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Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    No pic,but a saw a big american Ford on an English K plate,bright yellow in colour down a backroad near Ballyvourney in cork earlier today,looked very similar to this LTD.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭trevorbrady


    no pic but saw ZV1455 Ford Consul up on a trailer passing through Laois yesterday, looked like it needed a good cleanup. Shame to go to all the trouble of importing a car and then letting it deteriorate like that :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭Blue850


    no pic but saw ZV1455 Ford Consul up on a trailer passing through Laois yesterday, looked like it needed a good cleanup. Shame to go to all the trouble of importing a car and then letting it deteriorate like that :(

    It was on donedeal last week, used to be owned by a lad near where I live, but he sold it years ago has he no storage and didn't want it to rot:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭voteforpedro


    been meaning to take a pic of this for ages. think its a daily driver

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭jimbobjones40


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    That's been parked there for YEARS!:eek:

    Know any more about it? ... other then it's been clapped by the council that is! :)
    Still looks in great condition. What's it like up close?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭neilthefunkeone


    Saw this in kylemore on Sunday.. Chevy Nova SS??

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    Also saw a lovely Astin DB5 on the M50 s/bound.. looked minty mint!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭neilthefunkeone


    MCMLXXV wrote: »

    Woops my bad.. wasnt too sure on it.. Guessed a nova..

    Looked well with the baby seat in it when i saw it!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 tricksy08


    she's mint


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭hamsterboy


    Spotted in Lubeck airport a few weeks back

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    Hope the heaters were still workin :)

    HB


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,555 ✭✭✭✭Marlow


    hamsterboy wrote: »
    Spotted in Lubeck airport a few weeks back

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    Hope the heaters were still workin :)

    HB

    You can be assured the heater still works. It's a danish registration. Quite a few of those still in existance in Denmark and people maintain them properly.

    Besides, Volvo Amazon's go forever :)

    /M


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    A couple I spotted today...

    This Citroen has been parked on North Wall for a while...

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    This P5 looked and sounded gorgeous...

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    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,784 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    I love the 'blind' to help the motor warm up a bit quicker !!
    Hermy wrote: »
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    Don't you just love those old style plates ? The pressed ones out now are just nasty, nasty, nasty.....
    Hermy wrote: »
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    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    galwaytt wrote: »
    I love the 'blind' to help the motor warm up a bit quicker !!
    I thought that might be what that 'thing' is for all right!:D

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,784 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    hi5 wrote: »
    This has been on donedeal for a while now,all you need is something to put it in:)

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/1070159

    My Dad has, or had, two of them left out in the garden.........and they were the 2.0 ones at that......

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,134 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Hermy wrote: »
    A couple I spotted today...

    This Citroen has been parked on North Wall for a while...

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    DSC00464_Medium.jpg

    This P5 looked and sounded gorgeous...

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    I worked out in the boonies afew years ago.......well the arshole of castle pollard. Any way the house where I was working had at least 10 of these sitting in a field, along with mercedes of all sorts , and the later Rovers that the british police used for police cars. they were in excellent order, most of them. And the owner picked them up for a pittance years ago when petrol rationing was the order of the day. lovely car tho


    kadman


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 2,913 Mod ✭✭✭✭macplaxton


    Hermy wrote: »
    I thought that might be what that 'thing' is for all right!:D

    Cannae beat wearing a muff in this cold weather.:D:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    Rover is gorgeous, never saw it before !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    kadman wrote: »
    I worked out in the boonies afew years ago.......well the arshole of castle pollard. Any way the house where I was working had at least 10 of these sitting in a field, along with mercedes of all sorts , and the later Rovers that the british police used for police cars. they were in excellent order, most of them. And the owner picked them up for a pittance years ago when petrol rationing was the order of the day. lovely car tho


    kadman

    Google Maps Link?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    galwaytt wrote: »
    I love the 'blind' to help the motor warm up a bit quicker !!

    Don't really understand the theory behind these, unless the thermostat is stuck open or non-existant :confused:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    Well it just stops the cold air cooling the rad/engine, and allows faster warm up.Obvious really .....no ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,923 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Don't really understand the theory behind these, unless the thermostat is stuck open or non-existant :confused:
    Pretty sure the CV has a boxer two cylinder air-cooled engine.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    esel wrote: »
    Pretty sure the CV has a boxer two cylinder air-cooled engine.
    Well it's a Dyane :), but yeah same engine and I forgot about that part.
    MercMad wrote: »
    Well it just stops the cold air cooling the rad/engine, and allows faster warm up.Obvious really .....no ?

    I've seen it done with water-cooled engines, which is what I don't understand - when the water's cold the thermostat will be closed so it will not be circulating through the radiator. As I said I can't see it making any significant difference unless the thermostat is stuck open or removed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,923 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    ^ In very cold climates, people sometimes do this to ensure that the engine can get to a good operating temperature, afaik.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    But does it really work? Placebo effect maybe? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭kasper


    the AA book of the car shows modifacions on how to fit a radiator blind for winter driving fitted behind the front grill and a radiator muff fitted outside the grill both seperate items


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭Lyre61


    But does it really work? Placebo effect maybe? :D

    Works really well, it holds the air in the engine bay and the engine and engine oil heat up quicker. Mind you works better with an original sheild :)

    The heads are just behind the fan, which is behind the grille. On 600 odd cc you need every help you can get. My wife had a lovely Yellow Dyane, don't see to many of them around any more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    I meant with water cooled engines. I see it can work with aircooled motors - I'm not denying that theory.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,134 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Google Maps Link?

    I,ll contact my old working buddies, and try and get the full contact details for you. When I was there, the cars he had were, Rover sdi, Rover p4,s,and p 5. Mercs of all types, jags, all big gas guzzlers. But they were in excellent order. If the owner went out one morning, and a car had a flat battery, he just started another one, and drove that until it gave up. And then he picked another one. I,d say at a guess there were at least 25 cars that were at the front of the house. And I believe that there were more around it.

    I,ll make some contacts, and any news I get, I,ll post back.

    kadman


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  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    A Chrysler Newport seemingly. The thing was enormous. Looks well. Spotted in Fermoy this morning.

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