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What's the oldest car you saw on the road today?

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    #6092
    IrishPlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 705 ✭✭✭IrishPlayer


    Dublin 15

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    #6093
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,194 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Longford town Honest, hard working Landcruiser.

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    #6094
    thebourke
    Registered Users Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭thebourke


    how are they able to get insurance?
    my car is 2002 and some insurance companies wouldnt even give me a quote even though i have been driving for 13 years


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    #6095
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,194 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    thebourke wrote: »
    how are they able to get insurance?
    my car is 2002 and some insurance companies wouldnt even give me a quote even though i have been driving for 13 years

    If you have a policy already, it's not a problem.
    Changed my insurance from a 95 Trooper to a 00 one with FBD last year.
    Didn't even ask to see the CVRT cert.


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    #6096
    Marlow
    Registered Users Posts: 14,555 ✭✭✭✭Marlow


    thebourke wrote: »
    how are they able to get insurance?
    my car is 2002 and some insurance companies wouldnt even give me a quote even though i have been driving for 13 years

    Different story. Lots of insurances won't take new business, when the car is over 15 years old.

    Once it's over 25 years old, you can get a classic policy. That's a different kettle of fish.

    The trick to your problem is to insure something newer, then change the policy over. They have to insure you then on a 15+ year old car, as it you're an existing customer. But they'll load the policy, for sure.

    /M


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    #6097
    Garzard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,282 ✭✭✭Garzard


    '98 A6 earlier in Knocklyon Service Station

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    #6098
    Garzard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,282 ✭✭✭Garzard


    Nothing rare, but noticed this tonight in Woodstown while walking back from a friend's house :cool:

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    #6099
    gammygils
    Registered Users Posts: 17,236 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    SV Carpark Tuam. Daily drivers

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    #6100
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Garzard wrote: »
    '98 A6 earlier in Knocklyon Service Station

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    1 owner from new. Excellent find. I would absolutely love that


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    #6101
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Very tidy 97 Escort hatch belonging to the nuns in the Mount Sackville convent

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    #6102
    gammygils
    Registered Users Posts: 17,236 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Spotted some beauties today. 2 of them started up and pulled away as I was about to snap them
    Galway Shopping Centre

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    And in Tuam

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    #6103
    MrCostington
    Registered Users Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭MrCostington


    Artane Castle, Dublin yesterday

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    #6104
    galwaytt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    gammygils wrote: »
    Spotted some beauties today. 2 of them started up and pulled away as I was about to snap them
    Galway Shopping Centre

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    Peak German - & Swedish- engineering imho, that era. Before accountancy overtook engineering.

    Was looking at a similar C class 180 yesterday and it was fab - and destined to rot on the drive.

    Too dear to tax, uninsurable.

    Reduce, Reuse, Recycle my ar$e

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



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    #6105
    Old diesel
    Registered Users Posts: 5,786 ✭✭✭Old diesel


    The Mk 1 C class (W202) was actually a really nice car in many ways.

    But it was actually the start of the accountants taking over.

    Even when new the talk from Merc was trying to make the cars cheaper to build.

    On the W202 this I understand this shows up in things like being more prone to rust.

    For similar cost cutting reasons - later W124s have issues that say a 1988 W124 wouldn't have.


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    #6106
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Long time no post Old diesel. Good to see you back


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    #6107
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    This passed the sitting room window yesterday...heard it before I saw it!

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    #6108
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,211 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Not the best pic but weather was brutal at the time!
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    #6109
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,923 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    This passed the sitting room window yesterday...heard it before I saw it!

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    I've seen that around Inchicore/Islandbridge a good bit myself.


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    #6110
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    I've seen that around Inchicore/Islandbridge a good bit myself.

    Hah. Yeah it gets around. Saw it around town a good few times before too


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    #6111
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Took the Honda out for a spin through the park and down through Castleknock and Chapelizod. I'll lose my license with this if I'm not careful :D Met a mk1 96 Lexus GS300 in chapelizod and exchanged an appreciative nod with the driver for his stellar choice of motor. No pic sadly

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    #6112
    I Was VB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭I Was VB


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    Took the Honda out for a spin through the park and down through Castleknock and Chapelizod. I'll lose my license with this if I'm not careful :D Met a mk1 96 Lexus GS300 in chapelizod and exchanged an appreciative nod with the driver for his stellar choice of motor. No pic sadly

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    I passed you in Kilmainham yesterday,
    I had a big goofy head on me when I seen your motor!


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    #6113
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,194 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Old diesel wrote: »
    The Mk 1 C class (W202) was actually a really nice car in many ways.

    But it was actually the start of the accountants taking over.

    Even when new the talk from Merc was trying to make the cars cheaper to build.

    On the W202 this I understand this shows up in things like being more prone to rust.

    For similar cost cutting reasons - later W124s have issues that say a 1988 W124 wouldn't have.

    Tell me about it.
    My 93 CE is in the middle of a 6 month wiring loom nightmare...
    And not caused by cost-cutting as much as Mercedes trying to be "ecological".


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    #6114
    Marlow
    Registered Users Posts: 14,555 ✭✭✭✭Marlow


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    /M


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    #6115
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    I Was VB wrote: »
    I passed you in Kilmainham yesterday,
    I had a big goofy head on me when I seen your motor!

    Haha, I’ve been waiting for that - sooner or later I’d be spotted! Noticed a few people taking pictures too over the last while but have yet to see any of them appear online..unless I’m looking in the wrong places.


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    #6116
    I Was VB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭I Was VB


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    Haha, I’ve been waiting for that - sooner or later I’d be spotted! Noticed a few people taking pictures too over the last while but have yet to see any of them appear online..unless I’m looking in the wrong places.

    Only for I was driving the other way you’d be snapped.


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    #6117
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,923 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Marlow wrote: »
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    /M

    There's a man who knows how to do plates.


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    #6118
    crosstownk
    Registered Users Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    You don’t see many Citroen CXs anymore but a sighting is always welcome.

    I was on my bike so couldn’t get a better angle.
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    #6119
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Tidy little 3 door Starlet in Inchicore

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    #6120
    davidglanza
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭davidglanza


    Spotted in cork


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    #6121
    Means Of Escape
    Registered Users Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Means Of Escape


    88 Volvo taking a roundabout


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