Here's what I saw today, mark 4 (don't quote pictures, 24h ban!)

GavPJ · 22-09-2022 4:24pm

Reg on that Sierra comes up as an XR4i but it says Cosworth on the boot.

XR4i had the extra pillar in the side window too didn't it? The extra

pillar ruined the whole car in my opinion.

beertons · 27-09-2022 10:39pm

Kk this week

neris · 28-09-2022 12:26pm

Howth a few weeks ago. Passed by me a few days later and some noise out of it

(sorry bout rotation not sure if its my phone or boards)

Cass · 29-09-2022 1:32am

Not great pictures but one of my favourite cars, the Nissan GTR.

Then on the way home a Porsche Panamera

Only to find a Lamborghini Diablo (I think) in my local petrol station.

Good day and that is counting the RS5 I didn't get a picture off.

goochy · 29-09-2022 5:30pm

that must be the Diablo Deane motors have for sale in Dunboyne

KevRossi · 01-10-2022 1:09pm

Selection of some of the Pope's former company cars. Went all bulletproof after the assassination attempt. The E23 and W108 are standard, all others heavily protected.

wotzgoingon · 01-10-2022 4:30pm

I know the bastard. I tried to assassinate him many times but he was always in a bullet proof vehicle. In the end I just gave up and found Jesus.

Muppet Man · 01-10-2022 5:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119681376#Comment_119681376

Ya that lambo is simon deanes. I don't think it's for sale though. Its from his personal collection :-) Might be wrong though.

mazdamiatamx5 · 01-10-2022 7:46pm

The Diablo and McLaren are great spots. Yes I assume the Diablo must be the one Deane Motors have for sale. I only saw a Diablo in Ireland once before, Alan Dorgan motors had one for sale in 1998, price IR£145k, it was purple.

[Steve] · 02-10-2022 2:05am

Outside Deevys, Waterford.

Passed it going along the quay about 15mins after this photo was taken too. California plates and all.

ctrl-alt-delete · 02-10-2022 10:13am

Couple from a trip to Whitby a while back.

goochy · 02-10-2022 8:35pm

Remember the Diablo for sale around1997 at alan Dorgans . Went there with my dad to see it as was teenager . Alan Dorgan wasn't verge friendly . You think he would understand someone wanting to get close to a lambo !

wotzgoingon · 02-10-2022 9:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119693638#Comment_119693638

He knew you had no intention of buying it.

goochy · 03-10-2022 4:27pm

Thats not the point , he could have been pleasant . I would never buy a car off him after that , hes retired now but it said alot about him.

mazdamiatamx5 · 03-10-2022 9:20pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119693638#Comment_119693638

You are literally the first person to confirm it. All these years and I half thought I had hallucinated it. I never saw the car again, am curious as to what happened to it. I also found Alan Dorgan motors to be rather supercilious and unhelpful. I only saw the Diablo by chance because I went in looking for a MK1 Golf GTI, the guy told me "oh they are very hard to get hold of, we never have them" in spite of the fact that an acquaintance had bought one off them only a few months previously. I nodded at the Diablo and "do you reckon you'll sell it?", he replied "it sells itself, don't you think?".

goochy · 04-10-2022 11:31am

Alan Dorgan went through a period of having random really high end cars amongst his stock around then. I remember he was in Leopardstown retail park around 1994 - very fancy showroom. I think he was involved in nightclubs also

kdevitt · 04-10-2022 12:40pm

I bought two cars from Alan Dorgan, still have one of them - he wasn't overly helpful even when you were handing him a wad of cash.

mazdamiatamx5 · 04-10-2022 7:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119699112#Comment_119699112

Ah ok. I didn't realise they he ever had a showroom in Leopardstown, thought they were always based only in Monkstown. I guess he was doing what Beshoff do these days, focus on high end stuff for the top end of the market.

goochy · 05-10-2022 8:14am

he wasnt there for very long , he only dealt in really high end stuff for a while. He dealt in fairly run of the mill premium brands cars after that and became a cabrio specialist

Greg81 · 07-10-2022 1:40pm

Kentucky

sligopaul · 07-10-2022 2:21pm

love the size of the parking spaces

mazdamiatamx5 · 08-10-2022 4:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119702941#Comment_119702941

Yeah that was my understanding. Btw, when I saw the Diablo at Alan Dorgan's back in 97/98 I remember mentioning it to a then work colleague from a wealthy background and who had grown up in Dalkey. He commented that he remembered two Shankhill brothers had both had Lambos in the 1970s. He wasn't a b.s. merchant so I filed it away in my memory. Low and behold footage from one of them turns up in the internet era, see this thread (possibly you've already seen it):

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057446310/that-irish-1968-lamborghini-islero-home-movie

goochy · 08-10-2022 5:13pm

i remember when i lived in Clonsilla in the early 90s , there was a red Countach in a garage of a fairly average house . Owner swore it was real thing.

Didnt car guy Michael Madden in Kilkenny have a Countach and then a Diablo ?

mazdamiatamx5 · 13-10-2022 11:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119717986#Comment_119717986

Don't know about Michael Madden. I only saw a Countach once outside of a car show in Ireland, but it was on NI plates.

beertons · 13-10-2022 11:43pm

Far end of the town on Tuesday.

KevRossi · 15-10-2022 4:54pm

Renault Alpine GTA on the Newhaven - Dieppe ferry yesterday. Saw it out of the corner of my eye going up the stairs. Hard to miss really. Still a stunning car IMHO.