Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

Redrocket · 25-10-2011 09:38PM

Top Dog wrote: »

Love the way its just casually parked up in the street, hood down .... and satnav stuck to the windscreen for anyone who notices it to swipe! :eek:

quite normal in Germany, also notice how the rest of the cars are German

Top Dog · 25-10-2011 11:12PM

Redrocket wrote: »

quite normal in Germany, also notice how the rest of the cars are German

I know the Germans are an extremely disiplined people ... but is there really zero opportunistic thefts there?

Marlow · 26-10-2011 12:13AM

carchaeologist wrote: »

Heres a local Nissan Patrol, its been knocking around for years.

They are bullet proof. You have to give them that.

carchaeologist wrote: »

Tidy 244DL in Wilton today.

Tidy. Looks like it rolled out of the factory yesterday.

Top Dog wrote: »

I know the Germans are an extremely disiplined people ... but is there really zero opportunistic thefts there?

Depends on the area. In general a lot less than here for sure. Simply because a bypasser actually would care and do something about it, if they saw somebody trying something. Also sat-navs and car-radios don't really fetch any money when you nick them. They're too cheap these days.

/M

Marlow · 26-10-2011 12:21AM

ScabbyLeg wrote: »

Two from last weekend, both in mint condition. The BMW is for sale... the asking price in the window is 18,900 Euro.

Well, 2nd hand car prices on the continent are a lot higher than over here. And that BMW is fairly rare. I don't think the owner will have much trouble getting the asking price.

/M

VolvoMan · 26-10-2011 01:15AM

Marlow wrote: »

Well, 2nd hand car prices on the continent are a lot higher than over here. And that BMW is fairly rare. I don't think the owner will have much trouble getting the asking price.

If you ask me, second hand cars are priced at what they should be on the continent.

It is ludicrous how little some cars are worth both here and in the UK.

Marlow · 26-10-2011 01:18AM

VolvoMan wrote: »

If you ask me, second hand cars are priced at what they should be on the continent.

It is ludicrous how little some cars are worth both here and in the UK.

I know that and you know that.

But then car enthusiasts (any kind) are just aged (or non-aged) boy racers in average joe's eyes and everybody should be driving a Jetta, a Passat T diddly eye or a Skoda Octavia. And the only thing that counts is the year on the registration.

Don't mind my ramblings.

There is a reason, that some of the sought after performance and classic cars are sold back to the UK, as they fetch more money there. And that's even though VRT was paid here and can't be recovered.

/M

Do-more · 28-10-2011 08:39AM

Top Dog wrote: »

I know the Germans are an extremely disiplined people ... but is there really zero opportunistic thefts there?

Well about 3 years back, my German registered hire car was parked outside a public park in a town south of Frankfurt with the sat nav under the seat when some low-life smashed the driver's window and robbed it and some prescription sunglasses that were in the centre console, 1½ hours before we were due to head back to the airport. :mad:

bijapos · 28-10-2011 11:13AM

Top Dog wrote: »

I know the Germans are an extremely disiplined people ... but is there really zero opportunistic thefts there?

Theres plenty of it, though a lot less than here. The other thing is that in Germany the cops make an effort to find out who did it, and the perpetrators tend to get punished rather than a ticking off.

Example: I was on Abbey St and there were three gurriers walking down the street with a bolt cutters in their hand, looking at bikes. Its a notorious area for bike theft. A squad car cruised down, I stopped them and told them what was up. They said "we know those lads anyway" and drove off. In Germany they would have been arrested. Big difference.

In Germany if you grab a thief/vandal you will be praised, here unless you do it 110% according to the book you run a high risk of being sued for assault/false imprisonment etc, so people are less likely to get involved.

My biggest worry about leaving an open cabrio in the street here is people throwing rubbish into it and spitting into it, it doesn't matter if the area is working or middle class, it would happen in both. In Germany, where I lived for 5 years I would have no worries about leaving a roof down.

rant over......

hi5 · 28-10-2011 03:06PM

bijapos wrote: »

My biggest worry about leaving an open cabrio in the street here is people throwing rubbish into it and spitting into it, it doesn't matter if the area is working or middle class, it would happen in both. In Germany, where I lived for 5 years I would have no worries about leaving a roof down.

It happened to me,the one time I left a Mazda MX5 with the roof down on a street in Kilkenny,ran into the supermarket for about 10 minutes,came out to find someone had smashed an egg off the dash and inside the windscreen.
Being a warm evening the egg had dried on:mad:
I had a 73 sl in london always left the roof down ,never an incident in years.

Redrocket · 28-10-2011 04:23PM

the emerald isle

SilverBullet · 28-10-2011 04:34PM

Saw a Porsche 911 looked to be a 90s model but reg was WZO ***, can a newer body be put on an older chassis??? Didn't get a pic of it

S Line · 28-10-2011 04:38PM

Not trying to be a clever clogs but 911 dont have a seperate chassis. The thing with all air-cooled 911's is it easy to fit late model wings lights bumers etc. to an older bodyshell as they made very few changes to them over the years

Blue850 · 30-10-2011 05:30PM

At the Autojumble in Tougher's Naas today

Blue850 · 30-10-2011 05:30PM

rugbyman · 31-10-2011 08:53PM

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green one may be a ford

red fire engine thingy

old pick up

had taken notes , now forgotten, someone will know

Regards Rugbyman

rugbyman · 31-10-2011 08:57PM

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another view of pick up

Rugbyman

Blue850 · 31-10-2011 11:11PM

rugbyman wrote: »

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another view of pick up

Rugbyman

Can't open the other attachments, but the grey truck is a Citroen B15 from the late 1920s

Dades · 01-11-2011 12:27PM

Blue850 wrote: »

At the Autojumble in Tougher's Naas today

Very nice!

Would prefer to see a nice set of cromadoras on it though.

Thinkingaboutit · 01-11-2011 06:07PM

mike65 wrote: »

Is this a Humber?

Took this today in Killeagh east Cork.

Mike.

Wolseley 16-60
I have one

hi5 · 01-11-2011 07:22PM

I can see where hes coming from with the MM number plate,but he should have an i instead of the 1 to keep some sort of legality.
Can the garda cameras distinquish between i and 1 given that there is no i in the current registration formats?

bonzodog2 · 03-11-2011 07:44PM

Blue850 wrote: »

I used to own one of these in Wales in 1989, it was a 1967 one

ianofitz · 03-11-2011 08:06PM

hi5 wrote: »

I can see where hes coming from with the MM number plate,but he should have an i instead of the 1 to keep some sort of legality.
Can the garda cameras distinquish between i and 1 given that there is no i in the current registration formats?

yeah, im pretty sure the garda cameras have been upgraded.

Albion · 04-11-2011 10:28PM

I saw a beautiful speciment of a classic car to day, it was an 1929 Austin Six. It was green with black top, it had an old trunk on the back carrier.I had a brief chat with the old gentleman and lady owners, location.. Arklow.

DaveCol · 05-11-2011 01:12AM

Tesco Ballybrack again, nice Rover P5B this time

RobAMerc · 05-11-2011 10:17PM

not today but two weeks back in fact, I saw this on Sussex ( so I presume it belongs to a friend of Dermot Wallace.

sorry about the quality of the pics

Do-more · 06-11-2011 01:11PM

Sorry the pic of the PV is out of focus.

It was the "Prancing Elk" sticker which took my fancy in any case.

Diabhalta · 07-11-2011 11:19AM

Carrigrohane Rd., Cork.

Diabhalta · 07-11-2011 11:21AM

Riverstick, Cork co.

Diabhalta · 07-11-2011 11:34AM

This is shot about a month ago or so (same place where the RR pictures were taken)... RR pictures are 2 days old, which means that those two Jags are gone now (you can see white van on their place) ... owner was chatting with somebody, so I didn't wanted to bother him...

Diabhalta · 07-11-2011 11:36AM

Found in archive.. shot about 2 months ago.. (edit: Crosshaven, Cork)

Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

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