A priori, save a collection of Old Volkswagens In an abandoned mine with absolutely no light, it doesn’t seem like the best idea, but that’s what someone in Switzerland has done. We don’t know why.
They were discovered by an urban explorer and he recorded the discovery on video to publish it on your YouTube channel. It’s a mystery that they are there and it is also a mystery why someone would allow them to spoil due to humidity because some of them were in circulation only a few years ago.
Most are well preserved, but mold is taking its toll
The urban exploration It’s all the rage. If you still don’t know what it is, it’s the hobby of visiting abandoned buildings, infrastructures and all kinds of places, generally within urban centres, although they can actually be anywhere, from a car dealership in an industrial estate to a mine in the middle of the countryside. Swiss.
This was one of the latest places visited by Bob Thissen, one of the most famous urban explorers. We talked about him when he published a video with the abandoned cars he found in Fukushima, Japan.
Now he has entered an abandoned mine in Switzerland, together with a friend, and inside its tunnels and rooms they have found dozens of cars, all VolkswagenThey both knew of their existence, so they were looking for them and they did not find them by chance, but it was not easy to find them.
After walking for a while through fairly well-maintained tunnels, more than one would expect in an abandoned site, the explorers see tire marks on the ground and finally find the rooms where the old Volkswagens rest.
There are older models and others that cannot even be considered classics because thousands of units are still circulating in our cities and roads, such as the Volkswagen Golf mk4 o el Volkswagen New Beetle.
According to the video, the cars probably ended up there because they are part of a museum, but the truth is that there is no unit special enough to be displayed in a museum; they are all conventional versions of models that sold a lot, such as the basic New Beetle or the Golf mk2 GL. There doesn’t seem to be any rare variantssuch as a Golf Country, a Polo G40 or a New Beetle RSI.
Another theory that the author of the video has is that they could serve as donor cars for spare parts, probably for those that are actually on display in a museum. That makes more sense, but what has no basis is that they were stored in an abandoned mine. It would be more practical to leave them in a warehouse and it would help preserve them better.
The conditions here are far from ideal for a car to be kept in good condition; it is true that they are difficult to reach and therefore it is difficult for them to be vandalized or parts stolen, as happened at the abandoned Saab dealership in France, but there is so much humidity that almost every car has become a mold farm.
The humidity and mould are causing them to go to waste, even though most of them are apparently in very good condition. In fact, they all have the keys in the ignition and many still have their papers in their glove compartment, including catalogues of original accessories from their time.
Some of them also have the stamp of having paid the “vignette” to circulate on the Swiss motorways and the author of the video even shows one that has this “number” paid in 2018, so it has not been too long since they have been stored (or abandoned) in the mine. If they had been there for more years, they would probably be in worse condition. The strange thing is to leave there cars that could perfectly circulate.
In any case, it is a very curious discovery and, in addition, the mystery when looking for an explanation to understand why they are there adds appeal to the story.
There is probably a explanation simple, although it is not easy to understand why someone would go to such lengths to leave these cars there, especially when some of them stopped circulating so recently and it seems that they could continue to move without any problem.
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Source: www.motorpasion.com
