Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

carchaeologist

Capri wrote: »

So why do the plates read GTI 205 :P:P

We're not in the UK so the 'lucky' buyer would have to trailer it to shows or get someone over here to tax it every year for him - tho those Brits seem to love their reg plates so MAYBE .......

MAYBE it includes the gaff for 10k :eek:

The famous GTI205...think that reg was originally on a Morris Minor.
The reg is useless in the UK so he'll have to bank on an Irish guy stumping up the cash for it.
Remember AI1 a few months ago for 10K, on a Golf MKII? That was 10K too, wonder did it sell?

Do-more

Capri

Pic ?

No tax sticker on plate

Marlow

Capri wrote: »

Pic ?

No tax sticker on plate

Ah sure. That Merc probably has been out of Sweden for many years And that's actually not a tax sticker. It's a vehicle inspection (as in NCT) sticker, that's missing.

/M

Do-more

Marlow wrote: »

And that's actually not a tax sticker. It's a vehicle inspection (as in NCT) sticker, that's missing.

/M

Incorrect. It was a tax sticker, nothing to do with "Bilprovningen" which is what the equivalent of the NCT is here.

The sticker was abolished at the beginning of 2010 as it was deemed to be no longer necessary. There is no where to hide from fixed and mobile automatic vehicle plate recognition cameras, if you make a journey in an untaxed vehicle here you are pretty much guaranteed to be pulled over or receive a fine in the post shortly afterwards.

Capri

Do-more wrote: »

Incorrect. It was a tax sticker, nothing to do with "Bilprovningen" which is what the equivalent of the NCT is here.

The sticker was abolished at the beginning of 2010 as it was deemed to be no longer necessary. There is no where to hide from fixed and mobile automatic vehicle plate recognition cameras, if you make a journey in an untaxed vehicle here you are pretty much guaranteed to be pulled over or receive a fine in the post shortly afterwards.

I think you've seen our future Do-more in Scandanavia - no hiding place from 'the state'

Chap told me in Saudi that when you've gone thru a speed camera a text comes to your phone telling you how much you've been fined automatically :eek::eek:

Hopefully our policy makers won't get many trips up there otherwise we'll be like lab-rats on a threadmill down here :mad: Did I hear that in Norway (?) you have to produce your TV licence before you're allowed buy a TV :eek::eek::eek:

At least you've the LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGG evenings / endless day to look forward to, plenty of Dugges Idjit! and Pyttipanna :rolleyes:

Marlow

Capri wrote: »

Did I hear that in Norway (?) you have to produce your TV licence before you're allowed buy a TV :eek::eek::eek:

In Denmark, the tv shop sends your details onto the TV license offence, when you buy a TV. Same story, really. People get around it by buying their TV's (cheaper also) in Germany, when they over for a shopping trip anyhow.

/M

Do-more

Capri wrote: »

I think you've seen our future Do-more in Scandanavia - no hiding place from 'the state'

I seem to remember reading that the Gardai trialled auto number plate recognition cameras in about 20 cars 3 or 4 years ago, I wonder whatever became of that? :rolleyes:

Road tax on petrol cars is pretty reasonable here, I pay the equivalent of €240 a year on a '06 2.0 FSi Passat, but if it was a 2.0 TDi it would be €400 a year, and road tax on diesels used to be even higher before they re-balanced things about two years ago when they increased the tax on diesel fuel and reduced it on the road tax.

As a result there are far fewer diesels on the road here than in Ireland and it's very rare to see an old one like the Merc above.

Marlow

Do-more wrote: »

As a result there are far fewer diesels on the road here than in Ireland and it's very rare to see an old one like the Merc above.

Is this in Sweden ? If so, already when I lived there ('02-'04) diesel cars already were in the minority due to two reasons:
- the diesel gel'ing up in the winter periods, if you didn't have a tank heater and you couldn't get anywhere most of the time because of it. You can winterproof diesel, but it has it's limits and at -25 degrees you're pretty screwed.
- diesel costing more than petrol

/M

Do-more

Marlow wrote: »

That Merc probably has been out of Sweden for many years

Marlow wrote: »

Is this in Sweden?

What is that you're smoking?

Marlow

Do-more wrote: »

What is that you're smoking?

Well, it's an irish forum, so it wasn't clear, that the picture was in Sweden in the first. Subsequently from your posts, I have to asume you're over there.

/M

Capri

Do-more wrote: »

What is that you're smoking?

Don't mind him Do-more, he gets forgetful :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Maybe I'm just more observant

Didn't somebody here recently post from Laos , and I've sent stuff from Vietnam when I'm there - very international this forum is :cool:

Interesting about the diesel/petrol tax system in Sweden - plenty of Yank tanks there whereas here it 'She'd drink the juice, I'll keep me Polo dayshel !'
And the gas thing is that the 'savings' people THINK they make on diesels are negated by the more frequent oil changes and the replacment costs of injectors/pumps/turbos !!! :P:P

The Gardai still have ANPR cameras on some traffic cars , but in typical Garda fashion the 'undercover' traffic cars have this black box IR camera stuck on the bootlid :p as well as another video one in the rear window

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanhelsing65/3317091596/in/photostream/

Marlow

Capri wrote: »

Don't mind him Do-more, he gets forgetful :rolleyes::rolleyes:

You're right. My memory is terrible, especially when it comes to names.

Capri wrote: »

Interesting about the diesel/petrol tax system in Sweden - plenty of Yank tanks there

Sweden has a massive car culture. It's also the only scandinavian country, that has no VRT as such. (Denmark has 150-250% depending on value of car, Norway 180%, Finland a similar rate to Ireland)

Capri wrote: »

The Gardai still have ANPR cameras on some traffic cars , but in typical Garda fashion the 'undercover' traffic cars have this black box IR camera stuck on the bootlid :p as well as another video one in the rear window

The problem with ANPR used over here, is that the onboard system doesn't get updated very often. A friend of mine got stopped for tax out of date 1 1/2 months after he paid his tax. Now that's in Athlone, but if they update them in the same intervals everywhere else, then it's pretty useless.

/M

Capri

Sweden has a massive car culture. It's also the only scandinavian country, that has no VRT as such. (Denmark has 150-250% depending on value of car, Norway 180%, Finland a similar rate to Ireland)

Don't know if you remember :P:P:P a case in Norway where they allowed 'commercials' in cheap -

http://www.corvettefever.com/newsletter/corp_0510_chevrolet_corvette_truck_european_tour/viewall.html

.....Twenty years ago, Norway-which is physically part of Europe, but still wisely not a member state-levied 100 percent import duty on cars, but just 10 percent on pickup trucks. A Norwegian arrived at our shop offering to buy a nice black '77 Corvette, provided we could convert it into a pickup truck in 24 hours. The rules were about to change because the Norwegian authorities felt they were being abused, as all rules involving tax should be. He paid in full for the car and we had to convert it. Stage one was to install a plywood bulkhead between the underside of the vertical back window and the steel panel behind the seat. Then we had to take out the spare wheel and carrier, drop the gas tank into this area, and hang it on new brackets with the existing straps. Then we cut out the whole rear deck from above, including the rear fiberglass bulkhead, and built a new pickup bed and sides from plywood. The gas cap was accessed through a hole we drilled in it. The spare wheel was popped back into this space, and the rear deck we had cut out previously was screwed back in place as a hard tonneau cover. It was crudely but neatly done, and the new owner rushed back to Norway in time to beat the import deadline.

Two days later he phoned to say his Corvette pickup had successfully reached the border in time and crept in at the 10 percent rate. Waiting in line with him were more than a hundred Porsche 924 "pickups," each of which had a vertical sheet of plywood and a little Plexiglas window replacing their usual big glass hatchback.



Read more: http://www.corvettefever.com/newsletter/corp_0510_chevrolet_corvette_truck_european_tour/#ixzz2RbaJ9Y5w

Marlow

Capri wrote: »

Don't know if you remember :P:P:P a case in Norway where they allowed 'commercials' in cheap -

http://www.corvettefever.com/newsletter/corp_0510_chevrolet_corvette_truck_european_tour/viewall.html

Same stuff happened in Denmark. Plenty. 50% VRT on commercials, 180% VRT on cars (at the time). Loophole also got closed there.

Not only that. Cars registered after mid 1998 have a special motortax rate, if used privately. Double the motortax pretty much. They also in last years are equipped with a special numberplate, so they stand out. Cars white plates, commercials yellow plates and the new plate for privately used commercials is 1/3 yellow, 2/3 white.

The newest thing they're trying to introduce, is that commercially registered vehicles have to have the company name and vat number somewhere on the vehicle. No matter if they sport signage or not. Don't think that's gone in yet.

/M

Capri

Bus companies seem to have that on them here - no VAT number yet but I'm sure it'll come

Marlow

Capri wrote: »

Bus companies seem to have that on them here - no VAT number yet but I'm sure it'll come

That's going to come in DK, too, because that's the other loophole. The likes of VW T4/T5 high spec VW Caravelles or Landrover Defender 110/130 CSW brought in as 10 seater bus at 50% commercial VRT.

A sure, the same loopholes exist here.

This is a VW LT40 from 1989

I brought it in as HGV (rated to 4t on the swedish paperwork, it's ex swedish forestry) at 200 quid, instead of 13.3% if 3500 kg or less. Then got the DOE to rate the DGW down to 3.5t at first DOE, so now it can be driven on B-license and HGV speed limits don't apply. All legal and above the board.

/M

mikehn

Anyone good at jigsaws

Capri

All legal and above the board.

Syncro 4x4 ? Lovely square shape and a 5cyl in some

Anyone good at jigsaws

Re-shelled a Fiesta one time, so a 2CV is a piece of cake - brake pipes first, then loom, then ...... 1 week max ???

w124man

Capri wrote: »

Syncro 4x4 ???

Nope! LT 4x4 ...

Capri

w124man wrote: »

Nope! LT 4x4 ...

As I said in other post - my VW braincells not clicking right this w/end

Marlow

Capri wrote: »

Syncro 4x4 ? Lovely square shape and a 5cyl in some

w124man wrote: »

Nope! LT 4x4 ...

Capri wrote: »

As I said in other post - my VW braincells not clicking right this w/end

You're right there. Because they are inline 6-cyl

The 4x4 LT's have a proper transfer box with RWD, 4Hi and 4Lo setting, hence not AWD like Syncro. And yes, that's one.

/M

kaizersoze

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Grimreaper666

mikehn wrote: »

Anyone good at jigsaws

Anyone handy would have that back together in an afternoon ffs.

Wishbone Ash

steviekid wrote: »

Anyone spot this at Durrow show? Must be the best Irish reg I've ever seen....

Here's another great appropriate reg.




PS - I saw a 1985 Honda Accord taxi earning its keep in Dublin yesterday. (I was on the bike so didn't get a pic).

Marlow

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Here's another great appropriate reg.

Usually you find that one and CSI 635 in pairs (both with appropriate regs).

/M

Capri

I saw a 1985 Honda Accord taxi earning its keep in Dublin yesterday

Not for much longer - they're all due off the road this year once they're over 14 yo.

Pity, as some of them are in better nick than the thrashed newer rental taxis :mad:

Marlow

Rat-look splitty in Athlone today.

/M

Capri

Anybody got one of these 'resurrected' Beetles (Brazilian Fusca ) http://jalopnik.com/how-a-former-brazilian-president-made-the-most-advanced-486297085

Do-more

Capri wrote: »

Anybody got one of these 'resurrected' Beetles (Brazilian Fusca ) http://jalopnik.com/how-a-former-brazilian-president-made-the-most-advanced-486297085

The only Beetle I'd have any interest in is a Bugster.