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This weeks Classic Irish bargains that I'm not buying

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  • #7252
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,079 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    KevRossi wrote: »
    Did you feel that your parents had quite frankly **** on you? :D


    That video will never get old. It's a total gem.

    Rob sums it up perfectly.


  • #7253
    tc20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭tc20


    unkel wrote: »
    There's only 2 cars that I hate. The Renault 12 and the mini metro :D

    (and that piece of sh1t from Japan that is a Micra trying to look like a classic Jaguar - this vehicle shall not be named)

    have to take you to task on the R12 unkel - my Dad had a '75 model, (that's a Gen1 to the anoraks) reg 807 CIK, the first car he let me drive; well initially reversing in & out of the drive (underage) and then when I turned 17 it was my first mode of legal motorised transport so it holds a place in my heart.
    And what of the R16 and the R15 & R17 coupes - the height of the working mans attainable bit of continental flash?

    And on the Metro (I missed the DD ad, gone now) my Dad had one briefly from the insurance as a replacement after someone tipped into the back of him around 83/84. Yes it was practically new, but I just didn't take to it at all.


  • #7254
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,708 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    I was a big fan of the R15 and R17, collected the brochures from the main dealer just a few hundred yards from our house, when they came out :)

    The first car I have recollection of is the brand new R4 my dad bought when I was 2. A few years later we took that to trips to Spain with 3 kids in the back, my dad had made a rudimentary seat belt system for the rear seats himself :eek:

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  • #7255
    w124man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭w124man


    Believe it or not the Maestro was a really great car in prototype form but the production and QC guys didn't care!


  • #7256
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,472 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    It was a journey, a step up from the 70s and by 1989 they had a well sorted car in the R8 Rover 200 series.


  • #7257
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,085 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    RobAMerc wrote: »
    I may have picked this up from here before but anyway .....


    As is tradition... the infamous Rover 100 NCAP test.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0P9MistIDg


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0P9MistIDg


  • #7258
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,085 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    w124man wrote: »
    Believe it or not the Maestro was a really great car in prototype form but the production and QC guys didn't care!

    A quick google brought me down this rabbit hole:


    devmaestro_01.jpg?resize=651%2C476

    https://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/austin/maestro/concepts-and-prototypes-maestro-development/


  • #7259
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,617 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    I wonder if there are any original Irish Maestros still out there?

    About 8 or 9 years ago there was a brown one on Donedeal, Louth reg coincidentally, for €350. 1 owner and low miles. Haven’t seen one since, in person or advertised.

    I looked at that Maestro and a Safrane he had for sale.

    Both were ****e so I quickly walked away. I hope the buyer of the Metro knows how rare an early one is. They do nothing for me but it was OK, good interior. Hard to tell about the paint as it was wet. Simple enough to sort, suspension can be pumped at home if you know what you're at


  • #7260
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,708 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    suspension can be pumped at home if you know what you're at

    Or at the former main Rover dealer in Blanch village (these days a Kia dealer or somehting like that?) , presuming they still have the machine and the staff to operate it. Got mine done years ago and they charged me €45 or thereabouts - reaonable enough!

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  • #7261
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    There was a lovely Vanden Plas edition on DD last year that wasn't mad money either. I was very tempted......

    540436.JPG


  • #7262
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,085 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    kaizersoze wrote: »
    There was a lovely Vanden Plas edition on DD last year that wasn't mad money either. I was very tempted......

    540436.JPG

    I remember that, but I mostly remember Duke's fawning over it!


  • #7263
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,079 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    I remember that, but I mostly remember Duke's fawning over it!

    I still remember the gorgeous wooden steering wheel it had!


  • #7264
    con747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,966 ✭✭✭con747


    89 Suzuki alto €650 low mileage but rough. https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/89-suzuki-alto/27051768

    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.



  • #7265
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,079 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    con747 wrote: »
    89 Suzuki alto €650 low mileage but rough. https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/89-suzuki-alto/27051768

    If you think thats rough, you should see the one I paid €150 for!

    Mine had 12 months NCT too. And about seven years ago I paid €80 for a literally mint, like-brand-new one with 11k miles on the clock, from the original owner!


  • #7266
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,079 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1986-toyota-mr2/27058018

    MmNhNTllMTc3Y2JjM2I0N2RmM2UwMDQ4MmNkNjhlNDkx5K19Kb5hzxM_oVTM9VPWaHR0cDovL3MzLWV1LXdlc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL2RvbmVkZWFsLmllLXBob3Rvcy9waG90b18xNjg4Njg3MTd8fHw2MDB4NjAwfHx8fHx8fHw=.jpeg

    86 MR2 with NCT & tax for €3500, seems a decent price


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  • #7267
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1986-toyota-mr2/27058018

    MmNhNTllMTc3Y2JjM2I0N2RmM2UwMDQ4MmNkNjhlNDkx5K19Kb5hzxM_oVTM9VPWaHR0cDovL3MzLWV1LXdlc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL2RvbmVkZWFsLmllLXBob3Rvcy9waG90b18xNjg4Njg3MTd8fHw2MDB4NjAwfHx8fHx8fHw=.jpeg

    86 MR2 with NCT & tax for €3500, seems a decent price

    Love that Duke and it is a reasonable price if its not a rot box. I've just too many cars none of which are getting used at the moment.


  • #7268
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,331 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Did someone take a paint brush to it, there's over spray on the door hinge, nice price if it's not riddled with rust.


  • #7269
    Tzardine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    The Metro is back, and 700 quid more expensive.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1981-austin-metro-1-owner-from-new-only-57k-miles/27058748
    9mBEpgQ.jpg

    He must have seen the thread and thought he priced it too low.;)


  • #7270
    w124man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭w124man


    That poor Metro needs half an hour on an Issypiss machine! Silly price IMHO!


  • #7271
    Redriddick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭Redriddick


    Mr2 didnt last long.....


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  • #7272
    w124man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭w124man


    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/toyota-land-cruiser-prada-sx/27025083

    Hahaha €20,000


  • #7273
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,299 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    ^Don't think he will get any timewasters.^


  • #7274
    Tzardine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    20 Foo King grand. Ha ha. I needed a good laugh today.


  • #7275
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,079 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Tzardine wrote: »
    The Metro is back, and 700 quid more expensive.

    ZTZlOGFkMzkwMWVjMTIyNzk0OTIxMmRlMTA4NTYwNGbgz9voailH7u8-ylu39WHaaHR0cDovL3MzLWV1LXdlc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL2RvbmVkZWFsLmllLXBob3Rvcy9waG90b18xNjg4NzQ5MDl8fHw2MDB4NjAwfHx8fHx8fHw=.jpeg

    He must have seen the thread and thought he priced it too low.;)

    It was previously for sale in Cavan by someone of a different name. Weird


  • #7276
    w124man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭w124man


    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/land-rover-discovery-2/26981244

    Might go and look during the week to check the conversion!!


  • #7277
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,580 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    Hydrolastic suspension on them isn’t there? I’d say it just deflated after sitting for so long, but no idea what would be involved in getting it back to useable standard.

    It’s an interesting little car, seemed very clean from the photos, and had an interesting history file etc. Depending on the sort of recommissioning it needed, I think it was well priced at €2k. It’s the sort of yoke that you won’t see another of at a show, and will get people talking etc. Someone obviously agrees because it was sold in an hour.

    We had a few of them on the self drive fleet back then, and when we had a suspension problem, we used to send them to a BMC garage to get them done as there was a special pumping kit for the hydrolastic suspension, and a fluid to go with it.


  • #7278
    Tzardine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    It was previously for sale in Cavan by someone of a different name. Weird

    That is weird alright.

    It crossed my mind that it might be somebody flipping it quickly for a bit of profit, but they used all the same exact pictures from the 1st ad.


  • #7279
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    w124man wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/land-rover-discovery-2/26981244

    Might go and look during the week to check the conversion!!

    I wonder how much of the original chassis still remains.


  • #7280
    CoBo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,315 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    w124man wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/toyota-land-cruiser-prada-sx/27025083

    Hahaha €20,000

    Those pictures, jesus wept to these morons ever look at the ad before putting it up|||


  • #7281
    CoBo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,315 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    I wonder how much of the original chassis still remains.

    About as much as it had when it was 5 years old..


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  • #7282
    KB22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭KB22


    w124man wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/land-rover-discovery-2/26981244

    Might go and look during the week to check the conversion!!
    Hi, The first Disco was launched in 1989 not 1979. It is registered as a P5 Rover, colour green automatic. Have a look at the welding picture no- 5. This " wagon " had a change of ownership a few days ago. It is manual with cloth seat's, how cheap can you get ? A similar one to this was on donedeal about 2 year's ago. It was reported to donedeal (not by me) as a bogey they dropped the ad.


  • #7283
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    w124man wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/toyota-land-cruiser-prada-sx/27025083

    Hahaha €20,000

    That's the one I spotted a couple of weeks ago and posted in the 'Today I saw a classic' thread.......

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=115691083&postcount=6089

    536957.JPG

    20K tho.....:rolleyes:


  • #7284
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    KB22 wrote: »
    Hi, The first Disco was launched in 1989 not 1979. It is registered as a P5 Rover, colour green automatic. Have a look at the welding picture no- 5. This " wagon " had a change of ownership a few days ago. It is manual with cloth seat's, how cheap can you get ? A similar one to this was on donedeal about 2 year's ago. It was reported to donedeal (not by me) as a bogey they dropped the ad.

    Disco body on a different chassis. The reg number goes with the chassis.


  • #7285
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,617 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Disco body on a different chassis. The reg number goes with the chassis.
    A Rover P5 doesn't have a chassis........just saying


  • #7286
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    A Rover P5 doesn't have a chassis........just saying

    fair point. Its a complete bodge then.


  • #7287
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    I think the answer is "Not very".


  • #7288
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    How awesome is this!

    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/zaz-968m/27062421

    540942.JPG


  • #7289
    alias no.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,339 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    A Rover P5 doesn't have a chassis........just saying

    P5 production ended in 1973... we need Colombo or some other suitably 1970s detective to figure this one out


  • #7290
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    SmartinMartin wrote: »
    I think the answer is "Not very".

    What are you talking about, it's a ZAZ ! :D


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  • #7291
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    How awesome is this!

    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/zaz-968m/27062421

    Want.


  • #7292
    CoBo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,315 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Want.

    Away with ya so!!


  • #7293
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,580 ✭✭✭jmreire


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Want.

    They were great yokes in their day, always had long waiting lists of people trying to get one ( especially since there was not too much else around in the communist times) and of course they broke down , but everyone knew how to fix them......they had to!! They were a kinda lifelong investment for a buyer, something to hand down the line , and you would be the envy of your neighbour.:)


  • #7294
    CoBo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,315 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    jmreire wrote: »
    They were great yokes in their day, always had long waiting lists of people trying to get one ( especially since there was not too much else around in the communist times) and of course they broke down , but everyone knew how to fix them......they had to!! They were a kinda lifelong investment for a buyer, something to hand down the line , and you would be the envy of your neighbour.:)

    Rose rose rose tinted glasses....


  • #7295
    dball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭dball


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    How awesome is this!

    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/zaz-968m/27062421

    not as awesome as this:
    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1971-triumph-gt6-2-5-6-cylinder-rare-car/27078926


  • #7296
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,580 ✭✭✭jmreire


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Rose rose rose tinted glasses....

    Nope. definitely not rose tinted glasses, I lived in that part of the world for a nr of years.In the communist times, if you wanted one of those, you took your place in the queue, and waited. and waited. and waited,,,in some case years, unless you had the political connections, and or cash ( US dollars preferred ) then you could jump the queue. Then when at long last you finally got your car, you brought it home and with your local friendly mechanic, you went through every nut and bolt checked and tightened them. And thereafter, as little problems arose, you fixed them. So the car was getting better and more valuable all the time. It was all perfectly normal. The fact is that there were very few choices for anything, especially US/ European manufacture. Walk into any bar wearing a pair of levi's, and you would be offered twice or more what you paid for them.


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  • #7297
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    dball wrote: »
    not as awesome as this:
    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1971-triumph-gt6-2-5-6-cylinder-rare-car/27078926

    Its gorgeous but I'd rather have a TR6 or an Opel GT


  • #7298
    hi5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,107 ✭✭✭hi5


    jmreire wrote: »
    Nope. definitely not rose tinted glasses, I lived in that part of the world for a nr of years.In the communist times, if you wanted one of those, you took your place in the queue, and waited. and waited. and waited,,,in some case years, unless you had the political connections, and or cash ( US dollars preferred ) then you could jump the queue. Then when at long last you finally got your car, you brought it home and with your local friendly mechanic, you went through every nut and bolt checked and tightened them. And thereafter, as little problems arose, you fixed them. So the car was getting better and more valuable all the time. It was all perfectly normal. The fact is that there were very few choices for anything, especially US/ European manufacture. Walk into any bar wearing a pair of levi's, and you would be offered twice or more what you paid for them.

    That reminds me of this joke....


    In Soviet Russia a Man Goes to Buy a Car...

    He goes up to the dealer and asks for a car, to which the dealer responds:

    'You know there is a 10 year waiting list?'

    The man then answers, 'OK,' and after some time he then agreed to buy a car.

    So he pays for the car in advance, and just before he leaves he asks the dealer,

    'Can I pick the car up in the morning or afternoon?'

    'It's 10 years away, what does it matter?'

    'The plumber is coming in the morning!'


  • #7299
    kev1.3s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Its gorgeous but I'd rather have a TR6 or an Opel GT

    Have you ever got a spin out of a gt6?
    I don't say that to sound condescending but because I never really liked the idea of a gt6 until I got a spin out of one and fell completely in love with the view out over the bonnet.


  • #7300
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    hi5 wrote: »
    That reminds me of this joke....


    In Soviet Russia a Man Goes to Buy a Car...

    He goes up to the dealer and asks for a car, to which the dealer responds:

    'You know there is a 10 year waiting list?'

    The man then answers, 'OK,' and after some time he then agreed to buy a car.

    So he pays for the car in advance, and just before he leaves he asks the dealer,

    'Can I pick the car up in the morning or afternoon?'

    'It's 10 years away, what does it matter?'

    'The plumber is coming in the morning!'

    One of Ronald Regans favoutites.....


  • #7301
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    kev1.3s wrote: »
    Have you ever got a spin out of a gt6?
    I don't say that to sound condescending but because I never really liked the idea of a gt6 until I got a spin out of one and fell completely in love with the view out over the bonnet.

    Never driven any of them kev, its just from a styling perspective. Does the GT6 give ya a kick in the small of the back when you put the foot down?


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