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

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........

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

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

Two quite different V8s in north wicklow recently.

Looks like a flying saucer from the rear…

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!

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.

There was an L model in UK, LX was base model in Ireland. SLX was top of the range. Alloys are off a rwd Bluebird pre 1984. Still beautiful though.

Recent snaps for the holidays in Turkey.

We were in the same area (near Bodrum) about 9-10 years ago, and in the time, either there's been a Turkish Tiger, or they've introduced an NCT type test.. much fewer oldtimers on the roads and certainly a LOT more bling - Range Rovers all over the place, a couple of Porsches (did not see 1 the last time) and even a Ferrari and Maserati cabrio. Some of the photos were taken from a bus so they may not be perfect.

few more..the Beetle was some sort of food stall in the evening time

this was the first 'classic' I saw there, certainly not what I was expecting -

The Tofas Dogan, based on the Fiat Regata but built by Tofas in Turkey. There was an earlier model based on the 131 but didn't see any this time. They have a cult following over there, a lot of them pimped/lowered/treasured, though plenty others are still just hanging in there

passed this Merc a couple of times and finally managed to get few crappy shots of it - I had a similar model in the same colour about 20 yrs ago

My ideal garage !! 😍 wow…..

Chevy is beautiful…