Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

Slidey wrote: »

Some great pics there.

Good on ya for taking the time to put them up.

No bother, there was a great turnout for the day and great weather for it too.

h3000 wrote: »

No bother, there was a great turnout for the day and great weather for it too.

Great pics, well done!

Good few cars there I've seen before. That blue Celica is savage and has a V8 dropped in to it IIRC. The burgundy T/A was for sale for about a year in Monaghans Galway for 25k!

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Next time one of these gigs are on will you tell us so we can go!

That was in Mildenhall,i wasnt there though. Think Nutts corner are doing a Herses and Limo meet soon. Theres stuff in Rosegreen too,but mainly Mondeos and the like. Theres Pre '70, Pre '75 and pre '68 Meets in england every year in various tracks.

shagman wrote: »

This reminds the Irish made Swan car that scatters peasants with jets of steam?

Haha, never heard of the like, care to elaborate ??

cian1500ww wrote: »

Haha, never heard of the like, care to elaborate ??

Sorry not Irish built, I think I must have mixed it up with The Shamrock as both feature in a book I have on wacky/crappy cars.

http://www.louwmanmuseum.nl/asp/appmain.asp?appactie=collectiedetail&taalcd=en&collsq=5395












1910 | Brooke
25/30-HP SWAN CAR

Perhaps the most extraordinary car ever to take to the road, the 1910 Brooke Swan Car was the brainchild of Robert Nicholl “Scotty” Matthewson, a wealthy and eccentric resident of Calcutta, then the capital of British India. Determined to eclipse the extravagant automobiles of the local potentates, Matthewson - “a millionaire many times over” - travelled to England in 1909 to commission J.W. Brooke & Company of Lowestoft, Suffolk to build him a car in the shape of a swan. The car reputedly cost the fantastic sum of £10-15,000 - as much as six new Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts! Its body was hand-carved from wood and patched with plaster by a master craftsman to create the effect of feathers. Electric bulbs made the swan’s amber eyes glow eerily in the dark. The rear part of Scotty’s car was decorated with a carved pattern of lotus plants and fishes picked out in gold and silver leaf. It incorporated many curious gadgets calculated to annoy and exasperate other road users, like a multi-note Gabriel Horn - a sort of pipe organ driven from the exhaust - with a keyboard in the rear of the car to enable Scotty to play chords and bugle calls. An outlet in the swan’s beak sprayed scalding water in a wide arc to clear a passage through the City’s crowded streets. A dump valve inside the car dropped splats of whitewash onto the road from the Swan’s rear end “just to make it more lifelike”. Rediscovered many years later in its poor but original condition and its cloth-of-gold upholstery eaten by rats, the Swan Car has undergone a complete rebuild since it came into the ownership of the Louwman Collection in 1991. Once again, all of Scotty Matthewson’s practical jokes - the multi-note Gabriel Horn, the hot-water squirt, the whitewash dropper - are in working order! Following its restoration, in 1993 the Swan Car was awarded the Montagu Prize at Pebble Beach, America’s top Concours d’Elegance.

Let the battle commence, snake versus swan...

ive seen a few of them on the interweb before, surely more than 2 made!

Really nice pics.The mods on this good Capri are a good example of what not to do to your car though








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Took this pic in Kells about a month ago. The car is spotless, but the mobile pics don't do it justice...

Its not mine, it and the R5 belong to two lads near where I work, they haven't been on the road in 3 or 4 years

is that the r12 that was in a feature on an irish vintage mag , is it automatic ?

carchaeologist wrote: »

Thats her,lovely car,must be the best left?

Yes, lovely car and amazing paint job. I posted the R18 picture as well- sorry for the quality, but if anyone else knows that car is just as well looking as the R12. There is a guy in Kells with a few cool classics including a '69 Lamborghini, but couldn't get any pics yet...

Pdfile wrote: »

we're in the name of the crying babie jesus did you ge that ?!

i have seen some rare cars but that takes the biscuit!

seen a tidy 1.0 turbo the other day for 1600 on the web needing only " minor "

sickened i didn't go for it.

anyways, tidy motor keep us up-to-date.

Nice though i hope your never in a hurry to get parts for it if it 1 of only 2 built

A few bits and pieces from this weekend.

MGB Roadster


MG TD


Citroen DS


absolutely mint Austin Seven

LIGHTNING wrote: »

the great Walter Rohrl driving a quattro.

He's also always good for a quote

Im Prinzip bist Du bei dem Auto mit dem Denken schon zu langsam

Basically, if you're thinking, you're already too slow for this car (about the Audi quattro S1)

Die wirklich guten Fahrer haben die Fliegen auf den Seitenscheiben

Really good drivers have the flies on the side windows

Autofahren beginnt für mich dort, wo ich den Wagen mit dem Gaspedal
statt dem Lenkrad steuere. Alles andere heißt nur die Arbeit machen.

For me, driving starts where I steer the car with the accelerator instead of the steering wheel ...anything else is just labour

Beschleunigung ist, wenn die Tränen der Ergriffenheit
waagrecht zum Ohr hin abfliessen

Acceleration is ...when your deeply emotional tears run off horizontally towards the ears

Wennst den Baum siehst, in den du rein fährst, hast untersteuern.
Wennst ihn nur hörst, hast übersteuern

If you can see the tree that your just hitting, then you've got understeer. If you only hear it, then it's oversteer