What's the oldest car you saw on the road today?

MrCostington

No pic unfortunately, but my excitement is too much not to tell someone!

Just out for my lunchtime walk and heard a low pitched rumbling sound, turn around just in time to see a Lamborghini Countach go by! Red, on a NI or UK plate, heading to the Dublin Port Tunnel. No wing so guess an early one.

Could have been a kit car of course, but sounded like the real thing tipping along at about 30mph.

Didn't have my phone on me but wouldn't have got it anyway.

Duke O Smiley

Deane Motors picked one up in France this weekend and drove it back to Dublin, I’d imagine it was that one you saw!

Lurching

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Deane Motors picked one up in France this weekend and drove it back to Dublin, I’d imagine it was that one you saw!

Was that not a Diablo?

MrCostington

Could well have been as I was walking from The Point towards East Wall. But, I think the exit from the ferry would be past the point where I saw it (assuming that's your thinking.)

What I saw was a Countach

IrishPlayer

Dublin 15

yaknowski

BonnieSituation

Seen this around Inchicore and Islandbridge a few times but could never get the phone out quick enough.



Gem of a yoke.

m17

Limerick

m17

A classic in tuam

crosstownk

IrishPlayer wrote: »

Dublin 15

The cars in the background of each photo are almost worthy of mention!

MrCostington

Lidl East Wall yesterday, starting to get dark

BonnieSituation

MrCostington wrote: »

Could well have been as I was walking from The Point towards East Wall. But, I think the exit from the ferry would be past the point where I saw it (assuming that's your thinking.)

What I saw was a Countach

That went by on the Con Colbert Road on Friday. Oof.

MrCostington

BonnieSituation wrote: »

That went by on the Con Colbert Road on Friday. Oof.

You saw it too, a red one? Is it the Dean motors one as Duke suggested?


We will have to start a bounty for the first to snap it

Lurching

MrCostington wrote: »

You saw it too, a red one? Is it the Dean motors one as Duke suggested?


We will have to start a bounty for the first to snap it

Again, that's a Diablo.

Joe 90

I don't really know how old it is as it's obviously an import.

Duke O Smiley

Its 2004!

Its a Hindustan Ambassador, based on a 1950s Morris Oxford and built until 2014 in India

Joe 90

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Its 2004!

Its a Hindustan Ambassador, based on a 1950s Morris Oxford and built until 2014 in India

Yes, it's 2004 in the UK, god knows when it was built. Interestingly, the area where it is usually parked as a fairly high proportion of well off people from the Sub Continent. Maybe someone hankering after his youth before he came to the UK. Hope I bump into the owner sometime and gear the story.

AMKC

colm_mcm wrote: »

I nearly bought a red 323f 20 years ago. Couldn’t get insurance on 1.5 at the time
(Even though it was only about 80bhp)

The brother nearly bought a new one in 99 but in the end bought a Ford Focus instead. Much newer and better car but the Mazda 323f was cool too.

Wibbs

Joe 90 wrote: »

Yes, it's 2004 in the UK, god knows when it was built. Interestingly, the area where it is usually parked as a fairly high proportion of well off people from the Sub Continent. Maybe someone hankering after his youth before he came to the UK. Hope I bump into the owner sometime and gear the story.

The first time I saw one of those in the flesh was in a garage in Manchester in 09. I put the talk on the Indian chap who was filling it up. Turned out to be not far off what you reckoned. He was born and bred in Manchester but had seen them on childhood visits to family in India and it reminded him of that so he imported one. He was telling me it cost as much to ship and import it as it had cost to buy it over there.

tc20

ageless Mercedes cabrio and Carol Deckers runaround spotted over the weekend...

BonnieSituation

Couple from Rochestown Avenue on Wedneday morning:





That Merc has popped up here before, or possibly in the Classics for sale thread?

I never bothered to check the steering wheel, and as I took it on Whatsapp the quality is potato. Those headlamps are US spec, no?

Again, as stated almost unanimously, that 7 Series was really their peak. It's still a stunning car with such presence. That one was a bit tired though.

Duke O Smiley

Speaking of tired old 7 series, here’s one of those in Kilburn.

(And I may have expressed an interest in buying it)

BonnieSituation

So unlike you

hamburg

m17 wrote: »

Limerick

just out of curiosity, how old does a car have to be before it can have the black and silver plates?

Isambard

hamburg wrote:

]just out of curiosity, how old does a car have to be before it can have the black and silver plates?

much older than that, could they not find a better way to put on the plates.....

Garzard

Bad photo, but caught this in Finglas on Wednesday - ruined by those wheels.

crosstownk

I spotted this French machine on Czech plates in the car park of SuperValu in Walkinstown this evening.

The photo is as bad as the parking. Apologies.

tc20

mixed bag of weekend sightings

IrishPlayer

Ongar, Dublin 15

Duke O Smiley

Class! Love that body kit. It could look nice with a decent set of alloys under it