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What's the oldest car you saw on the road today?

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    #5942
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,314 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    That generation of Civic's reminds me of when I was at college and people started driving!


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    #5943
    Garzard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭Garzard


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    That generation of Civic's reminds me of when I was at college and people started driving!

    There were at least 6 of those in my estate in the late 90's I was a kid. Numerous Rover SD1's as well. I always wonder where they ended up.


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    #5944
    Garzard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭Garzard


    Scholarstown Road, Knocklyon

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    #5945
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,314 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Garzard wrote: »
    There were at least 6 of those in my estate in the late 90's I was a kid. Numerous Rover SD1's as well. I always wonder where they ended up.

    There was lots of Gtec stickers and badges stuck on!


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    #5946
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,923 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Garzard wrote: »
    Scholarstown Road, Knocklyon

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    Knocklyon is a treasure trove it seems.


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    #5947
    Garzard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭Garzard


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    Knocklyon is a treasure trove it seems.

    Quite a lot pass through alright but I haven't seen any parked up in driveways in any of the areas around here.


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    #5948
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,396 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    gammygils wrote: »
    And there's a couple above the bushes spying on her I notice :P

    They’re going “some lunatic is taking pictures of a Rover”


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    #5949
    Garzard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭Garzard


    From the cycle cam - Ailesbury Road, Donnybrook earlier

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    #5950
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users Posts: 5,862 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    Garzard wrote: »
    There were at least 6 of those in my estate in the late 90's I was a kid. Numerous Rover SD1's as well. I always wonder where they ended up.

    unless you lived in some sort of time warp estate where half was in the late 90's and the other half was in the late 70's I doubt there was numerous SD1s ! :D

    Rover SD1

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    #5951
    Garzard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭Garzard


    RobAMerc wrote: »
    unless you lived in some sort of time warp estate where half was in the late 90's and the other half was in the late 70's I doubt there was numerous SD1s ! :D

    Born in the early 90's so not sure how regular of a car it was in Ireland by then but there were three here that I recall. One family had a brown one on our row up until 1998. The row behind us had another two in red and black. Although they were both gone IIRC by the time the millennium came around.


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    #5952
    BrianD3
    Registered Users Posts: 8,300 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    RobAMerc wrote: »
    I doubt there was numerous SD1s ! :D
    It's possible I suppose, the late 90s was only 12-13 years after the end of SD1 production. SD1s rusted pretty badly but there was no NCT in the late 90s.

    The Rover 75 is longer out of production in 2020 than the SD1 was in the late 90s!


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    #5953
    johndaman66
    Registered Users Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    BrianD3 wrote: »
    It's possible I suppose, the late 90s was only 12-13 years after the end of SD1 production. SD1s rusted pretty badly but there was no NCT in the late 90s.
    Thats what I was thinking too. The SD1 ceased production in 1986 so it would hardly be inconceivable that there would be a number of them knocking around an estate in the late 90's. In particular if there was a Rover dealer in close proximity at around that time.


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    #5954
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    A pub owner in Nenagh bought one new in the early 80s and still had it up to 98


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    #5955
    m17
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    Nenagh
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    #5956
    BrianD3
    Registered Users Posts: 8,300 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    Oh, that's nice. Original Irish too? John Moloney dealer sticker etc. Many many years since I've seen a R21 of any description on our roads.


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    #5957
    joujoujou
    Registered Users Posts: 13,539 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
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    m17 wrote: »
    Nenagh
    [...]

    LOL, I thought I saw that badge says "Infection"! :D:o;)


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    #5958
    PukkaStukka
    Registered Users Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭PukkaStukka


    BrianD3 wrote: »
    Oh, that's nice. Original Irish too? John Moloney dealer sticker etc. Many many years since I've seen a R21 of any description on our roads.

    I'm wondering would that be the same John Moloney who did rallycross in Mondello around the same time that car was sold?.


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    #5959
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,314 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I saw this ad earlier I know it's not a car but an ad I spotted online from the Examiner in 1991. I haven't seen any of them in a while.

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    #5960
    johndaman66
    Registered Users Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    The Calibra was such a cool machine in 1991.


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    #5961
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    johndaman66 wrote: »
    The Calibra was such a cool machine in 1991.

    Cool? The exact opposite, it kept bursting into flames!


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    #5962
    johndaman66
    Registered Users Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    I never realised they used to spontaneously combust. Bit like the Zafari so.


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    #5963
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,314 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    When I think of the Calibra all I think of is Veronica Guerin.


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    #5964
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    My girlfriends sister's 1996 Opel Corsa wouldn't start in our driveway today. I tried to jump it off mine but with no luck, I'd say the battery is fried.

    Some heap of a car.


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    #5965
    gammygils
    Registered Users Posts: 17,248 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    95 Mitsubishi FTO spotted in Galway. Don't know what's going on in the bumper area :confused:

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    85 Carina in Tuam with it's great grandchild close by :p

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    #5966
    vectra
    Registered Users Posts: 15,513 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    johndaman66 wrote: »
    The Calibra was such a cool machine in 1991.

    Thought I was a really nice looking car, I was at the dealer launch back then. Got to drive them from the transporter to the display areas. :P


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    #5967
    Garzard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭Garzard


    From Saturday, Bride St I think.

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    #5968
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,191 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Drop dead gorgeous Jaguar XJ6 (or 12) Coupe in Cavan yesterday.
    Fire engine red, on a ZV plate, mid 1970's look about it.
    Made an emergency parking manoeuvre to get a pic, and he pulled away before I got the phone up...


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    #5969
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,923 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Garzard wrote: »
    From Saturday, Bride St I think.

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    That's weird!

    There's a 94 beside me. But I was about to take a picture when I got the stares as my neighbour drove up behind it so I didn't want to be looking like I was monitoring the parking.

    Will try get a pic tomorrow.


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    #5970
    Garzard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭Garzard


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    That's weird!

    There's a 94 beside me. But I was about to take a picture when I got the stares as my neighbour drove up behind it so I didn't want to be looking like I was monitoring the parking.

    Will try get a pic tomorrow.

    Funny - I was wondering does anyone else get that; I'm always wary of getting those looks or even being confronted when taking pictures of old cars so try doing it discreetly - harder to do though when it's in a driveway and there's also the angle of respecting someone's privacy doing that. It hasn't happened yet though so it could just be another unfounded concern of mine.


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    #5971
    Marlow
    Registered Users Posts: 14,555 ✭✭✭✭Marlow


    Garzard wrote: »
    Funny - I was wondering does anyone else get that; I'm always wary of getting those looks or even being confronted when taking pictures of old cars so try doing it discreetly - harder to do though when it's in a driveway and there's also the angle of respecting someone's privacy doing that. It hasn't happened yet though so it could just be another unfounded concern of mine.

    If the owner is around, just politely ask. Most won't mind. Hell, I get asked all the time, if it's ok to take pictures of one of mine, when I'm out in the older stuff.

    /M


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