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Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!
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Bought 2 Taunus coupes to restore back in the day :rolleyes:
Very fancy floor / mirrored door in the 'garage' :cool:
Here's a Ponton 'from Sweden', currently in Poland ( on it's way to Ireland ?? :rolleyes: ) http://cars.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/mercedes-ponton-180c/5619353
Wondering about the 2 spare wheel wells on it
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The floor is plastic tiles like these:Very fancy floor / mirrored door in the 'garage' :cool:
Not great if you are prone to dropping small nuts and bolts! The mirror is handy when you are on your own and trying to check light bulbs!
The car belongs to some Bulgarian guys who have just opened up a new car service place near me, heading back in with the Passat after lunch to do the steering lock fix, keeping my fingers crossed that it works!
Will get the rest of the long list of failures fixed next week as soon as the parts arrive from the UK. Car parts are a silly price here, I need brake discs and pads all round plus front wheel bearings, timing belt kit, water pump and full set of filters which comes to a royal €1,450 here or €529 from the UK.
Makes you wonder how they can afford to keep their cars in such good order here, although I think a lot of the small places order in parts from Poland which is probably cheaper and quicker delivery than from the UK but I don't have the contacts there.
Looks like that Merc has increased in value a lot since leaving Sweden, this one looks like better value at around €4,000 or highest bid or if you want to save yourself the effort of restoration this '58 220S looks the biz at around €21,000.invest4deepvalue.com
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Hello Do More, the first one you linked to has a Dublin reg, nice
it would get the few members of the thought police into a flap!
Erhm .. No. That's an old danish registration
Before Denmark changed to black on white with red surrounds. The white on black numberplates were used until 1976 and the dot and spacing gives it away. You wouldn't have that on an irish reg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Denmark
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I remember a road test of a new Volvo in the Irish Independent a few years ago and the importers didn't have any RHD models available so they brought over some Swedish registered cars, the journalist got a knock on the door from the local Garda asking why he had the plates off an old Kildare registered Golf on a new Volvo in his driveway!
Or perhaps that needs to go in the Elephant in the room thread.
Anyway it's definitely a Swedish reg on that Merc, been off the road since 1988 and last tested in 1987, hopefully it was only wheeled out for the photo and hasn't been sitting there since then! (Looks like it was in dry storage.)
invest4deepvalue.com
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Hello Do More, the first one you linked to has a Dublin reg, nice
it would get the few members of the thought police into a flap!Do-more Looks like that Merc has increased in value a lot since leaving Sweden, this one looks like better value at around €4,000 or highest bidQuote:
Originally Posted by rugbyman
Hello Do More, the first one you linked to has a Dublin reg, nice
it would get the few members of the thought police into a flap!
Marlow Erhm .. No. That's an old danish registration Before Denmark changed to black on white with red surrounds. The white on black numberplates were used until 1976 and the dot and spacing gives it away. You wouldn't have that on an irish reg.
I think we've sorted that out, Rugbyman was referring to the AZO on the Ponton pic from Do-more rather than the reg on the Taunus that Marlow thought he was referring to :rolleyes:
Anyway, Do-more,
there's a bit of a trend here that A LOT of people (Irish/East Euro's) think that the punter here is totally stupid and will pay silly money for total crap - sadly a few do conform to that profile and then try to pass off their purchases to others to perpetuate that myth :mad:
The biggest problem here is road tax - newish cars here run on CO2 tax so a 09 Range Rover might be €200/yr tax, a 95 Range Rover €1700/yr and an 81 Range Rover will be €56 (?)/yr. Does Sweden have a more logical road tax system 0 -
I spotted this 1969 Wolseley MK2 Automatic sitting in a shed at a scrapyard recently. It looked remarkably solid although the owner did say that someone hit it underneath with the forks from a forklift, I'm not sure if it did any damage. He was willing to part with it for €800 when we last spoke.
This was also in the same shed,
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As An all Ireland sleeping champion, its strange to be awake at this hour,so onto Classic cars I go.
That Wolseley attracts me, my father had a Morris 1300 in 1970 and I enjoyed driving it.it was quite nippy in its day. Thw Wolseley ,and the Riley were the posher versions,with twin carbs(I think).
It was with a little disappointment that as I scrolled down,I saw the import reg. The car looks in good order for its age, for that price, if I had space it would be mine
That's my opinion as well, UK import = RUST from salted roads in the UK
, as well as the reflective plates and the powder blue paint (Wolseleys should have Ace plates, and the paint should be 'Royal blue' or 'Claret red' , leave the powder blue to the Morris/Austin versions
) I'd also be asking how long the importer owned the car because it's like the Christmas pup, some people tire easily with their 'toys', or the 'toys' aren't as much fun as they thought :rolleyes: 0 -
I spotted this 1969 Wolseley MK2 Automatic sitting in a shed at a scrapyard recently.
Being a MK2, makes it a Wolseley 1300, but I think some late MK1s could have optionally being 1300cc.Thw Wolseley ,and the Riley were the posher versions,with twin carbs(I think).
Riley Kestrel 1100/1300 and MG 1100/1300.
Wolseley = posh slow (single carb)
Riley = posh fast (twin carb)
Always remember the cheeky MOT tester's comment about my Wolseley 16/60 auto, "That just about passes as a carb!" (comment on the standard single 1-1/4" SU carb on the 1622cc B-series engine)
I had a 1964 Austin 1100 MK1, it wasn't exactly nippy, but you could keep the speed on on the twisties as the ride and handling was exceptional for its age.0 -
As An all Ireland sleeping champion, its strange to be awake at this hour,so onto Classic cars I go.
That Wolseley attracts me, my father had a Morris 1300 in 1970 and I enjoyed driving it.it was quite nippy in its day. Thw Wolseley ,and the Riley were the posher versions,with twin carbs(I think).
It was with a little disappointment that as I scrolled down,I saw the import reg.
The car looks in good order for its age, for that price, if I had space it would be mine
If I had the space I would buy it. Just last year I had a 1966 Austin 1100.
It was not as clean as the photos suggest, but it was a nice old thing for the weekends.0 -
If I had the space...
As you don't have the space, make do with a money box (1:18 scale?)
DSCF2123 by macplaxton, on Flickr
I had three done in Tartan Red, but it was about 20 years ago now. Don't know if the potter is doing them any more or if someone has the moulds. I'm not sure of the scale (or that of Bertie Bus for reference) but I'd say it was about a foot long.0 -
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The Big Red Fella wrote: »Love it hope it boosts your business big time! well done!!!
It's not my car. My old car is a bit something else and it is "missing two cylinders" (which means it's only V6 ) 0 -
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