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

power pants

how come the mark 1 escorts have the wing mirrors at windows, when I was younger and had a mark 1 the wing mirrors were chrome and at the front of each wing?

Silvera

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

Run of the mill stuff is pretty boring though it has to be said. I can't understand how some people pay so much money for bland cars like Escorts and Kadetts and similar. I just don't get that really.

Nostalgia/Memories of youth.

Duke O Smiley

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

Run of the mill stuff is pretty boring though it has to be said. I can't understand how some people pay so much money for bland cars like Escorts and Kadetts and similar. I just don't get that really.

It's nice to see a nice, original "run of the mill" yoke on the road and at shows compared to a Uk plated €50k Jag that gets trailered around by an old ponce of an owner who wouldn't let you breathe on it

In my opinion of course..

jca

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

It's nice to see a nice, original "run of the mill" yoke on the road and at shows compared to a Uk plated €50k Jag that gets trailered around by an old ponce of an owner who wouldn't let you breathe on it

In my opinion of course..

Exactly.

tc20

daily driver spotted at lunchtime

Silvera

tc20 wrote: »

daily driver spotted at lunchtime

Interesting to see a Mk1 Fiesta being used in it's 'working clothes' (as opposed to a restored example)!

tc20

Silvera wrote: »

Interesting to see a Mk1 Fiesta being used in it's 'working clothes' (as opposed to a restored example)!

Indeed - quite a rare sight these days outside of the show arena.
We rented a Mk1 on holidays when I was a kid (79/80) and a neighbour had a Ghia model from new in the metallic brown of the time.

Silvera

tc20 wrote: »

Indeed - quite a rare sight these days outside of the show arena.
We rented a Mk1 on holidays when I was a kid (79/80) and a neighbour had a Ghia model from new in the metallic brown of the time.

My dad owned a 1978 white Mk1 Fiesta 'NIC 538' back in the 80's (got it at a good price). It was kinda 'souped up' by a previous owner (wide black arches and 4-spoke Ford alloys) ...my dad often had young male drivers asking him was it for sale!

Ghia Fiesta? That was a rare model in Ireland back in those days!

Duke O Smiley

This was my daily driver last year. Bought for €200, drove her on for a few months and got €380 for it. It was a solid car! Also 311 BLI is also a Mk1 Fiesta still going round Westmeath with it's original owner

Silvera

^^ My Uncle owned a new Mk1 Fiesta in that colour back in 1983...he won it in a draw! It was a 'San Moritz' model and only had c.25,000 miles on it when he sold it on c.1996.

kaizersoze

Silvera wrote: »

^^ My Uncle owned a new Mk1 Fiesta in that colour back in 1983...he won it in a draw! It was a 'San Moritz' model and only had c.25,000 miles on it when he sold it on c.1996.

We had a 1980 model in that beige colour. Our first family car. Twas a dinger to go. 29EIM was the reg. I'd love to find it but it's probably well gone by now. Still shows up on MyWheels though.

Standard Toaster

Lovely British Racing Green 1965 Jaguar E Type on M1. She could move!

BRD 999C

Long Time Lurker

Some from the American show in Kinnegad today. Never been before. Bit of an anti climax. Not a great number of cars on display and an awful lot of it was junk. I know the scene is small but I was just expecting something a bit better. Pretty much a glorified parish festival with some pretty basic folks. Anyway heres what I thought was worth taking a picture off.

tc20

Silvera wrote: »

My dad owned a 1978 white Mk1 Fiesta 'NIC 538' back in the 80's (got it at a good price). It was kinda 'souped up' by a previous owner (wide black arches and 4-spoke Ford alloys) ...my dad often had young male drivers asking him was it for sale!

Ghia Fiesta? That was a rare model in Ireland back in those days!

I think my neighbour bought it (the Ghia) as a retirement gift to himself. It was only used as a shopping car, he'd often just sit in the car in the drive, door open, having a fag and watching the world go by.

Another daily spotted in the business park - looks to be in good condition. I'm not too up on my Civics, so not sure what model this one is

jimmyw

tc20 wrote: »

I think my neighbour bought it (the Ghia) as a retirement gift to himself. It was only used as a shopping car, he'd often just sit in the car in the drive, door open, having a fag and watching the world go by.

Another daily spotted in the business park - looks to be in good condition. I'm not too up on my Civics, so not sure what model this one is

Wow, what good condition she is in.We used to have a red one.Twin carbs, lively machine.Ya cant bate the honda. :DThey were made between 88-92 I think.

This is her here beside my other accord a good few years ago.

CianDon

Worthersee show wwek/sorta month has been kicking off down my neck of the woods in Austria the past few days. Plenty of ground scraping modern stuff but great mix of proper older stuff thrown in

Diabhalta

cork

w124man

CianDon wrote: »

Worthersee show wwek/sorta month has been kicking off down my neck of the woods in Austria the past few days. Plenty of ground scraping modern stuff but great mix of proper older stuff thrown in

I love looking at the Worthersee FB page. Some really fabulous cars there.

CianDon

w124man wrote: »

I love looking at the Worthersee FB page. Some really fabulous cars there.

If your on FB I'm gonna be uploading plenty of pics over the next few weeks from all around Worthersee at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10205359091830519.1073741858.1045385322&type=1&l=98fd1c1491. Its the weirdest event to get the head around in so much as the actual organised 'show' is in 2 weeks time but between then and now we're gonna get thousands of show quality cars down for a few days at a time who stay around for a few days in the general Worthersee area, park up a few times and head away again without ever going near the 'show'. The petrol station I was at yesterday had about 60 top show cars parked up and then their owners stood around or sat watching hundreds more drive up and down banging turbo's and spinning wheels.

Nekarsulm

Not sure what you're going to make of this one....

Silvera

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Not sure what you're going to make of this one....

What the hell?!:eek: ...looks like talcum powder exploded all over it?!:D

bonzodog2

I reckon its been in a corner of a dusty shed for a longtime and it hasn't rained yet.

w124man

CianDon wrote: »

If your on FB I'm gonna be uploading plenty of pics over the next few weeks from all around Worthersee at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10205359091830519.1073741858.1045385322&type=1&l=98fd1c1491. Its the weirdest event to get the head around in so much as the actual organised 'show' is in 2 weeks time but between then and now we're gonna get thousands of show quality cars down for a few days at a time who stay around for a few days in the general Worthersee area, park up a few times and head away again without ever going near the 'show'. The petrol station I was at yesterday had about 60 top show cars parked up and then their owners stood around or sat watching hundreds more drive up and down banging turbo's and spinning wheels.

Brilliant stuff

CianDon

w124man

@ Ciandon ..... One of the pics I saw had a red T3 Syncro. Did you take it?

@ everyone else ..... how do you get paintwork that shiny? Golf G60

mikehn

Listowel today a few oldies at the Military Reenactment.
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That last one would'nt be the most aerodynamic set up ever, check out the attachments to the load bed.:eek:

Silvera

Clonmel Vintage & Classic Car Club - 6th Annual Show Autojumble & Auction Sunday 3rd May 2015.

Went to this show in Clonmel today (c. 2 hour drive for me, each way).

Having read the leaflet advertising this show/autojumble/sale (handed out at Durrow show two weeks ago) it seemed like it was going to be a good day out, i.e. leaflet stated 'Draw for vintage car, Auction by well known personality, bikes, cars, tractors, kiddies funfair, visit by Welsh Motor Club, etc etc
What a disappointment! Only about 8 x cars lined up for sale/auction and only 2 x autojumble stands ....I was hoping for at least 8-10 x autojumble stands! (There was a closed-in area if weather was an issue for autojumblers)

Added to that the fact that the vintage/classic cars werent even clearly 'sectioned off' from where visitors were parking their (modern) cars made the whole event seem 'cluttered' and unorganised?! What a disappointment

Took a few pics. Left after 20 mins (waste of €10 entry fee...plus c.€30 in petrol, snacks)

Blue850

I was at Clonmel too, autojumble was very disappointing alright, the weather didn't help and they did say another event in Thurles took away from the day.
2 hr drive for me too but got in as an exhibitor with a 1990 Merc:rolleyes:

edit: Paid a tenner on raffle tickets but luckily DIDN'T win the Allegro Vanden Plas

Small turnout but there was some very nice cars there.

CianDon

Worthersee has been bouncing all weekend with every meet up and roadside packed and thousands of cars about but some sweet classics floating about giving a proper lesson in style to all the fancy lads in modern cars

Diabhalta

CianDon wrote: »

Worthersee has been bouncing all weekend with every meet up and roadside packed and thousands of cars about but some sweet classics floating about giving a proper lesson in style to all the fancy lads in modern cars

Germans have incredible ability the destroy the look of any car with some really s**ty wheels.