Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread! Part 2

SmartinMartin

I travel a lot for work unkel but it was my first time there. Riga is a small city, the old town is beautiful and everything is very reasonable. 5 star hotel €49 a night, full meal and a load of beers for 3 people €80. Feels very safe, the women are stunning.

noelf

Ardgillan castle today..

Beltby

noelf wrote: »

Ardgillan castle today..

Brilliant. That would bring out the little boy in any of us.

Gremlinertia

There are a few Bru cannonball run cars appearing around galway over the weekend, haven't been quick enough to get a photo unfortunately but i saw 'something' today. It looked like an old Merc or maybe Rolls, ZV plates lifeted onto enourmous wheels almost small monster truck wheels if that makes any sense?

w124man

RobAMerc wrote: »

whats the opinion here ?

Some new plates maybe?

IrishPlayer

Clonsilla, Dublin 15

antodeco

^^ In that first picture it looks like the drivers side windscreen is missing but magically reappears in the later photos!

letape

antodeco wrote: »

^^ In that first picture it looks like the drivers side windscreen is missing but magically reappears in the later photos!

I noticed that too, but it’s just due to the angle of the picture, as the front passenger window looks like it’s missing in the second picture!

RobAMerc

w124man wrote: »

Some new plates maybe?

Sorry ? I dont get you

noelf

Harfords in Ashbourne today ..

Garzard

Cork on Saturday

sligojoek

Kiltullagh Plaza, Galway.

I wasn't fast enough to get any more pics. Passed me before I realised it was there.

Garzard

Just off the Larchfield Rd

Wishbone Ash

MrCostington

A matching set ^^^

I pass this in Dublin 3 severl times a week but usually there is a SUV blocking it, but not this evening! Sorry, not great pic as it's a neighbour of my mother so I didn't want to stop directly outside, took about 20m away.



Not sure I like the paint scheme on the C123!

Garzard

Also caught one of those VW campers in Cork on Saturday, along with the Volvo.

JabbaTheHut

sligojoek wrote: »

Kiltullagh Plaza, Galway.

I wasn't fast enough to get any more pics. Passed me before I realised it was there.

That's lovely, but that lowering thing into the ground is just.................wrong.

kadman

Lowering a car is wrong on so many levels.
It seriously creates many handling issues with the steering, suspension, tyres ect.
If you want to drive a classic, and enjoy it, then leave it the way it is.

I dont understand why people think its cool.

I remeber a club outing for volkswagens in the midlands, 3 or 4 cars that came down the motorway
for the meet in the hotel,had to turn back 2-3 miles from the hotel, because they could
not get over the ramps on a side road. How cool is that, its not cool.

Cheensbo

JabbaTheHut wrote: »

That's lovely, but that lowering thing into the ground is just.................wrong.

kadman wrote: »

Lowering a car is wrong on so many levels.
It seriously creates many handling issues with the steering, suspension, tyres ect.
If you want to drive a classic, and enjoy it, then leave it the way it is.

I dont understand why people think its cool.

I remeber a club outing for volkswagens in the midlands, 3 or 4 cars that came down the motorway
for the meet in the hotel,had to turn back 2-3 miles from the hotel, because they could
not get over the ramps on a side road. How cool is that, its not cool.

Cool stories men, thanks for sharing.

Remind me of the miserable aul fellas at the gates of classic shows, turning away cars they don't consider classics

Covid19

Stopped my car to stretch my legs near some woodland somewhere in Ireland. I'd rather not say where. Came into a clearing and found these. Line after line. Middle of nowhere. No house visible nearby. But I turned on my heel and returned to my car in case I was unwittingly trespassing. Last thing I expected to find in a wood.

Covid19

Sorry folks. I don't know how to embed pictures and I'm in the middle of nowhere, so I'll have to post them one at a time..

Covid19

Another pic from the wood.

Covid19

Hi folks,

Sorry about all the false starts. I managed to collage the very bad pics I managed to take during my very brief encounter. Can't say where it was, but suffice to say it was surreal. The woodland in question seemed to be just common land in the middle of nowhere, until I found this. I got a bit of a fright and didn't stay long.

kadman

I'd say there are lots of spots like that. I know of one

that is littered with top quality cars, ( or at least it was a few years ago).

Mercs rovers and similar.

JabbaTheHut

Yeah, I know of a couple of places like that too. Nice cars, at one stage, but rotting into the ground. And none for sale.

SmartinMartin

This little beauty in Drumcondra today

Ryano87

Treated myself to a little classic off eBay last week. Shipped over from Scotland and I collected it and drove home from the north on Saturday. Very happy with it.

Ryano87

And another

Igotadose

Ryano87 wrote: »

And another

Watch out for the brakes on those. Owned a new 1988. Damn thing ate brake rotors like they were going out of style. Still, I did keep it for 10 years and sold it on after 120k miles.

JabbaTheHut

Ryano87 wrote: »

Treated myself to a little classic off eBay last week. Shipped over from Scotland and I collected it and drove home from the north on Saturday. Very happy with it.

Looks very clean. Is it a turbo?

Also, did you buy it without seeing it in the flesh?