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Shamrock car

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Did anyone have a try in that lake for more of the dumped stuff from the factory I wonder?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Did anyone have a try in that lake for more of the dumped stuff from the factory I wonder?

    Reminds me of that Johnny Cash song: 'I got it one piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime......' ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 411 guy


    heres a picture (sorry for quality) of one at the jag/daimler club show in dublin circa 1993.
    eze shamrock 3.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Reminds me of that Johnny Cash song: 'I got it one piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime......' ;)

    Song reminds me of the urban legend about the thievery at Fords in Cork, fellas pocketing a part at a time and assembling a car at home.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭bijapos


    According to the Indo motoring supplement a Shamrock will be at the RIAC Show in the RDS next weekend (Feb9th - 10th).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭richb6987


    MegAnne wrote: »
    Yes, I will be happy to dig through these boxes and share the information with everyone. It may take a few days to organize, and thanks for your interest.

    My dad always said the Irish people were the friendliest people in the world, and hard workers to boot. He was disappointed when he had to close the factory down.

    Looking forward to adding the long running Shamrock thread. Some of the paperwork is amazing to read. So pleased I found boards.ie today (:


    MegAnne are you in Dubllin by any small chance. We have one coming to the Classic Car show on Feb 9-10. If you can PM me I can send you a press release recently written about the car and some recent articles. I also have a PDF of an article written in Vintage Scene a while back.

    Rich


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850


    Blue850 wrote: »
    I found "KZE 157" ,theres a photo of it in this book. Photo was taken in Castleblayney in the 60's

    $(KGrHqF,!ikE3SivZ9EUBOI-bJWDEw~~_35.JPG

    Paddy Byrne from Drogheda told me this car is still in Castleblayney


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 914 ✭✭✭okistag


    I took this photo at the RIAC show at RDS last feb

    RIACSHOW2013173watermarkRAIC_zpsb0f27750.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭68deville


    i must see if EMI 634 is still in the field in outside Enniscorthy,was there til
    a year ago minus its windscreen:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭Silvera


    68deville wrote: »
    i must see if EMI 634 is still in the field in outside Enniscorthy,was there til
    a year ago minus its windscreen:o

    So a rare Shamrock was left in a field??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    Silvera wrote: »
    So a rare Shamrock was left in a field??

    excellent for feeding cattle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850


    Blue850 wrote: »
    Paddy Byrne from Drogheda told me this car is still in Castleblayney

    KZE 157 is in this book, (old photo of the book was deleted)
    showImg.php?db=images&view=m&imgID=leckey%2313015


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    MercMad wrote: »
    Didn't they toss the remaining unbuilt glass fibre bodies into a local lake ! I remember hearing that, maybe its an urban myth !

    In Monaghan? More likely a rural myth. I think the factory was originally intended to be in Tralee, but was in fact sited in Carrickmacross.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Blue850 wrote: »
    KZE 157 is in this book, (old photo of the book was deleted)
    showImg.php?db=images&view=m&imgID=leckey%2313015

    That, my friend, is a Delorean.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    okistag wrote: »
    I took this photo at the RIAC show at RDS last feb

    RIACSHOW2013173watermarkRAIC_zpsb0f27750.jpg

    Think 1950s - maybe then you wont see this car as being quite so ugly. Of course I can't comment on performance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭kasper


    feargale wrote: »
    That, my friend, is a Delorean.

    I think that is a picture of the cover of the book that the referred to car is pictured


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850


    feargale wrote: »
    That, my friend, is a Delorean.

    nothin wrong with your eyesight, apart from missing the bit where I said KZE 157 is IN the book:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    kasper wrote: »
    I think that is a picture of the cover of the book that the referred to car is pictured

    Thank you for your courteous clarification.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850


    Some more press relase photos have appeared on Forgotten Fibreglass

    img633.jpg

    img635.jpg

    img634.jpg

    Forgotten Fibreglass site


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Interesting how Shamrock motors are listed there as being in Guildford Surrey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850


    Some info on the Shamrock's bodywork designer Alvin "Spike" Rhiando

    Seems quite a character:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Sorry lads, but I think Shamrock car is absolutely hideous an fugly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 davhat


    Hi All,

    I am living in Castleblayney and for the first time last Friday I seen the Shamrock car in the Castleblayney Mockno festival. I have being gathering as much information on the car since I seen it. I have heard that there was 10 made and then some people day 8. Does anyone have the correct number manufactured? Did all the cars have a ZV number plates?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 davhat


    Carazy, What is the Reg plate number of the Car owned by Dan Holms in Seattle?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭Silvera


    davhat wrote: »
    Hi All,

    I am living in Castleblayney and for the first time last Friday I seen the Shamrock car in the Castleblayney Mockno festival. I have being gathering as much information on the car since I seen it. I have heard that there was 10 made and then some people day 8. Does anyone have the correct number manufactured? Did all the cars have a ZV number plates?

    There is a book 'Motor Makers in Ireland' which has more details about The Shamrock. I believe there is an original Irish-registered car stored somewhere in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.

    I know the 'ZV' registered car you are referring to...I photographed it a few years ago at Mosney Show. It bears a ZV plate either because it was imported into Ireland in recent years, or it was stored in Ireland and never registered until it was put on the road some years ago - hence the ZV plate.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    If you mean stored as in abandoned in a field then yes there is one in enniscorthy somewhere.
    I'd imagine that the Zv reg one was imported recently because if it was an original unregistered car would it not get a new reg no?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 davhat


    Silvera wrote: »
    There is a book 'Motor Makers in Ireland' which has more details about The Shamrock. I believe there is an original Irish-registered car stored somewhere in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.

    I know the 'ZV' registered car you are referring to...I photographed it a few years ago at Mosney Show. It bears a ZV plate either because it was imported into Ireland in recent years, or it was stored in Ireland and never registered until it was put on the road some years ago - hence the ZV plate.
    Silvera,

    The ZV 3216 is still on the road in Drogheda, I seen this one last Friday in Castleblayney. I think the one in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford is Reg number EMI634 and yes Kev1.3s last I heard it was in a field looking "worse for wear" back in 2010. These facts are from my research on the Car so far. I have found seven reg numbers so far.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭Silvera


    davhat wrote: »
    Silvera,

    The ZV 3216 is still on the road in Drogheda, I seen this one last Friday in Castleblayney. I think the one in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford is Reg number EMI634 and yes Kev1.3s last I heard it was in a field looking "worse for wear" back in 2010. These facts are from my research on the Car so far. I have found seven reg numbers so far.

    I am aware that ZV 3216 is still on the road...it also appeared at the Terenure Show and the RIAC Show in the RDS. I didnt realise that the Enniscorthy-based Shamrock was in a field?!? Has anybody here approached the owner about selling it?

    kev 1.3s,
    I 've heard/read before about unregistered classics getting ZV plates.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭68deville


    last time I had a gawk it was in an awful state parked up minus its windscreen, must make a few subtle inquiries about it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    Silvera wrote: »
    kev 1.3s,
    I 've heard/read before about unregistered classics getting ZV plates.

    I know it's not a classic but O'Donohues in Enniscorthy has a first gen Alfa 156 gta unregistered that a friend of mine was interested in and that would have been getting a new reg. I'd assume that if a car was never registered then it would be a new car in the states opinion, why on earth would they miss out on an opportunity to stick you with full tax and vrt.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭Silvera


    If a vehicle is over 30 yrs old €200 VRT applies - hence ZV also.

    Example of this was the Mercedes truck used on trade plates all its life (i.e. unregistered from new) around Dublin by Mercedes Distributors until it made it into the classic scene with 'ZV' plates.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 Mero


    Hi, I had one when I was a young man growing up in Inchicore. Got it as part payment on a job. Have to smile at the idea of dismantling the rear end to change a wheel. Had many flat wheels but the jack supplied was well up to the job. More if anyone is interested


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    Any pics?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 pebb


    Blue850 wrote: »
    ShanrockAZH394-1.jpg
    Did this one survive? It was in Carlow in 1972


    yes it did i know where it is


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850


    I was reading recently in Irish Vintage Scene about a Shamrock that was in Galway in the late 60s, its hood was so bad at letting in water, holes were drilled in the floor to let rain water out:D

    Does anybody know the reg of the Shamrock in Killarney?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Blue850 wrote: »
    I was reading recently in Irish Vintage Scene about a Shamrock that was in Galway in the late 60s, its hood was so bad at letting in water, holes were drilled in the floor to let rain water out:D

    Does anybody know the reg of the Shamrock in Killarney?
    Can't think offhand, but I know that a lack of paperwork for said car means there isnt much chance of getting it retained. The owner has been trying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850


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    The greenie in California out and about:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 saskiaver


    Hello everyone!

    I'm leaving a note here to hopefully get in contact with some Shamrock enthusiasts!

    We're currently two months into filming a documentary on the Shamrock. It's been years in the making with lots of detective work.
    Piecing together information on the car has been fascinating. However, we're always on the lookout for more stories and information. We'd love to hear from anyone with any connection to the Shamrock. If you worked (or know anyone who worked) at the Castleblaney factory, if you've spotted a Shamrock on your travels or ever owned one, or have a personal story or memory to share with us, we'd love to hear from you.

    Please get in touch by emailing me at shamrockcar AT gmail.com or message me here.

    Many thanks,
    Saskia


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850


    1ac.jpg

    Dan Holm's Seattle Shamrock for sale/sold?

    At a classic car dealers in the USA last June for $35,000 :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850


    ShamrockBrochure1.jpg

    Just got my hands on a mint condition Shamrock sales leaflet. Probably rarer than the car :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    Now that would be like hens teeth, I'd imagine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850


    ShamrockKZE157c.jpg

    fc3090ae-729c-4bc3-9a8b-ba18ab2159e8.jpg

    KZE 157, from Castleblayney has shown in the above book.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 citroman


    I remember seeing one of these cars being driven around Dublin back in the 60's, It had been fitted with an aluminium roof, and must have had hundreds of rivets on it, a bit of a Jules Verne air about it.

    I passed through Castleblaney around the same time, and saw several abandoned Shamrock bodies lying in the field.

    I also recall some saying to me at the time, that the chap who was building the Shamrocks had gone into Lincoln & Nolans on Baggot Street looking to buy the engines for the cars over the counter.

    Completely equipped engines would need to be sourced directly from the assembly factory.

    Made the Shamrock builder sound a bit naive.

    Citroman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 386 ✭✭garyskeepers


    Did this ever get finished
    saskiaver wrote: »
    Hello everyone!

    I'm leaving a note here to hopefully get in contact with some Shamrock enthusiasts!

    We're currently two months into filming a documentary on the Shamrock. It's been years in the making with lots of detective work.
    Piecing together information on the car has been fascinating. However, we're always on the lookout for more stories and information. We'd love to hear from anyone with any connection to the Shamrock. If you worked (or know anyone who worked) at the Castleblaney factory, if you've spotted a Shamrock on your travels or ever owned one, or have a personal story or memory to share with us, we'd love to hear from you.

    Please get in touch by emailing me at shamrockcar AT gmail.com or message me here.

    Many thanks,
    Saskia


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 saskiaver


    I'm afraid that it never did. It unfortunately faced a lot of obstacles at the time. You never know though...maybe one day!


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