Rolls Royce

Volvoboy

Back in the early 90's my da did alot of buying and selling, he traded in this car in 1994 off a CE Merc and never told me ma! Needles to say the old excuse of ''I'm only selling it for a fella'' we kept it for about 6 months and brakes that would scare 7 shades out of ya! only today i was looking through a few old photos in my da's house and came across this;



Yes thats when Volvoboy, really was a boy :pac:


And came across the old bus for sale in Kerry



http://www.driving.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=Car&carID=1072936&message=You%20searched%20for%3A%20Rolls%2DRoyce%20Silver%20Shadow%2C%20Year%3A%201970%2E%20Your%20search%20returned%20one%20vehicle%2C%20which%20is%20shown%20below%2E&CFID=17815382&CFTOKEN=41772807


Small world!

carchaeologist

Yep,in listowel,no price up,but id say she needs a good bit of work,kilkenny plate makes it interesting.

Volvoboy

carchaeologist wrote: »

Yep,in listowel,no price up,but id say she needs a good bit of work,kilkenny plate makes it interesting.

Jaysus she was a Grand Tourer edition!:pac:

carchaeologist

Those shadows are class cars,the finish is amazing,i was in a friends one recently.If i could afford to id buy one and hire a driver;):p.

Whosbetter?

That could have been Mc Callmounts Rolls.
They owned Mount Juliet. Could still do.
Anyway, I rem a car just like this doing the rounds locally when I was a kid in the '70s.
Can't be many Kilkenny reg Rollers knocking about!

L-M

LIGHTNING wrote: »

My boss in work has an old bentley and a old rolls but I cant remember which models though! Both are in mint condition apparently and didnt cost that much.

It's like all the big luxobarges, cheap to buy... It gets costly after that:D

Nice find Volvobaby:D

carchaeologist

Limerick man wrote: »

It's like all the big luxobarges, cheap to buy... It gets costly after that

Like women,easy to get with,expensive after hat.....:rolleyes:

junkyard

They're not too expensive to run in fairness, I'm driving a 1969 Shadow at the moment and she's a lovely old thing and easy to drive too. I have a Silver Cloud too which I prefer and had a few other Silver Shadows over the years and as long as they're looked after they're fine. The 1969 Shadow's for sale by the way.;)

L-M

junkyard wrote: »

They're not too expensive to run in fairness, I'm driving a 1969 Shadow at the moment and she's a lovely old thing and easy to drive too. I have a Silver Cloud too which I prefer and had a few other Silver Shadows over the years and as long as they're looked after they're fine. The 1969 Shadow's for sale by the way.;)

C'est ta X5 derrière la RR??

I'd say it's a tough old market to be in at the moment what your in.

junkyard

Oui! So tough I'm leaving, 22 years of hard work in the motor trade down the toilet thanks to Cowen and company, a useless bunch of w@nkers, they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, but can bail their buddies with taxpayers money. :mad:

L-M

junkyard wrote: »

Oui! So tough I'm leaving, 22 years of hard work in the motor trade down the toilet thanks to Cowen and company, a useless bunch of w@nkers, they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, but can bail their buddies with taxpayers money. :mad:

Lol, i've my two years in the Motor trade (albeit part time) done just last week. I look forward to the next twenty:D

Are you going to deal primarily in Classics? Have you much stock?

Edit: If you don't want to disclose that, no problem.

junkyard

No, I selling off the cars I'm not taking with me, I'll buy LHD models from now on as I won't be coming back here. I don't think there's much future in the motor trade here or any other trade for that matter tbh. There's no money left here in Ireland and nobody in their right mind will invest here from where I see it.:(

L-M

junkyard wrote: »

No, I selling off the cars I'm not taking with me, I'll buy LHD models from now on as I won't be coming back here. I don't think there's much future in the motor trade here or any other trade for that matter tbh. There's no money left here in Ireland and nobody in their right mind will invest here from where I see it.:(

I'll stick it out for another ten years anyway, see how things go:P

Will you be taking the X5 with you?

Volvoboy

junkyard wrote: »

No, I selling off the cars I'm not taking with me, I'll buy LHD models from now on as I won't be coming back here. I don't think there's much future in the motor trade here or any other trade for that matter tbh. There's no money left here in Ireland and nobody in their right mind will invest here from where I see it.:(

Sad truth junkyard, it's a crying shame that we had it so good but thanks to a few the situation went from bad to worse.

Whosbetter?

Sorry to hear Junkie.

Hard not to notice your sig.

If ONLY FFers were all as decent as Lemass, things could be SO diff now!

BHTW , Never voted for 'em. Saw too much of the Haughey era, as a kid.

Dades

junkyard wrote: »

No, I selling off the cars I'm not taking with me, I'll buy LHD models from now on as I won't be coming back here.

So where is the Shangri La you're off to, Junkyard? I hear Iceland is good!

MercMad

Dades wrote: »

So where is the Shangri La you're off to, Junkyard? I hear Iceland is good!

...............nah, I'd say its wine country !! :cool: