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Today I saw an abandoned classic and took a pic thread!

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


    ^ without resorting to google or checking the reg, I'm wracking my brains trying to think what that car is..
    Badging on the boot looks like Renault, but the rear lights look like an Opel or possibly a Rover?
    I know i'll kick myself when someone says what it is...:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭ARGINITE


    Renault 21


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,447 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    Easy peasy and you were right about the badging - Renault 21 phase 1.


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


    tc20 wrote: »
    ^ without resorting to google or checking the reg, I'm wracking my brains trying to think what that car is..
    Badging on the boot looks like Renault, but the rear lights look like an Opel or possibly a Rover?
    I know i'll kick myself when someone says what it is...:o

    Well, I hope you got some entertainment from it. Good fun trying to guess cars you know that do you know, but can't place it.
    It's all there. Well, for a car that's been sitting for a while. I'm not sure if it will be for long more, though. There's a planning permission notice outside the property for development of the site. I doubt the car is in the plans.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 733 ✭✭✭IrishPlayer


    Hartstown, Dublin 15

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,043 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    One less car on the road with those door denting reflectors is no loss..

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭davidglanza


    Spotted this
    Lotus carlton


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Garzard


    Spotted this
    Lotus carlton

    Shame. Hopefully someone will buy that before it's beyond restoration.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 733 ✭✭✭IrishPlayer


    Dublin 15

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    qUFX8Ol.jpg


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    Looks like it's getting some love, rather than being abandoned(?)

    (Reg is Bologna, Italy, if anyone is unsure)


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


    Type 17 wrote: »
    Looks like it's getting some love, rather than being abandoned(?)

    (Reg is Bologna, Italy, if anyone is unsure)

    It appears to be rhd though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    pablo128 wrote: »
    It appears to be rhd though.


    Looks LHD - no dash, but lots of parts (rear seat?) in first pic; no dash, but definitely LHD steering column support in second pic; too much reflection in third pic - definitely started as LHD (but conversions aren't too complex on the (Mk2 Golf-based) Corrado).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,219 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    In Felix Gormleys yard in Cavan. Very rusty underneath, but the ( red) carpet inside is surprisingly good
    It's a 200, manual gearbox.
    If you needed any bits, act sooner rather than later!

    rxfxwRn.jpg


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


    ^
    Shame it's being scraped, I would love to see it done up, great reg number too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,219 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    hi5 wrote: »
    ^
    Shame it's being scraped, I would love to see it done up, great reg number too.

    Too far gone to economically repair, you can look straight out to the ground through the left hand sill..
    Great number, I agree!

    Usually they will not sell a complete car, but as there is unlikely to be an "end of life" declaration on that one ( just weighted as scrap) you'd never know... they might sell it the way it is.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭outfox


    hi5 wrote: »
    ^
    Shame it's being scraped, I would love to see it done up, great reg number too.

    Such a pity you can't transfer reg numbers from car to car, like you can in the UK. You could keep a number you like, for life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,219 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    outfox wrote: »
    Such a pity you can't transfer reg numbers from car to car, like you can in the UK. You could keep a number you like, for life.

    You used to be able to do that here.
    As long as you bought a new car each time.
    Cousins kept the registration number of te machine they founded their business on, and had it on a succession of VW Golfs throughout the 80's and 90's.


  • Registered Users Posts: 649 ✭✭✭steinbock123


    Nekarsulm wrote: »

    You used to be able to do that here.
    As long as you bought a new car each time.
    Cousins kept the registration number of te machine they founded their business on, and had it on a succession of VW Golfs throughout the 80's and 90's.

    Well I never heard that before.
    Are you 100% sure?
    I’ve always felt that the reason it can’t be done here is pure laziness on the part of the civil servants/departments/ministers who could do it relatively easily. The will is not there.
    Too handy to stick a ZV on everything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    Well I never heard that before.
    Are you 100% sure?
    I’ve always felt that the reason it can’t be done here is pure laziness on the part of the civil servants/departments/ministers who could do it relatively easily. The will is not there.
    Too handy to stick a ZV on everything.

    ZV (or year-county-serial) is all that can NOW be put on new or imported cars - up to '87, reg's were handled by local authorities (not centralised at Shannon), and were written in large paper ledgers, so re-issuing old (hopefully) unused reg's was relatively easy.

    I remember seeing the best reg ever issued (appearance-wise) on an Audi 100 in the 80's: IX 1, displayed in silver on black and centre-justified as:

    IXI

    This was the first reg ever issued in Co. Longford, in 1904.

    So much money to be made transferring pre-'87 reg's in Ireland, and I presume that the current system does allow it, so they can change the reg's on vehicles seized by CAB, etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭kqcregg


    Clearing old photos today and came across a few from a walk around locally back in 2016. Completely forgot I took them to put up here!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭kqcregg


    Less recognisable!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭kqcregg


    Something a little bigger...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭kqcregg


    And a mystery one........... I have the reg plate at home somewhere so must double check the model.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    kqcregg wrote: »
    And a mystery one........... I have the reg plate at home somewhere so must double check the model.

    Peugeot 305


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,219 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Type 17 wrote: »
    Peugeot 305

    Or Talbot Solara?
    First though was Montego, but rear pillar is wrong...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,219 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Well I never heard that before.
    Are you 100% sure?
    I’ve always felt that the reason it can’t be done here is pure laziness on the part of the civil servants/departments/ministers who could do it relatively easily. The will is not there.
    Too handy to stick a ZV on everything.

    Yes, 100% sure.
    They had the registration of a Ford Fergusson tractor for years, and always on Golfs.
    Longford reg. as well.
    They sell Mitsubhisi's now....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭ARGINITE


    kqcregg wrote: »
    Something a little bigger...

    Got anymore pics or info on this?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭kqcregg


    ARGINITE wrote: »
    Got anymore pics or info on this?

    Afraid not. Its been in the corner of a field for some time. (Same field as all the others I posted). It had a British Leyalnd badge on the front. I'll try and get over to it again this weekend and see if its still there. If it is I'll post some more pics.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,152 ✭✭✭26000 Elephants


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Or Talbot Solara?
    First though was Montego, but rear pillar is wrong...

    Solara had vertical segments on lights.

    I'd say it's the Peugeot.


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


    A beetle resting up in what I am told was a crash repair shop.

    NBvREmH.jpg


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,085 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    A beetle resting up in what I am told was a crash repair shop.

    NBvREmH.jpg

    Calling kadman.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    Looking at the unusual wheels and the colour, that might be a LHD Beetle that was imported from California in the late 70's by a guy relocating to Ireland - his son was in my class at school. Or it could be a coincidence...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭w124man


    Type 17 wrote: »
    Looking at the unusual wheels

    They were available on a 'Celebration' edition so they were just added somewhere along the way! I had a set here for ages but sold them on. Still have a set of twin port cylinder heads in the shed


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


    w124man wrote: »
    They were available on a 'Celebration' edition so they were just added somewhere along the way! I had a set here for ages but sold them on. Still have a set of twin port cylinder heads in the shed

    Are the twin port heads good??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭w124man


    kadman wrote: »
    Are the twin port heads good??

    Yes they are. I had them bead blasted years ago in preparation for a FVW race engine but I never used them. No valves etc. They came off a Type 3 fastback that was stored in a shed in Sligo for years after a crash. If you are interested send me a PM


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


    I'm not up on my Mercedes. A 123 series?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    Yup, a 230e I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭davycha


    A beetle resting up in what I am told was a crash repair shop.

    NBvREmH.jpg

    is that Beetle in Dundrum , Co.Tipperary ?


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


    davycha wrote: »
    is that Beetle in Dundrum , Co.Tipperary ?

    It is.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭davycha


    It is.

    Partly guessed as much , that Beetle is there for at least 15 years , I often pass it and wonder what's its history , its definitely been stored in a good dry space.
    I must try to find out more about it .


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    A beetle resting up in what I am told was a crash repair shop.

    NBvREmH.jpg

    It is one of these:
    https://beetle.ie/your-stories/the-marathon-beetle/


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


    davycha wrote: »
    Partly guessed as much , that Beetle is there for at least 15 years , I often pass it and wonder what's its history , its definitely been stored in a good dry space.
    I must try to find out more about it .


    Looks like barnfinds are still there to be had:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,011 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


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


    not a classic but don't know where else to put this (apart from in a ditch in Co Galway)

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


    Oh shes a classic allright


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


    Is that on one of the islands tc?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭w124man


    Is that on one of the islands tc?

    If that was on an island it would still be running!


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


    Is that on one of the islands tc?

    Would you believe only about 5 miles from Eyre Square Duke.
    I passed my test in one of these - my Dads '84 957cc, way back when, so always smile when I see one, no matter the condition.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭Isambard


    kev1.3s wrote: »
    Oh shes a classic allright

    how could a reasonably early Fiesta not be a classic at this stage?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Testacalda


    Spotted this Metro sitting in a driveway while out on a new morning walk route yesterday, been sitting a while. I actually really like these Metros. It looks really original and untouched, how rusty could it be :D

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