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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: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Jeez,shes in a bad state,always had a soft spot for old saabs, havent got to drive one yet though:(


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


    Jeez,shes in a bad state(
    I was wondering if the holes on the side are bullet holes! :eek: :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Ok, so its not exactly a car, but does anyone know exactly what type of truck it is? i was thinking a seddon atkinson, but im not well up on elderly commercials:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Isn't that Saab a repost?

    Mike.


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


    mike65 wrote: »
    Isn't that Saab a repost?

    Mike.
    Apologies if it's been posted before. I don't recall seeing it and I didn't think too many people would have been at the rear of Henrietta Street!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Oddness, its not in this thread but I've seen it somewhere.

    Mike.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    Ok, so its not exactly a car, but does anyone know exactly what type of truck it is? i was thinking a seddon atkinson, but im not well up on elderly commercials:)

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/141218/51571.jpg

    It might be a Thornycroft Nubian. Shame its in that condition. Is the cab made of fibreglass and also no headlights???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    G Luxel wrote: »

    It might be a Thornycroft Nubian. Shame its in that condition. Is the cab made of fibreglass and also no headlights???
    Yes, now you say it i think the cab was fibreglass alright,there was a huge piece cut out of the back of it though. I actually tought it was an old ruston bucyrus crane untill it was pulled out of the hedgerow, there was no badges on it at all,very little of any use id say, and im not sure about the headlights. Never heard of a thornycraft nubian before, if i go back to where it was and if its still there ill ask a few questions.


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


    the cab was fibreglass alright,there was a huge piece cut out of the back of it though
    Perhaps to operate the crane from the cab?
    im not sure about the headlights
    The headlights seem to be below the other two 'blank' circles.
    Never heard of a thornycraft nubian before
    They mainly did fire tenders. If it is a Thornycroft, there should be a letter 'T' on the top of the grill. Perhaps it's missing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    The cab looked really butcherd, much too rough to have been done as a factory job,unless it was done afterwards maybe, i hope its still there when i go back, id like to know what it is for definate.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 959 ✭✭✭manta mad


    spotted in tullow.
    their parked up here a while:(
    austin truck in good nick
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    dunno what this one is maybe old irish army signals wagon??
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    and if you look closely on the hill a jag with a golf behind it.
    anyone know what the estate car is next to the shed?
    couldent get closer to that one!
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    the estate looks like a Hillman Minx or the smaller Hillman Husky. Nice to see an original irish regd lorry, although I think it should be stored indoors or undercover, rather than left out exposed to rain and vandals and those amber front indicators are a recent addition.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Its not a Hillman Husky or Minx (the leading angle on the quarterlight is not sharp enough)

    That blue car benind the Jag looks like a Mark 3 Escort or Sierra.

    Mike.


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


    mike65 wrote: »
    That blue car benind the Jag looks like a Mark 3 Escort or Sierra.

    Mike.
    Looks like a Mk I Golf to me (It appears to have headrests - did the Mk I Golf have headrests?)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Looks like a Mk I Golf to me (It appears to have headrests - did the Mk I Golf have headrests?)
    We used to have a 1981 Golf diesel, it had one headrest. Came from the factory like that.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    A head restraint. It was diesel spec. ;)

    Miek.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    A head restraint and four forward gears. I have a 1991 German Mercedes price list somewhere, showing the extra cost for a 5th gear on a W124 230E!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,790 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    RyanSmith wrote: »
    Juist have a look at some of the abandoned exotica on here.

    http://www.supercarforums.co.uk/chatforum/viewtopic.php?t=30


    wow. as one of the poster on that forum felt, now I'm depressed too.......:o

    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” 



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Yes, thats some serious exotica alright:D imagine finding some of that in a shed in this country!! As for the estate car in the pics further up, i know theres some dissagreement, but it really does look like a hillman husky!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭superboy


    Yes I reckon its a Husky too. Nice!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    Spotted this outside a premises in Clonmellon Co. Meath during the week.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Now that is vintage!!wouldnt even hazard a guess at what it is though.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    It is probably a pre war Wolseley or Morris.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    I hope it's not going out with the skip!:eek:.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭VWPowered


    great thread guys love abanoned stuff, i got a whole site of the stuff

    see other post hello from france ;)

    enjoy

    'cos rust is cool' :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    A spares car a friend bought during the week, the original Datsun 100A estate(though its not really much of an estate car:rolleyes:), the photo makes it look quite good, its actually extremely rusty:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    A spares car a friend bought during the week, the original Datsun 100A estate(though its not really much of an estate car:rolleyes:), the photo makes it look quite good, its actually extremely rusty:(

    Is there any floor left in it, or is at a Flintstones car!? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Actually its structurally quite sound, but in typical 100A fashion the roof gutters are gone and the lower rear quarters and sills have fed a lot of tinworms....


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


    Why the horrible Euro plates? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Not sure, i think it was on the road up to 6 or 7 years ago and i presume the owner at that time wanted to modernise it,i agree that they look horrible. It has a bigger engine in it from a 120A, the driveshafts were cut and welded to make them fit!! Twas quite a little goer in its time id say:D!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    It's a Westmeath reg. (LI) if I'm not mistaken.

    So is your friend going to restore it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    yes, LI westmeath indeed,around 1975 i think. it wont be restored id say, he bought it for spares for his74 4 door 100A.Though it would be nice to see it on the road again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


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    No, not in Ireland :( but in a suburb called Jouy-en-Josas, south of Paris. Its called appropriately enough 'Long term parking' and took 6 years to build by a sculptor called Arman. It was unveiled in I982 and consists of 59 cars in I800 tonnes of concrete. It used to be polished every day but has fallen into decay in recent years and apparently the people in the area didnt know it existed as it isn't on any tourist guide. Its in the grounds of the Cartier Foundation.

    arman.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    I remember reading about that concrete thing in a book. What a waste of perfectly good cars for so-called 'art' :(

    By the way G Luxel, what's with using 'I' instead of '1'?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭Sids Not


    Max_Damage wrote: »
    I remember reading about that concrete thing in a book. What a waste of perfectly good cars for so-called 'art' :(

    In fairness..nothing an sds drill and a bit of time wouldnt fix.....:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Alfasudcrazy


    Horrified to see two pretty good looking 504's in there. :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭Renotec


    Sweet J*e*S!!!!
    Bet there is a lot of spares in there. I see all my favourite models.
    R5
    R12
    R16's (class car!! I Could do with that quarter bumper.)
    R20
    Peugeots - 404, 504,
    Fiats - 500, 850,
    Citroens - Traction avant, Ami, Dyane, DS (up top!)
    Well at least they are not yet cubes of metal waiting to be turned into bean tins!

    Also this is a prime location to exercise ones "carchaeology" skills.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    I kinda like it! They are immortalised at least!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭Saabdub


    Saw what looks like a Mercedes W123 abandoned in a field at Ballany, Co. Meath last week. Photo is a bit blurry, it was a good way off and I didn't have my wellies:D

    Saadub


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    Saabdub wrote: »
    Saw what looks like a Mercedes W123 abandoned in a field at Ballany, Co. Meath last week. Photo is a bit blurry, it was a good way off and I didn't have my wellies:D

    Saadub


    .......yeah a W123 alright, looked badly damahed and the rear axles appear to be missing !


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


    I also saw one in a field this weekend,on the N9 near Waterford is a field with old rubbish colllection trucks, among them is what appears to be a green w123.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭Saabdub


    This collection is behind someones house outside Bagnelstown in Carlow:eek:

    Saabdub


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭Redrocket


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    none are for sale, i tried


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭Redrocket


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭Redrocket


    infact when i asked in the shop next door about the cars, she simply replied "they're not for sale"
    went to galway today just to check these out but was worth it, the oul guy seems cracked, they're all restoration projects. that black capri he claims is gonna be back on the road very soon :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    It is a sin to see these fine cars fall into disrepair, Especially the Sierra's, they are becoming increasingly rare nowadays. Always had a soft spot for them, I learned how to drive in my parent's '93 Sierra diesel. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    Yeah Sierra's are getting very thin on the ground, cant remember the last time I saw one of the original types !

    Those Capri's are some sight !!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭Redrocket


    well you can find them alright, but there's no such thing as a cheap sierra these days. years ago you could pick them up for 100 quid, not anymore.

    i'd say those vw busses are there 10-15 years longer than the capris... so maybe in 10 years ill take another look :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    That Sierra looks like it's still in use to me!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Woah! a 18 year old Sierra is not a classic in any way!

    Mike.


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