyard, what a terrible waste of. A real bloody shame.
@rafster1882 27 күн бұрын
I’m a London cabbie, great video.
@elizabethspedding1975 Ай бұрын
I love your videos.😊
@scrapyardwarriorvlogging Ай бұрын
I really want to save that A-plate one that’s in the thumbnail of this video 😢 proper London registered cab as well.
@Coastmac2001 Ай бұрын
Gees some probably still could be restored & saved . Possibly bought back to a Road Worthy condition
@hydorah Ай бұрын
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
@4879daniel Ай бұрын
That’s the “overseas investment” politicians are always on about. In action. I believe Khan did the rounds at that factory.
@autumnmatthews3179 Ай бұрын
This video is amazing
@jensk4140 Ай бұрын
Wish i had one of those old cabs here in Holland.
@tns5044 Ай бұрын
There's an abandoned one here in Utrecht
@truckerlee5975 Ай бұрын
Every back seat could tell a story i bet.
@b.2221 Ай бұрын
Those old Austin taxis have no competition unlike those Chinese clones based on the originals.
@fraggit Ай бұрын
Great video fellas, if a bit sad.
@Roblilley999 Ай бұрын
Great Video, such a shame these have been just left
@juliegough350 Ай бұрын
Wow what a shame those taxis have been left to rot, you dont see black cabs anymore its a shame. Great find x
@Urbandoned 11 күн бұрын
Thanks, this is where they all are!
@Meowwentthedino Ай бұрын
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
@andy3127 Ай бұрын
Strange that the BMW 1 series had an MOT up until March this year, something weird going on with that
@middlesbroughmike1027 Ай бұрын
Great video lads. Same can't be said for the language in the opening line!
@Austingipsy101 Ай бұрын
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.
@pohjoinen Ай бұрын
Is this in Glasgow, Maryhill, near the canal? There’s something similar you can just about see from across the canal there
@elliot438bcfcVTEC Ай бұрын
I would say so looking at maps and street view there is all taxis outside 😂
@CaptainHoratioPugwash 29 күн бұрын
I want to save that 1977 Volvo 245 DL so bad. PKD 683S last V5C issued February 2005.
@AmigaA-or2hj Ай бұрын
We might see this in “Abandoned Engineering.”
@Hedgerow-Media-UK Ай бұрын
I used to own one. They do about 25 mpg around town and about 45 mpg on a long run.
@focus3415 Ай бұрын
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
@marklittler784 Ай бұрын
Black cabs could potentially be used for a film set in the past
@-r-495 Ай бұрын
incredible.
@baz-wc4fi Ай бұрын
Utterly Amazing ,what stories those Taxis could Tell??
@john0597 Ай бұрын
Hi guys I'm just come across your video I cannot believe what I'm seeing what are waste
@kdri155 Ай бұрын
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.
@rf6080 Ай бұрын
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 😢
@asthenewt Ай бұрын
there's a V suffix reg amongst them too
@procta2343 11 күн бұрын
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,.
@rogerarnold7262 12 күн бұрын
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?
@john_smith1471 Ай бұрын
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.
@Urbandoned 11 күн бұрын
Precisely, glad we could document them before this occurs
@jamesbraithwaite478 Ай бұрын
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.
@Urbandoned 11 күн бұрын
Thanks for sharing, that makes it quite unique that it was a one of few
@jamescourt4703 Ай бұрын
Bet them old cabs could tell some stories!
@PrinceJohn84 Ай бұрын
I wonder if any of these are salvageable or whether they're beyond help?
@thomashogg2341 Ай бұрын
the FX4s are entirely salvageable, the Metrocab should be binned, should have been binned from new to be honest.
@hydorah Ай бұрын
@@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
@thomashogg2341 Ай бұрын
@@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!!
@tamarahenderson5241 Ай бұрын
Love
@johnburke5759 Ай бұрын
I would absolutely love to know where this is. I would save at least one of these cabs and bring it back to London
@marccarter1350 Ай бұрын
London black cabs convert to a stelth camoer really well. Loads of room
@ttv2951 27 күн бұрын
Great video, don't know location but it's not south of the river 😉
@askinlad Ай бұрын
the rares one nowadays would be the MCW Metrocab as lot less produced than the FX4, especially the MK1 with chrome bumpers.
@Theoobovril Ай бұрын
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.
@douglasthompson296 Ай бұрын
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.
@MostlyLoveOfMusic Ай бұрын
things only get taken care of if there are people still alive who are motivated to do so
@deniseshephard3347 Ай бұрын
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
@simonmercer9530 Ай бұрын
That’s not Beasley Engineering ? If so I used to sell them Bearings! Beasley was a character proper legend
@Seal0626 Ай бұрын
I'm surprised by how many of the tyres aren't completely flat.
@amazulu3401 Ай бұрын
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 !
@bruceaisher Ай бұрын
Or scrap ULEZ and bring them back into service now
@amazulu3401 28 күн бұрын
@@bruceaisher in your dreams, not gonna happen, alas
@Louis-eh7mo Ай бұрын
Come on lads do one of the abandoned pontins camps might not be easy but might be possible with your experience!
@Urbandoned 11 күн бұрын
It's too modern!!
@dougknight1720 Ай бұрын
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.
@roscowoodward6037 Ай бұрын
Makes the heart sink 😢
@Game_Tunes123 Ай бұрын
N702 DMG HAS BEEN THERE SINCE 2008
@john0597 Ай бұрын
Anyway I watch this Saturday the 22nd of June 24
@Derpy1969 Ай бұрын
Team up with one of those barn car cleaning channels to clean off the worst bird poop car. Seriously.
@john_smith1471 Ай бұрын
Without the roof being fixed there’s no point cleaning anything.
@paulguise698 Ай бұрын
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
@Urbandoned 11 күн бұрын
I highly doubt it, but maybe one would with a bit of loving!
@LysanderLH Ай бұрын
looks like the taxi repair place in Fulham.
@MOSSFEEN 20 күн бұрын
White BMW had a MOT done in March 2023
@mick0846 Ай бұрын
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
@paulthomas3841 Ай бұрын
I can't believe what you have found ?
@thomaspenman4101 Ай бұрын
Its a shame left to rot away
@jessicastacey9058 Ай бұрын
Is this the one in Whalley Range/Chorlton
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