Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

corktina · 03-03-2009 06:58PM

Cortina 2000E

carchaeologist · 03-03-2009 08:53PM

^thats a sin..should be washed at least!!

SAABMAN · 04-03-2009 10:39PM

galwaytt wrote: »

...is a 93 Saab 9000 CSE (I think CSE...), in a field, today.......too new ?

Where abouts? I may need a few spares and that's just the right age.

Hermy · 04-03-2009 10:58PM

These are gonna seem mighty bland after homer90's posts but there might be something interesting.:o
One of many old Mercs hanging around Dublin, this 250CE was parked in Chatham Street last week.

I think this Golf GTi has been here before.

Always a sorry sight to see a classic stuck at the side of the road.

These four are all on Home Farm Road.

And I spotted this Lancia today in Wellington Road.

carchaeologist · 04-03-2009 10:59PM

Nice..

homer90 · 05-03-2009 12:55AM

Hermy wrote: »

These are gonna seem mighty bland after homer90's posts but there might be something interesting.:o
One of many old Mercs hanging around Dublin, this 250CE was parked in Chatham Street last week.

That 250CE is mint . MMMMmmmmmm

These four are all on Home Farm Road.

Been meaning to snap those on Home Farm rd too

( Nice so see so many on the one street !)

the W123 is in very good shape..

MercMad · 05-03-2009 10:55AM

Nice photos Homer, classics always look so much better in the sun dont they.

Good spot's there Hermy, love the black Golf, but I am curious. The reg suggests Dublin late 1982, and it has the larger bumpers but it has the original small rear lights !

I dunno enough about Golf Mk1's but curious to know if this is correct ?

Anan1 · 05-03-2009 11:37AM

My guess is it's a 1978 or so car, imported from the UK in 1982 and wearing the wrong bumpers!

bugsntinas · 05-03-2009 12:14PM

nice golfs.do like mk1/2's

MercMad · 05-03-2009 01:24PM

Yeah or possibly not an original Golf GTI, it has had paintwork obviously as the rear decal is not there.

What makes you think '78 ?

Bitten & Hisses · 05-03-2009 03:33PM

MercMad wrote: »

What makes you think '78 ?

Small tail lights?

Anan1 · 05-03-2009 03:58PM

MercMad wrote: »

What makes you think '78 ?

Pure guess! I think the wider rear light clusters and the 1.8 engine came in in 1981 though, so it must be before that.

CharlieCroker · 07-03-2009 01:03AM

Meant to post these ages ago.
GF's father owns these, does weddings with them.
From the left:
1. 1952 Triumph Renown which he restored from ground up
2. 1989 Regent Limo (based on london taxi chassis)
3. 1936 Austin 7
4. 1932 Austin 7 LWB Limo

Kevin_Herron · 07-03-2009 01:08AM

I presume your Girlfriends father owns an black and cream coloured Austin Sheerline aswell?

CharlieCroker · 07-03-2009 01:21AM

no, just those 4.

junkyard · 07-03-2009 01:42PM

CharlieCroker wrote: »

Meant to post these ages ago.
GF's father owns these, does weddings with them.
From the left:
1. 1952 Triumph Renown which he restored from ground up
2. 1989 Regent Limo (based on london taxi chassis)
3. 1936 Austin 7
4. 1932 Austin 7 LWB Limo

I've seen them around the place doing weddings etc. The Austin lives out the Aghada road with a white Daimler DS420 and there's another Sheerline, same colour, living in Kinsale Kevin, it used to be a hearse, reg. number ZJ 1.

CharlieCroker · 07-03-2009 02:06PM

Those 4 are all out in the country, past blarney.
They're his pride and joy.

Kevin_Herron · 07-03-2009 03:57PM

junkyard wrote: »

I've seen them around the place doing weddings etc. The Austin lives out the Aghada road with a white Daimler DS420 and there's another Sheerline, same colour, living in Kinsale Kevin, it used to be a hearse, reg. number ZJ 1.

I was under the impression that the guy that owned the LWB Austin 7 owned the ZV reg'd Sheerline, it used to belong to Finbar Corry.

As far as I know there are only 3 Austin Sheerlines in the country.

ZJ 1 was originally owned by the Managing Director of Lincoln and Nolan and I doubt it was ever a hearse?

carchaeologist · 07-03-2009 06:53PM

junkyard wrote: »

Sheerline, same colour, living in Kinsale Kevin, it used to be a hearse, reg. number ZJ 1.

Converted from a car to a hearse and back again?

carchaeologist · 07-03-2009 07:51PM

LIGHTNING wrote: »

You could say its back from the dead *gets coat*

*cough....*:p

junkyard · 07-03-2009 10:40PM

carchaeologist wrote: »

Converted from a car to a hearse and back again?

Exactly, it was a hearse alright Kevin, it was used to bury my grandfather in 1978 and sold on in 1982 and converted back to a car by Pat Gleasure in Tralee as far as I know. When it was sold it went with a rolling shell, possibly reshelled as it a car now not a lwb.

Kevin_Herron · 07-03-2009 11:24PM

Theres a name I havent heard of in a few years- Is Pat Gleasure still alive?
He was an undertaker and had a pub/grocery shop kinda thing aswell if I remember correctly?

I'd be of the opinion that maybe the registration plate ZJ 1 were on the hearse but not originally from the hearse?

junkyard · 07-03-2009 11:57PM

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

Theres a name I havent heard of in a few years- Is Pat Gleasure still alive?
He was an undertaker and had a pub/grocery shop kinda thing aswell if I remember correctly?

I'd be of the opinion that maybe the registration plate ZJ 1 were on the hearse but not originally from the hearse?

I don't know him personally but he's still alive as far as I know, I've only heard of him as an undertaker and hearse builder. ZJ 1 was parked up in a farmyard for many years and converted into a hearse by a friend of my fathers who was an undertaker in Cobh for many years, my Damler Majestic also belonged to the same undertaker. The Austin looked a lot nicer as a hearse than it does as a car, I only knew ZJ 1 as a hearse for years when I was a kid and thought it looked horrible as a car when I saw it converted back. Personally I would have kept it as a hearse, but then I love hearses.:)

Kevin_Herron · 08-03-2009 01:13AM

Obviously, I dont know the true story.
But I'd be thinking theres some sort of sculduggery going on with number plates.
Whatever about converting the car into a hearse, I really couldnt see somebody converting it back again years later?

mountain · 09-03-2009 12:41PM

Have seen this around clonakilty the past while, manged to get a quick photo on saturday..

2cv · 09-03-2009 12:48PM

mountain wrote: »

Have seen this around clonakilty the past while, manged to get a quick photo on saturday..

I've seen that one around a few times as well

L-M · 10-03-2009 09:25PM

Saw this big yoke today, anyone know what it is?

Big Nasty · 10-03-2009 09:36PM

Saw that in Wexford last weekend! Looks like a camper of some description?

L-M · 10-03-2009 09:47PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Saw that in Wexford last weekend! Looks like a camper of some description?

Aye, thought the same!

Bit OTT for a camper is it not?? :pac::p

corktina · 10-03-2009 10:04PM

I always like the Classic Trucks you tend to see at shows with a dummy load on the back that is really a camper style set up....this one ios cool yoke, it looks like the body has been adapted from something else...

Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

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