Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread! Part 2

Lurching

I was at an event in the Marconi Museum in California on Wednesday. This is just the tip of the iceberg:

Lurching

Santa Monica Beach and Venice Beach this week:
(I think I should get extra points for being photo-bombed by a Mclaren in the E30 shot)

unkel

MrCostington wrote: »

CD plate? presumably an ex embassy car

Look like the original plates, very much early 80s style

Would be interesting to dig a bit deeper. Possibly a car owned from new by the Japanese embassy?

My '94 E34 BMW 530i V8 petrol was originally bought by the Finnish ambassador to Ireland. Did no longer have CD plates by the time I bought it 7 years later though...

sligojoek

The interior looked "lived in". Bits and pieces scattered around. All the paperwork on the windscreen was up to date. I've never seen it around here before.

unkel

I'm not normally the biggest fan of Japanese cars, but that Crown looks class. And I've always liked that light green metallic period colour, Mercedes-Benz called it thistle green metallic around the same time.

Duke O Smiley

I bought a 7 series on CD plates. Was originally a diplomatic car according to the service history/logbook, dunno how the CD plates remained, but it was a very interesting drive home! I changed them fairly quickly. I doubt the nGardai would be too lenient if they came across someone pretending

elperello

The CD plate was usually a small oval separate from the number plate and removed before selling on.
The Toyota has it built in to the number plate so I suppose they never bothered.
If they're not using it to double park in Merrion Square I expect they will be ok.
Nice car good spot.

sligojoek

There were no Fererro Rocher wrappers in the ashtray.

I hung around for a while to see if the owner came back but I had to go. Would have been good to get the story.

I got a chance to drive one in my late teens. It was a 2 yr old trade in that my father had ddone some panel beating and polishing on. |I had to bring it back to the dealer's garage. It was the second 6 cyl car I'd driven after my father's GXL Granada.

sligojoek

MrCostington wrote: »

CD plate? presumably an ex embassy car, should the CD still be there? And what's with the yellow? Interesting spot!

Maybe it's to let other road users it's right hand drive when it's "out foreign". .

Duke O Smiley

Two interesting Fiats in Rome yesterday

26000 Elephants

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

I bought a 7 series on CD plates. Was originally a diplomatic car according to the service history/logbook, dunno how the CD plates remained, but it was a very interesting drive home! I changed them fairly quickly. I doubt the nGardai would be too lenient if they came across someone pretending

You'd be grand. They have no legal status whatsoever. They are just a convention, a custom.

IrishPlayer

sligojoek wrote: »

Maybe it's to let other road users it's right hand drive when it's "out foreign". .

It wasn't there today anyway,was staying in the Glasshouse Hotel last night and took a walk around

Found this old Seat sign on a garage near Quayside shopping centre.

Type 17

sligojoek wrote: »

I think I know where Toyota got the styling for that rear end...



PS: I think I remember that Crown back in the day, but I've no idea which embassy it belonged to.

sligojoek

IrishPlayer wrote: »

It wasn't there today anyway,was staying in the Glasshouse Hotel last night and took a walk around

Found this old Seat sign on a garage near Quayside shopping centre.

That was John Scanlons garage. Was there up to about 2000 or so.

Duke O Smiley

This little gem is abandoned right outside the Irish College in Rome. The sign in the window says its not abandoned, but it hasn't moved in the last 4 years at least





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And a pair of Beetles

26000 Elephants

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

This little gem is abandoned right outside the Irish College in Rome. The sign in the window says its not abandoned, but it hasn't moved in the last 4 years at least

Innocenti mini? rare little thing i'd say, even in Italy.

Duke O Smiley

Yep, innocenti. I’ve never knowingly seen another

_ptashek_

My parking buddy in North city centre, a Vauxhall Chevette L. Nice little number. Haven't seen it since end of November, but before then it was in the same parking lot almost every day.

Grab All Association

Grab All Association wrote: »

Thurles. Fiat

Fiat 127 (hopefully the right way around, silly iPhone)

Garzard

Forgot to post this from recently! Came across it in Nutgrove after returning to the car from the gym. A few dents but a beautiful, solid car.

Duke O Smiley

More from Rome. A well used Mini and a mountain goat

SmartinMartin

Them R4s were a fantastic yoke. Crashed one into an army tank in Longford one night drunk many moons ago, still drove perfectly back to Dublin. The good old days, wha.

elperello

SmartinMartin wrote: »

Them R4s were a fantastic yoke. Crashed one into an army tank in Longford one night drunk many moons ago, still drove perfectly back to Dublin. The good old days, wha.

Wouldn't happen now.
There's no army in Longford anymore

Lurching

Ballsbridge

PanhardPL

An explosion of over 30 year olds in Dublin alone since the introduction of the ZV. registration. The total as far as ZV 11059 amounts to 5258 apart from over 30 year old age related numbers.

Type 17

It's not too bad - Irl has ~2m registered vehicles and, assuming ~25% of them are registered in Dublin, the 5258 is just over 1%, and if the same number of people have age-related 30+ cars, that still only 2%.

I'm also aware of a good few re-exports, and sadly, of some 30+ cars that have been neglected/scrapped, so not all of the ZV's/30+ reg's are still around.

macplaxton

PanhardPL wrote: »

An explosion of over 30 year olds in Dublin alone since the introduction of the ZV. registration. The total as far as ZV 11059 amounts to 5258 apart from over 30 year old age related numbers.

Hardly an explosion. It's only up 1000 or so since Dec 2011. Drop in the ocean.

macplaxton

Back OT

Belfast Port this afternoon.

Dades

Lurching wrote: »

I like that he's parked his 5.0 litre V8 on double yellows under the nose of Eamonn Ryan from the Green Party.

unkel

Dades wrote: »

I like that he's parked his 5.0 litre V8 on double yellows under the nose of Eamonn Ryan's from the Green Party.

That W126 might have a big engine, but it is polluting a hell of a lot less than a modern cancer causing diesel car with a small engine and so called "low emissions" - my hole.