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Shamrock car

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,558 ✭✭✭Blue850


    I found a letter in a 1972 Motoring Life from a Mrs Farrell, in Bilboa Co Carlow who had a lhd Shamrock reg AZH 394.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Blue850 wrote: »
    I found a letter in a 1972 Motoring Life from a Mrs Farrell, in Bilboa Co Carlow who had a lhd Shamrock reg AZH 394.
    Nice detective work!Thats a 1964 Dublin number,wonder why its LHD?Have you a scan of the letter?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    wasn't this car featured on that (awful Irish) Drive programme?

    Yep. Had the video of it, but threw it out unfortunately.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Well, you could consider the DeLorean as been Irish. Well, sort off....


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Max_Damage wrote: »
    Well, you could consider the DeLorean as been Irish. Well, sort off....
    And the Titanic....hmm..bit of a trend here i think..:pac:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    Ive a magazine, think its Motoring Life from a few years back and it shows a Shamrock being driven on a St Patricks day Parade in Dublin in the 1960s.

    There is also a book on the Irish Motor Industry, published in the 1980s, I dont know the name of it but it has a De Lorean on the cover and there is 2 pages on Shamrock, including 2 pictures taken in the 60s.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Well, the DeLorean and Shamrock were probably the only two 'proper' Irish manufacturers out there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    G Luxel wrote: »
    .
    There is also a book on the Irish Motor Industry, published in the 1980s, I dont know the name of it but it has a De Lorean on the cover and there is 2 pages on Shamrock, including 2 pictures taken in the 60s.
    Is that called Wheels and Deals by John o Donovan?I just took that out now and it has a piece on page 40 about the shamrock indeed.Only a few lines though.No new info other than what has been posted already.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭overdriver


    The white convertible's quite pretty in a 50's USA way.


  • Registered Users Posts: 22 RS1700T


    I recall seeing a white one on display at the RDS Horse Show (I thought the the engine BMC was very small for such a large car) , threr was a blue one around Dublin in the late 70s IIRC.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭DarenO


    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/105221/76933.JPG

    Here's the two that i've seen, we could start a register as it wouldn't take long to find the history of ten cars :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    DarenO wrote: »
    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/105221/76933.JPG

    Here's the two that i've seen, we could start a register as it wouldn't take long to find the history of ten cars :)

    The Shamrock on the below picture is quite old, judging by the tax and insurance disc in the window of it (1995 by the looks of it).

    Wonder where it is now?

    The reg. on the above one in the picture isn't on Cartell.


  • Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭Ballykine43


    I remember a Shamrock that was in Dublin when I was a student in the early 60s. Light green and parked in Rathgar near the Orwell Road junction. Chassis was wooden. Looks hideous now but then it sat with another American styled car, with fin tails etc and was of its time.

    Chambers: see http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article.aspx?art_id=2729. And I have been invited to the homecoming/relaunch of another one late August. 1929 saloon, and the owner, (whose name is Chambers), has had a trailer specially built as he wants to display it in Dublin and other venues in the South. Don't know where or when but I'll pass the info when I get it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    Is that called Wheels and Deals by John o Donovan?I just took that out now and it has a piece on page 40 about the shamrock indeed.Only a few lines though.No new info other than what has been posted already.

    Trying to think, as i dont have the book myself, but it has a delorean on the cover with open doors I think, and there is also a chapter on the bubble car made by Shorts in Northern Ireland called the Noble. There should be 2 pages on the Shamrock with two pictures, one of the rear and another of the side view but its a long time since I saw the book.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    G Luxel wrote: »
    Trying to think, as i dont have the book myself, but it has a delorean on the cover with open doors I think, and there is also a chapter on the bubble car made by Shorts in Northern Ireland called the Noble. There should be 2 pages on the Shamrock with two pictures, one of the rear and another of the side view but its a long time since I saw the book.
    Its not the same book so i think.


  • Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭Ballykine43


    Chambers Car last of its line manufactured 1929.
    I promised to update on the relaunch. Pagoda supplied the photo https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/92735/84247.JPG from the Killarney motor museam some time ago. The car is now back in ownership of the Chambers family in the family home and has been MOTd. Unfortunately a leaking radiator has had to be sent for a rebuild. This is how it is as of today.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Apologies to root out an older thread,but this video clip is appropriate to it.
    http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=68702

    Ignore the first 37sec :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    About 40 seconds into this 1961 Spring Show clip shows a promotion for the Snamrock car.

    http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=68702


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭I Was VB


    About 40 seconds into this 1961 Spring Show clip shows a promotion for the Snamrock car.

    http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=68702


    10 seconds of car, 70 seconds of a early foot fetish porno


    *fap fap fap*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    I Was VB wrote: »
    10 seconds of car, 70 seconds of a early foot fetish porno


    *fap fap fap*
    They are all grannies now. :p


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭I Was VB


    They are all grannies now. :p


    The older the drum.......


  • Registered Users Posts: 42 fpm


    I'm from near 'Blaney, and you're right about them being put into the lake, my dad remembers seeing half-finished cars and parts being pushed into the lake/marsh behind where the plant was.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist




  • Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    ShamrockCar.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭dutchcat


    fpm wrote: »
    I'm from near 'Blaney, and you're right about them being put into the lake, my dad remembers seeing half-finished cars and parts being pushed into the lake/marsh behind where the plant was.
    They should have pushed the finished one's in too


  • Registered Users Posts: 64,548 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    carchaeologist beat you to it, Run_to_da_hills

    Merged into one big Shamrock car mega thread!


  • Registered Users Posts: 493 ✭✭68deville


    was it true that you had to drop the rear axle in order to change the wheel???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    68deville wrote: »
    was it true that you had to drop the rear axle in order to change the wheel???
    Thats what it says, Wiki dose not tell lies. ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,558 ✭✭✭Blue850


    Holy thread resurresction Batman but a letter in this month's Irish Vintage Scene about Shamrocks has me rooting round the 'net and...
    Wiki says only 1 Shamrock in the USA...

    Harbor City, California
    GreenShamrockcar.jpg

    Seattle
    ShamrockSeattle3.jpg

    and the guy with the green one has another non runner

    but wait it gets better

    Shamrock sales brochure:D



    ShamrockBrochure1.jpg

    ShamrockBrochure2.jpg

    ShamrockBrochure3.jpg

    ShamrockBrochure4.jpg


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    ^Tom Heavey will explode with excitement at the sight of that Brochure!


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