Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

johnos1984 · 08-02-2011 08:36PM

si_guru wrote: »

Unless someone can correct me, and I don't mind that.. that Mini is not a Cooper (fixed rear windows suggest it's a Sprite) and it's a 92 model at the latest (bonnet release in grill).

Its a Jap import unless that would make a difference

Max_Damage · 08-02-2011 08:37PM

antodeco wrote: »

Where was the mini?

Walkinstown.

Hermy · 09-02-2011 09:23PM

Two recent ones...

Also spotted 300D Merc reg 828 SZJ or something similar in Ranelagh.

Max_Damage · 09-02-2011 09:27PM

^ I assume you saw that Saab near Churchtown in Rathfarnham?

Hermy · 09-02-2011 09:35PM

You assume correctly.

mountain · 09-02-2011 09:55PM

Nice volvo estate...

mountain · 09-02-2011 10:11PM

Well looked after MG in Cork last week.

Tommyboy40 · 16-02-2011 02:13PM

My first car was one of these

carchaeologist · 16-02-2011 05:38PM

Not so much a classic car as much as a classic box. Part of a shed roof today.

Max_Damage · 16-02-2011 06:01PM

Earlier today in Tallaght:

shagman · 16-02-2011 06:37PM

carchaeologist wrote: »

Not so much a classic car as much as a classic box. Part of a shed roof today.

Love it ! Apparently it was very common practice for CKD crates to become sheds, this one must have been weatherproofed better than most!

carchaeologist · 16-02-2011 06:50PM

shagman wrote: »

Love it ! Apparently it was very common practice for CKD crates to become sheds, this one must have been weatherproofed better than most!

Yep, the owner of the house worked in a Datsun dealers in Kerry back in the day and got the packing crates for free, i was sorely tempted to cut that section out with my stanley knife..
He got a great kick out of the fact i still have some Dattys.

Ali Babba · 16-02-2011 08:13PM

shagman wrote: »

Love it ! Apparently it was very common practice for CKD crates to become sheds, this one must have been weatherproofed better than most!

Looks like the crates lasted longer than most of the cars.....

carchaeologist · 16-02-2011 08:23PM

Ali Babba wrote: »

Looks like the crates lasted longer than most of the cars.....

Absolutley!!!:D

Ali Babba · 16-02-2011 08:33PM

Maybe Nissan should consider branching into timber products anyway when you look at the sh!te they're churning out these days too.:D

carchaeologist · 16-02-2011 09:47PM

Ali Babba wrote: »

Maybe Nissan should consider branching into timber products anyway when you look at the sh!te they're churning out these days too.:D

The wooden car with wooden wheels that wood'n go?:D
Could be worse, could buy a Renault!

Max_Damage · 16-02-2011 10:07PM

carchaeologist wrote: »

The wooden car with wooden wheels that wood'n go?:D
Could be worse, could buy a Renault!

Not much difference nowadays given Renault own Nissan.

carchaeologist · 16-02-2011 10:46PM

Max_Damage wrote: »

Not much difference nowadays given Renault own Nissan.

Everything is the same nowadays isn't it. :rolleyes:

Max_Damage · 16-02-2011 10:47PM

carchaeologist wrote: »

Everything is the same nowadays isn't it. :rolleyes:

Indeed.

longshanks · 16-02-2011 11:25PM

It wasn't today i saw this, it was a few of months back

Kevin_Herron · 16-02-2011 11:49PM

longshanks wrote: »

It wasn't today i saw this, it was a few of months back

1750 6C. Proper car.

68deville · 17-02-2011 12:10AM

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

1750 6C. Proper car.

stunning machine,a friend of mine had a landlord who owns an 8C
zagato,250 california spyder and a Type 35!

Dades · 17-02-2011 11:38AM

One from last week - always liked these:

And a campo from last night (orig Irish I think) with a bill to pay. :pac:

shagman · 17-02-2011 08:49PM

And in the morning there's a hardware across the road that sell boltcutters I'm sure.

mb1725 · 17-02-2011 09:23PM

and if there's no reg plate on the back as well they might 'forget' where they left the clamp!:D

Ali Babba · 18-02-2011 12:16AM

mb1725 wrote: »

and if there's no reg plate on the back as well they might 'forget' where they left the clamp!:D

You can see the front number plate just on the front bumper there if you look......

Mahatma coat · 18-02-2011 06:30AM

carchaeologist wrote: »

The wooden car with wooden wheels that wood'n go?:D
Could be worse, could buy a Renault!

The doors of my Grandads Machinery Shed were made from renault packing crates, I'm fairly sure they are still the same doors since the late seventies, altho some sheet metal went over them in the 90's

jordan1976 · 18-02-2011 12:56PM

Bought this for my dad at christmas (as his previous 1990 orion was stolen & burned out:mad:) it has 78,000miles but it was in a kinda sorry state when we picked it up, we done the clutch, front brakes, rear shoes, cylinders & pipes, rear bushings, full service parts, new goodyear tyres, fuel pump.....its pretty good mechanically now, need to get a few small dings & scrapes sorted now to have it looking good, here's a pic & one of it parked beside my 325 cab