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

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    #6842
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,219 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122218246#Comment_122218246

    Google led me to the owners, photographers living in Dun Laoire, abroad at the time. Car wouldn't start, couldn't get a mechanic to work on it, she said.

    No parking, getting grief from the Council, so they told the Council to take it away.....

    Told me they'd be delighted if I could save it.

    Went to the scrapyard with this info, got a very hostile reaction, claimed that by talking to the owners I'd endangered their contract with SDCC.

    Am now a persona-non-gratis there........



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    #6843
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users Posts: 3,895 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122369343#Comment_122369343

    I think that new boot shape came in 1988. 1981 tax book makes you NCT exempt.
    Remember years ago someone posted a picture here of a 2000 Merc C250 turbodiesel in Ballyshannon on a ZV for a 70’s Merc 250 petrol. That C has probably rusted away to nothing by now though

    The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.



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    #6844
    The Macho Man
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭The Macho Man


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122369343#Comment_122369343

    Yeh I was questioning that myself. This is a mark 2 Jetta, don't know how he got an older plate on it.



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    #6845
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users Posts: 3,895 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122371555#Comment_122371555

    There’s a MK1 Jetta from roughly 1974 to 1984. Vento superseded the MK2 Jetta in 1993.

    The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.



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    #6846
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users Posts: 3,895 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122370151#Comment_122370151

    What BS by the breakers. If their contract was that sensitive, they’d remove the plates immediately. If the car is still there, they’re probably just waiting to find a tax book to put a new plate on it.
    Very frustrating to come across classic owners that will just scrap a car like that because they can’t be arsed to find a mechanic, it’s not like it’s a 1930’s Lancia or something. Quik Fit would probably have gotten it going. Or stick it up on Donedeal as a non-runner. Let someone benefit from it.

    /rant over

    The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.



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    #6847
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,219 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Yeah, and I found it incredible that people who had included the car in atmospheric shots taken in Portugal, and showcased on their professional instagram page, should just dispose of it like an IKEA bookcase.

    I can only conclude that they are on a payscale vastly different to myself or most others.

    Gutted to be honest.



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    #6848
    w124man
    Registered Users Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭w124man


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122372052#Comment_122372052

    1979 to 1984. I had an 81, 85, 88 and 91 all diesels and all over 175k before selling on. Still buying VW's!



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    #6849
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 15,048 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122372902#Comment_122372902

    Fair play to you, at least you tried.

    It's a bad system that mandates wilful destruction of something that has a value, whether in a financial sense or as heritage.

    Waterways Ireland manage the inland waterways, rivers, lakes and canals.

    When they lift boats because they are abandoned or owe fees they are taken to a compound and advertised for sale.



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    #6850
    tc20
    Registered Users Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭tc20


    Two quite different V8s in north wicklow recently.

    Chevy Impala.jpg
    TR8.jpg



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    #6851
    skibum
    Registered Users Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭skibum


    Saw this beauty tucked away at the back of a carpark in Dalkey.

    54000 km on the NCT disc

    TESTAROSSA 1.jpg
    TESTAROSSA 2.jpg
    TESTAROSSA 3.jpg



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    #6852
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,317 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Looks like a flying saucer from the rear…

    Not your ornery onager



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    #6853
    dball
    Registered Users Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭dball


    https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipOCw93BoWjpn3Q0cDomJFRdhgLkn8md72gQwKjh



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    #6854
    The Macho Man
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭The Macho Man


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122384480#Comment_122384480

    Some sound off these flat 12's. Glorious.



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    #6855
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,509 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Last year (or 2) of it needing an NCT aswell!



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    #6856
    MrCostington
    Registered Users Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭MrCostington


    A few from a show in Abbeyleix last weekend. The Ferrari was a kit car (my mate looked up the reg, some British car). Was talking to the Cosworth owner, I used to have one same year so he let me sit in and rev it :)

    I've never seen a Mercedes W116 at a show before, there was 3 there!

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    group.jpg
    kitcar.jpg
    must.jpg
    opal.jpg
    r5.jpg



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    #6857
    The Macho Man
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭The Macho Man


    Saw a fair few nice classics rolling around Portarlington today, unfortunately only got 2 of them. The second was a stunning Fiat 130 with the V6

    20240727_144031.jpg
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    #6858
    skibum
    Registered Users Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭skibum


    On my way to Norwich, I saw this beautiful Cobra replica (made by a crowd called creadonreplicas.com )

    As I was walking back to my car, I could hear him putting the foot down as he left the car park. It sounded amazing.

    Nice number plate.

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