Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

Max_Damage

There must be a couple of gallons of Waxoyl underneath that Starlet!

Anan1

I remember going in to a Toyota garage in Ennis with my parents in about 1980, after the rear suspension of our Renault 16 collapsed on holidays. The salesman kept referring to the car as the 'Starlight'.

Wishbone Ash

Daimler 104 spotted in Rush (Co Dublin).

corktina

Anan1 wrote: »

I remember going in to a Toyota garage in Ennis with my parents in about 1980, after the rear suspension of our Renault 16 collapsed on holidays. The salesman kept referring to the car as the 'Starlight'.

ah well that hasnt died out yet....loadsa people refer to a Cortina "Crawford":rolleyes:

carchaeologist

Was down there today on a run,some nice motors there,heres some pics,apologies for the quality(camera phone:o)

Max_Damage

My neighbor let me take a few close up pictures of that Elan:





Develops around 155bhp in current form.

carchaeologist

yum...lotus twin cam.....

Blue850

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Daimler 104 spotted in Rush (Co Dublin).

heres another in Galway, from ad on carzone, and is that an old Bedford beside it?

Gary ITR

I passed that Starlet in Lusk a couple of years ago, hadn't seen it lately and thought it had moved on. Looks a minter

mountain

seen parked on the straight road, cork,

MercMad

mountain wrote: »

seen parked on the straight road, cork,

...............somebody please shoot the person that put those wheels on ! :rolleyes:

carchaeologist

MercMad wrote: »

...............somebody please shoot the person that put those wheels on ! :rolleyes:

agreed,they do nothing for the car!!

Lauder

Original Irish MGB in Ballsbridge this Afternoon. Couldnt stop for investigate further but looks like it been parked up for a while.

carchaeologist

Its one of the very last going by the westmeath reg.

aravan

Did you get any history on that Rolls Royce 999 KZE.
The reason i ask as i recently met a man who has and original Irish Lotus Esprit and the reg was 900 KZE and it is 1978. (Check it on cartell)
He told me the car was originally bought new by an Arab Stud Farm owner but he didn't know who or what stud farm.
Any investigators out there?

carchaeologist

Well,by my records 999KZE is a january 1979 number.
The lotus may be a 78 car alrigh,but may have been imported here and given a 79 number.Import cars then were given the next number in whatever allocation was being used at the time.

aravan

The Lotus may be 1979. I might be wrong. The car was deffinatly sold new in Ireland. It was on display at the 1978 Dublin Motor show and was then sold to the arab who only owned it for a short time. I just thought when i saw the rolls with a similar reg that the same fellow might have owned them as they were both very rare cars in 1979.

Pagoda113

The Lotus 900 KZE was in use upo to a couple of years ago in the Tipperary area. Photo's from a car wun in 2002..

macautos

Pagoda113 wrote: »

The Lotus 900 KZE was in use upo to a couple of years ago in the Tipperary area. Photo's from a car wun in 2002..

Ya this was around the Tipperary area for a long while . Very rough looking and also if i remember rightly it had a diesel engine fitted . It belched out black smoke around the town

aravan

Good one lads. The owner lives on the Tipperary Limerick Border. When I spoke to him in June he was about to fit a new engine to it. He had an engine from a Renault 25 to go in. He has got the chassis galvanised so if it could be got it would not be a bad classic by a long shot. He wasn't interested in selling it at the time when i spoke to him.
The question still remains. Did the same fellow own 900 KZE and 999 KZE when they were new?

MercMad

I remember seeing 900 KZE In Donegal in about 1981. I recall it vividly parked outside the church in Carrigart. It was the first time I had ever seen an Esprit.

There was a sticker on the dah which said "Please close windows at speeds in excess of 120 MPH". It seemed exotic at the time, that a car could actually go FASTER than 120MPH.

I assume the current owner is fitting a Renault engine because it currently has a Renault gearbox fitted ? I recall a lot of Lotus' used Renault gearboxes, but who in their right mind would fit a diesel engine to one ??

Max_Damage

Pagoda113 wrote: »

The Lotus 900 KZE was in use upo to a couple of years ago in the Tipperary area. Photo's from a car wun in 2002..

A towbar on a Esprit! Now that's some I never seen before!

aravan

MercMad wrote: »

I remember seeing 900 KZE In Donegal in about 1981. I recall it vividly parked outside the church in Carrigart. It was the first time I had ever seen an Esprit.

There was a sticker on the dah which said "Please close windows at speeds in excess of 120 MPH". It seemed exotic at the time, that a car could actually go FASTER than 120MPH.

I assume the current owner is fitting a Renault engine because it currently has a Renault gearbox fitted ? I recall a lot of Lotus' used Renault gearboxes, but who in their right mind would fit a diesel engine to one ??

The car was owned by Vincent Bonner a Donegal rally man for a while. He told me that also, so there is no doubt it is the same car you saw back in 81.
The current owner is the third owner of the car.

Max_Damage

Saw this Dublin-reg. Toyota Hiace today on the South Circular Road. I've seen it a few times before, but this is the first time getting a picture of it:



What year is it just out of curiosity?

carchaeologist

GZS***,Mid july 1984.

Last time i say one of those windows must be closed at speeds in excess of 120 MPH was in a 1979 Fiat 127:D

Lauder

Absolute beut of a 2002tii spotted this morning in Parnell Car Park

Sids Not

Today i saw this.and wept.......the Consul is mine.......the Omega isnt...:(

carchaeologist

Sids Not wrote: »

Today i saw this.and wept.......the Consul is mine.......the Omega isnt...:(

Oh no!What happened?!!

brosnadog

Sids Not wrote: »

Today i saw this.and wept.......the Consul is mine.......the Omega isnt...:(

ah F**K what happened, is ther much damage?

MercMad

Sids Not wrote: »

Today i saw this.and wept.......the Consul is mine.......the Omega isnt...:(

........jeeeeez what's goin' on there ???