Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

Capri

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

1700 Euro???????? Seriously? Trying to sell classics in Ireland is a disaster anyway, I had a 67 SL for sale here for over a year, best offer I got for it here was E4000 sold it in the UK for £12000. It needed work but was on the button and looked and drove well.

What did you use to sell SL, Classic and sportscar or Ebay or ....?

Grimreaper666

Capri wrote: »

What did you use to sell SL, Classic and sportscar or Ebay or ....?

Classic car mart, a guy working in the printers bought it, rang me at 6a.m. fly in by lunchtime and drove it home.

Capri

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

Classic car mart, a guy working in the printers bought it, rang me at 6a.m. fly in by lunchtime and drove it home.

Bit like when I was selling my Shelby back in '8? . Put it in CustomCar, guy flew over with suitcase full of £'s and I drove him back down to DunLaoghaire with his 'bargain' - £5k then , £100k now

Grimreaper666

We think Ireland is the market here for everything and in reality it's far from it. I wouldn't bother marketing anything much here anymore, people don't appreciate quality stuff, they assume they'll get cars at what they're willing to offer.

Capri

Was selling my mother's Lancer 97 only 60k -€650, lady rang from Galway to buy it for her daughter,
"I'm on me way with the money" Grand , then a couple of hours later
" I'm here now with €450, where wil I meet ye?"

" The 5 LAMPS !" :mad::mad::mad:

As I said before, I'm guided by the German prices which are the best market indicator in Europe for 'cheap' s/h Mercs etc. Other far flung countries sell at higher prices but getting them there / import taxes etc require contacts / patience.

If I don't sell mine I'll let them rot rather than give them away :mad:

Grimreaper666

Capri wrote: »

If I don't sell mine I'll let them rot rather than give them away :mad:

Unfortunately that's what happens with most of the stuff here anyway,:(.

Esel

Capri wrote: »

" I'm here now with €450, where wil I meet ye?"

" The 5 LAMPS !"

Made me chuckle!

Lurching

Two I passed in work today, the second I really like.

Dades

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

The 123 series convertible always looks a bit of a hatchet job to me, even worse up close really, the angle of the windscreen is all wrong for a convertible really.

I like 'em. If they look like a hack job maybe it's because they're so unusual you think they have to be custom.

Capri

Two I passed in work today, the second I really like

Looks like Ramsey St ( Neighbours )

Diabhalta

Lurching wrote: »

Two I passed in work today, the second I really like.

...and where is the pic of that black cadillac? :rolleyes:

Hermy

This is in the Nissan garage opposite Deansgrange cemetery...

Capri

Best place for it - once it hits the Irish air it'd rot away , even the badges rotted on them :rolleyes:


And '100 more cars on show - underground !' ?? Interesting place to have a showroom, away from the elements

Big Nasty

Did you check the ODO?

kev1.3s

Hermy wrote: »

This is in the Nissan garage opposite Deansgrange cemetery...

My grandfather had one! Many a time we went places sitting in the back, wouldn't get away with that now.

Hermy

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Did you check the ODO?

No but apparently it's not for sale.

Big Nasty

Hermy wrote: »

No but apparently it's not for sale.

Wouldn't have thought so. There's a fair few garages around have old examples like this with little / delivery miles on them or restored models. That's why I was asking.

Esel

Capri wrote: »

Best place for it - once it hits the Irish air it'd rot away , even the badges rotted on them...

Agree - glass case / sugar job if ever there was one!

Back in the day, 'Datsun' was synonymous with 'rust'. Fiat and Alfa were only in the ha'penny place...

Blue850

A lad at work has a rust free 82 Cherry 5 door, Irish car, it gets used as the second car, replacing a 99 Fiesta, the savings on taxing and insuring the Festy paid for it:D

Capri

Blue850 wrote: »

A lad at work has a rust free 82 Cherry 5 door, Irish car, it gets used as the second car, replacing a 99 Fiesta, the savings on taxing and insuring the Festy paid for it:D

There's a girl using one of these daily on the Northside, same colour/alloys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Datsun_Cherry_First_iteration_Kent.jpg

Stereomaniac

Oh man, I wish I knew a little lady who could drive me around in one of those. We'd smoke tonnes.

macplaxton

Capri wrote: »

There's a girl using one of these daily on the Northside, same colour/alloys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Datsun_Cherry_First_iteration_Kent.jpg

There's an echo in the room Capri....:D

kev1.3s

macplaxton wrote: »

There's an echo in the room Capri....:D

No there's two girls with them. ;-)

Capri

macplaxton wrote: »

There's an echo in the room Capri....:D

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DaveCol

Spotted this Rover P4 across the road from my office in Ballsbridge earlier

renofan

Blue850 wrote: »

PZO 200 makes the front cover of this month's Mercedes Enthusiast mag, under its new UK reg.

Was flicking through that mag in Easons today. If I'd known it was PZO 200 I would have got it. Will do tomorrow.

Such a shame to see cars like this leave the country though.

Capri

renofan wrote: »

Was flicking through that mag in Easons today. If I'd known it was PZO 200 I would have got it. Will do tomorrow.

Such a shame to see cars like this leave the country though.

PZO 200 was a nicer reg :rolleyes: However, cash talks

2cv

Capri wrote: »

PZO 200 was a nicer reg :rolleyes: However, cash talks

Many more original irish cars (including 2 of mine) will go across the water in the weeks/months to come.

Capri

2cv wrote: »

Many more original irish cars (including 2 of mine) will go across the water in the weeks/months to come.

Send the buyers up to me also , they can have an E430 /S320 / Grand Cherokee V8 /Lancer for (relative) peanuts too

Declutter the barns, then get ourselves the F out as well and enjoy life in a more car frienly climate :cool::cool:

Grimreaper666

Very difficult to live here now alright especially if you like cars........:(