Kevin Herron (mini test)

Blue850 · 05-10-2009 9:22pm #1

Do you know of an Aston Martin reg AI 9962, its showing on mywheels as taxed until June 2008.
I've a photo from motoring life from 1958 of the car being hill climbed by a Joe Flynn.
If I can get my old scanner to talk to this laptop I'll post up the photo tomorrow

edit, just found another photo of Joe Flynn from 1958, this time in a MGA reg KIK 887, showing taxed until Aug 09 on mywheels

Kevin_Herron · 05-10-2009 11:09pm

I do, its a black DB2 Vantage.
Lovely car, a tad rough around the edges.

Sold new by MacArtney-Filgate, Black Bull Motors.

carchaeologist · 05-10-2009 11:14pm

How many Aston Martins have ever been sold here new Kevin?Cant be that many?

Kevin_Herron · 05-10-2009 11:17pm

Maybe 25?
95% of Astons sold here new are now back in England.
There are only a handful of original Irish cars left.

carchaeologist · 05-10-2009 11:19pm

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

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There are only a handful of original Irish cars left.

Of which you have one or two?

DarenO · 07-10-2009 6:52pm

The Aston Martins i have listed are

CKI 437
540 ZJ
WZH 313
MYI 329
BAI 555
SZH 5
AI 9962
NZE 800

there's a DB4 GT on Dublin plates and for the life of me i cant remember it

By 1983 there were only 4 Aston Martin's registered in Ireland

Regards
Darren

carchaeologist · 07-10-2009 9:31pm

DarenO wrote: »

By 1983 there were only 4 Aston Martin's registered in Ireland

I was just going to post this..lol!

quattro777 · 07-10-2009 10:12pm

Interesting thread.
Is it possible to get the total numbers sold per year by all manufacturers for the last 30 or 40 years?

It is available for the UK in a 2 volume book called "Cars in the UK" by Graham Robson

Kevin_Herron · 08-10-2009 1:03am

CKI 437 is now a dark red DB5 living in England.
540 ZJ is an electric blue V8, originally Fuel injected, still living in Irl.
WZH 313 is now a green DB5 still living in Dublin.
MYI 329 Is a DB4- Wherabouts unknown??
BAI 555 is now a light blue DB4 living in Kildare.
SZH 5 is a sage green DB5 living in Dublin.
AI 9962 is a black DB2 living in Carlow.
NZE 800 is now a silver DB5 living in Wicklow.

there's a DB4 GT on Dublin plates and for the life of me i cant remember it
This car is now in England.

Fishtits · 09-10-2009 11:09pm

Can confirm that AI 9962 is alive and well. It's somewhat shabby but is regularly turned out for rallies as opposed to shows and its owner is enjoying it.

John Larkin · 20-04-2014 11:48am

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

there's a DB4 GT on Dublin plates and for the life of me i cant remember it
This car is now in England.

Is LZC 250 the DB4 GT?

Here are a few more Aston Martin registrations…
2090 IK, DB6 Volante
HRI 1, DB2 I think
KZO 777, DBS
KZD 900, DB5
OAI 697, DBS

Blue850 · 20-04-2014 3:15pm

Good time for a thread resurrection, found this in a 1976 Auto Ireland magazine I bought last week in Durrow

MercMad · 23-04-2014 10:31am

Someone told me over the weekend of a DB5 that was sat unused for years in a barn in Malahide, then sold for relatively low money some years back.

I know the area but never heard of this before..........anyone have info ?

68deville · 23-04-2014 5:43pm

I know of a db6 sitting in a shed for years alongside a merc 220 se coupe
In Wexford,in a state alright and on uk registration unfortunately

kev1.3s · 23-04-2014 9:27pm

And of course the famous greystones db5 half in a shed slowly rotting away.
Someone here had pictures.

Kevin_Herron · 23-04-2014 9:28pm

John Larkin wrote: »

Is LZC 250 the DB4 GT?

Here are a few more Aston Martin registrations…
2090 IK, DB6 Volante
HRI 1, DB2 I think
KZO 777, DBS
KZD 900, DB5
OAI 697, DBS

The DB4 GT was PZC300, it was owned new by Sir Basil Goulding of Goulding Fertilizers.

HRI 1 was a DB2, you can catch a glimpse of it in George Stuarts book 'The way we were' taken in Dunboyne '59.

KZO777 was a DBS owned new by well known Dr. DJ Lane O'Kelly.

KZD900 was actually a DB4 Vantage.

OAI 697 was a DBSV8 owned new by brothers Adrain & Nigel Lindsay-Finn.
They sent the car back to the factory in the '81 to have it cosmetically updated to the current spec so if you see the car today it appears as an early 80's V8 spec.

Kevin_Herron · 23-04-2014 9:31pm

Blue850 wrote: »

Good time for a thread resurrection, found this in a 1976 Auto Ireland magazine I bought last week in Durrow

Thats an excellent photo, I cant currently find my copy of Auto Ireland but I have that pic framed in the garage!

That car is still alive and well and living in Dublin.
It was originally Dubonnet Rosso, owned by Jackson, Stops & McCabe, the Auctioneers.
It is now California Sage green.

Mac 3 · 24-04-2014 3:54pm

Taken in 1991-1992. Shes had a make over..

w124man · 25-04-2014 10:08pm

Paulo Toullio in Annamoe, Co Wicklow had an Irish reg silver DB5 (used to be his fathers) which was water damaged by Hurricane Charlie and was badly 'restored'. It subsequently burst into flames outside his house when a servo vacuum pipe came adrift and sprayed petrol all over the engine !!

I suppose when you are advised to get these things fixed and dont, then you deserve what you get

Kevin_Herron · 26-04-2014 7:27pm

w124man wrote: »

Paulo Toullio in Annamoe, Co Wicklow had an Irish reg silver DB5 (used to be his fathers) which was water damaged by Hurricane Charlie and was badly 'restored'. It subsequently burst into flames outside his house when a servo vacuum pipe came adrift and sprayed petrol all over the engine !!

I suppose when you are advised to get these things fixed and dont, then you deserve what you get

Paolo Tullios Aston was a DB6, KIN510 was the reg.
The only Kerry registered Aston Martin.

I missed buying it by a whisker after it had been fire damaged.

The electric fuel pump on DB4, 5, 6 and S Astons is located beneath the carburetors, afaik a float stuck or burst and poured petrol over the pump and it caught fire.

carchaeologist · 27-04-2014 1:39am

Anyone know why it was Kerry registered?

Kevin_Herron · 28-04-2014 2:30pm

carchaeologist wrote: »

Anyone know why it was Kerry registered?

It was sold from Crawfords to Kelleher Motor Sales, Derry Street, Tralee.
It had lovely extras including a radio and power steering.

RS1700T · 20-05-2014 9:54am

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

Thats an excellent photo, I cant currently find my copy of Auto Ireland but I have that pic framed in the garage!

That car is still alive and well and living in Dublin.
It was originally Dubonnet Rosso, owned by Jackson, Stops & McCabe, the Auctioneers.
It is now California Sage green.

I was at school with the Mc Cabes son and got many lifts in this car , thier previous car was a Bentley , he went off to boarding school and we lost touch

RS1700T · 20-05-2014 9:57am

DarenO wrote: »

The Aston Martins i have listed are

CKI 437
540 ZJ
WZH 313
MYI 329
BAI 555
SZH 5
AI 9962
NZE 800

there's a DB4 GT on Dublin plates and for the life of me i cant remember it

By 1983 there were only 4 Aston Martin's registered in Ireland

Regards
Darren

DB 2 ZC 23325 Louis Carvill in the 50s

Sticky Fingers · 22-05-2014 7:05pm

My Grandfather, Desmond Egan had a DB5 from about 1966 - 1970. I've no idea of reg, but the car was silver. It's a long shot but does anyone know if it's still around ? I was talking to one of my aunts and she seems to remember someone crashed it in Killiney late one night. So it might be gone.

kev1.3s · 22-05-2014 9:15pm

Sticky Fingers wrote: »

My Grandfather, Desmond Egan had a DB5 from about 1966 - 1970. I've no idea of reg, but the car was silver. It's a long shot but does anyone know if it's still around ? I was talking to one of my aunts and she seems to remember someone crashed it in Killiney late one night. So it might be gone.

I remember a story about a db5 crashed around bray I think, but I taught that was the fabled greystones car.

alastair · 22-05-2014 11:31pm

kev1.3s wrote: »

I remember a story about a db5 crashed around bray I think, but I taught that was the fabled greystones car.

Not the same car, but the same owner.

kev1.3s · 22-05-2014 11:48pm

alastair wrote: »

Not the same car, but the same owner.

So would that be Desmond Egan's car then?

alastair · 23-05-2014 4:40pm

kev1.3s wrote: »

So would that be Desmond Egan's car then?

No idea. I just know that the owner of the Greystones car previously had another Aston, that was crashed onto a wall late one night in Dublin/N Wicklow area. Where he sourced either car - I don't know. The previous car would have been crashed, and the current one purchased, in the late 70's or early 80's.

Kevin_Herron · 23-05-2014 7:19pm

RS1700T wrote: »

I was at school with the Mc Cabes son and got many lifts in this car , thier previous car was a Bentley , he went off to boarding school and we lost touch

The Bentley they owned was AZC606 it was an S2.
It was sold afterwards to Eamon DeValeras Doctor, Brian Alton and it later ended up with Sean Kinsella of the Mirabeau Restaurant.

I'd love to know it the car still exists.

Kevin_Herron · 23-05-2014 7:21pm

RS1700T wrote: »

DB 2 ZC 23325 Louis Carvill in the 50s

Louis Carvills DB2 was ZO2625, he raced it very successfully in the 50's.

Kevin_Herron · 23-05-2014 7:22pm

alastair wrote: »

No idea. I just know that the owner of the Greystones car previously had another Aston, that was crashed onto a wall late one night in Dublin/N Wicklow area. Where he sourced either car - I don't know. The previous car would have been crashed, and the current one purchased, in the late 70's or early 80's.

As far as I know the car he crashed was a DB4 and he replaced it with the DB5.

dbuttireland · 26-06-2017 6:37pm

This car was purchased new by my father Mike Butt in Dublin Ireland in 1962/63

I know it was restored some years ago and is not a metallic green (original colour was metallic blue).The restoration citation mentioned my father being the owner and it was Irish owned at the time

I would appreciate if anyone can tell me the whereabouts of the car as I'd love to show it to my son who is car mad!

Many thanks

Kevin_Herron · 26-06-2017 10:45pm

dbuttireland wrote: »

This car was purchased new by my father Mike Butt in Dublin Ireland in 1962/63

I know it was restored some years ago and is not a metallic green (original colour was metallic blue).The restoration citation mentioned my father being the owner and it was Irish owned at the time

I would appreciate if anyone can tell me the whereabouts of the car as I'd love to show it to my son who is car mad!

Many thanks

Your Father had excellent taste in cars. He bought it in July '61.
As I recall, he traded in a Bristol for the Aston Martin.

It makes the odd public appearance, it was at the Festival of Transport show in May.

Kevin_Herron · 26-06-2017 10:47pm

Sticky Fingers wrote: »

My Grandfather, Desmond Egan had a DB5 from about 1966 - 1970. I've no idea of reg, but the car was silver. It's a long shot but does anyone know if it's still around ? I was talking to one of my aunts and she seems to remember someone crashed it in Killiney late one night. So it might be gone.

As this thread has been revived, some readers may still be interested.

I cannot say for certain that Desmond Egan did or didn't own a DB5 but he did own a DB6. It was registered PZO 1.
It is still alive and well now living in England.

Silvera · 27-06-2017 6:44pm

Interestingly, 'LZC 250' is listed on Cartell.ie as Make: 'Unknown', Model: 'Unknown'?

'PZO 1' is currently allocated to a Jaguar S-Type V6

68deville · 03-10-2017 2:07pm

Think I spotted a Bristol 406? Dark blue on Sunday on an old Galway plate
AIM *** would have been a serious motor in its day,anyone ever recall
This car?

Type 17 · 03-10-2017 7:59pm

dbuttireland wrote: »

This car was purchased new by my father Mike Butt in Dublin Ireland in 1962/63

I know it was restored some years ago and is not a metallic green (original colour was metallic blue).The restoration citation mentioned my father being the owner and it was Irish owned at the time

I would appreciate if anyone can tell me the whereabouts of the car as I'd love to show it to my son who is car mad!

Many thanks

I don't have current info about the car, but I took these shots in December 2007 at the Herbert Park Hotel in Ballsbridge, where the owner (a Dublin gentlemen in his 60's, but I didn't enquire as to his name, etc) said that it didn't come out much, but that he had brought it out that day for a children's charity event (there were other classics, and a few modern rally cars present as well).

It was at RDS show in 2013, by which time it was green.

Blue850 · 03-10-2017 10:22pm

68deville wrote: »

Think I spotted a Bristol 406? Dark blue on Sunday on an old Galway plate
AIM *** would have been a serious motor in its day,anyone ever recall
This car?

One of a pair once owned by the Goodbody family who ran the Connacht Court Laundry and Linen Supply Co.
One was based in Galway and the other in Dublin. The 2 cars were reunited at Terenure in 2016

alastair · 04-10-2017 4:27pm

68deville wrote: »

Think I spotted a Bristol 406? Dark blue on Sunday on an old Galway plate
AIM *** would have been a serious motor in its day,anyone ever recall
This car?

My da owned this in the early 80's, following a long spell in a breakers yard. Did a bit of restoration work on it, and sold it on after a few years. They were incredibly expensive when new - you could have picked up a few Aston DB's for the same outlay. Last of the 6 cylinder engined Bristols.

Kevin Herron (mini test)

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