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This weeks Classic Irish bargains that I'm not buying

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭tc20


    Having had a W114 as my first classic, I just love the simple lines of the 114/115. A doddle to drive, (even without p/s), roomy cabin, huge boot, discs brakes all round, even rear child locks (and mine was a '72 with the fly windows) - they're a rare enough sight on the roads these days. That one in the ad is just gorgeous!

    a few (tiny, sorry!) thumbnail pics of mine..


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    tc20 wrote: »
    Having had a W114 as my first classic, I just love the simple lines of the 114/115. A doddle to drive, (even without p/s), roomy cabin, huge boot, discs brakes all round, even rear child locks (and mine was a '72 with the fly windows) - they're a rare enough sight on the roads these days. That one in the ad is just gorgeous!

    a few (tiny, sorry!) thumbnail pics of mine..

    Is it still knocking around do you know?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭tc20


    Is it still knocking around do you know?

    I sold it back around '07 to a chap who was bringing it to Spain (he was Spanish, living here at the time) The car itself was originally Swedish, I got it through Holland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    tc20 wrote: »
    Having had a W114 as my first classic, I just love the simple lines of the 114/115. A doddle to drive, (even without p/s), roomy cabin, huge boot, discs brakes all round, even rear child locks (and mine was a '72 with the fly windows) - they're a rare enough sight on the roads these days. That one in the ad is just gorgeous!

    a few (tiny, sorry!) thumbnail pics of mine..

    Couldnt agree more. Unbelievable engineering. Would sit on the MWay all day at 80mph ( except for a lot of fuel stops ) and would simply pound bumps into submission on the road. Mine (280CE) had electric roof, power steering and windows, the only thing it didnt do well was stop!

    Wish I knew what happened it ZV 4916 AFAIR


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/mercedes-benz-250-w114/17066030

    From a dealer this one. If it’s as good as it seems it’s well priced, I think?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭oceanman




  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1958-ford-300e/17942788
    I’m rather drawn to this little head turner

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    Dades wrote: »
    Pussy magnet.

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    Thought you had lost your marbles until I looked a bit closer to the picture.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,567 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1958-ford-300e/17942788
    I’m rather drawn to this little head turner

    Very nice.
    That's the kind of car that will get men of a certain vintage misty eyed at classic car events.
    There were two estate variants of that model, the Squire and the Escort, but I think I would put panels back in it and make a van of it again.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭oceanman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭Silvera


    It’s baaaaaaack!!

    What price was on it in the last advert?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,079 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Same price


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    oceanman wrote: »
    You've a strange definition of brave!


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    I,d say this is braver,

    [IMG][/img]l7QYWhL.jpg

    To this,

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    :D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,404 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly



    Must be looking for insane money if he's too embarrassed to put it on the ad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭tc20


    ^^ @ kadman - is that your handywork on (I think) a Type 3??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Bigus


    Gravelly wrote: »
    Must be looking for insane money if he's too embarrassed to put it on the ad.

    He was looking for 60 k


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    tc20 wrote: »
    ^^ @ kadman - is that your handywork on (I think) a Type 3??


    It is to both questions:)

    [IMG][/img]GUUfdYC.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭11wingnut




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    11wingnut wrote: »

    I remember us sending a near-perfect one of these, in white, off to the crusher years ago after someone had traded it against a new passat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,567 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Gravelly wrote: »
    I remember us sending a near-perfect one of these, in white, off to the crusher years ago after someone had traded it against a new passat.

    Was that the Government scrappage scheme?
    Some nice cars met an untimely end over that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭flatty


    They had no value at the time though. Value is a strange thing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    elperello wrote: »
    Gravelly wrote: »
    I remember us sending a near-perfect one of these, in white, off to the crusher years ago after someone had traded it against a new passat.

    Was that the Government scrappage scheme?
    Some nice cars met an untimely end over that.

    It was. Unfortunately, even if you wanted to save a nice car, you couldn’t under the rules of the scheme. Though as flatty said above, they had little value at the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,567 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Gravelly wrote: »
    It was. Unfortunately, even if you wanted to save a nice car, you couldn’t under the rules of the scheme. Though as flatty said above, they had little value at the time.

    Yes they had to go to the scrapper and a cert issued.
    Pity all the same.
    €1500 is all they got and a clean one would surely have made that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    elperello wrote: »
    Gravelly wrote: »
    It was. Unfortunately, even if you wanted to save a nice car, you couldn’t under the rules of the scheme. Though as flatty said above, they had little value at the time.

    Yes they had to go to the scrapper and a cert issued.
    Pity all the same.
    €1500 is all they got and a clean one would surely have made that.

    I heard stories of cars a lot nicer than that being scrappped under the scheme. There was a story that an elderly lady in Dublin scrapped a Mk5 cortina that had been in storage almost from new as her husband had died days after buying it. Had the plastic still on the seats. Apparently she refused an offer well over the scrap value from the garage proprietor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭flatty


    She may not have wanted to see it being driven about the place. Understandable if true.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    flatty wrote: »
    She may not have wanted to see it being driven about the place. Understandable if true.
    Not really. The husband was dead at least 20 years. She could have given the excess over the scrappage to charity, offered the car to a younger relative, or any number of other less narrow-minded options.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,404 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail




    after that list of changes could you really call it a 280Z? I think i would have preferred it before they changed it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭flatty


    Dades wrote: »
    flatty wrote: »
    She may not have wanted to see it being driven about the place. Understandable if true.
    Not really. The husband was dead at least 20 years. She could have given the excess over the scrappage to charity, offered the car to a younger relative, or any number of other less narrow-minded options.
    Ah right. It was the only explanation that made any sense to be, if the story is true. I know of a similar story where a car was only sold for export. I could understand it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    flatty wrote: »
    Ah right. It was the only explanation that made any sense to be, if the story is true. I know of a similar story where a car was only sold for export. I could understand it.

    We picked up a minty mint Volvo 245 estate from a retired doctor, and told him we would be lovingly restoring it. A fortnight later we wrecked it up in Nutts Corner!

    Another lad gave me a set of alloys, and went mad when he twigged them on another banger as it was on the starting line. He was particularly annoyed that we had painted them red! :pac:


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    You must be so proud.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    Dades wrote: »
    You must be so proud.
    :D:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭JabbaTheHut


    Gravelly wrote: »
    It was. Unfortunately, even if you wanted to save a nice car, you couldn’t under the rules of the scheme. Though as flatty said above, they had little value at the time.


    I remember very very clean cars going to the scraper at that time. A Saab 900 turbo, A Kadette GTE and BMW 523i comes to mind in particular. I worked in a dealership at the time, and, I stand to be corrected on this, but the chassis, and engine had to be crushed. In that dealership, they had cut a deal with the local scrapper. He bought them at a very nice discount, and sold the parts that didn't have to be disposed of under the rules of the scheme. Although, I do know of 2 cases where the engine was taken out and put into another car.

    At the time, there was plenty of cars still on the road that would make the scrappage scheme cars worth something to a scrap yard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    I remember very very clean cars going to the scraper at that time. A Saab 900 turbo, A Kadette GTE and BMW 523i comes to mind in particular. I worked in a dealership at the time, and, I stand to be corrected on this, but the chassis, and engine had to be crushed. In that dealership, they had cut a deal with the local scrapper. He bought them at a very nice discount, and sold the parts that didn't have to be disposed of under the rules of the scheme. Although, I do know of 2 cases where the engine was taken out and put into another car.

    At the time, there was plenty of cars still on the road that would make the scrappage scheme cars worth something to a scrap yard.

    Heard a few similar stories myself.

    I read in one of the UK car magazines (Car Mechanics I think) about a woman that traded an MGB in for a Hyundai Atoz during the scrappage scheme over there. Sacrilege!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,079 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/bmw-525-1980/18440064

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    525 auto with NCT to 2019 for sub €5k. Looks nice too, wonder what kind of "minor TLC" it needs though


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/bmw-525-1980/18440064

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    525 auto with NCT to 2019 for sub €5k. Looks nice too, wonder what kind of "minor TLC" it needs though

    Looks fantastic, though my experience with classics says that if it's been garaged for 5 years, there's probably a fair bit that needs doing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,349 ✭✭✭80sDiesel


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    A steal at only 1500

    A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,079 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Gravelly wrote: »
    Looks fantastic, though my experience with classics says that if it's been garaged for 5 years, there's probably a fair bit that needs doing.

    I would imagine that means the owner kept it garaged while they owned it. A 2019 NCT is a good indicator IMO


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    80sDiesel wrote: »
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    A steal at only 1500

    If that car is genuine it's a bargain - interior looks a bit rough but you'd live with it or change it out for €1500.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    I would imagine that means the owner kept it garaged while they owned it. A 2019 NCT is a good indicator IMO

    Ah - misread it as sitting in a garage for 5 years. If he just means it was kept in a garage it's a different kettle of fish!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,707 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Wow an E12 with NCT for reasonable money. Automatic and straight 6. Carburettor though, not fuel injected? That is a rare find. Am I right that because it's a 1980 car, it will only need to pass 1 more NCT test (from 2019 to 2020) to become exempt?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,707 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Gravelly wrote: »
    If that car is genuine it's a bargain - interior looks a bit rough but you'd live with it or change it out for €1500.

    Hasn't seen an NCT in a decade, but could be worth a punt. E30s are quickly appreciating.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,349 ✭✭✭80sDiesel


    unkel wrote: »
    Gravelly wrote: »
    If that car is genuine it's a bargain - interior looks a bit rough but you'd live with it or change it out for €1500.

    Hasn't seen an NCT in a decade, but could be worth a punt. E30s are quickly appreciating.
    Where do you see that? On NCT.ie it says it due on the 24/4/18

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,079 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    unkel wrote: »
    Wow an E12 with NCT for reasonable money. Automatic and straight 6. Carburettor though, not fuel injected? That is a rare find. Am I right that because it's a 1980 car, it will only need to pass 1 more NCT test (from 2019 to 2020) to become exempt?

    Thats right! I forgot about that. [re NCT]

    Better again.

    Well worth the money IMO.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 969 ✭✭✭Greybottle


    80sDiesel wrote: »
    Where do you see that? On NCT.ie it says it due on the 24/4/18

    It also says that the NCT ran out on 23/4/2010. If it has run out they just put in the renewal date for the next year. It's a bit confusing.

    After 24th April this year the NCT website will say Due Date is 24/04/2019.

    There could be a lot wrong with it for that money, probably needs a new brake overhaul by this stage as well as new tyres, battery, all fluids and filters, sump drop and clean and possibly bits off the new exhaust for starters. If it has been moved or started even occasionally then it may not be too bad.

    If it has rust then it's fecked, they rust from the inside out on the worst parts.


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