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Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭MrFoxman360


    Well it was a few weeks ago now, but I spotted this Austin pickup in cork, in the Cork International Airport Hotel...... actually in the foyer :eek:

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    And yes that's me in it, couldn't resist :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Kevin_Herron


    jozi wrote: »
    I either spotted the same Aston Martin V8 not far from baggot st 2x in the last few days or it was two different ones.

    It was a light blue one I seen and this evening it was a blue one as well, looked much better in the dark though! I hope who ever owns it will take care of it and bring it back to her former glory!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBmyaM60p4U

    I'd say this is the car you seen. Its an original Vantage Spec V8, manual.
    Usually driven 'properly' around the streets of Dublin!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,791 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Borgward Isabella
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    Complete with old style child seat in the back!


    There's a CZA reg one for sale on........ebay.ie this eve - unrestored. Big Bucks. Fabulous looking car though.

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,791 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Marlow wrote: »
    Ratted Beetle on my way out of Galway yesterday:
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    /M

    ...did you see it up close ?

    ...all that 'rust' is, in fact, a special paint job - very, very well done. I heard the price of it once, but it could've been fiction, but a big 4-figure number for the paint alone.......:eek:

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,791 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    mb1725 wrote: »
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    Did I mention already that I am in lust with this car? :):):)

    I hear ya............drool.........in which case, you'll love these.......(from a trip to the factory last year.......)

    http://galwaytt.smugmug.com/Cars/Porsche-Factory-Trip/DSC01422/501876205_ScpRu-M.jpg

    http://galwaytt.smugmug.com/Cars/Porsche-Factory-Trip/DSC01420/501876137_fZTdo-M.jpg

    http://galwaytt.smugmug.com/Cars/Porsche-Factory-Trip/DSC01421/501876167_Jh45T-M.jpg

    It's the sheer size of the thing's that always get's me.......

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,791 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    You dont see one for years,then three come along at once..all liftbacks too. The Gold one is particularly clean. I prefer the round headlamps on the pre facelift cars.
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    .....way back in.......1986 ?.....I was a passenger in one of those, in a very similar colour, on the monday after the Galway Rally, and despite Peter's (the owner/driver...) best effort to not scratch it's new paint all weekend..........a twat pulled straight across us on the way to work on the monday a.m......outside Roadstone on the Tuam Rd, outside Galway......just before 8a.m. I was in the back, driver's side, and I heard the 'screesch' of locked wheels on wet tarmac and Pete shouting 'we're gonna hit' and I saw the accident coming in the rear side window..........I braced but..........I hadn't counted on the B-pillar taking the brunt, and buckling like a tin can..........and I got a knock on the head to go with it......:o

    years later, in College in the UK, a cheque dropped on the mat, and it cleared all my college loans....:) Top man, Pete.

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭rugbyman


    Galway Tt
    not sure of exact wording " its an ill wind that doesnt blow somebody some good"

    Some months ago i commented on dumping one of these after wife allowing me one year on the driveway


    Rugbyman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,555 ✭✭✭✭Marlow


    galwaytt wrote: »
    ...did you see it up close ?

    ...all that 'rust' is, in fact, a special paint job - very, very well done. I heard the price of it once, but it could've been fiction, but a big 4-figure number for the paint alone.......:eek:

    Well, we had a car painted like that in the Scally Rally Ireland this year. Can't be too bad.

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    Sorry for the picture being sideways. Somebody didn't bother to turn it, when uploading (not me !!)

    /M


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,364 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    I haven't a clue what it is cos I'm only a youngfella

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭manta356


    It's a Hillman Avenger Estate.
    Hillman became Chrysler then Talbot

    cantdecide wrote: »
    I haven't a clue what it is cos I'm only a youngfella



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭jimmyw


    OMG! I grew up(:rolleyes:) with those avengers in the eighties and learned how to fix cars back then cause it was the only way they would stay on the road.We used to have about 4 of them, no estates though.Still have a soft spot for them and their cousin/brother/sister the hunter too.


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


    Theres a Blue Avenger estate knocking around the Castleisland area on its original ****IN plates, iv yet to get a pic of it though, only ever pass it on the road ..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    That Avenger looks like it's still been used everyday! Brave owner!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭sogood


    I remember those Avengers were used as police cars, though heaven knows why! Several burly gardai in it and it would sit right down.

    What other daft police cars do you remember?


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


    sogood wrote: »
    I remember those Avengers were used as police cars, ?
    Vanguards do a model of a Garda Avenger, a Mallow district patrol car.
    http://www.corgi.co.uk/shop/430/hillman-avenger--garda-mallow-district-patrol-car-va10407/?from_categories=cars
    The Garda used Avengers extensively during the seventies and the car modelled was a district patrol car based at Mallow Garda Station in County Cork. Although Garda vehicles were traditionally dark blue or black this particular Avenger was ordered in white because, in addition to its normal duties, it was one of the first cars to be employed by the then embryonic Traffic Corp who used white vehicles as they were more visible.
    Rural patrol cars such as 9163 ZO, which entered service in early 1974, covered very high mileages, typically around 30,000 miles per year, so were retained for less than three years

    And also, while on the subject of these, a Galway patrol car 148PIK
    http://www.corgi.co.uk/shop/819/ford-cortina-mkiii-16--galway-patrol-car-garda-va10308/?from_categories=vanguards/police
    An Garda Siochana, as the Irish Police are correctly known, used a lot of Ford Cortinas in this era as they were built at the Ford factory in Cork. The vehicle modelled started its working life at the former Eglington Street station in Galway during December 1975, and was based there for approximately three years. It covered around 80,000 miles in its role as a ‘District Car’ in the city of Galway and its surrounding areas, working 24 hours a day with the two man crews doing 8 hour shifts. Eglington Street station was closed in the mid-eighties when the new Mill Street station was opened.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭jimmyw


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Kevin_Herron



    I have a great story involving an Avenger Garda car and an Aston Martin DBSV8!
    Sadly, it would'nt be suitable for Boards.ie!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭shawnee



    Nice to see Vanguard featuring Irish interest cars. Have a few green p and t vans that were made up with the Logo and they look well also. Any other Irish interest Corgi/Vanguard models around ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    I have a great story involving an Avenger Garda car and an Aston Martin DBSV8!
    Sadly, it would'nt be suitable for Boards.ie!!!

    .......I'm intrigued Kev !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    MercMad wrote: »
    .......I'm intrigued Kev !

    +1 :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Ali Babba


    I have another great story involving a white E-type Jag and lots of Garda cars, do you know that one too Kevin?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭12 element


    Just tell the stories!!!


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


    12 element wrote: »
    Just tell the stories!!!


    PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Kevin_Herron


    MercMad wrote: »
    .......I'm intrigued Kev !

    I suppose the most conservative thing I could say is that it was a spectacular chase through the centre of Dublin and took until the Stillorgan Road before the Aston opened up and the Avenger turned off the blue light and gave up!


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


    I suppose the most conservative thing I could say is that it was a spectacular chase through the centre of Dublin and took until the Stillorgan Road before the Aston opened up and the Avenger turned off the blue light and gave up!
    Aston FTW!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,862 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    I bet it took one phone call to the Aston's owners mate, one rather well connected (politically) Charley to make the whole incident go away ! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    sogood wrote: »
    What other daft police cars do you remember?

    Do you remember when special branch got a batch of Renault 18 Turbos?

    It didn't take them too long to write off the lot of them! :D

    invest4deepvalue.com



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭Bigus


    Do-more wrote: »
    Do you remember when special branch got a batch of Renault 18 Turbos?

    It didn't take them too long to write off the lot of them! :D

    Did they not blow up before they had a chance to be written off !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,555 ✭✭✭✭Marlow


    Bigus wrote: »
    Did they not blow up before they had a chance to be written off !

    Blowing up would still mean write off :)

    /M


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭Blue850


    Saw a black Renault Fuego on the back of a recovery truck in Co Galway today, UK C reg, looked ok but had no bonnet.


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