Driving Through Dublin – Circa 1982

Standard Toaster

Thought I'd post this here, nice seeing all the old cars....some driving on Grafton Street...

http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/driving-through-dublin-circa-1982/

Hermy

Beat me to it. Great video.:)

Dades

Great vid alright but too fast!

Reminds me of that short of the drive through Paris at 4am.

Stained Class

Looks like it was filmed from the passenger seat of a Morris Minor, judging by the bonnet mascot.

Could be wrong though...

Moggies were in their 'old banger' phase then.

jimmyw

Dades wrote: »

Great vid alright but too fast!

Reminds me of that short of the drive through Paris at 4am.

Yeah agree,they have ruined it doing that to it.It would be far better to allow it at normal speed.Wow! great though, makes me feel old:(

macplaxton

Great step back in time.

In absence of a real-time version I downloaded it and played it in VLC at 1/8th speed. Much easier to car spot then

Sids Not

macplaxton wrote: »

Great step back in time.

In absence of a real-time version I downloaded it and played it in VLC at 1/8th speed. Much easier to car spot then

How long is the full version..???...love to see it at normal speed....Upload maybe ??

Looked like he drove all the way from Dun Laoghaire to Grafton St. for a Mc Donalds....am i right....:)

"Bachelors beans....Still "Delicious and nutritious" even today.....:p


After watching that..it saddens me that modern cars are soooo boring to look at...theyre basically all the same shape nowadays...i like being old,...

alastair

It was obviously shot stop motion originally, do there's no 'proper speed' version to see. Some discussion on octane about the actual year - which seems to be bit earlier - maybe '79 or '80. There aren't any later car models in evidence.

Anan1

It's amazing how many more petrol stations there were back then.

Sids Not

Anan1 wrote: »

It's amazing how many more petrol stations there were back then.

Funny...i was just thinking about the one beside Madigans in donnybrook (think its a flower shop now).....two pumps and a cash box....simpler times...:o

donaghs

macplaxton wrote: »

Great step back in time.

In absence of a real-time version I downloaded it and played it in VLC at 1/8th speed. Much easier to car spot then

I'd love a copy of this video so I could watch it at a slower speed. Can't seem to find a way of downloading it, either with browser plugins or by signing up to Vimeo ("Uploaded Mon August 08, 2011
Sorry, not available for download. ")

Any chance someone knows where it can be downloaded, or if they can upload it somewhere else? thanks

Standard Toaster

Try www.keepvid.com to d/l it
I was able to download it and slow it down to 25% using VLC media player

markesmith

Amazing video, love seeing how familiar places looked years ago.

mamakevf

I think it may be slightly earlier, Absence of Mk1 Golfs, Mk3 Escorts and Kadett D's are a few that I haven't seen. I'm thinking 78-79.

bijapos

donaghs wrote: »

I'd love a copy of this video so I could watch it at a slower speed. Can't seem to find a way of downloading it, either with browser plugins or by signing up to Vimeo ("Uploaded Mon August 08, 2011
Sorry, not available for download. ")

Any chance someone knows where it can be downloaded, or if they can upload it somewhere else? thanks

Here is a slowed down version. Note the Citroen DS Break near the start of the vid coming out of Clarence St in Dun Laoghaire at around 0:33, I wonder what happened to it. Cans of beans probably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er-ANVQzx78

mamakevf wrote: »

I think it may be slightly earlier, Absence of Mk1 Golfs, Mk3 Escorts and Kadett D's are a few that I haven't seen. I'm thinking 78-79.

They seem to think it was winter 78, McDonalds opened in 77, Grafton St was pedestrianised in 79, and some of the buses were different at the time. There is a discussion on it here.

unkel

bijapos wrote: »

They seem to think it was winter 78, McDonalds opened in 77, Grafton St was pedestrianised in 79, and some of the buses were different at the time. There is a discussion on it here.

On the link in the OP there is a comment from a dude who claimed to have filmed it:

9. Andrew FN Manson - August 27, 2011

Actually I shot this in either late 1978 or possibly early 1979

AFN

Could very well be genuine. Pity he doesn't elaborate.

AFN

unkel wrote: »

On the link in the OP there is a comment from a dude who claimed to have filmed it:



Could very well be genuine. Pity he doesn't elaborate.

What elaboration would you all like?

AFN

Reply to those who found it dark. It was filmed at that time in the evening that has enough light to film but the lights shine as colour without becomming balls of colour.

The vehicle used as the camera platform was indeed a Morris but a 1956 Morris Oxford not a Morris Minor and for those that are interested it was the round one with a steel visor not the square Oxford that was often used as Dublin Taxis.

carchaeologist

The Leyland PD3/2 (RA6) reg'dCYI 641 seen at 3.17 was new to CIE in March '59, withdrawn February '81 and scrapped in September '81.

unkel

Glad you made it onto boards.ie - you're very welcome here

And yes we would like the "Hitch Hiker" too and all the other stuff that you emailed me about!

Stained Class

AFN wrote: »

The vehicle used as the camera platform was indeed a Morris but a 1956 Morris Oxford not a Morris Minor and for those that are interested it was the round one with a steel visor not the square Oxford that was often used as Dublin Taxis.

I'd never have thought of that!

That style of Morris Oxford would have been well gone by that time, whereas the Minor would still have been commonplace.

Was that your everyday car then?

Latchy

markesmith wrote: »

Amazing video, love seeing how familiar places looked years ago.

Living in Dublin back then and the video is a memorable reminder of how it was back then .

AFN

Stained Class wrote: »

I'd never have thought of that!

That style of Morris Oxford would have been well gone by that time, whereas the Minor would still have been commonplace.

Was that your everyday car then?

Yup it had been my Grandfathers ( Company) car but he and his wife had a moggie each and when they died, I was an art student in Bray so over it came, It still had the orange trafficator arms not flashing indicators, Bench seats so we took three in the front and four in the Back, images of those times and 'trips' in the Wicklow mountains are being worked on for a show in Dublin possibly in December.
AFN

AFN

Stained Class wrote: »

I'd never have thought of that!

That style of Morris Oxford would have been well gone by that time, whereas the Minor would still have been commonplace.

Was that your everyday car then?

Yes it was a fine car slow and thirsty but it didn't seem out of place, with all the old cars that were then on Irish roads. It went all over the Wicklow Mountains and even to the west.

carchaeologist

What happened to the car in the end?

Run_to_da_hills

Also 3 generations of CIE Busses in one journey.

Leyland Titan, Atlantian and the notorious Vanhool.

Hermy

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Leyland Titan, Atlantian and the notorious Vanhool.

Why notorious?

Run_to_da_hills

Hermy wrote: »

Why notorious?

Or was it the Bombardier, one of those busses use to shed bits and pieces along the road. I can remember dropping off a rear corner section of a bus complete with indicator and rear lights into Ringsend depot.

Hermy

The Bombardier was an odd one - from what I've been told it was made up from bits of everything.

Run_to_da_hills

Hermy wrote: »

The Bombardier was an odd one - from what I've been told it was made up from bits of everything.

That was also the same bus that did not want to be christened in Shannon, breaking down several times before the cermony amd on top of that a bottle smashed and sprayred glass over he minister of transport. LOL.

Big Nasty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWUferyKCww

corktina

fabulous..cortinatastic and the music spot on.

AFN

Great use of a Mini Moke as a camera platform.

Our Driving through dublin has now been properly copied and is about to go up. Let hope for more of these gems,

Well done.
AFN

TRNIALL

AFN wrote: »

Great use of a Mini Moke as a camera platform.

Our Driving through dublin has now been properly copied and is about to go up. Let hope for more of these gems,

Well done.
AFN

Looking forward to Seeing that,as you say Little Gems;).

jimmyw

I am not too sure that could be 1974, cause mk 2 escorts only came out in 1975.Strange looking contraption that the camera is on:p, I was waiting for it to take out some pesdestrian:).That big merc kept a bit too close going around that kerb.A few hairy moments between cars and pedestrians.

bijapos

Looks more like 1976. At 2.17 there is an Escort with the reg *** IIK, which would be late 1975 but the trees are in bloom so I'd put the video as spring 1976.

Very Ford heavy that video, theres a couple of VW's, Fiats, Renaults, various BLMC's but only one Toyota Corolla in it. Times have changed.

Interesting to see the motorbike sidecar at the bottom of Grafton St which wasn't unusual back then, the couple of bikers with no helmets and the fact that by the mid 70's bicycles were almost non existent compared to a decade before.

No "Routemaster" buses in that pic though they were definitely being used at the time and I'd forgotten that O'Connell St had trees outside the Gresham back then.

Edit: I just read somewhere else that it was filmed on September 4th 1976, a Saturday.

corktina

no routemsters have ever been used in ordinary service in dublin.

bijapos

corktina wrote: »

no routemsters have ever been used in ordinary service in dublin.

Yes, which is why I put it in inverted commas as I don't know the exact model that was used. As kids we used to call them "Guinness buses" as the colouring reminded us of a pint.

carchaeologist

R39(ZJ 1353)Leyland PD2/3 492158 – Leyland H32/26R new 7/1949; w/d 3/1971; sold for scrap 9/1971.

RA102(HZA 227)Leyland PD3/2 600424 – CIE H41/33R new 6/1960; converted to treelopper 11/1981 and sold for scrap 8/1984.