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Today I saw an abandoned classic and took a pic thread!

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    #692
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Saw this on the irish museum of transport museum site earlier today,its from around 1987...
    tp-2.jpg


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    #693
    Max_Damage
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    ^ Does anyone else (like myself) gawk at trucks full of scrapped cars going by? I nearly find them more interesting than if a Ferrari went by me!


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    #694
    L-M
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    Max_Damage wrote: »
    ^ Does anyone else (like myself) gawk at trucks full of scrapped cars going by? I nearly find them more interesting than if a Ferrari went by me!

    Haha i do anyway. Interesting but dangerous when your driving haha


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    #695
    MercMad
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    Max_Damage wrote: »
    ^ Does anyone else (like myself) gawk at trucks full of scrapped cars going by? I nearly find them more interesting than if a Ferrari went by me!

    ......yeah me too !

    I dunno what the fascination with that stuff is, I also love old truck and old factories, abandoned warehouses etc....

    Wierd ehh ?


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    #696
    G Luxel
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    are any of those cars for sale?
    the various S Classes and SEC's should be given a new home:(


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    #697
    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,667 ✭✭✭maidhc


    MercMad wrote: »
    ......yeah me too !

    I dunno what the fascination with that stuff is, I also love old truck and old factories, abandoned warehouses etc....

    Wierd ehh ?

    Very very weird, but, I'm the same.

    and add shipwrecks to that list as well.


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    #698
    carchaeologist
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    Max_Damage wrote: »
    ^ Does anyone else (like myself) gawk at trucks full of scrapped cars going by? I nearly find them more interesting than if a Ferrari went by me!
    Yep,given half a chance id climb up into the truck with a socket set!!!:DYou are right about it being more interesting a ferrari!!!


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    #699
    Max_Damage
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    We really are a strange bunch of people! :D


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    #700
    1275gt
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    Max_Damage wrote: »
    ^ Does anyone else (like myself) gawk at trucks full of scrapped cars going by? I nearly find them more interesting than if a Ferrari went by me!

    lol. i saw an old K10 micra crushed to bits on friday on the back of a lorry bound for ringsend. i was laughing at the fact i was a little upset :D


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    #701
    carchaeologist
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    Max_Damage wrote: »
    We really are a strange bunch of people! :D
    Not at all,my friends are well used to me now,jumping ditches to look at strange rusty bits of steel,and even photographing them!
    Theres alot worse out there!!:D


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    #702
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Just came across this while trawling....
    2796375546_c46ddcf5f3.jpg?v=0
    Well battered MK1 cavalier in an english scrappy..
    More pics of the same(mainly trucks and buses)can be found here..
    http://flickr.com/photos/22455491@N02/2639836083


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    #703
    carchaeologist
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    347847569_cb58824b41.jpg?v=0
    347836762_21c189a324.jpg?v=0
    347826396_a695fa5aa9.jpg?v=0
    Lots more here... http://flickr.com/photos/81175088@N00/362769516


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    #704
    Lauder
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    This old Merc coupe is lying in the stables of long abandoned Doonass House
    Cloonlara, County Clare. Photo is recent. Unsure of exact model. Original Irish Reg, from what im told.

    dh551.jpg


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    #705
    Max_Damage
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    I saw a Carina II (judging by the looks of it, it was heading to the scrapyard) on the back of a truck (which itself was a classic, an '86 Bedford TK) today in Ballyfermot.

    No picture unfortunately.


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    #706
    MercMad
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    Lauder wrote: »
    This old Merc coupe is lying in the stables of long abandoned Doonass House
    Cloonlara, County Clare. Photo is recent. Unsure of exact model. Original Irish Reg, from what im told.

    dh551.jpg

    ......its a W114 Coupe, 250C > 280CE. I only ever saw one in that colour. Any idea of the reg, would it be a XXXX YI by any chance, Dublin. Actually no I think the one I am thinking of is closer to home.

    Why is the place abandoned and what is it ?


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    #707
    MercMad
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    Lauder wrote: »
    This old Merc coupe is lying in the stables of long abandoned Doonass House
    Cloonlara, County Clare. Photo is recent. Unsure of exact model. Original Irish Reg, from what im told.

    dh551.jpg

    ......its a W114 Coupe, 250C > 280CE. I only ever saw one in that colour. Any idea of the reg, would it be a XXXX YI by any chance, Dublin. Actually no I think the one I am thinking of is closer to home.

    Why is the place abandoned and what is it ?

    Good webiste BTW


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    #708
    Pagoda113
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    MercMad wrote: »
    ......its a W114 Coupe, 250C > 280CE. I only ever saw one in that colour. Any idea of the reg, would it be a XXXX YI by any chance, Dublin. Actually no I think the one I am thinking of is closer to home.

    Why is the place abandoned and what is it ?

    Good webiste BTW
    The Merc is on a privately owned estate in Clonlara. I had heard it was there many years ago but had not seen it or known what model it was. The elderly lady who owned the place is still alive and living in a local nursing home. I had heard that several people had tried to buy the car over the years but she was not willing to part with it.

    I believe that she bought the car new so I would expect that it is Clare or Limerick registered..


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    #709
    MercMad
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    Pagoda113 wrote: »
    The Merc is on a privately owned estate in Clonlara. I had heard it was there many years ago but had not seen it or known what model it was. The elderly lady who owned the place is still alive and living in a local nursing home. I had heard that several people had tried to buy the car over the years but she was not willing to part with it.

    I believe that she bought the car new so I would expect that it is Clare or Limerick registered..


    .......................good info. Pity to see it deteriorating like the house, along with obvious help from vandals. Surely she would rather it were repaired and used, than left for scrap. then aghain she probably hasn't seen it in years either and doesn't know how bad it is.


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    #710
    Capri
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    'The elderly lady who owned the place is still alive and living in a local nursing home. I had heard that several people had tried to buy the car over the years but she was not willing to part with it. '

    Sad, old people always cling onto the hope they'll be able to do the things again that they used to do.

    On another note - a yard in Pimlico / Coombe has some old Commer trucks lying there, they've escapes being exported to ( africa, asia ?? )


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    #711
    carchaeologist
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    Not really abandoned,its lined up for restoration,but a good photo all the same:)
    Its a buick,ex american embassy car i was told
    Image756.jpg


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    #712
    11811
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    a couple of shots of a abandoned (almost classic) van i found recently....
    Think its a bedford? there was another one beside it which was older but didnt get a chance to take a pic..


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    #713
    Max_Damage
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    ^ The reg. on it (81-C-472) comes up as a Bedford alright (on Cartell). Not sure of the model though.


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    #714
    rugbyman
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    its a bedford HA van, based on the vauxhall viva , but was produced for a lont longer as a van. that one an ex BT van I think, imported.
    great thread this


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    #715
    carchaeologist
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    Yep,like this when new!!:)
    viva%20van.jpg


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    #716
    Max_Damage
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    carchaeologist wrote: »
    Not really abandoned,its lined up for restoration,but a good photo all the same:)
    Its a buick,ex american embassy car i was told
    Image756.jpg

    Now long has that Buick been off the road do you know? the reg. doesn't come up on Cartell so I suspect it's been off the road later than 1993.


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    #717
    carchaeologist
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    Since the 70s by the look of it,alot of the registrations of the cars in the museum dont come up either,so id say most of them have been unlicenced since the early 90s at the least.They wouldnt be on the record when the system changed over to computers then.Wonder how many other cars are out there like that....XZX1 where are you!


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    #718
    carchaeologist
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    I think the buick looked something like this when new...Its tagged as a buick century,can anyone shed any light on what it is?
    waynegrantbuick.jpg


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    #719
    Max_Damage
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    It looks like a '55 Buick Century (the Americans are big into their 'model years'), there is probably a 322 cubic inch (5.3L) V8 under the bonnet aswell.

    Ah, back in the days when petrol cost 10 cents per gallon! I was born in the wrong era. :(


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    #720
    superboy
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    Yeah thats it all right. I think its a 1956 model. the four "ventiports" on the front wing mark it out as being a more upmarket model than the other models which would have had only three. anyone know more about this particular car?? has it got the nailhead engine?? What colour is it supposed to be??


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    #721
    Max_Damage
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    superboy wrote: »
    Yeah thats it all right. I think its a 1956 model. the four "ventiports" on the front wing mark it out as being a more upmarket model than the other models which would have had only three. anyone know more about this particular car?? has it got the nailhead engine?? What colour is it supposed to be??

    I'd say it's a '55, the '56 model had more of a 'pointed' nose on it:

    Buick_Century_4-Dorrars_Sedan_1956.jpg


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