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

manta mad

dunno if this is true or not ,, but think this whole place is gonna be leveled shortly !!!

and that hillman and anything else will be going to scrapper !!!

their parked up in castledermot town at the bus stop across from the irishmans pub old house beside it is/was an antique shop....

Bigus

manta mad wrote: »

dunno if this is true or not ,, but think this whole place is gonna be leveled shortly !!!

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Wow you mean there's some building work goin in the country !

kev1.3s

Bigus wrote: »

Wow you mean there's some building work goin in the country !

No! nama are knocking it down:D:D

Didn't get a pic buy was on the way into Carlow yesterday and I spotted two mk2 jags in a sorry state in the compound beside the renault garage I think it's called auto image.

manta mad

kev1.3s wrote: »

No! nama are knocking it down:D:D

Didn't get a pic buy was on the way into Carlow yesterday and I spotted two mk2 jags in a sorry state in the compound beside the renault garage I think it's called auto image.

yeah ,,their sitting in that place a long time now !! dunno what the story is with them ..

hi5

Cul a cnoic wrote: »

An old VW rotting away

Thats a very good photograph.

Standard Toaster

manta mad wrote: »

sorry for poor pic only had me phone
been meaning to take a pic of this for a while !
its in castledermot & been their a while ,,irish car too

What is it?
Fiat 125?

manta mad

hillman imp...... i think !!!!

rugbyman

I was sure for a sec that it was an imp, but two h lights suggest a sunbeam or singer,yes still an imp, but the shape/size seems wrong, 125 is not a mad guess, but?

ramble over.
Rugbyman

macplaxton

It's a variant of an Imp shall we say.

Sunbeam Imp Sport or Stiletto or maybe a Singer Chamois, but deffo from the Imp family.

Errejota

Fordson

Max_Damage

In the 23 years I've lived in Firhouse, I can't believe I never saw this Starlet until today! By the looks of it, it's well past its best-before date... :



That is all.

Gary ITR

You live in Firhouse! :eek:

I'll have to move

Max_Damage

Onkle wrote: »

You live in Firhouse! :eek:

I'll have to move

Thanks...

ep71

wow max send me on the location of that one!! thats probably one of the first starlets imported

Max_Damage

ep71 wrote: »

wow max send me on the location of that one!! thats probably one of the first starlets imported

PM sent.

zilog_jones

I take it the KP40 (1973-78) was not sold here? Never seen one anyway. Was there CKD assembly of the KP60 here at some stage?

warder6161

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carchaeologist

ep71 wrote: »

wow max send me on the location of that one!! thats probably one of the first starlets imported

June 1978, it definatly is, when in 1978 did importation begin?

manta mad

up the road from me in the wicklow hills

carchaeologist

That grille is going to get nicked, im surprised it's lasted this long.

warder6161

might just know where to go and look for it if it goes missing then
carchaeologist !!:D

japcars

manta mad wrote: »

up the road from me in the wicklow hills





I know where that car is, its been sitting there for a long time, I remember seeing it back around 2001/2002 sitting there when i was around 12 yrs old, probably was off the road since late 90s or so. One time I walked up that road it was on 4/5 yrs yrs ago and didnt stop to look at it as there was a vicious dog in the farmyard barking, it wasnt tied up or anything luckily I didnt get chased. It used to be full of cardboard boxes I think

manta mad

and theirs still a wicked dog their

zilog_jones

If that reg is "36x MRI", it's been off the road since at least the mid '90s as it's not in the databases on the websites - only 361MRI is listed, and (no surprises) it's a Beetle.

carchaeologist

zilog_jones wrote: »

If that reg is "36x MRI", it's been off the road since at least the mid '90s as it's not in the databases on the websites - only 361MRI is listed, and (no surprises) it's a Beetle.

MRI was issued from 12/74-1/75 and the first reg of 1975 Dublin was 521MRI, so its the last week or so of December 1974.

G Luxel

carchaeologist wrote: »

June 1978, it definatly is, when in 1978 did importation begin?

Not sure, but I do remember seeing a few car transporters loaded with them on the road around 1990,,,,in all conditions.....from rust buckets to concours d'elegance!:)

rugbyman

see below.

rugbyman

70,000 Miles from new.












Wicklow Reg there's another one in the same yard , blue kildare reg. to make restoring either worthwhile would need to belong to someone important to you.

This toyota had 1000 punts spent on the engine. Hasn't moved since

RossDonegan

Whats the story with the Kadett above ? I remember seeing that on DoneDeal over a year ago......