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

milesaway1

classic car are cooler than new latest cars today.

Cheensbo

milesaway1 wrote: »

classic car are cooler than new latest cars today.

They always have been, even when todays classics were new.

CianDon

Coming soon to CompleteCar,ie, the latest in the Irish Icons installments

neris

Not cars, not even sure if they were real vans at some stage but spotted these passing the house a few weeks ago. They may have been on their way from the transport museum in Howth

bonzodog2

Film props perhaps for outdoor period scene?

Silvera

The Transport Museum in Howth has many vehicles like those....dont know if those specific vehicles are from the museum collection though. Interesting vehicles...may well be on loan for a period film

sligojoek

My cousin's winter project



The Jetta, that is.

Type 17

The vehicles on the trucks are from Howth Museum, and were widely used in Dublin throughout the mid to late twentieth century - I remember those Dartry laundry and Johnston, Mooney & O'Brien bakery vans in the mid to late 70's, and the Kelso laundry van was still trundling around Dublin 6 in the 80's. Those models of Smiths vehicles were also used extensively with different bodies as milk floats by the likes of Premier Dairies and Hughes Brothers - here is a link to a page which includes a picture of a 50's Hughes Brothers milk float: http://www.milkfloats.org.uk/random.html.

In the late 70's, I lived in Dalkey, and often used to get up early on a weekend morning to help our local milkman delivering the milk (I was 7 or 8, and loved riding in the Smiths float, plus he'd give me 50p!). The float was exactly like the one on the webpage above, except that by the late 70's, it was (badly) painted white, and bore the name Premier-Hughes Dairies (merger between Premier Dairies and Hughes Brothers) - I can't remember the reg, but it may have been that exact one, but it was certainly another in the sequence - the floats were based in a yard at the top of Monkstown Avenue, now the housing estate called Monkstown Square.

w124man

Manys the time I held onto the back of a HB milk float whilst cycling to school in the mornings. So useful when you had to cycle up Orwell Hill in D6

quadrifoglio verde

The best truck of that era is the swastika laundry trucks. Red, with a black swastika.

Where msl ballsbridge is today, Irish beetles used to be assembled. The building behind it, was the swastika laundry. There's quite an ironic photo of Volkswagen Ireland with a big red chimney in the background with both the word and swastika emblem on the chimney

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quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

The best truck of that era is the swastika laundry trucks. Red, with a black swastika.

Where msl ballsbridge is today, Irish beetles used to be assembled. The building behind it, was the swastika laundry. There's quite an ironic photo of Volkswagen Ireland with a big red chimney in the background with both the word and swastika emblem on the chimney

Here you go:

Type 17

This may be a pic of the same Dartry van as above, taken at the laundry in Milltown sometime after 1976 (Toyota Cressida on the right). From the way everyone is lined up for an occasion, it looks like the last Smiths van was leaving the business (and from the brick behind the wheel, it didn't have any brakes).

Thinkingaboutit

bonzodog2 wrote: »

Film props perhaps for outdoor period scene?

I would suspect they belonged to Kevin Byrne who has a lot of old commercials. He insists the vehicles they hire from him for film are trailered. However, his are immaculate, and not all of them are so. Probably something to do with the Howth Museum.

SmartinMartin

Griffith ave today. Love these:

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sligojoek

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macplaxton

sligojoek wrote: »

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I think you were trying to link to these pics. You need the full long URL. In Chrome if you right click on pic you can copy the image address and paste that in between img tags.

SmartinMartin

**** , wrong thread.

tc20

recent spots - excuse the crappy pic of the Mercedes ( I think its a W108, though it might be a W109) Its not abandoned, the site is being redeveloped but I've never seen the car there before.

neris

spotted this waiting for the ferry yesterday in Holyhead. Ford Mustang.

Silvera

^^^ Nice Mustang ...c/w Dutch export plates

Zoo4m8

tc20 wrote: »

recent spots - excuse the crappy pic of the Mercedes ( I think its a W108, though it might be a W109) Its not abandoned, the site is being redeveloped but I've never seen the car there before.

I've been waiting for you to come up with that Merc , its there regularly during the day, I guess it belongs to one of the lads working on the new building.

pryantcc

Zoo4m8 wrote: »

I've been waiting for you to come up with that Merc , its there regularly during the day, I guess it belongs to one of the lads working on the new building.

If it's the car I think it is, it's an early -ish W108 250S with a diesel conversion. Is it spotted In Greystones?

Zoo4m8

pryantcc wrote: »

If it's the car I think it is, it's an early -ish W108 250S with a diesel conversion. Is it spotted In Greystones?

It is indeed..

tc20

Zoo4m8 wrote: »

I've been waiting for you to come up with that Merc , its there regularly during the day, I guess it belongs to one of the lads working on the new building.

haha, good one Zoom4m8 - I was off on Tuesday, so that's the reason I spotted it. Due to the crappy nature of the pic, one could almost think it was a barn find pulled out of the briars on that site. Fair play to the owner using it regularly. I didn't get a close look, but its not a show queen, and I don't mean that in a disparaging way - I think its great to see an old bus like that being used as a daily hack.

SmartinMartin

This gorgeous wolseley in Macroom today;

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tc20 wrote: »

recent spots - excuse the crappy pic of the Mercedes ( I think its a W108, though it might be a W109) Its not abandoned, the site is being redeveloped but I've never seen the car there before.

[car-spotter mode]For the record, the W108 is the short wheelbase (rear doors are standard length) and has sprung suspension. From the outside, the door frames around the windows will be body-colour and the badge will be nnnS or nnnSE, whereas the W109 will have a nnnSEL badge with (100mm/4 inches) longer rear doors, chrome trimmed door window frames, and will have (non-visible, unless on a lift or bonnet open) air suspension, with a small compressor on the engine with rubber bellows instead of springs/shocks. [/car-spotter mode]

SmartinMartin

A regular around Kenmare. I may have posted this one before, but worth a second look.

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Duke O Smiley

That is exactly what I think of when I think of old British cars Splendid looking thing

SmartinMartin

A little stunner on Aungier st today;

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SmartinMartin

I'm in love!
Drumcondra this evening;

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