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Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

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  • #8882
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    Always thought the Escort looked alright for a Ford but it's one ugly VW. Is that a US passat that the Ford is based on? Don't recognise it from the Passat family here. Ford definitely do better out of that. The car looks like a nice Ford.


  • #8883
    Grevesey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭Grevesey


    Capri wrote: »

    Sorry about the Mk II / III typo :o Definitely a pleasant sight around town , and you drive it in all weathers :cool:
    Once you have good sources for parts and workshop then classics are better driven daily. :)

    No sweat at all to get parts. Indeed, driving it every day can mean the occasional bodywork issue but the car loves to be driven every day. It even coped better than brand new 4x4s in.the snow of a couple of years ago!


  • #8884
    Capri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    squonk wrote: »
    Always thought the Escort looked alright for a Ford but it's one ugly VW. Is that a US passat that the Ford is based on? Don't recognise it from the Passat family here. Ford definitely do better out of that. The car looks like a nice Ford.


    That Passat/Versailles is based on the B1 / B2 Passat / Santana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Santana

    but the Chinese Santana 2000 / 3000 look like it more
    http://www.carnewschina.com/2012/01/15/the-volkswagen-santana-in-china-a-history/


  • #8885
    macplaxton
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 2,913 Mod ✭✭✭✭macplaxton


    Capri wrote: »
    I passed many in my RWD during the bad snow, even on 'balding' Chinese tyres.

    Nothing to brag about really.
    Capri wrote: »
    Saw a vid about snow tyres, tho not really worth investing for the tiny bit we get in the city

    The vid is about WINTER tyres. WINTER tyres are designed for ambient temps below 7deg C, not just for snow.


  • #8886
    kev1.3s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    Capri wrote: »


    That Passat/Versailles is based on the B1 / B2 Passat / Santana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Santana

    but the Chinese Santana 2000 / 3000 look like it more
    http://www.carnewschina.com/2012/01/15/the-volkswagen-santana-in-china-a-history/
    Must be great to be able to leaf through a catalog of 20 year old designs to create all new models for emerging markets.


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  • #8887
    Capri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    kev1.3s wrote: »
    Must be great to be able to leaf through a catalog of 20 year old designs to create all new models for emerging markets.

    Bit like Ireland was at one time with 'local content' rules - remember the hash up of an 'Austin Oxford' we got because of them.
    Some companies overseas sell the old model very cheaply alongside the new one - VW in South Africa sold the Mk1 Golf alongside the later Golfs up to 2009 (?)


  • #8888
    WDB123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭WDB123


    [QUOTE=Capri;8324826


    IZH *** ex Ministerial Merc W123 Ballsbridge


    How do you Know it is ex Ministerial car ? just curious thanks


  • #8889
    Capri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    WDB123 wrote: »
    [QUOTE=Capri;8324826


    IZH *** ex Ministerial Merc W123 Ballsbridge


    How do you Know it is ex Ministerial car ? just curious thanks


    *** IZH as I was corrected earlier -

    Just an edumacated guess by the number plates :rolleyes: Quinn plates were usually used by the Gardai and there were Quinn plates on this one.

    Might not have been but as I said 80%(?) chance


  • #8890
    Diabhalta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,750 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    found in the phone, pic taken about a month ago (South Mall, Cork)

    Image383.jpg


  • #8891
    Fiatgirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Fiatgirl


    Anan1 wrote: »
    My dad had a white FIAT 1500 when I was a kid, CZJ 120.


    Hi yeah my dad has 3 fiat 1500s and 2 fiat 1100 and 1800 and 2100\


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  • #8892
    Capri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    Fiatgirl wrote: »
    Hi yeah my dad has 3 fiat 1500s and 2 fiat 1100 and 1800 and 2100\



    n ever too many 1800/2100's here, 1500 seemed most popular back in the day :)


  • #8893
    Fiatgirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Fiatgirl


    Capri wrote: »
    n ever too many 1800/2100's here, 1500 seemed most popular back in the day :)

    have you any fiats now?


  • #8894
    Capri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    Fiatgirl wrote: »
    have you any fiats now?

    No, did tune up some 127's back in the day, had 124coupe,lusted after 131 racing :rolleyes:

    mate (RIP) was a major Fiat head 'Abarth 850TC' lookalike , http://www.motorstown.com/imgs/52010-abarth-850-tc-3.html

    Lancia Aprilia 48
    http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/892535,21596/1949-Lancia-Aprilia_photo.aspx#photo

    124 spider

    Alfa 155

    Don't know what his son did with collection :confused:


  • #8895
    Fiatgirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Fiatgirl


    Capri wrote: »
    No, did tune up some 127's back in the day, had 124coupe,lusted after 131 racing :rolleyes:

    mate (RIP) was a major Fiat head 'Abarth 850TC' lookalike , http://www.motorstown.com/imgs/52010-abarth-850-tc-3.html

    Lancia Aprilia 48
    http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/892535,21596/1949-Lancia-Aprilia_photo.aspx#photo

    124 spider

    Alfa 155

    Don't know what his son did with collection :confused:[/Q
    Oh once Fiat gets ino your blood thats it..


  • #8896
    Capri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    Fiatgirl wrote: »
    Capri wrote: »
    No, did tune up some 127's back in the day, had 124coupe,lusted after 131 racing :rolleyes:

    mate (RIP) was a major Fiat head 'Abarth 850TC' lookalike , http://www.motorstown.com/imgs/52010-abarth-850-tc-3.html

    Lancia Aprilia 48
    http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/892535,21596/1949-Lancia-Aprilia_photo.aspx#photo

    124 spider

    Alfa 155

    Don't know what his son did with collection :confused:[/Q
    Oh once Fiat gets ino your blood thats it..

    Check http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056888719 And http://www.autobild.de/klassik/artikel/fiat-2100-special-3794262.html (Use Google translate )
    Dante was it. No, not the famous author of "The Divine Comedy". Dante Giacosa is meant Fiat developer from 1926 to 1970, the car we legends like Topolino , Nuova 500 , 1100, 124 and 130 due. A brilliant designer - and stylistically confident decision: Giacosa was responsible for the highly modern trapezoid shape for the big series 1800/2100. With their edges also led the Vatican into temptation: The 2100 Special brought it to the official car of the Roman Curia.

    Slim sedan with stylish looks and a crazy amount of chromium: Fiat 2100 Special.

    No wonder the luxury Fiat supplied everything needed a car chief of the early '60s: a serious look, a lot of space in the rear, a relaxed six-cylinder (with at least 86 hp) and chrome, everywhere you look. Especially brightly illuminates the front of the Fiat , because the cooler emphasize thick chrome bars to horizontal, and let the body appear wider than it is. The Fiat has also necessary as the pompous Opel Captain P lacks impressive 18-inch widths, the leaner Borgward P 100 already twelve. Interior to look bigger than to be outside, it has always been the motto of the Turin developers. These are original and advanced technology: hemispherical engine combustion chambers. Controlled by hand ignition timing (if sometimes only bell water-fuel is available). A rear window Defrostergebläse, forerunner of the heated plate. And later with the 2300 disc brakes all round.
    With a dash of Ferrari: Fiat Dino 2.4

    Finally turned on the left-ignition: whirring, as if he had a balance shaft, the Reihensechser gets up to speed. The long lever lands precise always in the right gear. Who likes it sportivo that can unscrew the aisles with a loud roar up to the allowed 45/75/105 km / h, but then punished with consumption figures of well over 13 liters of premium. And caution: Already in the sixties warned autotesters before the violent rubbing ends brakes and direct, but incredibly stiff steering. Rare scrap metal as this Fiat Preziose (only 1174 Special units were built) deserves tender treatment, although the temperament not to. But the sophisticated driving style suits the full features of the time: there was a Autovox Radio (charge time: 420 marks), whitewall tires (Mark 120) and genuine leather (1100 dollars). As Immanuel Kant once said: Nothing is divine but what is reasonable. Dante would be answered that a little excess is not so harmful.


  • #8897
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,442 ✭✭✭circadian


    l27ed2J.jpg

    Spotted this Chevvy 350 in Vientiane at lunch.


  • #8898
    Capri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    Spotted this Chevvy 350 in Vientiane at lunch

    Seems to have been a fairly free market over there (seen Fiat spiders etc ) compared with Thailand ( horrendious import tax but good range of local cars ) Vietnam (ditto on tax but virtually no cars to speak of - either new Merc CLS's or 68 Toyota Coronas ) Cambodia ( Camry's no.1 car in Cambodia but masses of newer US mkt Jap imports also .

    On holliers there ? :cool:


  • #8899
    hi5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,107 ✭✭✭hi5


    Thats an Impala 68' I think? the great thing about those cars are the bench seats front and rear, seems to be lost on him though:D


  • #8900
    Capri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    hi5 wrote: »
    Thats an Impala 68' I think? the great thing about those cars are the bench seats front and rear, seems to be lost on him though:D

    Surprising really to be putting only 4 seats in it when some in that part of the world can fit 8 or more onto a Toyota


  • #8901
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,442 ✭✭✭circadian


    It's the right part of the world for that craic. Bundled 10 with luggage into a tuk tuk a few days ago.
    Yeah I spotted a few classics quizzing around Laos, they love Citroen there. Also seen a little panda coloured Trueno, no mods. No kits or silly exhausts or alloys. Was great to see.


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  • #8902
    rugbyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭rugbyman


    Spotted a nice car with a nice number today in Drogheda, no pic, 97 d 850 nice dark green BMW 850

    regards Rugbyman


  • #8903
    rugbyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭rugbyman


    Fiatgirl wrote: »
    Hi yeah my dad has 3 fiat 1500s and 2 fiat 1100 and 1800 and 2100\
    cheeky of me to tell you ,but i think the 2100 is 2300

    by any rare, rare, rare chance is any of the 1500 s EIY reg

    rugbyman


  • #8904
    Diabhalta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,750 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    today in Riverstick (Cork). Both cars were close to each other and pictures are taken from the car while stopping on the main road.

    IMG_4993.jpg

    IMG_4992.jpg


  • #8905
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,904 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    ^ Fair play!

    How did this get out of the factory? Or is it a one-off?

    Oops - I just goggled (sic) it:

    A shooting-brake, you say? I will regard estate cars in a different way from now on! :eek: :)

    Pietro Frua, according to the above shooting-brake Wiki link, was the designer of 'your' mad-looking 230SL.

    So: estate, shooting-brake, wagon are all of a kind - the shooting-brake being the eldest by the looks of things. And 'brake' apparently comes from 'break' as in to break a horse. So let us not be too harsh with posters who (in the current sense) use the 'wrong' word... :)

    From the Wikipedia Shooting-Brake page linked above
    The term brake was initially a chassis used to break-in horses — and was subsequently used to describe a motorized vehicle.
    Whoa!

    Not your ornery onager



  • #8906
    Capri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    Shooting-brake originated as an early 19th century British term for a vehicle used to carry shooting parties with their equipment and game

    :confused::confused:


  • #8907
    unfit2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭unfit2006


    Diabhalta wrote: »
    today in Riverstick (Cork). Both cars were close to each other and pictures are taken from the car while stopping on the main road.

    IMG_4993.jpg

    IMG_4992.jpg


    The similarity of the reg numbers (visible digits) is a coincidence. Same county and brought in around the same time I suppose.


  • #8908
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,203 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    On my way to manor Kilbride today and on side of road spotted one of my favourite cars ever
    Looked almost brand new it was so well looked after
    Looked like a 1970s Toyota land cruiser
    Didn't have time to stop but my god what a machine
    Real workhorse


  • #8909
    mikehn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭mikehn


    http://s256.beta.photobucket.com/uploadupload
    One of the finest restoration projects I ever saw (At the RDS vintage show)


  • #8910
    BailMeOut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭BailMeOut


    I heard it before I saw it. Really loud old race car. Is it a jag?

    201303051120401.jpg


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  • #8911
    JohnxF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭JohnxF


    BailMeOut wrote: »
    I heard it before I saw it. Really loud old race car. Is it a jag?

    201303051120401.jpg

    Some sort of replica of a Jaguar D-Type - the famous 3-times Le Mans winner in 1955, 56 & 57. There were several companies making replicas. Given the originals are worth upwards of a million, I'd be pretty sure it's a replica and not the real thing. Very nice though and fair play to whoever drives it!


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