Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

KTRIC · 11-10-2009 12:27PM

Here's about 200 pics I took last weekend in Grainau at the foot of the Zugspitze mountain in the German Alps. I came across this classic and vintage hill climb purely by accident when I took the road less traveled. But just happened to have my camera and tri-pod in my back pack.

How was that for a stroke of luck

http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b100/k-tric/Grainau/?albumview=slideshow

Hermy · 11-10-2009 02:46PM

Spotted in the Phoenix Park yesterday...:P

FunkyDa · 11-10-2009 04:53PM

Spotted in Puerto Del Carmen, last week.

jozi · 12-10-2009 09:33PM

Lovely black mk1 golf gti this morning on bolton st turning onto kingsinn st. Who ever it is, cars a credit to you, she looks perfect

jozi · 13-10-2009 12:24PM

jozi wrote: »

Lovely black mk1 golf gti this morning on bolton st turning onto kingsinn st. Who ever it is, cars a credit to you, she looks perfect

Same golf again this morning

jrar · 13-10-2009 04:16PM

macplaxton wrote: »

1937 Bentley 4¼ litre Four-Door Four-Light Sports Saloon with H.J. Mulliner body?

CLICK HERE for the details

About €54K.

As I say, it looked really good, but €54k ?........ouch !

B11gt00e · 13-10-2009 10:07PM

Hermy wrote: »

Spotted in the Phoenix Park yesterday...:P

Thanks Hermy....Great Photo... Never heard about any drive-through movie going on in the Park!!
... good timing with the photo, as its only about a minute away from the Charger going up in flames and McQueen buckling the 'stang through the gravel and into a ditch!!
... F*ckin' great flick with a great musical score being enhanced there by the sound of the growling V8's...

I remember a cool dune buggy in there somewhere and didn't McQueen's hottie girlfriend have a Carmen Ghia???

gfwd · 13-10-2009 10:43PM

I think the dune buggy scene was in the Thomas Crown Affair (the McQueen version).

Lauder · 13-10-2009 11:13PM

Yum;

Citroen Maserati SM on Molesworth Street this evening. Irish ZV plate.

dutchcat · 14-10-2009 12:26AM

B11gt00e wrote: »

Thanks Hermy....Great Photo... Never heard about any drive-through movie going on in the Park!!
... good timing with the photo, as its only about a minute away from the Charger going up in flames and McQueen buckling the 'stang through the gravel and into a ditch!!
... F*ckin' great flick with a great musical score being enhanced there by the sound of the growling V8's...

I remember a cool dune buggy in there somewhere and didn't McQueen's hottie girlfriend have a Carmen Ghia???

kind of,it was jacqueline bisset and a 356 porsche cabrio

hi5 · 14-10-2009 08:58AM

dutchcat wrote: »

kind of,it was jacqueline bisset and a 356 porsche cabrio

Wasnt McQueen driving a dune buggy in the 'Thomas Crown Affair' ,Corvair powered I think.

B11gt00e · 14-10-2009 06:25PM

dutchcat wrote: »

kind of,it was jacqueline bisset and a 356 porsche cabrio

Right-on dutchcat... I'll have to bite the bullitt on that faux pas... got my chassis' mixed up with the thought of Ms Bisset's chassis...

RobAMerc · 15-10-2009 02:10PM

Lads I didn't get a pic and I hate when people post on this thread without pics but I saw a minter RR Silver Shadow Coupe 70 WW XXXX - gold with cream or beige interior on the green today.

It was a fantastic looking I must say and looked immaculate, and such road presence.

I felt like laying my jacket over a puddle it was about to drive through.

Edit: da internet tells me it was actually a Mulliner Park Ward Coupe. Bit rare me thinks

mountain · 16-10-2009 05:37PM

Seen in clonakilty on sunday, looked in great nick, and looked kinda modern as well, didnt show its age in style.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Talbot_Matra_Rancho.jpg

Reg was 6329 ni, which shows up as a hillman hunter, any reason for that?

This is not the actual car that i saw, but similar so people will know what i am refering to,

corktina · 16-10-2009 06:42PM

the usual reason is due to the vehicle being a ringer..(.im not saying that this one is)

carchaeologist · 16-10-2009 09:02PM

corktina wrote: »

the usual reason is due to the vehicle being a ringer..(.im not saying that this one is)

But if you were to ring a car,surely you would ring like with like? A hunter is a far way from a rancho?Was it a kit car of some sort that you were mistaking it for?

mountain · 16-10-2009 09:16PM

carchaeologist wrote: »

But if you were to ring a car,surely you would ring like with like? A hunter is a far way from a rancho?Was it a kit car of some sort that you were mistaking it for?

No, it was a rancho, no doubt about that, and i assume from the number that its an original irish car as well.

carchaeologist · 16-10-2009 09:49PM

mountain wrote: »

No, it was a rancho, no doubt about that, and i assume from the number that its an original irish car as well.

Must be so,quite rare these days too in any form,there used to be a red one around tralee years ago.

G Luxel · 18-10-2009 12:54AM

Lauder wrote: »

Yum;

Citroen Maserati SM on Molesworth Street this evening. Irish ZV plate.

It looks like a US spec with the extra sidemarkers and rear square plate.

G Luxel · 18-10-2009 01:07AM

mountain wrote: »

No, it was a rancho, no doubt about that, and i assume from the number that its an original irish car as well.

I think that car you saw is a kit car, cos I did see something with a number like that years ago, white if i can recall, i think it was a Dutton. The Rancho is a variant of the Simca 1100 van.

corktina · 18-10-2009 04:21AM

ah yes that could be it

dutchcat · 18-10-2009 05:35PM

G Luxel wrote: »

I think that car you saw is a kit car, cos I did see something with a number like that years ago, white if i can recall, i think it was a Dutton. The Rancho is a variant of the Simca 1100 van.

this is what it was i'd say a GRS TORA,there is one for sale somwhere in the west hillman hunter based.

mountain · 18-10-2009 08:37PM

dutchcat wrote: »

this is what it was i'd say a GRS TORA,there is one for sale somwhere in the west hillman hunter based.

sorry, but thats not it, i will ask around the west cork club, and get more details, i cant imagine anyone going to the trouble of making a kit car like this, it was perfect, and was a rancho.....(im going to stamp my feet next!!!!)

Lyre61 · 18-10-2009 10:21PM

G Luxel wrote: »

Lauder wrote: »

Yum;

Citroen Maserati SM on Molesworth Street this evening. Irish ZV plate.

It looks like a US spec with the extra sidemarkers and rear square plate.

Yup it is. I bought it in Chicago a few years ago.

manta mad · 18-10-2009 10:30PM

seen today at the garda club rally in baltinglass

DaveCol · 20-10-2009 10:52PM

I often see this Merc around the Dun Laoghaire area and managed to get a photo at the weekend

Hermy · 21-10-2009 12:37AM

Sorry about the quality - passed this in Baldoyle at the weekend.

Also saw this Porsche in Airside the previous day.

carchaeologist · 21-10-2009 09:14PM

I was in Nijmegen in holland at the weekend,theres always interesting cars driving around the place,seems to be at least one older car in most streets and carparks and lots of elderly american stuff driving around also.Main problem was getting the camera out quickly enough to shoot stuff driving past.
Heres a sample of older cars i saw in the space of an hour just walking around on sunday.

jozi · 21-10-2009 10:08PM

There used to be a guy near where I lived that always had at least 3-5 big American yokes outside his house. Think he was a American car importer at night and a cheese man by day

junkyard · 22-10-2009 09:04PM

Here are a few I came across lately..........

Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

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