Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

Wishbone Ash

Sids Not wrote: »

I know of a few cars sitting arount south dublin, but i dont want to repeat pix that might be already up, 60 odd pages to trawl through..not enough hours in my day...:(

Don't worry about repeats. It happens occasionally but it's better than no pics at all!

Anan1

Capri in Monkstown this morning

By the way, how do you make the actual pic appear in the post, as opposed to just a link?

Dades

Anan1 wrote: »

By the way, how do you make the actual pic appear in the post, as opposed to just a link?

Easiest way for the uninitiated...

http://wthax.org/

Go to the above page, and upload your image. After it is up, the page with give you a URL to your image between

Anan1

Cool, thanks!

carchaeologist

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Don't worry about repeats. It happens occasionally but it's better than no pics at all!

yes, very true!! And thanks for that dades too....:)

Wishbone Ash

A couple of spots from Cork this afternoon.

Modified 1986 Ford Capri spotted near the Dunkettle Roundabout.



A very early pre '87 Micra spotted in Wilton.



No pics but I also spotted an absolutely immaculate 1975 Moto Guzzi on the Sarsfield Road and a pre'87 TZO (Dublin?) registered Hino 6x4 tipper still earning it's keep with a load of gravel near Cashel.

Max_Damage

^ That Micra is the first facelift 1985-1989 K10 model. So I reckon it's either an '85 or '86 model.

The very early Micra K10's (1982-1984) had slightly different rear lights to this model.

Yes, I'll get my anorak!

carchaeologist

Something very appealing about that micra, its very original!!!Id say mid 1986 cork city registration......correct me if im wrong

Wishbone Ash

Notice that it came without a nearside mirror, presumably designed for non-dual carriageway/motorway roads.

carchaeologist

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Notice that it came without a nearside mirror, presumably designed for non-dual carriageway/motorway roads.

my chevette only has an offside mirror too, penny pinching id say, i think it was just a legal requirement to have just two rear view mirrors, which included the interior one!:D

Max_Damage

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Notice that it came without a nearside mirror, presumably designed for non-dual carriageway/motorway roads.

Most older cars never came with a passenger side mirror as standard. It was an option, like rear seatbelts!

carchaeologist

Ah, the old school options list, such simpler times they were!!!

Wishbone Ash

carchaeologist wrote: »

my chevette only has an offside mirror too, penny pinching id say, i think it was just a legal requirement to have just two rear view mirrors, which included the interior one!:D

Max_Damage wrote: »

Most older cars never came with a passenger side mirror as standard. It was an option, like rear seatbelts!

carchaeologist wrote: »

Ah, the old school options list, such simpler times they were!!!

But the funny thing was that, in the 1960s and 70s, when cars had proper wing mirrors, they nearly always had nearside ones!

Wishbone Ash

Jaguar 3.4 spotted off Ely Place Upper in Dublin 2 today.





And an early Golf spotted in Fitzwilliam Street Upper. (Not really a classic I suppose but I thought I'd throw it in anyway).

carchaeologist

Il make no apologies for saying that i find the golf more interesting than the jag!!:D

Max_Damage

carchaeologist wrote: »

Il make no apologies for saying that i find the golf more interesting than the jag!!:D

As do I. I find old everyday vehicles more interesting than 'prestige' vehicles.

carchaeologist

That golf looks like its been in ireland snce 1987 going by the reg, its in good shape for its year!!

Anan1

carchaeologist wrote: »

Il make no apologies for saying that i find the golf more interesting than the jag!!:D

Funny that, me too!

Sids Not

Me too......guess its what you grow up with....

Why do you say 1987..???

carchaeologist

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Why do you say 1987..???[/quote]
Because thats when the new reg system came in,its a low number for dublin, so it was surely registered here in 87, before that imported cars just got the next number in whichever series was being allocated in their council at the time,so if i bought a new car, and you imported an old one after me, you would get a newer reg number.Not exactly a great system,the new setup is good in the way it gives you the year specific reg.

Wishbone Ash

carchaeologist wrote: »

Because thats when the new reg system came in,its a low number for dublin, so it was surely registered here in 87, before that imported cars just got the next number in whichever series was being allocated in their council at the time,so if i bought a new car, and you imported an old one after me, you would get a newer reg number.Not exactly a great system,the new setup is good in the way it gives you the year specific reg.

I don't understand fully what you are saying. What makes you think it wasn't registered here in 1988 or 1990 etc.

Considering that the country was on its knees in 1987, it's difficult to comprehend that at least 215 imported 1982 used vehicles were registered in Dublin in that year.

carchaeologist

Im just guessing, it could be 88 or 89.

Sids Not

We may never know......but i say that this car might have only been re-registered last monday.....and there were only 214 cars "of that year "already registered before it...or am i wrong..

carchaeologist

Sids Not wrote: »

We may never know......but i say that this car might have only been re-registered last monday.....and there were only 214 cars "of that year "already registered before it...or am i wrong..

Its possible it could have been reg'd last monday,i doubt it very much,even though its on euro plates, it all depends how fast dublin used up their 82 allocation.My chevette is 83 and it was imported in 1990 to kerry, and its number is 227, and id imagine that dublin with the greater population will have more imports so therefore would use up their numbers faster, thats how im drawing the conclusion....or maybe im just drawing confusion!!:p

Euro plates were only issued from jan 91 on to the best of my knowledge, so it looks like this golf has had its plates changed also at some time?

maidhc

Sids Not wrote: »

We may never know......but i say that this car might have only been re-registered last monday.....and there were only 214 cars "of that year "already registered before it...or am i wrong..

I got my 1974 car regged last october in cork and it is only in the 700s

carchaeologist

That sounds about right,theres 10 years of a difference,more 82 cars would have been imported because they are newer, and consequently there would be more around,and more imported. I bet the 82C series is well into the thousands though, 82 KY is up up around 1000 or more now i think,and again cork has the greater population.

Wishbone Ash

carchaeologist wrote: »

it all depends how fast dublin used up their 82 allocation

But there is no 'allocation' with the present system unlike the ZV series.

Theoretically, couldn't they go to 82 D 999999 as a six character number is acceptable?

carchaeologist

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

But there is no 'allocation' with the present system unlike the ZV series.

Theoretically, couldn't they go to 82 D 999999 as a six character number is acceptable?

Yes, you are right wishbone, i should have said series, as theoreticaly there isnt a finite number of registrations with the post 87 set up.sorry...:o

Abelloid

The reg just indicates it was the 215th '82 car imported into Dublin since 1987, when that was you can only guess....

While we're on the subject does anyone know roughly where 71 C is up to now?

Anan1

I would be sure enough to bet money that 82 D 215 was first registered here during 1987. UK imports were very big in the late 80s, Dublin's a big place and, as has already been said, 5 year old cars would have been a common choice.