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  • #4742
    mr lee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 332 ✭✭mr lee


    yop wrote: »
    Didn't realize my 3 year old was selling the car! Must have turned off the spell checker!

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/toiota/6028678

    24917356.jpeg

    the policeman from allo allo is sellin it


  • #4743
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Why would you pay to respray a car you are about to swap/sell and especially a 1.4 ???

    The mind boggles
    in having a respray probably means a rattle can job by the seller and his hoodie mates in his grans garden shed :pac:


  • #4744
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users Posts: 7,288 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    JohnBoy26 wrote: »
    in having a respray probably means a rattle can job by the seller and his hoodie mates in his grans garden shed :pac:

    Probably, 2 grand + on a 1.4 150k civic seems retarded


  • #4745
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Probably, 2 grand + on a 1.4 150k civic seems retarded

    I have to agree.


  • #4746
    Mister Jingles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭Mister Jingles


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/toyota-corolla-1-3-xli-saloon-1-owner-6/5743038

    €1499

    23485354.jpeg


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  • #4747
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    I'd say good, clean, unskangered examples of that are hard to find now.
    It's a future classic. You maybe could pick one up less than that, but not this clean and original. Doesn't seem too far off the wall to me.


  • #4748
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    I'd say good, clean, unskangered examples of that are hard to find now.
    It's a future classic. You maybe could pick one up less than that, but not this clean and original. Doesn't seem too far off the wall to me.

    Oddly enough, I do not guffaw disparagingly. There's bugger-all mileage on it.


  • #4749
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Oddly enough, I do not guffaw disparagingly. There's bugger-all mileage on it.

    How does one guffaw? :D


  • #4750
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    How does one guffaw? :D

    A great big snorting belly-laugh, drenching the screen with phlegm while spilling one's Courvoisier on the keyboard, old fruit. :D


  • #4751
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,791 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    I'd say good, clean, unskangered examples of that are hard to find now.
    It's a future classic. You maybe could pick one up less than that, but not this clean and original. Doesn't seem too far off the wall to me.

    Do you really believe a 1300cc Toyota Corolla is a future classic? Seriously?


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  • #4752
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Sensing a bit of...
    43293031.jpg


  • #4753
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,791 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Not really. I just googled future classics and this list popped up. I just don't see how any sane person could ever think a 1300cc Corolla could make it onto this list even if it stretched to 1000.


  • #4754
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Not really. I just googled future classics and this list popped up. I just don't see how any sane person could ever think a 1300cc Corolla could make it onto this list even if it stretched to 1000.

    I won't argue with a Mariner Blue MX5. :pac:
    I do think simple work horses can make decent classics though, that's the great thing about them. They don't have to be fast, sporty or luxurious, they just have to evoke some sort of emotions (nostalgia?) and be somewhere rare. How ofter do you see those Corollas about now?

    That list is a bit meh though, Veyrons and R8's are obviously going to be coveted in 50 years, no surprise there and a lack of imagination.


    Edit: I was just acting the bollocks with the picture btw, incase that wasn't clear.


  • #4755
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Not really. I just googled future classics and this list popped up. I just don't see how any sane person could ever think a 1300cc Corolla could make it onto this list even if it stretched to 1000.

    Current fiat 500 I don't think will be a future classic as it just looks like a current classic… Cinquecento will be though.


  • #4756
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    I bet ye that Corollas been mangled and good 2nd hand panels put over it!


  • #4757
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Do you really believe a 1300cc Toyota Corolla is a future classic? Seriously?

    People said the same thing about the Marina. Crappy and all that it is, but there is a scene around it.
    One could argue that Beetles, Golfs, Escorts and so on fall into the same category, completely bog-standard, unremarkable cars at the time that had very little going for them as future classics.


  • #4758
    swarlb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭swarlb


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    People said the same thing about the Marina. Crappy and all that it is, but there is a scene around it.
    One could argue that Beetles, Golfs, Escorts and so on fall into the same category, completely bog-standard, unremarkable cars at the time that had very little going for them as future classics.

    By that logic every car built is a 'future classic'.


  • #4759
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Do you really believe a 1300cc Toyota Corolla is a future classic? Seriously?

    9586144698_a4975b3f09_b.jpg

    The car on the right is a 1300 Toyota Corolla and its classic, so I see no reason why the other can't be at some stage.

    That list is a bit biased, everything on it bar the 500 is a performance car. A Ford Anglia is a classic car, but so is a Jensen Interceptor


  • #4760
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    swarlb wrote: »
    By that logic every car built is a 'future classic'.

    Yep, even cars with faces that only a mother could love...:p


  • #4761
    Scortho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    Yep, even cars with faces that only a mother could love...:p

    Alfa sz :cool:


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  • #4762
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Scortho wrote: »
    Alfa sz :cool:

    I will have nothing said against Il Mostro!

    sz_30_1991_450.jpg


    But on the other hand:

    281991.jpg

    This is the Alfa Romeo Arna, a cooperatiopn between Alfa and Nissan.
    Wanna guess who is responsible for the styling?
    And, of course, Alfa made the bomb-proof electrics...


  • #4763
    Scortho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    I will have nothing said against Il Mostro!

    sz_30_1991_450.jpg


    But on the other hand:

    281991.jpg

    This is the Alfa Romeo Arna, a cooperatiopn between Alfa and Nissan.
    Wanna guess who is responsible for the styling?
    And, of course, Alfa made the bomb-proof electrics...

    Oh I know all about the Arna!:(
    A match made in heaven if they allowed nissan do what they're good at and alfa do what they're good at.

    For me the sz is one mean car, but it's so mean, it's beautiful.
    Extremely rare car and I'd have an integrale, 850 csi and an e34 m5 for the same price as an sz!:(


  • #4764
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Scortho wrote: »
    Oh I know all about the Arna!:(
    A match made in heaven if they allowed nissan do what they're good at and alfa do what they're good at.

    For me the sz is one mean car, but it's so mean, it's beautiful.
    Extremely rare car and I'd have an integrale, 850 csi and an e34 m5 for the same price as an sz!:(

    Get all of them! :D (And I will now have to go away and edit my dream car list, but the 1977 450SEL stays!)


  • #4765
    Scortho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    Get all of them! :D (And I will now have to go away and edit my dream car list, but the 1977 450SEL stays!)

    Haha. I couldn't care for new cars, Id much rather have an old m5 than a new one, even if I could afford one.
    Sure those three cars could be my future pension plan...:pac:


  • #4766
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Not really. I just googled future classics and this list popped up. I just don't see how any sane person could ever think a 1300cc Corolla could make it onto this list even if it stretched to 1000.

    i'm glad someone took the time to write up a finite list of guaranteed future classics that has no room for change.

    a classic car is a bit like your wife.
    beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you might not like mine, but i do and that's what matters to me.

    why are you being so hormonal about the japs of late Quazzie? we all like a heated discussion on here but lately you're taking things way too personal.


  • #4767
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Blood would be shed over such a list!
    Everyone's idea is different and some people only get turned on by 1970's bread delivery vans and then there's the champagne brigade who would only consider Aston, Rolls Royce, Ferrari and everything else is crap.
    And of course the Japanese/European/American divide.
    Thank goodness there's so much diversity.


  • #4768
    djimi
    Registered Users Posts: 13,238 ✭✭✭✭djimi


    I suppose part of what makes a classic is the relative rarity. Given how mass produced that Corolla was and how many of them were on the road back in its day, will there end up being few enough of them around for it ever to be considered a classic down the line?


  • #4769
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    djimi wrote: »
    I suppose part of what makes a classic is the relative rarity. Given how mass produced that Corolla was and how many of them were on the road back in its day, will there end up being few enough of them around for it ever to be considered a classic down the line?

    i don't think that logic is correct, just look at the older ford escorts and fiestas. at the time would anyone have called them a future classic?

    by the late 70's farmers were using mk2 escorts because they were cheaper than buying gates... now you wouldn't get a mk2 escort for sub 10k


  • #4770
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    IMO at some stage every car will be a classic. The rarity or quality have no effect on weather a car will become a classic or not. What makes a car a classic is the feelings and memories that the owner and other people get/have from them.
    A car that up will consider a classic is a Mitsubishi spacewagon. Not because I think they're beautiful but because I spent my childhood in the back of one and have fond memories of it.


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  • #4771
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    I was just thinking today that I hope there are some nice Almeras around in 20-30 years because I'll definitely want to buy one then.
    Probably a Pulsar VZR but you get the idea.

    Does this warrant it's own thread?
    What makes a classic, classic?


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