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New, unregistered Irish-bought car from 1976 - where do I start?

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  • #512
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,675 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    alfa beta wrote: »
    Hi Cobo - my brother has decided to try his hand at getting that back on the road. I'll be dropping it to him in the next few days (It's a bit of a cross country trek!) - However, if it ends up sitting in another shed or if he changes his mind I'll keep you posted!!

    It should fire up easily enough, if she lives could you make a short video I haven't heard a cub in years.


  • #513
    alfa beta
    Registered Users Posts: 763 ✭✭✭alfa beta


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    It should fire up easily enough, if she lives could you make a short video I haven't heard a cub in years.


    Will do :-)


  • #514
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Jaysus keep the Merc at least! What a beauty!! I'd give my right arm and possibly my left to be in your situation.


  • #515
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    Jaysus keep the Merc at least! What a beauty!! I'd give my right arm and possibly my left to be in your situation.

    I'd say 99% of the posters on this thread would do it he same, me included! I'd be over the moon with an empty shed, let alone the machines.


  • #516
    galwaytt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,749 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    alfa beta wrote: »
    I have a feeling your old man would have got on rather handsomely with mine!!!

    You're right - they seem of the same ilk.

    Keep the Merc. I wouldn't even aim for showroom standard - the way I look at is, they were never showroom when in everyday use, so that not really how they were. Think 'oily rag' resto.

    One thing I dont want to do to ours is have it super shiney. They were never 2-pack shiney even when they were new !!

    At one point my Dad had two at the same time: a 220s and a 220SEb - here they are in a too-short driveway in Caherdavin in Limerick in about 1972.....you can't see the front of the SEb. It has the twin stack lights unlike the single big ones of the S.

    He paid the Ever Ready Garage in Donnybrook the princely sum of £880 for the SEb in.....1968 ?? A one owner, ex diplomatic corps car.....

    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” 



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  • #517
    alfa beta
    Registered Users Posts: 763 ✭✭✭alfa beta


    galwaytt wrote: »
    here they are in a too-short driveway in Caherdavin in Limerick in about 1972.


    Great photo - it's not too many houses that would have had two Mercs parked outside like that back then!!


  • #518
    Bif
    Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Bif


    alfa beta wrote: »
    Great photo - it's not too many houses that would have had two Mercs parked outside like that back then!!
    Was he a gov. minister?


  • #519
    galwaytt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,749 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Bif wrote: »
    Was he a gov. minister?

    Lolz no, a builder. Collecting Veehickles obviously started early... :pac: The 220s was subsequently sold to an uncle of mine, and the SEb kept.

    I came across old negatives which I'm playing around with digitising atmo, and came across pics of his first car, and his second - see attached - and yes, like this was in a different time & place, them's are chickens......

    Note the bonnet badge on the black car - same one was on the steering wheel- prior to the use of "VW" as badge, it's the old Wolfsburg badge.

    I think the tyre widths are bordering comical - but probably made the car very comfortable.

    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” 



  • #520
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,675 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    galwaytt wrote: »
    Lolz no, a builder. Collecting Veehickles obviously started early... :pac: The 220s was subsequently sold to an uncle of mine, and the SEb kept.

    I came across old negatives which I'm playing around with digitising atmo, and came across pics of his first car, and his second - see attached - and yes, like this was in a different time & place, them's are chickens......

    Note the bonnet badge on the black car - same one was on the steering wheel- prior to the use of "VW" as badge, it's the old Wolfsburg badge.

    I think the tyre widths are bordering comical - but probably made the car very comfortable.
    Well, the black car always knew where it was going....


  • #521
    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,052 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Here is what your type 3 should sound like, my maiden voyage today after a long resto,

    now just small bits a and maybe a respray, or maybe not.





    :)


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  • #522
    kev1.3s
    Registered Users Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    Sounds great, the only thing I'd change would be the plates.


  • #523
    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,052 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    And in case the eagle eyed boardsie is looking for the tax and insurance disc...

    they are on the passenger seat.....no screen wallet:)


  • #524
    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,052 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    kev1.3s wrote: »
    Sounds great, the only thing I'd change would be the plates.

    Step away from the vehicle now mister...:D


  • #525
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,921 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    kadman wrote: »
    Step away from the vehicle now mister...:D

    Tbf, he has a point.

    Set of these would just make her pop:

    50043041638_c417bdd417_c.jpg

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113848851&postcount=6122


  • #526
    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,052 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    Tbf, he has a point.

    Set of these would just make her pop:

    50043041638_c417bdd417_c.jpg

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113848851&postcount=6122

    mmm..............maybe.
    And the front ??


  • #527
    kev1.3s
    Registered Users Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    kadman wrote: »
    mmm..............maybe.
    And the front ??

    Has to be black letters on white background, same font.
    Dont want to come across as pedantic but one of my pet hates is those black plates, especially on an original irish car.


  • #528
    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,052 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    kev1.3s wrote: »
    Has to be black letters on white background, same font.
    Dont want to come across as pedantic but one of my pet hates is those black plates, especially on an original irish car.

    Different views are always welcome, thats what boards is all about:)

    But the only original Irish part of this car, is the number plate and floor pan.

    The body was originally on an english floor pan. But as the chassis number is stamped on the floor pan itself, law dictates that the logbook details stay with the pan.

    So when I scrapped the original very crusty powdery non repairable pan, and replaced it with the better solid floorpan, the numbers changed.

    Hence the original irish number on a UK body. Not what I wanted to do, but law says I must.

    Do I keep the plates now:D:D


  • #529
    kev1.3s
    Registered Users Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    kadman wrote: »
    Different views are always welcome, thats what boards is all about:)

    But the only original Irish part of this car, is the number plate and floor pan.

    The body was originally on an english floor pan. But as the chassis number is stamped on the floor pan itself, law dictates that the logbook details stay with the pan.

    So when I scrapped the original very crusty powdery non repairable pan, and replaced it with the better solid floorpan, the numbers changed.

    Hence the original irish number on a UK body. Not what I wanted to do, but law says I must.

    Do I keep the plates now:D:D
    Its entirely your call, whatever you think suits it best but i certainly think original style plates look way better.


  • #530
    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,052 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    You're probably right...any suggestions where to get them , as not all motor factors do the vintage plates.


  • #531
    kev1.3s
    Registered Users Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    https://www.eireplates.com/category/classic-vintage-number-plates


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  • #532
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,818 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    kev1.3s wrote: »
    Has to be black letters on white background, same font.
    Dont want to come across as pedantic but one of my pet hates is those black plates, especially on an original irish car.

    Those plates would have been the originals until some point in the 70s

    Life ain't always empty.



  • #533
    Type 17
    Registered Users Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭Type 17


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Those plates would have been the originals until some point in the 70s

    Not quite those ones - the black/silver ones that were standard (until Irl joined the EEC in 1974) were the RPI 393 font in the pic below, rather than the 78 D 1165 one.

    20cff1W.png


  • #534
    Isambard
    Registered Users Posts: 5,796 ✭✭✭Isambard


    my take on number plates DSC00125.jpg

    if I recall they were from Eireplates.

    these from the morris minor club years ago would be better still

    013.jpg


  • #535
    forgottenhills
    Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭forgottenhills


    Isambard wrote: »
    my take on number plates DSC00125.jpg

    That's very casual parking there in the middle of the road.

    There were a couple of towns in the midlands that used to have very wide main streets, particularly some before they improved with segregated-off parking areas and flower beds etc that narrowed the streets. The locals used to say that you could drive into town and just pull up, rather than have to park.

    Edit: I have just realised that that particular road/mountain pass runs between the yellow lines so car is fine!


  • #536
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,335 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    forgottenhills wrote: »
    That's very casual parking there in the middle of the road.

    There were a couple of towns in the midlands that used to have very wide main streets, particularly some before they improved with segregated-off parking areas and flower beds etc that narrowed the streets. The locals used to say that you could drive into town and just pull up, rather than have to park.

    Edit: I have just realised that that particular road/mountain pass runs between the yellow lines so car is fine!

    There used to be parking in the middle of O'Connell St in Dublin.


  • #537
    Silent Running
    Registered Users Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Silent Running


    Sam Russell wrote: »
    There used to be parking in the middle of O'Connell St in Dublin.

    I can conform this. I used to park there. :D


  • #538
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,818 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Type 17 wrote: »
    Not quite those ones - the black/silver ones that were standard (until Irl joined the EEC in 1974) were the RPI 393 font in the pic below, rather than the 78 D 1165 one.

    20cff1W.png

    Yes the font on modern black plates is usually wrong, it's the same one as standard current plates which is a lot narrower (stroke width and symbol width) to accommodate more symbols.

    From my childhood I seem to recall black plates with raised plastic white symbols on them on very old cars! A little like the '79 Cortina but not silver and with a sort of triangular cross section.

    I also seem to recall that silver on black plates remained legal for some time after they commonly fell out of use, can anyone recall the year? I have a modern classic bike one would look well on...

    Life ain't always empty.



  • #539
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,641 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Black plates were still allowed up until 1987, I believe. There were a few plastic variations produced in the '80s, some with what looked like gold or bronze lettering.


  • #540
    kev1.3s
    Registered Users Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    zilog_jones wrote: »
    Black plates were still allowed up until 1987, I believe. There were a few plastic variations produced in the '80s, some with what looked like gold or bronze lettering.

    Black with gold digits made up of lines.
    Sorry to have completely derailed this thread which m is the best thread in here in quite some time


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  • #541
    Type 17
    Registered Users Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭Type 17


    Speaking of back on track, why the hell are we posting sample pics from the internet of period, pre-'74 black and silver plates when we have two perfect examples? :)
    alfa beta wrote: »
    IMG-5508.jpg


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