Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

Capri · 19-09-2012 09:27PM

Lot of 205GTI's surfacing again around the place:)

si_guru · 19-09-2012 09:30PM

manta mad wrote: »

spotted this in clifden a few weeks ago !

I think I saw this in Kerry last month - it's pretty distintive.

Capri · 20-09-2012 06:28AM

Simca Aronde Oceane - pretty rare ! :eek:

http://www.pbase.com/image/126100426

Liked the 50's earlier ones better :cool:

http://carpictures.cc/cars/photo/car_picture/15426/2-door_simca_aronde_90a_maroon_roof

http://simcafacel.levillage.org/article.php3?id_article=338

Capri · 20-09-2012 06:35AM

Capri wrote: »

Mattroche - see these ? http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3915624
Handy to have a spare or 4

Another 'full Irish' - being sold by a restorer/garage so ... too many projects / BER ???

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3925338

Kenny Logins · 20-09-2012 09:18AM

Capri wrote: »

Another 'full Irish' - being sold by a restorer/garage so ... too many projects / BER ???

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3925338

Isn't that an '86 reg?

hi5 · 20-09-2012 01:07PM

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Isn't that an '86 reg?

It was probably imported secondhand in '86.

Sticky Fingers · 20-09-2012 02:12PM

I thought I would post this photo of my Great Great Grandfather's Delage. I reckon the photo was taken c.1912. Very very rare cars now.

Capri · 20-09-2012 04:49PM

hi5 wrote: »

It was probably imported secondhand in '86.

A lot of Mercs were being imported then - notwithstanding salty undersides ?? :eek:

Do-more · 20-09-2012 05:10PM

'78 504, 325,000kms on the clock when last tested a year ago, wearing very well!

Capri · 20-09-2012 10:37PM

Do-more wrote: »

'78 504, 325,000kms on the clock when last tested a year ago, wearing very well!

Another 'Swedish/Nordic' question Do-more,
How come cars up there don't seem to suffer the UK rust problems ?
Salt not used on the roads or cars regularily steam cleaned underneath ???

Kevin_Herron · 21-09-2012 01:07AM

Sticky Fingers wrote: »

I thought I would post this photo of my Great Great Grandfather's Delage. I reckon the photo was taken c.1912. Very very rare cars now.

Is that car Z275?

My Grandfather was a massive Delage enthusiast.

There were several sold here new.

Sticky Fingers · 21-09-2012 08:22AM

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

Is that car Z275?

My Grandfather was a massive Delage enthusiast.

There were several sold here new.

Yeah, that's the one. I did post a photo before but it was a front view only. I think the car is later than 1912, probably 1920s ? I have been trying to trace it through Delage World but so far, no luck. No surprise really, it's over 90 years ago.

bijapos · 21-09-2012 09:09AM

Sticky Fingers wrote: »

I thought I would post this photo of my Great Great Grandfather's Delage. I reckon the photo was taken c.1912. Very very rare cars now.

Not too good on these but it looks like a Delage DI which means it was built after 1925. Lovely car , wonder what happened to it. .

Do-more · 21-09-2012 02:51PM

Capri wrote: »

Another 'Swedish/Nordic' question Do-more,
How come cars up there don't seem to suffer the UK rust problems ?
Salt not used on the roads or cars regularily steam cleaned underneath ???

No they don't use much salt here, primarily for environmental reasons I am told. But also bear in mind that between Nov 1st and April 1st. if there are "winter driving conditions" you are not allowed use your car if it doesn't have winter tyres fitted, further north most use studded winter tyres. Also due to the lower humidity we don't have icy roads that often, it is more snow and they don't attempt to fully clear the roads, they plough it to a hard crust and then spread grit to give you grip.

Marlow · 21-09-2012 02:59PM

bijapos wrote: »

Not too good on these but it looks like a Delage DI which means it was built after 1925. Lovely car , wonder what happened to it. .

Do-more wrote: »

No they don't use much salt here, primarily for environmental reasons I am told. But also bear in mind that between Nov 1st and April 1st. if there are "winter driving conditions" you are not allowed use your car if it doesn't have winter tyres fitted, further north most use studded winter tyres. Also due to the lower humidity we don't have icy roads that often, it is more snow and they don't attempt to fully clear the roads, they plough it to a hard crust and then spread grit to give you grip.

It's actually not for environment reasons. It's quite simple.

Denmark does use salt, but people have done a whole lot more to prevent rust using undersealer etc. It's fairly common to take a brand new car to a dealer and get pava treatment done. A car has to last longer due to the 200% VRT imposed in Denmark and 180% in Norway. So people just mind them better.

In Sweden and Norway salt isn't used, because salt only works until a certain temperature. Once it gets below that, salt is useless. Sweden and Norway are colder than that threshold most of the winter, so no salt is used. Instead everybody is running tyres with studs.

Germany does not use salt due to environmental reasons.

/M

Do-more · 21-09-2012 03:26PM

Marlow wrote: »

It's actually not for environment reasons.

Not correct, they used to use a lot more salt here but after studies showed the damage to roadside flora and fauna because of a build up of salt over the winter they changed the techniques used for treating the roads.

I think it's around -7 C that salt becomes ineffective, in the area I live there are rarely more than a handful of days each winter where the average day time temperature is that cold. In the last 6 years the coldest average day daily temp. was -9.6 C so they could use it if they wanted but don't.

Not all of Sweden is an ice box all winter, here we rarely have more than a week of snow and some years we get none at all.

Kenny Logins · 21-09-2012 04:43PM

Very nice Fiesta in Kenmare last weekend.

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Kenny Logins · 21-09-2012 04:44PM

Very nice Fiesta in Kenmare last weekend.

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Marlow · 21-09-2012 08:28PM

Do-more wrote: »

Not all of Sweden is an ice box all winter, here we rarely have more than a week of snow and some years we get none at all.

Are you down in the south then ? I'm from Denmark originally and lived in STHLM a good few years.

/M

Capri · 21-09-2012 09:40PM

Interesting about salt/grit - I was in Berlin Feb 2011 after snow, footpaths covered in grit, best Dublin CC could do was dirty sand off Dollymount /Sandymount beach

Noticed Saabs /Volvos all have mudflaps + mid 'grit' flaps to protect brake pipes ?. Ireland doesn't 'do' winter grip products - just stay at home or slide to the pub :eek:

CharlieCroker · 21-09-2012 11:08PM

Saw 7 or 8 Triumph TR's heading down the M7 today. They weren't holding back either.

Capri · 22-09-2012 08:36AM

Met a Romanian with an 96 Camaro V6, works in the Baggot St area. Shoulda got photos, serious looking car with bi-plane rear wing etc http://www.carid.com/1996-chevy-camaro-spoiler/extreme-dimensions-body-kit-296409.html

. Better looking than the 'Nightrider' 84 Firebird seen in Nassau St on Tuesday. Those years weren't the best for the F-body http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transam-wiki.jpg .

Blue850 · 23-09-2012 07:14PM

From Mondello Park today

More photos here

TRNIALL · 23-09-2012 07:21PM

CharlieCroker wrote: »

Saw 7 or 8 Triumph TR's heading down the M7 today. They weren't holding back either.

We were heading down to Clare for the Weekend:D.
No wheres far in a TR.

bijapos · 23-09-2012 07:42PM

Blue850 wrote: »

From Mondello Park today

Love that Hiace pick up. Jesus the old Nissan and Toyota vans disappeared very quickly, some were exported but most were just driven into the ground. Great workhorses.

kasper · 23-09-2012 07:46PM

my wheels.ie cant find szv 318

Blue850 · 23-09-2012 07:47PM

kasper wrote: »

my wheels.ie cant find szv 318

cartell can

Marlow · 23-09-2012 07:49PM

kasper wrote: »

my wheels.ie cant find szv 318

It's not the first time I've seen mywheels having problems with vintage registrations.

/M

hi5 · 23-09-2012 08:31PM

bijapos wrote: »

Love that Hiace pick up. Jesus the old Nissan and Toyota vans disappeared very quickly, some were exported but most were just driven into the ground. Great workhorses.

They were everywhere back in the 80's. My neighbour had one, petrol engine, column change, "I shot JR" sun visor strip and a "dv27" cb antenna, sure what more could you want?

rugbyman · 23-09-2012 10:35PM

Hello h15, when you mentioned the cb antenna, it brought me back to a TRUE story hereabouts,
the area was flooded with young fellows in fiesta vans and the like(vat fiddles) a cb antenna was a prerequesite , they were long and flexible and were called "whips".
Well, at the the town centre lights one of these vans had to brake hard as apedestrian was crossing, the "whip" flexed forward and cut open the neck of the pedestrian.
the surgeon who operated on the victim said that without doubt it was the worst case of van ariel disease he had ever encountered!

rugbyman

Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

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