Lamborghinis etc in Ireland

Silvera

Fascinating reading guys! I didnt know there were any F40's or F50's in Ireland

I wonder is that 'Italian reg' F40 above really an Irish car in disguise (i.e. registered here but (old) 'Italian plates' fitted for shows etc..maybe driven there on Irish trade plates?)

h3000

Silvera wrote: »

Fascinating reading guys! I didnt know there were any F40's or F50's in Ireland

I wonder is that 'Italian reg' F40 above really an Irish car in disguise (i.e. registered here but (old) 'Italian plates' fitted for shows etc..maybe driven there on Irish trade plates?)

It was just brought into the country a day or two before the pic was taken. Not too sure if it ever got Irish plates.


The same guy owns these.

wyf437gn6btzue

h3000 wrote: »

It was just brought into the country a day or two before the pic was taken. Not too sure if it ever got Irish plates.


The same guy owns these.

Is he a limerick local?

h3000

Sincere Thousands Gut wrote: »

Is he a limerick local?

He is indeed. This is one of his too.





And this




And I think these too

wyf437gn6btzue

h3000 wrote: »

He is indeed. This is one of his too.

Think I know who it is, don`t want to mention his name on here in case its not him

SnakePlissken

He's living the absolute dream whoever he is, fair play to them.

h3000

Sincere Thousands Gut wrote: »

h3000 wrote: »

He is indeed. This is one of his too.

Think I know who it is, don`t want to mention his name on here in case its not him

I won't mention his name but it's easy enough to find out if you want to

SnakePlissken wrote: »

He's living the absolute dream whoever he is, fair play to them.

I love the way he shows the off and drives them. They could so easily be hidden away and we would never even know they were here. The C&C in Limerick is in a car park which has a shop there so often people with no real interest in cars will be in the shop and then have a walk around the cars. I've seen young kids pawing at his €1m+ cars :eek: and he still comes back every month.

He has a Ferrari 250 GTO too but I can't find my pic right now.

wyf437gn6btzue

h3000 wrote: »

I won't mention his name but it's easy enough to find out if you want to

100% the lad I thought it was

spyderski

Jaysus that's some collection. Any chance someone could PM me who owns them?

Don't think any of those can be realistically VRT'd anymore. Revenue treat valuable classic cars separately apparently, so a 60's Ferrari, which might only have cost a few thousand new at the time, will not be assessed for VRT based on that, but on current value.

h3000

I can't find my pics right now but here is a post from Marcinek_55 below with another few from the collection.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=99876240#post99876240

Marcinek_55 wrote: »

Here is what I saw today on Limerick Classic Car Show:

Elemonator

There's one somewhere between Skerries, Rush and Lusk. I'm always seeing him there.

To be honest gents, if you want to see these cars, go to Ely Place near Baggot Street. With the legal/financial firms there, there's an absolute tonne of them.

wyf437gn6btzue

Elemonator wrote: »

There's one somewhere between Skerries, Rush and Lusk. I'm always seeing him there.

To be honest gents, if you want to see these cars, go to Ely Place near Baggot Street. With the legal/financial firms there, there's an absolute tonne of them.

Lambo?

Elemonator

Sincere Thousands Gut wrote: »

Lambo?

Yeah.

Silvera

spyderski wrote: »

Don't think any of those can be realistically VRT'd anymore. Revenue treat valuable classic cars separately apparently, so a 60's Ferrari, which might only have cost a few thousand new at the time, will not be assessed for VRT based on that, but on current value.

What makes you say that?

Afaik, all classics overs 30 years old qualify for the €200 VRT flat rate. There was talk of Revenue changing the classification of certain cars, but thankfully that didnt happen (for cars over 30 yrs old anyway).

wyf437gn6btzue

Elemonator wrote: »

Yeah.

What model is it? I`m not far from skerries, never seen it, would be interested in

Elemonator

Sincere Thousands Gut wrote: »

What model is it? I`m not far from skerries, never seen it, would be interested in

Not entirely sure buddy, its usually been passing glances for me. I'll keep a look out

w124man

Ah lads, will ye stop posting pictures of my car collection ......

spyderski

Silvera wrote: »

What makes you say that?

Afaik, all classics overs 30 years old qualify for the €200 VRT flat rate. There was talk of Revenue changing the classification of certain cars, but thankfully that didnt happen (for cars over 30 yrs old anyway).

My friend who owns the F40 told me. That was 3 years ago though.

q85dw7osi4lebg

Sincere Thousands Gut wrote: »

As far as I know the Owner of the f40 also owns a Ferrari 250 swb among a whole fleet of other super nice cars.

You'd be surprised what's hid away in good old Ireland

I know of another Irish F40, same owner has a 991 GT3 RS among their toys.

Think there are 3 in the country if I'm not mistaken?

alastair

spyderski wrote: »

My friend who owns the F40 told me. That was 3 years ago though.

VRT on any 60's classic, even the massively valuable ones, is €200, and was three years ago too. Perhaps you're talking about VAT on non-EU imports?

millington

Chad Small Ax wrote: »

I know of another Irish F40, same owner has a 991 GT3 RS among their toys.

Think there are 3 in the country if I'm not mistaken?

Would that be a guy from a farming family who now owns some sort of a steel business? I seen a 991 GT3 RS lately and the owners name escapes me but it was a story along those lines

Silvera

spyderski wrote: »

My friend who owns the F40 told me. That was 3 years ago though.

Ferrari F40's were built from 1987 to 1992 so three years ago even the earliest example would NOT have been under 30 years old - hence wouldnt have qualified to be in the €200 VRT bracket.

Zakmackraken

Gonna reply to a 9 year old thread because..why not, this thread is gold!

That 70’s Maserati in Castletroy you saw may have been a Matra Bagheera X. It’s a classic 70’s wedge and probably even rarer. It was owned by a doctor who brought it with him from overseas. A unique feature is 3 front seats - shamelessly copied by the Maclaren f1 years later :-)

bijapos wrote: »

Went to boarding school in Sligo in the mid 80's. There was a yellow 911 carrera there, driven by a woman, seemingly was previously owned by Phil Coulter, sttod out well in Sligo back then!

Also late 80's there was a 70's maserati around limerick, saw it a few times in the castletroy area.

Zakmackraken

Kevin, you are the man!

I came here to ask if anyone knew of a Ferrari 400 in Limerick. It was the first Ferrari I ever saw as a car obsessed kid. It was the early 80’s and it pulled into the petrol station in Ballyneety. He floored it as he took off much to the delight of the small assembled crowd.

What else can you tell me about it? I remember it as black or dark blue.

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

Paul Darragh the showjumper owned a Mondial ZS3030 that used to be around Dublin but I have not seen it in recent years.

2VIU is an immaculate Ferrari 400 still living in Limerick as far as I know.
1VIU was a Silver Shadow that belonged to playwright Hugh Leonard, I often wondered if it was coincidence or were the two cars imported together.

Zakmackraken

Big Nasty wrote: »

Anyone remember the Delorean that used to sit on Cornelscourt hill? There was also some sort of three seater sports car up on bricks beyond Enniskerry near enough to Tony Doyle coaches.

Mentioned this earlier, there was a 3 seater 70’s style coupe in Limerick in the 80’s - it was a Matra Bagheera X. Possibly the same car - how many 3 seaters can there be?

tedpan

I saw a BMW Z1 in Ballycoolin the other day, doors were down and was mint. I wonder how much they're worth, I've only ever seen 3 of them.

Zakmackraken

Does anyone remember the yellow Lotus Esprit in Limerick in the 80’s? It used to be parked at a house near Morrison’s pub on the Ballysimin road. Funny thing is the engine caught fire and the owner bought another one, also yellow, but kept the burnt out one on bricks at the side of the house. Anyone know where the ended up?

challengemaster

Used to be a Lamborghini Countach in Kinahans outside Moate, featured in an old Foster and Allen music video. Dunno what happened to it since though :pac:

hi5

challengemaster wrote: »

Used to be a Lamborghini Countach in Kinahans outside Moate, featured in an old Foster and Allen music video. Dunno what happened to it since though :pac:

It's alive and well....

kev1.3s

I was looking at a Doug demuro video on the countach, he was showing how the wiper stops its sweep at 90° which is right between youre eyes and I was thinking that if that car was rhd it would be perfect but looking at that rhd one I see that Lamborghini in there intimate wisdom switched the wiper mechanism over too so its useless in rhd form too.
Beautiful car tho and not sure if id want it out in the rain anyway.

challengemaster

hi5 wrote: »

It's alive and well....

Still in the same place? Can't say I've ever seen it personally...

Blue850

challengemaster wrote: »

Still in the same place? Can't say I've ever seen it personally...

Still in the same place. Its was at Cars and Coffee meet in Tullamore earlier this year

q85dw7osi4lebg

Friend just sent me this. Spotted in Dublin today.

Nforce

hi5 wrote: »

It's alive and well....

Used to see that regularly in the mid/late 80's when I was going to school in Moate. In a sea of Toyota K30's, Vw Jettas, Mk2 Escorts and Massey Ferguson's it stuck out a wee bit! :pac:

Great to see it's still being used rather than living under a dust sheet.

Big Nasty

That Orange Lamborghini used to belong to a girl down Wexford direction that used to post here. Had a TVR too.

unkel

Zakmackraken wrote: »

That 70’s Maserati in Castletroy you saw may have been a Matra Bagheera X. It’s a classic 70’s wedge and probably even rarer. It was owned by a doctor who brought it with him from overseas. A unique feature is 3 front seats - shamelessly copied by the Maclaren f1 years later :-)

I lusted over that car when I was a young boy. A poor man's exotic car, made by Matra for Simca / Talbot



I didn't realise until today that many of its parts came from the modest Simca 1100, which was our family car at the time

Arthur Daley

unkel wrote: »

I didn't realise until today that many of its parts came from the modest Simca 1100, which was our family car at the time

Love the styling, and the concept. But these had 84bhp at the start or 90bhp later on. Our superminis today would outdrag it. But at least you would have got there in style.

unkel

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Love the styling, and the concept. But these had 84bhp at the start or 90bhp later on. Our superminis today would outdrag it. But at least you would have got there in style.

You'd be surprised. Cars were very light then (and very unsafe )

1975 Matra Bagheera 0-100km/h in 12s
2018 Ford Fiesta base model 0-100km/h in 15s

And I just randomly picked the first supermini that came into my head. I expect most will roughly be in that ballpark

Arthur Daley

unkel wrote: »

You'd be surprised. Cars were very light then (and very unsafe )

1975 Matra Bagheera 0-100km/h in 12s
2018 Ford Fiesta base model 0-100km/h in 15s

And I just randomly picked the first supermini that came into my head. I expect most will roughly be in that ballpark

Well a 208 with the 82bhp unit (to be fair on bhp vs bhp) would do 0-100km/h in 12.5 seconds.

But true enough on the weight we have today and the effect it has.

Still, in the Bagheera to most people, you'd look like you'd just driven off the set of the Persuaders, and only car geeks would know the score with the performance.

unkel

And to add to that, I was wowed even more by its successor, the Matra Murena. Some of you younger posters might not agree. But that car was very futurisic looking in 1980 when I was 12

Bigus

And three seats , the middle one , being for the mistress according to the french designers, and original launch blurb, how far we've become PC wise !

sligojoek

greendragon3 wrote: »

bijapos wrote: »

Went to boarding school in Sligo in the mid 80's. There was a yellow 911 carrera there, driven by a woman, seemingly was previously owned by Phil Coulter, sttod out well in Sligo back then!

i remember that Porsche well , used to slobber all over it at lunch time when id nip down town on the pushbike from school , it used to belong to mrs waters , her son owns shoot the crows pub in sligo , it may still be stashed away in some shed somewhere .

Vincent bonners old BMW M5 still lives in sligo too , the chap that owns the record room owns it for years , i spent a lot of time looking at it too , dreaming . :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

That's right. The late Ursula. RIP. A lovely woman. She suffered a brain injury from a bad fall and was never able to drive again. AS far as I know it was written of by one of the sons coming in from Dromahair one night. I'll find out during the week.

Mac 3

Zakmackraken wrote: »

Kevin, you are the man!

I came here to ask if anyone knew of a Ferrari 400 in Limerick. It was the first Ferrari I ever saw as a car obsessed kid. It was the early 80’s and it pulled into the petrol station in Ballyneety. He floored it as he took off much to the delight of the small assembled crowd.

What else can you tell me about it? I remember it as black or dark blue.

I think the owner of this one lived out towards Kilmallock. She was a 365 GT4 I think. I have a pic of it somewhere.

Mac 3

pawdee

unkel wrote: »

And to add to that, I was wowed even more by its successor, the Matra Murena. Some of you younger posters might not agree. But that car was very futurisic looking in 1980 when I was 12

There was a red one of these in Tralee in the early / mid 80s. I think it was a teacher in the community college who owned it. I thought it was cool looking car back then. I was also 12 in 1980

blingrhino

northern countach passed through Dundalk and Drogheda in the 80`s.

Reg was HXI 5944, never ever forgot it.

As a young fella we used to follow it for miles on our bikes through the traffic.
Turns out he was a builder from Boucher road and we got talking to him a few times.he was mad into the rugby internationals in Landsdowne and always took the Lambo on these trips.

i still have a picture of it somewhere !

q85dw7osi4lebg

blingrhino wrote: »

northern countach passed through Dundalk and Drogheda in the 80`s.

Reg was HXI 5944, never ever forgot it.

As a young fella we used to follow it for miles on our bikes through the traffic.
Turns out he was a builder from Boucher road and we got talking to him a few times.he was mad into the rugby internationals in Landsdowne and always took the Lambo on these trips.

i still have a picture of it somewhere !

Passed MOT in may of this year.

tedpan

Chad Small Ax wrote:

Passed MOT in may of this year.

And taxed

hi5

Dades

Ha!

Reminds me of that brilliant scene in Wolf of Wall Street with his Lambo.