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Joined: Dec 27, 2004
Posts: 634
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posted:
Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:33 pm
I was in a suburb of south Dublin the other day, when I saw this interesting but tired Audi 60.
It's LHD, and its (Irish) registration is from the early 70's, but you can see an Arabic registration behind it, together with a sump-guard and ENORMOUS wishbones, so it looks like it was made for the the middle-eastern market.
Unfortunately, being in northern Europe for over 30 years means that it has suffered from that very non-middle eastern malady, severe rust. It hasn't been taxed since 1994, and it doesn't look very salvageable...
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Joined: Jan 21, 2003
Posts: 4228
Posted:
Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:07 pm
There was a time when you didn't need MOT in Ireland i wonder if thats changed
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Joined: Dec 27, 2004
Posts: 634
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posted:
Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:11 pm
Yes, about 1999 the EU finally forced the Irish gov't to bring it in (the NCT - National Car Test - http://www.ncts.ie/ ), and not before time - cars not too dissimilar to this were a common sight on rural roads before then.
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Joined: Nov 13, 2004
Posts: 283
Location: Norfolk
Posted:
Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:02 pm
if it's for sale it mite be of interst to coxy on classic-audi.co.uk
Joined: Dec 27, 2004
Posts: 634
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posted:
Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:36 pm
audivw wrote:
if it's for sale it mite be of interst to coxy on classic-audi.co.uk
Well, if anyone is seriously interested, I could make enquiries (there is a small sole-trader garage across the street, and I'd say that they would know who owns it). My email address is <my_user_name>@o2.ie
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Location: Norfolk
Posted:
Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:13 pm
i'll put a post on classic audi for the attention of coxy
Joined: Jan 20, 2003
Posts: 13250
Location: N.E. Scotland
Posted:
Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:08 pm
Would need some major work but seen worse cars restored
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Joined: Jun 10, 2005
Posts: 86
Location: West Midlands!
Posted:
Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:44 pm
cq20v wrote:
Would need some major work but seen worse cars restored
and I'm about to restore a 1968 Audi 80 Variant in far worse a state!
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posted:
Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:06 pm
Just to confirm that the above Audi has disappeared - presumably it has gone to "the great finish line in the sky", but I can't say for sure...
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