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This weeks Classic Irish bargains that I'm not buying

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    #3062
    Gravelly
    Registered Users Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/1988-nissan-bluebird-1-6-ls/20956229

    Boring Retro

    They were a great car in their day, I sold two of them when I was buying and selling cars to pay my way through college. Always had a soft spot for them. That looks immaculate.


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    #3063
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Gravelly wrote: »
    They were a great car in their day, I sold two of them when I was buying and selling cars to pay my way through college. Always had a soft spot for them. That looks immaculate.

    They were a sturdy enough yoke. A very useable classic.


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    #3064
    unfit2006
    Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭unfit2006


    A very nice looking Fiat 132

    https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/385549905605243


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    #3065
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users Posts: 35,740 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/bmw-2002/20964202


    Looks solid, could be a good project car.


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    #3066
    kev1.3s
    Registered Users Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    Jesus, when did heaps like this become so valuable?
    I remember looking at a 2002 in better condition for €300 a few years ago.


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    #3067
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,942 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    You should have bought it! For some reason classic BMWs have gone up in value for than most in the last 3-4 years or so. Even the E30s that could be picked up for peanuts not that long ago


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    #3068
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users Posts: 35,740 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/e28-bmw-525i-5-sp-manual-1983-in-superb-condition-throughout-110k-great-classic/264179463011?hash=item3d8252b363:g:sR8AAOSwBFpbj7Ai

    Looks nice. Love the build quality of these.


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    #3069
    oceanman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,746 ✭✭✭oceanman


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/e28-bmw-525i-5-sp-manual-1983-in-superb-condition-throughout-110k-great-classic/264179463011?hash=item3d8252b363:g:sR8AAOSwBFpbj7Ai

    Looks nice. Love the build quality of these.
    lovely car but the engines in them were junk...


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    #3070
    Seweryn
    Registered Users Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Seweryn


    oceanman wrote: »
    lovely car but the engines in them were junk...
    Really? M30 are old design (1968), but very decent engines.


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    #3071
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,942 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    That M30 engine made BMW what it is today imho


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    #3072
    supervento
    Registered Users Posts: 370 ✭✭supervento


    Love the colour and look of this e28....

    https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1058000


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    #3073
    oceanman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,746 ✭✭✭oceanman


    Seweryn wrote: »
    Really? M30 are old design (1968), but very decent engines.
    just make sure you have plenty of cylinder heads and head gaskets sets on hand..:)


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    #3074
    ht9zni1gs28crp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭ht9zni1gs28crp


    oceanman wrote: »
    just make sure you have plenty of cylinder heads and head gaskets sets on hand..:)

    Just done the head gasket on my M30B34 :D:D Its always the rear cylinder nearest the fire wall. Although no complaints on a 34yr old car in reality.

    Head gaskets on these are the engines way of reminding you that the valves need resetting.... :D

    Your going to need to go in there regardless of head gasket at some point in the engines life....:D


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    #3075
    Seweryn
    Registered Users Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Seweryn


    miller_63 wrote: »
    Just done the head gasket on my M30B34 :D:D Its always the rear cylinder nearest the fire wall. Although no complaints on a 34yr old car in reality.

    Head gaskets on these are the engines way of reminding you that the valves need resetting.... :D

    Your going to need to go in there regardless of head gasket at some point in the engines life....:D
    Yeah... And on the other hand, which other in-line six cylinder engine is completely trouble free in this area?


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    #3076
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,942 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Seweryn wrote: »
    Yeah... And on the other hand, which other in-line six cylinder engine is completely trouble free in this area?

    The M50? :D

    As long as you don't feed it dirty sulphur rich petrol of course...


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    #3077
    Kenny Logins
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    oceanman wrote: »
    just make sure you have plenty of cylinder heads and head gaskets sets on hand..:)

    I did mine a couple years ago. The head gasket simply gave up after 30 odd years. What a rip.


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    #3078
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,942 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    The €6k Saab Turbo is still up for sale. That's remarkable. I'd have thought it would be snapped up. Seems very reasonable for that price, iconic Saab in what seems to be super condition. That said, maybe there isn't an awful lot of affinity with Saabs in this country.


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    #3079
    oceanman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,746 ✭✭✭oceanman


    unkel wrote: »
    The €6k Saab Turbo is still up for sale. That's remarkable. I'd have thought it would be snapped up. Seems very reasonable for that price, iconic Saab in what seems to be super condition. That said, maybe there isn't an awful lot of affinity with Saabs in this country.
    I would say you hit the nail on the head there..


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    #3080
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,404 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Seems the SAAB seller was snowed in in Italy last week and had a few calls about the car. Now back in Ireland so will be interesting to see how long it hangs around.


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    #3081
    galwaytt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/bmw-2002/20964202


    Looks solid, could be a good project car.

    Snap:
    http://www.classiccarworkshop.ie/2002.html

    https://www.irishvintagescene.ie/retro-classics/

    He's just had one featured in the UK press too: there are no cheap 2002Tii anymore. ..

    Ode To The Motorist

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    #3082
    Testacalda
    Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭Testacalda


    Spotted this Bentley R in the back of Practical Classics Magazine, apparently bought by the Irish Government in 1948 for Dev. Not exactly a bargain at £10,000 given its condition, but cool history if its true.


    6034073


    I wonder what registration is on it, hardly still has its Dublin one?


    posting images here is very tedious


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    #3083
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,202 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Testacalda wrote: »
    Spotted this Bentley R in the back of Practical Classics Magazine, apparently bought by the Irish Government in 1948 for Dev. Not exactly a bargain at £30,000 given its condition, but cool history if its true.


    6034073


    I wonder what registration is on it, hardly still has its Dublin one?


    posting images here is very tedious


    The price shown is £10,000


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    #3084
    Testacalda
    Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭Testacalda


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    The price shown is £10,000

    so it does, does that make it a bargain now I wonder?


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    #3085
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,202 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Testacalda wrote: »
    so it does, does that make it a bargain now I wonder?


    It might do. really hard to tell what the condition is.


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    #3086
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,404 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Well there was also this 1947 Rolls ZJ 5000. I doubt they got a Bentley for him the year after. Either way, it didn't take long for them to put the Economic War behind them!

    https://www.irishjagclub.ie/terenure-2007-gallery/2007-terenure-show-presidents-rolls-royce/

    1947_Rolls-Royce_Silver_Wraith_landaulette_-_Irish_Presidential_Car.jpg


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    #3087
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,404 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    More reading on the Rolls here. No mention of a Bentley anywhere.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_State_Car_(Ireland)

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/official-queried-if-de-valera-s-rolls-royce-was-archaeological-object-1.995293

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/stately-vehicle-of-seven-irish-presidents-rolls-into-its-60s-26430965.html


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    #3088
    mattroche
    Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭mattroche


    Ha,Ha, someone trying it on. The RR ZJ5000 was, & I think it still is, the official Presidential Car. Some years ago 25/30 I saw a Merc. 220 SE. in London, ( RZD 961 )the owner was looking for big money for it, because it was Devs Car. When I told him it was not, but it was a Ministerial Car, the price changed very fast.


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    #3089
    Testacalda
    Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭Testacalda


    The Bentley would never have been a presidential car for Dev, he only became president in '59, and Sean T O' Kelly famously wanted a horse drawn carriage!

    De Velara was Taoiseach around '48 wasn't he? I couldn't find any evidence or picture of him ever being in a Bentley.


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    #3090
    hi5
    Registered Users Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭hi5


    Dev had a Dodge..

    ply_dodge.jpg


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    #3091
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users Posts: 4,459 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    mattroche wrote: »
    Ha,Ha, someone trying it on. The RR ZJ5000 was, & I think it still is, the official Presidential Car.

    Yeah, looks like a bit of a chancer on the Bentley. The Rolls sits in the Aras, you can see it any Saturday as part of the tour. Don't see them ever selling it on now.


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