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  • #92
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    @Kadman
    Was that once sitting under a cover in a large front garden in Louth, facing the sea?


  • #93
    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Titzon Toast wrote: »
    @Kadman
    Was that once sitting under a cover in a large front garden in Louth, facing the sea?

    No. Originated from Kerry when a family member purchased it many years ago.
    And has been driven since. It was off the road for a few months when the family member started a minor resto, resprayed then, but never re assembled.

    I got my hands on it then, re assembled and back on the road:)


  • #94
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    Ah, I thought I recognised it. There was one the same colour with white walls in an area I work in. It's recently moved on.


  • #95
    Casati
    Registered Users Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭Casati


    Isambard wrote: »
    i've had dozens of them and on the whole have loved them all.

    Did you ever have a 2.0s or a 2.3s? I’ve never seen one since my father got rid of his in 1987


  • #96
    Isambard
    Registered Users Posts: 5,796 ✭✭✭Isambard


    Casati wrote: »
    Did you ever have a 2.0s or a 2.3s? I’ve never seen one since my father got rid of his in 1987

    no but I had a 3.0S :-) mk4 Ss are probably the rarest model now


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  • #97
    Casati
    Registered Users Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭Casati


    Isambard wrote: »
    no but I had a 3.0S :-) mk4 Ss are probably the rarest model now

    Wow, didn’t know they had a 3.0s. Any S mk4 is in my short list of classic car to have but I’ll probably not find one!


  • #98
    Isambard
    Registered Users Posts: 5,796 ✭✭✭Isambard


    Casati wrote: »
    Wow, didn’t know they had a 3.0s. Any S mk4 is in my short list of classic car to have but I’ll probably not find one!

    they did...in South Africa.


    you might spot a few on here https://www.facebook.com/groups/1511621059123626/ enjoy


  • #99
    Bawnmore
    Registered Users Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Bawnmore


    We've a few just about classics in the family that I've access to for the last year or so - I must try snap a few photos when out home next. These would be the most recent:

    100.jpg

    100-Quattro.jpg


  • #100
    Lurching
    Registered Users Posts: 1,239 ✭✭✭Lurching


    My old friend:

    49415346357_023332df23_b.jpg


  • #101
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    That looks fantastic. Are those seats out of something else?


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  • #102
    Lurching
    Registered Users Posts: 1,239 ✭✭✭Lurching


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    That looks fantastic. Are those seats out of something else?

    They're the leathers out of an E21, but I haven't had the chance to get them retrimmed yet.


  • #103
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,758 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Savage! 2002 tii and all?


  • #104
    Lurching
    Registered Users Posts: 1,239 ✭✭✭Lurching


    unkel wrote: »
    Savage! 2002 tii and all?

    Yes sir. It drives very well for such an old machine.


  • #105
    Harcrid
    Registered Users Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Harcrid


    Out and about in the MGB today. Weather stayed reasonably clear thankfully.

    503051.JPG


  • #106
    ambro25
    Registered Users Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    Our MX-5 catching up with an older sister on Oldtimer Day 2019:

    photo.jpg

    Original UK car ('Berkeley' special edition), original throughout except new roof. Over the years, has been IE imported/reg'd, back to original UK reg, now on LU reg. We've had it 19 years (2nd owners from new).

    Edit - just did a Boards search for my posts about it over the last 15 yrs of membership & sure enough, I'm even finding 12 or 13 year-old posts about Irish insurance recommendations :D


  • #107
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,758 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Good to see you're still around ambro! I bet you're glad you never sold the MX-5, instead just bringing it around with you and just re-registering it wherever you lived next :D


  • #108
    ambro25
    Registered Users Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    Hey unkel :)

    Yes, that's been pretty much the modus operandi, more by accident than by design...we just never found it in our heart to part ways, too good/fun/cheap a driving experience (all the more so, once she was down to residual-or-less bottoming value), so she has matured into a 'classic' through length of careful ownership (she's family: we had the movers put her inside the lorry, when we moved from the UK in '18 ;))

    A change of headlights later (RHD>LHD beams, lucky the fog light is mounted centrally and so didn't need changing sides), she's classed as an "old timer" here in Luxembourg: it is their quasi-official badge for 'older' vehicles, you see it mentioned everywhere by insurers, the state-run MOT system, garages and dealers, events, the media etc. (all use the expression in English, very uniformly).

    RHD is not an issue, but the roadworthiness standard to pass the local version of the MOT (3 locations across the country, state-run and -staffed, everything with wheels must go through annually from age 3, from the lowliest 50cc moped to the freshest Ferrari or Lambo, including any old tractor, semi, camper, etc. in-between) is probably one of highest in Europe, so every classic here is (has to be) pretty close to fresh-off-the-production-line mechanically.


  • #109
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Heres 2 pics of my 2002 from last year.Its an original Kildare car and still in kildare!I'm the 8th owner so last name on the brown book.
    Its pretty much been garaged since then.
    Needs some love this year,hopefully I will find the time/money.

    ISKuRMR.jpg

    Tze9pPz.jpg


  • #110
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Harcrid wrote: »
    Out and about in the MGB today. Weather stayed reasonably clear thankfully.

    503051.JPG


    Where was that...a Quinnsworth car park.......:P


  • #111
    Harcrid
    Registered Users Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Harcrid


    All cleaned up ready for a weekend spin.

    520332.jpg


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  • #112
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users Posts: 5,862 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    heres my latest - sadly some prick hit it in the supermarket car park yesterday

    520377.jpg


  • #113
    Isambard
    Registered Users Posts: 5,796 ✭✭✭Isambard


    had a couple of trips out last week. DSC00125.jpg

    DSC00188.jpg


  • #114
    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Isambard wrote: »
    had a couple of trips out last week. DSC00125.jpg

    DSC00188.jpg

    Class cars, and location.

    Where were the pics taken.


  • #115
    Isambard
    Registered Users Posts: 5,796 ✭✭✭Isambard


    first one is Gap of Dunloe Killarney , the second is the top of the Conor Pass Dingle.

    Lack of tourists makes for better photo opportunities


  • #116
    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Thought as much, as I have holidayed in Killarney many, many times.

    And will do again later in the year to refresh my failing memory:D


  • #117
    MrCostington
    Registered Users Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭MrCostington


    RobAMerc wrote: »
    heres my latest - sadly some prick hit it in the supermarket car park yesterday

    Looks lovely. Sorry to hear that, hope it's not too bad?


  • #118
    zetecescort
    Registered Users Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    The Vee in Waterford/Tipperary


  • #119
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users Posts: 5,862 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    MrCostington wrote: »
    Looks lovely. Sorry to hear that, hope it's not too bad?

    thanks, its not too bad, but someone shouldnt think its ok to damage someone elses car and then just f off

    I bought a new BMW and the first day I had it some clown parked inches from me and dented it in an otherwise empty car park.
    This one got to a full 6 days before some toolbag hit it despite me choosing to park it in a standalone stop ( not between other cars )
    Its sickening !

    520438.jpg


  • #120
    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Any chance of getting CCTV footage covering the car park, and following the muppet.


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  • #121
    outfox
    Registered Users Posts: 942 ✭✭✭outfox


    That's a sickener. She's a beauty. Those XJ40s have really grown on me.


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