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***Motors Chat Thread Round 3***

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    #2552
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    Nct passed til feb 2015 :D

    Congrats!


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    #2553
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    CianRyan wrote: »
    DTD are having one on the 24th of March at the M1 service station, looking for other sites to tag along.

    Which ones?


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    #2554
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    whenever the next meet is on i really need to bum a spin off a tt 225, a dc5 and rx8 :o


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    #2555
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    dgt wrote: »

    Which ones?

    Didn't specify, presuming it's the midway one that loads of meets happen?


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    #2556
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Didn't specify, presuming it's the midway one that loads of meets happen?

    Eh is that not the M7?


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    #2557
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Derp... I'll find out which one it is. :p


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    #2558
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    I've become too intrigued since I put up that vid in the other thread....

    In Denmark, there is an abandoned dealership full of classic Fiats that were never sold. I think it was a holding facility too....?
    The dealer proprietor, Jens Sorensen either had too much money or wasn't a great sales guy as all the p/x's he took in between 1973-1981 were stored, then in 1981 he chose to change his business to an agency for Iveco Trucks where almost unbelievably he just abandoned the site complete with not only the p/x's previously mentioned but also complete with brand new Fiats, some with only delivery mileage and unregistered!

    I don't know about anyone else, maybe it's been covered before but I find it unreal to look at the pictures, to see a time warp, who was the last person to drive these cars, to realise what if these cars were sold? What kind of lives would they have lived? And that as a result of storage we are now looking at them in near showroom condition instead of forgotten about, rusting or made into cutlery :)

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    #2559
    Dartz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,373 ✭✭✭Dartz


    In fairness... Fiats from that era tended to leave the showroom rusty.

    Then run forever. For a definition of 'running'.


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    #2560
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Dartz wrote: »
    In fairness... Fiats from that era tended to leave the showroom rusty.

    Then run forever. For a definition of 'running'.

    Elec gremlins too, bad days of Fiat. Not just Fiats in that place either, lots of other period cars

    Strange to jack it all in so suddenly though!

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    #2561
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    dgt wrote: »
    I've become too intrigued since I put up that vid in the other thread....

    In Denmark, there is an abandoned dealership full of classic Fiats that were never sold. I think it was a holding facility too....?

    Being a self confessed Urban Explorer who relishes the chance to see old abandonded buildings of any era I have to say, I just had a little tingle in my panties when I opened that link! Cheers ! :)


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    #2562
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users Posts: 7,298 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Oh SH...

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    #2563
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Oh SH...

    Ah now would you not tell him where it is?


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    #2564
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    MarkMc wrote: »
    RIP, he was Derry Clarkes son. Derry is an absolute gent, I really feel for him and Sally Ann, worst possible time of year

    RIP, sounds like he had a lot of talent. Hope it doesn't put parents off letting young fellas get involved in motorsports.


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    #2565
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,591 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Being a self confessed Urban Explorer who relishes the chance to see old abandonded buildings of any era I have to say, I just had a little tingle in my panties when I opened that link! Cheers ! :)

    Incredibly, by typing "Jens Sorensen, Kolding, Denmark", Google maps landed it on the first try: http://goo.gl/maps/ov9g6


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    #2566
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Incredibly, by typing "Jens Sorensen, Kolding, Denmark", Google maps landed it on the first try: http://goo.gl/maps/ov9g6

    G Car even seems to have made it inside the confines...... or it could have been a G bike.


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    #2567
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    Page 180

    Here is a Nissan 180SX.

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    #2568
    Hal1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    I seen a red one of those exit at sandyford on the way home tonight. Lovely looking car in the flesh.


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    #2569
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    Hal1 wrote: »
    I seen a red one of those exit at sandyford on the way home tonight. Lovely looking car in the flesh.

    Ah stop, I always wanted one of these. always will. :) I suppose we can always dream. :D


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    #2570
    [Deleted User]
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    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    Ah stop, I always wanted one of these..........


    One of the neighbours (3 doors down) had one of them in the 90s, twas only a few years old, very very very rare sight back than. Mr Quinlan (RIP) had great taste in motors, he had a Jag after that and a Merc 300 SEL on fairly large chrome alloys, for a chap that had Grandkids he was very cool :cool:


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    #2571
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    RoverJames wrote: »
    One of the neighbours (3 doors down) had one of them in the 90s, twas only a few years old, very very very rare sight back than. Mr Quinlan (RIP) had great taste in motors, he had a Jag after that and a Merc 300 SEL on fairly large chrome alloys, for a chap that had Grandkids he was very cool :cool:

    Ah class. Nobody that interesting around these parts. :(


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    #2572
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    ......Nobody that interesting around these parts. :(

    Much the same here nowadays :(


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    #2573
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »
    Page 180

    Here is a Nissan 180SX.

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    Wide arch with a duck tail, oh god yes!
    Hal1 wrote: »
    I seen a red one of those exit at sandyford on the way home tonight. Lovely looking car in the flesh.

    This one by any chance?
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    Full build thread here.

    And some more here

    Edit: Got a link for that meet btw.


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    #2574
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    Does that "flick out" body kit on Silvia's actually provide any benefit at all? Cos it absolutely ruins the lines of a fine car something terrible. They also seem mega prone to cracking and being left hanging off.


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    #2575
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Not sure but I'm not into them myself. Never got them really.


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    #2576
    Fiona
    Registered Users Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Fiona


    Matt Simis wrote: »
    They also seem mega prone to cracking and being left hanging off.

    That's why cable ties were invented :P


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    #2577
    coolisin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,793 ✭✭✭coolisin


    That is crazy OSI


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    #2578
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    OSI wrote: »
    OK, this Gender Equality insurance thing is bollocks.

    Insurance on the GTI last year:

    Me: 24, Full License, 4 points + GF: 23, Provisional, 0 points + 3 yrs NCB =~ €1,030

    Insurance on the GTI this year:

    Me: 25, Full License, 4 points + GF: 24, Full License, 0 points + 4 yrs NCB =~ €1,800

    :O

    Are you ****ing kidding me!?!?!
    There's a lot of other variables involved tbh.


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    #2579
    Fiona
    Registered Users Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Fiona


    OSI wrote: »
    Where the **** did you come from :eek:

    My Mammy and Daddy i guess!!


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    #2580
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    OSI wrote: »
    OK, this Gender Equality insurance thing is bollocks.

    Insurance on the GTI last year:

    Me: 24, Full License, 4 points + GF: 23, Provisional, 0 points + 3 yrs NCB =~ €1,030

    Insurance on the GTI this year:

    Me: 25, Full License, 4 points + GF: 24, Full License, 0 points + 4 yrs NCB =~ €1,800

    :O

    Are you ****ing kidding me!?!?!

    Man I love being over 30. 250bhp car & GF? €630. Ka-ching! I save €150 just by putting her on it.


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    #2581
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Confab wrote: »

    Man I love being over 30. 250bhp car & GF? €630. Ka-ching! I save €150 just by putting her on it.
    Get a full licence and it'll come down even more ;)


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