Years ago a friend and I used to catch a northern train line to go and see some girls (the Hurstbridge line for anyone in Victoria). Every time we went up we'd see this pink station wagon in a vacant block by the train line, that never seemed to move. One day, I had a decent look, and realised that it was quite possibly a 200B wagon (having never seen one in person, I think I was 16 at this time). So one day we stopped on the way to have a look. We came across a pink 200B wagon that looked as though it had been dumped. It had rust in the rear quarters, broken windows, and grass growing through it. It had a very nice set of front guards though.....
So a week or two later, we caught the train up there with our tool boxes. In that two weeks the car had had every remaining intact window smashed, and it had been graffitied. The front guards were still good though, so we removed the bonnet and began removing the front guards. Halfway through, a passing elderly gentleman asked what we were doing. I said that we were removing the front guards, and he replied: "But it's my car." I thought he was joking, so I said: "Oh, you own this?" and he replied: "Yes, it's mine."
Both of us sort of froze, having no idea what to do. He looked fairly angry, then said: "Put the bonnet back on while I go inside and call the police." I immediately asked him not to, and after he asked why not, I explained that I was 16, had one of these cars myself, and couldn't find any decent guards, and believing that this car was abandoned, I thought I'd remove them before the council sent the whole car to be crushed. He seemed to calm down a bit upon hearing this, but said that he couldn't work out why it was abandoned when it was parked next to his house, and that he was planning on fixing it up and re-registering it. I looked at all of the smashed windows and the copious amounts of rust, pointed these out to him, after which he explained that it could all be fixed. He then offered to sell me the car for $350. I told him I paid $200 for mine and all it needed was some new front guards, and he said: "Well I suppose I'd go as low as $250."
We exchanged numbers, I never called him or heard from him, and a month or two later the car disappeared. At a guess I'd say the council took it or he rang a wrecker.
i used to stare at that wagon every day on my way home from school. It looked from the train line like besides all the graffiti like it was in good shape and i was always searching for better condition hubcaps. Sadly it dissapeared. I just figured it was dumped.