google maps= old car finds

GTP290 · 12-05-2009, 08:56 PM

Was thinking about how I had two Ford coupes once upon a time, then I remembered seeing an old yellow Ford coupe just sitting in someones front yard from 2001. I still remembered the street name, so I thought why not google earth it to see if the cars still there, low and behold nearly 10 years later and the old girl is still sitting there. Cant see to much detail but its still yellow.
Anyone else done the same thing?

FPV8U · 12-05-2009, 08:58 PM

You definitly just gave me an idea, just got to look up the street name.

Got my eyes on a XA/B coupe at the moment..

Yellow_Festiva · 12-05-2009, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by GTP290

Was thinking about how I had two Ford coupes once upon a time, then I remembered seeing an old yellow Ford coupe just sitting in someones front yard from 2001. I still remembered the street name, so I thought why not google earth it to see if the cars still there, low and behold nearly 10 years later and the old girl is still sitting there. Cant see to much detail but its still yellow.
Anyone else done the same thing?

Is it in Revesby, NSW???

There is a Yellow coupe sitting in the front yard of a house just a hand full of houses down from where my family live.

GTP290 · 12-05-2009, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by FPV8U

You definitly just gave me an idea, just got to look up the street name.

Got my eyes on a XA/B coupe at the moment..

It aint yellow is it? lol

GTP290 · 12-05-2009, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

Is it in Revesby, NSW???

There is a Yellow coupe sitting in the front yard of a house just a hand full of houses down from where my family live.

nah its in SA. I knew of a black XA coupe in the Barossa valley somewhere, but dont know of the street name. Mind you that was about 10 years ago aswell.

Ando_Leigh · 12-05-2009, 11:08 PM

i no of the one in Revesby. Go past it every now and then to see if it has moved

afroboy · 13-05-2009, 06:54 AM

My XY is in full view over the fence (due to the height of the camera) which i am not happy about

sgt_doofey · 13-05-2009, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by GTP290

nah its in SA. I knew of a black XA coupe in the Barossa valley somewhere, but dont know of the street name. Mind you that was about 10 years ago aswell.

Haven't seen it in my travels. But then again, the Barossa is quite large.
There is this just outside Tanunda on Gomersal Road though:
Google Maps Link

Springfield_Johny · 13-05-2009, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by afroboy

My XY is in full view over the fence (due to the height of the camera) which i am not happy about

Contact Google, ask them to blur that part of the image because your car is desirable to thieves.

**cs123** · 13-05-2009, 08:37 AM

You do realise that google maps isn't "live". In some cases it is quite a few years old.

ZA-289 · 13-05-2009, 09:06 AM

But its still quite likely that if a theif saw afroboy's house and his XY on google maps, they may go to his address personally.

xbrules · 13-05-2009, 09:10 AM

if you look on rubgy street of sturt road you'll see 2 coupes and a p6 ltd in a front yard

Director · 13-05-2009, 09:40 AM

I looked up my street and my old VK Director was out the front, it was always in the garage but I was forced to leave it on the street one night because the fuel pump busted just as I got it home one afternoon, I was hoping someone might steal it

afroboy · 13-05-2009, 04:03 PM

LOL Director. I have looked up the image and requested it be blurred. Cheers guys

LOCO XP · 13-05-2009, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by cs123

You do realise that google maps isn't "live". In some cases it is quite a few years old.

What!??? I thought I had a magic XP ute, I was mucking around tracing the path from my mate's place on google street view to my home, and my ute was parked out the front of his house, and also in my driveway.

LOCO XP · 13-05-2009, 04:35 PM

can't work out how to post the pic, pretty funny.

afroboy · 13-05-2009, 05:38 PM

Well, they don't muck around, the picture has already been blurred

fakegt · 13-05-2009, 05:53 PM

Not a car one, but my mum is standing at her front gate when I type in there address. At my neighbours place he has 2 356 Porsche's parked in his drive.

GTP290 · 13-05-2009, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by xbrules

if you look on rubgy street of sturt road you'll see 2 coupes and a p6 ltd in a front yard

my god, that was the car I was talking about! a cute blonde drives the road going coupe aswell!

homegrown · 13-05-2009, 10:56 PM

Google earth is the birds eye view Yeah. There was one that showed the front of your house as well, taken from the road. Is that google earth as well?
Thanks.

Yellow_Festiva · 13-05-2009, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by homegrown

Google earth is the birds eye view Yeah. There was one that showed the front of your house as well, taken from the road. Is that google earth as well?
Thanks.

That's Google Maps -> "Street View".