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Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread! Part 2

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  • #1262
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


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  • #1263
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    And the cars that made the show for me; j'adore!!

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  • #1264
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,316 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »

    10986517_1403357286660282_5003321573785075683_n.jpg?oh=9f1d0f972ab367c42e749e629d317b94&oe=56307B36

    That's a very strange beast.


  • #1265
    alastair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    Just sorting through a few of my shots from this year's show at Mosney. It wasn't a bad show, all told. The turn out was was quite something and as always and the content was excellent. I heard of the Mk1 Golf that was vandalised leaving the show and that was somewhat disheartening. I would think twice before bringing a car of my own next year as a result.

    I didn't hear anything about this vandalism. What happened?


  • #1266
    CianDon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 569 ✭✭✭CianDon


    alastair wrote: »
    I didn't hear anything about this vandalism. What happened?

    Someone deceided it would be great fun to lob a few big stones over the ditch onto the road and hit an imaculate MK1 Golf Gti on the roof and made a dirty bad ding.

    Besides that, the Fuego Turbo. Oh my days :eek: Is there any car out there that has a bigger Turboooooo sticker??


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  • #1267
    26000 Elephants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,152 ✭✭✭26000 Elephants


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    That's a very strange beast.

    Why couldn't he have just bought a longer trailer? :confused:


  • #1268
    The Big Red Fella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭The Big Red Fella


    Dont anyone know the shortina?? its been around many years!


  • #1269
    red sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    The Big Red Fella wrote: »
    Dont anyone know the shortina?? its been around many years!
    And still looks ridiculous!


  • #1270
    mb1725
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭mb1725


    351743.jpg

    The prop shaft can't be more than a foot long!


  • #1271
    Justjens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Justjens


    The Big Red Fella wrote: »
    Dont anyone know the shortina?? its been around many years!

    It was at Classic Car Live last year, it's no wonder they are bringing it around on a trailer now as I would imagine it's not the most comfortable yoke to drive.


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  • #1272
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Lotus Elan plus 2. Sparkling in the sun and in great condition!

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  • #1273
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Are the wheels usually that much into the wheel arches?!


  • #1274
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    mb1725 wrote: »
    351743.jpg

    The prop shaft can't be more than a foot long!

    Unless it's fwd:D


  • #1275
    Zoo4m8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Zoo4m8


    smash wrote: »
    Lotus Elan plus 2. Sparkling in the sun and in great condition!

    5pH9rw.jpg

    Now THATS a classic...


  • #1276
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,587 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Zoo4m8 wrote: »
    Now THATS a classic...
    Love the interiors of those plus 2s... a wall of wood!

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  • #1277
    rugbyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭rugbyman


    Yesreday I saw a classic and did not take a picture. Lovely cream coloured Jensen, carlow reg , saw it just off the m50 near Coolock. Dont recall ever seeing a pic of it.As always , I can relate the story of two of them in a shed in co. Louth 25 years ago, dont know wherevthey ever went, but they did not cost much then


  • #1278
    w124man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭w124man


    Saw a Mk1 Fiesta Festival on the M11 heading north through the Glen o the Downs this morning. No piccies cuz I was driving!


  • #1279
    winnie the schtink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 287 ✭✭winnie the schtink


    Zoo4m8 wrote: »
    Now THATS a classic...

    love it! Lots
    Of
    Trouble
    Usually
    SERIOUS


  • #1280
    Diabhalta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,750 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Lidl car park, Ballincollig

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  • #1281
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Today in Arva, Cavan.

    Ah here, that's no classic by any stretch of the imagination!!!


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  • #1282
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    jca wrote: »
    Ah here, that's no classic by any stretch of the imagination!!!

    Speak for yourself.

    And how about we just leave this debate at the door now, its been done to death in the past ans we never get anywhere with it.


  • #1283
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    Speak for yourself.

    And how about we just leave this debate at the door now, its been done to death in the past ans we never get anywhere with it.

    Who else would I be speaking for. At this rate I can put up the aul lads 99 SDI Felicia thats disappearing into the back garden day by day...


  • #1284
    w124man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭w124man


    Fabulous classic that Jetta


  • #1285
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    w124man wrote: »
    Fabulous classic that Jetta

    Definitely, that super refined diesel engine really gives that classic car driving experience.


  • #1286
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    If we all had applied that criteria to the cars of the time, every single Austin, Morris, MGB etc would have been crushed before they were 15 years of age. Now enthusiasts actually quite like them. Even the most revered of classic cars went through an "old banger" period.
    Stick up a few photos of daily driver classic cars that you come across, out and about, and we'll pass comment.

    Most of them were crushed, and long before their 10th birthday never mind the grand old age of 15. I thought the word classic in the thread title actually meant classic, not some auld farmers wagon to make you misty eyed thinking of uncle Ned bringing a few ewes to the mart in 1993, in the one and only car he ever purchased(probably with some subsidy cheque). There's an aul Zeb goes into Lidl regularly in an '87 Jetta, it's as rough as a bears nether regions I wouldn't dare put it up. I also spotted a 1973 manky orange 1500 poverty spec Hunter for sale, no chance I'd ever bother photographing it either.. If it was a Humber Sceptre or even one of the more interesting badge engineered versions Singer Vogue etc. I'd be all over it, but I really don't get why people get misty eyed over workhorse dross. The most revered classics, E types etc. went through bad times mainly due to huge economic changes during their production span making them uneconomical to run and maintain but they were never ordinary run of the mill work horse cars in the first place.


  • #1287
    w124man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭w124man


    jca wrote: »
    Definitely, that super refined diesel engine really gives that classic car driving experience.


    I had a total of five Jettas during my rep days and all clocked over 150k miles!! Loved them and would love a really good one noe


  • #1288
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    w124man wrote: »
    I had a total of five Jettas during my rep days and all clocked over 150k miles!! Loved them and would love a really good one noe

    I'm not disputing their ability as a utilitarian rep mobile it's their elevation to classic status that I have difficulty with. 150k on one of them would be peanuts, with any kind of half hearted maintainence they'll hit 300,000 and beyond..


  • #1289
    alastair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    jca wrote: »
    I'm not disputing their ability as a utilitarian rep mobile it's their elevation to classic status that I have difficulty with.

    Pretty much every utilitarian car hits classic status, as long as it's old enough, and someone has nostalgia for the things. While I don't share the love for Morris Marinas, Hilman Hunters, Datsun Cherrys, etc, I can understand why others might. I still can't come to terms with seeing Nissan Figaros at classic shows (and I was a proud owner of a Nissan Pao), but I guess they're 25 year old cars at this stage.


  • #1290
    el tel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭el tel


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    And the cars that made the show for me; j'adore!!

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    I'm pretty sure that lives near me, I've been seeing it almost every day over the last few weeks on my drive home.


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  • #1291
    Cork selfbuild
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 649 ✭✭✭Cork selfbuild


    3 x Land Rover Campers parked up in Junction 14

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