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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    95 Camry, probably an ex-taxi.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭pajor


    dgt wrote: »
    I nearly got sick when I saw this one in a yard in the North earlier this year and all. Felt like new inside, despite having galactic mileage. 2.5TD, such a waste of an epic car that had just been ran in :(:(:(

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/one-owner-rwd-toyota-carina-ta40/5842494

    The interior though. :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭kasper


    1985 beige Renault 9 tl never let me down it is a daily driver for me , my uncle drove it until he was 85 years old


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭robertxxx


    Just seen an 98 primera when i was heading up to bed.

    Looked great :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 227 ✭✭Andrew_Doran


    Wibbs wrote: »
    For my mind anyway I suspect that the period just after the need to take grease to your trunions and just before the cars became mobile computer networks may well be the sweet spot for longevity. I'd near bet that in classic car meets in 2050 there'll be more 1995 cars than 2015 cars still driving in a near original state.

    You're absolutely right. Mid 1990s cars:

    - rust proofing
    - good in a crash (depending on car)
    - fuel injection, so good economy
    - reliable because there's not much to go wrong, and what's there is mature technology
    - easy to fix

    Since then it has been one step forward two steps back.

    With certain brands, even cars of that vintage had inbuilt design faults in order to generate money on service and parts after the car was sold, but now almost every car on the road seems to be designed with what the yanks call "planned obsolescence" in mind.

    I vaguely remember that the Volvo 240 was designed for something like a 25 year life span, impossible to imagine that with a new car nowadays.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    Where did you see the BX? Can't remember the last time I saw one... Glad there are still some knocking around :)

    I spotted the BX in Birr.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,558 ✭✭✭Blue850


    didn't see it, but I've just heard my brother in law next door going to work in this 2.0 litre Kadett

    DSC08873.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 866 ✭✭✭renofan


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    Where did you see the BX? Can't remember the last time I saw one... Glad there are still some knocking around :)

    I would love to own one, first car I ever drove, was a '91 reg and I was 15 :)

    If you go to France, (a place I've had 1st hand experience of a few times), you'll see plenty of '80's cars on the roads never mind '90's. Which is usually a highlight of my trips over there! Love seeing your average joe soap older car still being cared for and on the road. I can't tell different model Audi's apart anymore and sometimes I wonder if Kia and Hyundai have got into bed together as their models look the same to me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    95C mk3/4 Fiesta on the N20...looked well too


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭pajor


    Today it was a 94 Mini Cooper. Some noise out of it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,611 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    renofan wrote: »
    I wonder if Kia and Hyundai have got into bed together as their models look the same to me.

    They have......


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭kasper


    ianobrien wrote: »
    I spotted the BX in Birr.

    this one on done deal yesterday
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/for-sale-citroen-bx-gti/5861214


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    kasper wrote: »

    Nice motor. Nice to see one being kept alive and kicking in what appears to be in good shape, but 38 mpg?....wouldn't think so..


  • Registered Users Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Alan Shore


    VW golf INI 995

    Seems to be a 74/75.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    96 Volkswagen Vento today, OAP driver, and it looked lovely


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,691 ✭✭✭michellie


    71 vw microbus


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭ Raelyn Small Lion


    VW Passat, guessing it's a 70's B1 model after a quick google, spotted in Tralee today. Very strong smell coming from its exhaust!

    photo.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    I couldn't find a thread "Motors you saw today" or "Classic Cars you saw today" something like that around here, though I'm nearly sure there was one around here (touch site search, you fail me yet again), but just half an hour ago as I was heading into my apartment block, cropped and shopped (Sized it down and blanked out the licence plate) -


    788EGZ.jpg


    For anyone who doesn't remember Herbie!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 405 ✭✭00833827


    VW Passat, guessing it's a 70's B1 model after a quick google, spotted in Tralee today. Very strong smell coming from its exhaust!

    Shes showing as 1982 and she is NCTed and Taxed till mid 2014 - well done that man!


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Real B-man


    Opel Kadett B around Roundwood Co.Wicklow last Weekend


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭furtzy


    Lovely '88 Camry with an equally lovely old couple in it!. The velour interior looked so comfy :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭pajor


    Just saw a 1985 Mercedes 230CE on my street. Mother and child got into it, looked like a daily runner.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭pcardin


    My daily driver is 96 e36 convertible. Saw an 88 e32 this morning and there's an 82 W126 in car park where I live. I realize that there are plenty of old cars around me every day it's just that I wouldn pay much attention to notice an old jap or golf or ford. Didn't like them when they were new don't like them now.

    Was amazed though to see that Fiat Tipo that is still being driven. Had one in my college years and it is still the worst car I ever owned. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ghogie91


    I seen like an 88 Land Rover Defender, the chap has it all painted and looks nice and pure mean defeat the world looking yoke

    all he is missing is one of the british helmets they used when fighting the zulus


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    Spotted an 85 Porsche 944 while collecting my girlfriend today. I was in my R5.





    If the other 50 or so modern cars weren't in the car park it could have been a scene from the 90s.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    I'd have loved to say the Merc 560SEL I saw down from RCSI was the oldest, however I saw a mk1 Golf in a shop car park....


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    Saw a Mk3 Escort parked up yesterday (80-86?). It looked a lot smaller than I remember!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    pajor wrote: »
    1994 Citroen ZX I think it was.

    Once again I shall bring up the point that the Irish know squat about looking after a car. Go to any country on the continent (even the UK are better than us) and you'll see plenty of old Citroens, Pug 205 and 405, Volvos and so on and so forth.

    Especially in The Netherlands where the old Fiat Panda is a favourite. :pac:

    Availability and the cost of spares was and still is a major problem here. Main dealers dont want to know about any vehicle part pre '00. The auto factors surely aren't interested.


  • Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭kuro2k


    90 serria cosworth on the link road in Cork


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭furtzy


    early 80's MKIII brown Ford Capri driven by an elderly lady quite quickly around Donnybrook. Its on original plates. Looks like a very low spec model maybe only a 1.3 version. Must try and get a pic


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