Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

spotted these 2 in baltinglass yesterday





Garda club rally was on ,anybody any more piccies of it ?

Saw these in Berlin a couple of weeks ago.

Satandard Vanguard, late 40's-early 50's model.



Merc L319 still used daily by a drinks company. The grandaddy of the Sprinter its bullet proof reputation cemented Mercedes place in the 3.5t van market.



Volvo P1800ES




And something very rare, a Crayford bodied W116 estate. They only built 80, and just 15 of them were based like this on the 450SEL platform. No idea how many survive. Nicely done, and an elegant solution to the lack of an estate in the Merc line up. I'm not so sure what ye think of it on the photos but in real life it looks very good, I liked it a lot.






Btw the rear roof is taken from a .



Berlin still has loads of 80's and a good few 70's cars as daily drivers in all sorts of condition. What we consider to be rare and classic is barely noticed over there. This despit the fact that the second hand car market has boomed there for two decades after the fall of the iron Curtain.

manta mad wrote: »

spotted these 2 in baltinglass yesterday





Garda club rally was on ,anybody any more piccies of it ?

alot of the cars passed my house in the morning...i think it was the west wicklow vintage club rally....the 1300e is for sale if its the one from the town...advert is on donedeal for €6k....pretty rare car

I was at Rockbrook Classic and Vintage car show, there was a right mix of cars from all years, I put this slide show together and just to many to post each one.

Few photos from the Breffni Vintage Club Memorial Run that was held last Sunday:









The rest are in my Pix.ie album here: http://pix.ie/cian1500ww/album/411660

MCMLXXV wrote: »

The field looks fairly empty there oki - about how many were there?

Hi MCMLXXV, Most of the photos were taken early enough but saying that its was a poor turn out of cars. I think it clashed with other events on the 29th. I think every car is in the slide show, not many but a high standard and some very interesting vehicles etc.

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Yeah, I'm only down the road and would have gone myself but it clashed with another event. This could be a nice show if they made the effort to advertise it a little better. Did they charge exhibitors?

Only a few minutes from it myself, yes it was 10 euro in and all went to charity.. Dont think they raised much also only one auto jumbler..

Have to agree with MCMLXXV they could have advertised this one better - link to a flyer or website. Looks like it has the potential to be a good show doesn't it OKI Dokie? Thanks for the epic Youtube as well, is the director's cut comming soon?
:P

It was a very, very nice event I must say.

bijapos wrote: »

College Green today. Nice patina on it, looks like a daily driver. If there were no tourists and no other cars there it would have made a classy photo.

Beautiful car. My parents had one of them when I was younger. Would love to get my hands on one nowadays.

Saw this couple of minutes ago in Cork. (just across the College of Commerce)

Saw this yesterday, apparently it's going to be fitted with a turbocharged V12, with 700 brake if im to believe what I was told. Car is a '64 with a petrol 6cyl.

Esel wrote: »

^ M-B, yeah?

Yep. Forgot to add that bit.

carchaeologist wrote: »

This comes up as a Cortina 1300, must use cortina running gear? Strange looking car!

and a mini body. furkin hate them beaufords and the fact that soooo many people hire them as "vintage" wedding cars. They're just so unbelievably $h!t...