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Today I saw an abandoned classic and took a pic thread!

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    #1172
    MercMad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,269 ✭✭✭MercMad


    There seems to be plenty of those XJ40 type Jags lying around. their value went downhill so rapidly. I recall 7-8 year old decent cars being worth £2000.

    They fell apart too, even the door handles fell off them, still its a shame to see the left to rot !


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    #1173
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    A 450 SE in Sandymount - looks to be a bit unloved.
    Picture_024_Small.jpg

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    #1174
    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,479 ✭✭✭maidhc


    Imagine what lurks under those chrome arches... not steel anyway!


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    #1175
    mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭mountain


    this has being sitting at the side of a house for a good while now,
    bonnet was lifted in the past few days, so maybe it will be repaired.

    have a look at the spoiler!!!


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    #1176
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    mountain wrote: »
    this has being sitting at the side of a house for a good while now,
    bonnet was lifted in the past few days, so maybe it will be repaired.

    have a look at the spoiler!!!
    Cant stand those kits..nasty!!


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    #1177
    S.I.R
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    the jurys inn, in D4, the workers gate enterence, theirs a row of houses, with one holding a morris minor 1000 and a old 2002 bmw, well past their sell by dates, will grab a pic a.s.a.p :(


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    #1178
    gfwd
    Registered Users Posts: 291 ✭✭gfwd


    They've been there a long time now. I think someone posted pics here a few weeks go.


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    #1179
    kqcregg
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭kqcregg


    This little XR2 has an interesting two tone effect! Is it worth saving??????


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    #1180
    MercMad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,269 ✭✭✭MercMad


    It certainly looks saveable anyway !

    Worth enquiring about either way, shame to see it deteriorate. I much prefer the Mk1 XR2 but have driven a few of the Mk2's also.


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    #1181
    245
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭245


    carchaeologist wrote: »
    Cant stand those kits..nasty!!

    Its not a Tickford by any chance is it? Their kits tended to have a clunky appearance. It'd be the right vintage.


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    #1182
    kqcregg
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭kqcregg


    MercMad wrote: »
    It certainly looks saveable anyway !

    Worth enquiring about either way, shame to see it deteriorate. I much prefer the Mk1 XR2 but have driven a few of the Mk2's also.

    Used to get a lift every weekend in one of these back in the mid 90's and thats why it caught my eye. I've passed it every few months over the last 2 years and it is slowly getting lower to the ground though!

    Think I'll google it to see how hard it would be to restore and if its worth it for the final product (Driving wise not to sell of course).


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    #1183
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,958 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    S.I.R wrote: »
    the jurys inn, in D4, the workers gate enterence, theirs a row of houses, with one holding a morris minor 1000 and a old 2002 bmw, well past their sell by dates, will grab a pic a.s.a.p :(
    gfwd wrote: »
    They've been there a long time now. I think someone posted pics here a few weeks go.

    That was probably me. They are outside a house Lansdowne Road. (Pics taken about a year ago).

    BMW2002566VRI-1.jpg

    MorrisMinorMIY99-1.jpg


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    #1184
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    245 wrote: »
    Its not a Tickford by any chance is it? Their kits tended to have a clunky appearance. It'd be the right vintage.
    Im not sure,this is a genuine one..
    DSC01309.JPG
    Never much liked the tickford capris anyway,too much bodykit! Very 80s in all the wrong ways. Even the normal mk3 with those massive side rubbing strips is a bit too much.Ill be taking them off mine when i paint it.
    The mk2 is my favourite shape capri,the lines are much cleaner.I really like the way the sides are flat and above and below curve inwards
    Ford_capri_mk2_1974.jpg


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    #1185
    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,479 ✭✭✭maidhc


    carchaeologist wrote: »
    The mk2 is my favourite shape capri,the lines are much cleaner.I really like the way the sides are flat and above and below curve inwards

    Indeed!

    And you can fit all the bits from a late MkIII so it drives like a modern car (within reason!)


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    #1186
    mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭mountain


    245 wrote: »
    Its not a Tickford by any chance is it? Their kits tended to have a clunky appearance. It'd be the right vintage.

    Judging by the photo that carchaeologist put up, its deffo not a tickford,
    car has been covered when i paseed today, so maybe it is going to be saved.


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    #1187
    DarenO
    Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭DarenO


    1978 Renault 5, been in the garden for years


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    #1188
    Camarague
    Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Camarague


    Where is the 5?

    Is it salvageable (I can see bubbly rust around the petrol tank)...


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    #1189
    DarenO
    Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭DarenO


    Camarague wrote: »
    Where is the 5?

    Is it salvageable (I can see bubbly rust around the petrol tank)...

    It's in Saggart, County Dublin, i'm not sure how far gone it is, the tailgate lip is bubbling away as well.

    D


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    #1190
    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    DSC00214.jpg

    I don't know whether this counts as a classic or not, but it sure will be some day. '95 with 92k miles. Interior seems perfect. An awful waste I think. Bags were out.


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    #1191
    RobbieMc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭RobbieMc


    RobbieMc wrote: »
    Went out to lunch today and say this R5 in a front garden.
    No Engine or bonnet.

    This car's been sat outside this house for the last number of years .
    engine and bonnet are gone, not much left.
    There is a fiat 127 not far from it in another house, must call in and get some photos.


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    #1192
    Blue850
    Registered Users Posts: 2,558 ✭✭✭Blue850


    RobbieMc wrote: »
    There is a fiat 127 not far from it in another house, must call in and get some photos.

    Please do, first car I had 20 years ago and I've always had one or two since.


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    #1193
    brosnadog
    Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭brosnadog


    Spotted near Roscrea
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    IMG_0274.jpg


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    #1194
    ianobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    Here are three I found in a house "near" Cork City.....

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    16042009_008.jpg

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    I guess they're abandoned.....

    I reckon I've a Ford, Alfa & Renault judging by the logos on some of the parts....


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    #1195
    RobbieMc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭RobbieMc


    Blue850 wrote: »
    Please do, first car I had 20 years ago and I've always had one or two since.

    I'll see what I can do.

    Robbie


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    #1196
    bugsntinas
    Registered Users Posts: 688 ✭✭✭bugsntinas


    ianobrien wrote: »
    Here are three I found in a house "near" Cork City.....

    16042009_010.jpg

    16042009_008.jpg

    16042009.jpg

    I guess they're abandoned.....

    I reckon I've a Ford, Alfa & Renault judging by the logos on some of the parts....

    that last one looks like an escort mk2.are you sure they're abandoned?:D


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    #1197
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Yep..the first one is a renault 15 id be thinking,johnf2020 might be interested in that one!Nice spot there!!
    Is the second one a 4 door 'sud?


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    #1198
    macplaxton
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 2,957 Mod ✭✭✭✭macplaxton


    No pic, but did see two Renault 4 on the back of a two-platform truck, east of Galway City around Oranmore. On their way to the big scrapyard in the sky?


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    #1199
    Camarague
    Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Camarague


    macplaxton wrote: »
    No pic, but did see two Renault 4 on the back of a two-platform truck, east of Galway City around Oranmore. On their way to the big scrapyard in the sky?

    Were they vans or cars?

    Were they in bad condition? Were they piled on top of eachother as if going to a scrap yard or were they carefully placed?


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    #1200
    macplaxton
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 2,957 Mod ✭✭✭✭macplaxton


    Camarague wrote: »
    Were they vans or cars?

    Were they in bad condition? Were they piled on top of eachother as if going to a scrap yard or were they carefully placed?

    They were cars. They were on one of those twin-deck yokes like: CarTrans4.jpg
    A VW transporter (T4) was on a spectacle lift on the back. Not in great condition, but looked complete.


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    #1201
    Camarague
    Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Camarague


    macplaxton wrote: »
    They were cars. They were on one of those twin-deck yokes like:
    A VW transporter (T4) was on a spectacle lift on the back. Not in great condition, but looked complete.

    I called Galway metals which is in Oranmore, in an attempt to buy these cars, on the off-chance that that was where they were headed. But they were not willing to entertain the idea of selling them, as they were end of life vehicles according to the woman on the phone. I told her that it was they were not likely to be beyond restoration, considering the wrecks that are restored.

    I asked whether certificates of destruction would have already been issued, she simple said "probably", but that if they had arrived in the past few days they probably would already have been baled.

    I didn't manage to find out whether they actually had the R4s or not. But it seems like such a waste, and doesn't make sense if people are willing to pay for something before it is destroyed, that it isn't possible.

    Hopefully they didn't end up in Galway metals, given that they were stacked properly on a lorry rather than mangled on top of one another, its possible that they weren't.

    Original Irish R4s are very hard to come by, so it is a shame that when they come to light, it is too late to do anything...


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