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  • 19-07-2015 12:53pm
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    kev1.3s
    Registered Users Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭


    I'm not sure if there's a thread for this so if the mods want to move it be my guest.
    I found this old picture of the Tara ballroom in courtown, later to be the famous beacon nightclub where I misspent most of my late teens and twenties, anyway couple of nice cars including a beta Trevi, mk3 escort, renault 4's and what I believe to be a cortina in white or possibly a pugeout 504.


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    unkel
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    Looks like a Peugeot 504 to me!


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    Max Headroom
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    Who's the band playing....??


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


    Max Headroom wrote: »
    Who's the band playing....??

    I'm afraid the pic is well before my time, 'twas all dance music in my day.


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    Zoo4m8
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    Love the Garda 4L complete with roof beacon...


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    w124man
    Registered Users Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭w124man


    Remember it well! One used to get a special strain of the clap down there!






































































    So I'm told by the way!


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    Duke O Smiley
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    Love the Garda R4!


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    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    kev1.3s wrote: »
    I'm afraid the pic is well before my time, 'twas all dance music in my day.


    Ye didnt get ta shift any young one's then.........:P


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    Alfasudcrazy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Alfasudcrazy


    R4 looks quaint but even then they were despised in the job - especially like me if you were in a city centre station. Anything less than a Cortina or Sierra 1.6 just would not do. Though I am sure any country station that had one at the time considered themselves very privileged as generall back then only district HQ stations had patrol cars.

    Definitely a Peugeot 504 in the pic. The pic looks to be 1983/1984 vintage?


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    Zoo4m8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Zoo4m8


    Had a 4l for a while back in the day, more than despised it...horrible yoke, couldn't wait to unload it, wouldn't take one now to save me soul.. :D


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    Bigus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Bigus


    Zoo4m8 wrote: »
    Had a 4l for a while back in the day, more than despised it...horrible yoke, couldn't wait to unload it, wouldn't take one now to save me soul.. :D

    Same could be said about a lot of old yokes , nostalgia and the Internet are dangerous mix, smelly interiors and unreliability are the reality.


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    kev1.3s
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    Bigus wrote: »
    Same could be said about a lot of old yokes , nostalgia and the Internet are dangerous mix, smelly interiors and unreliability are the reality.

    My mother and father still hold the 504 they had when I was a little one in high regard.


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    kyote00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭kyote00


    all this R4 hate :eek:
    whats not to like....


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    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    The Mk 3 Escort in the foreground.

    I had one of them back in the '90s. Same colour an' all!

    Sold mine in '95. NCT took care of the remaining few in the coming years.


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