Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Belker on March 27, 2022, 01:51:21 pm
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Taking it that most of us on here are a tad over the Fifty mark, say if'n you won the lotto and had all your family looked after and had the house you wanted all done up, jacked in the Taxi plate and still had a small few million left over.
What would your Dream practical car be just to drive around town and go to the shop or on holidays ?
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Taking it that most of us on here are a tad over the Fifty mark, say if'n you won the lotto and had all your family looked after and had the house you wanted all done up, jacked in the Taxi plate and still had a small few million left over.
What would your Dream practical car be just to drive around town and go to the shop or on holidays ?
Personally I'd love a new s class for daily driving and prolly a new ford ranger for going fishing
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VOLVO V70 CROSS-COUNTRY AWD. a car for life and every occasion including carrying your coffin to your resting place.
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VOLVO V70 CROSS-COUNTRY AWD. a car for life and every occasion including carrying your coffin to your resting place.
Nice car, luxurious and practical.
(https://i.postimg.cc/gwjTJD7g/index.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/gwjTJD7g)
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..... Personally I'd love a new s class for daily driving and prolly a new ford ranger for going fishing
I was never much of a Merc man and the Ranger would be too much car fer me, but whatever floats your boat !
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Taking it that most of us on here are a tad over the Fifty mark, say if'n you won the lotto and had all your family looked after and had the house you wanted all done up, jacked in the Taxi plate and still had a small few million left over.
What would your Dream practical car be just to drive around town and go to the shop or on holidays ?
If that came true for me, I would have no interest in owning any type of car, I would hope to never have to drive again, and would be very happy to take public transport everywhere.
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I'd buy a banger and every time someone annoyed me on the road, I'd crash into them. Then I'd throw them €50k and tell them to fuk off and stop annoying me >:D
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..... Personally I'd love a new s class for daily driving and prolly a new ford ranger for going fishing
I was never much of a Merc man and the Ranger would be too much car fer me, but whatever floats your boat !
A Ranger would sink, go figure! 8)
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I'd buy a banger and every time someone annoyed me on the road, I'd crash into them. Then I'd throw them €50k and tell them to fuk off and stop annoying me >:D
That's what the skobie Mc Gregor does, he hits someone in a fit of anger, then hands them 20K not to sue, allegedly.
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Old Mk 2 Jag with spoked wheels .Screems class motor even Big Dommos youngfellas youngfella likes them .Or an old bedford van with no seatbelts and sliding doors .
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I don't know why but I always liked the old vw beatles. With the engine in the back and the things to stand on at the doors. Me uncle had one back in the 70's.
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I'm inclined to agree with BS i.e. ifn I could afford not to drive I'd have little or no interest in doing so... but, maybe, a 3/4 year old Seat Ibiza with dual controls!
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I would like a 00C silver petrol avensis and spend a good few quid on it to make it as good as new.
IE. engine overhaul, custom made seat covers, very expensive valet, new wheels, total re spray and basically replace anything that can be replaced like wipers, lights, etc..
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I don't know why but I always liked the old vw beatles. With the engine in the back and the things to stand on at the doors. Me uncle had one back in the 70's.
My grandad had a cream one of them fer about 20 years, only sold it to buy a hatchback, sold it fer more than he paid fer it !
It's rocket boards they call the things to stand on at the doors.
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A prius wit the roof cut off so I cud work on rectifying me hunchback....fukin japenese midgets ::fight
E- type jag wit a 6 litre .....emmm.... 40 gazllion kilowat electric motor an a yung Japanese wife that can't speak English in it aswell
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I don't know why but I always liked the old vw beatles. With the engine in the back and the things to stand on at the doors. Me uncle had one back in the 70's.
My grandad had a cream one of them fer about 20 years, only sold it to buy a hatchback, sold it fer more than he paid fer it !
It's rocket boards they call the things to stand on at the doors.
Whenever my uncle visited us in the 70's there'd be about 5 kids standing either side of the car booting down the road. Different times.
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I don't know why but I always liked the old vw beatles. With the engine in the back and the things to stand on at the doors. Me uncle had one back in the 70's.
My grandad had a cream one of them fer about 20 years, only sold it to buy a hatchback, sold it fer more than he paid fer it !
It's rocket boards they call the things to stand on at the doors.
[url]http://www.vwspares.ie/running-boards[/url] ([url]http://www.vwspares.ie/running-boards[/url])
When I met Mrs. Bullet I told her I had a purple VW, she thought I meant a Beetle, when in fact it was a VW Golf 1.4.
Nice car and used as a Hackney for the first three years.
Whenever my uncle visited us in the 70's there'd be about 5 kids standing either side of the car booting down the road. Different times.
(https://i.postimg.cc/PpFwRMBk/1024px-1993-Volkswagen-Golf-III-Atlanta-Dieppe-Seine-Maritime-France-17213127143-cropped.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/PpFwRMBk)
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A Maybach, with a driver who only spoke when spoken to! 8)
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A wanked out French panel van!!
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my dad hadda a white diesel corolla taxi in the mid 90s.
sounded like a tank. rediculously strong plastic and rubbery smell inside.
i'd love one as my own personal pussy wagon around darndale.
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A wanked out French panel van!!
Laffin, I’d have a few hapes given half the chance.
Currently own a 1986 Volvo 740, 1990 Carina II, 1992 Carina E, 1999 Avensis as well as the wanked out french converted panel van.
Money no object? 1990 BMW E34 535i, 1980’s Rolls Royce Silver Spirt, and probably a Mercedes S500 W140, ohhh and a Alfa-Romeo 164 I know IWFTSTS had one when he was a pup, I’m extremely jealous Frank!
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A wanked out French panel van!!
Laffin, I’d have a few hapes given half the chance.
Currently own a 1986 Volvo 740, 1990 Carina II, 1992 Carina E, 1999 Avensis as well as the wanked out french converted panel van.
Money no object? 1990 BMW E34 535i, 1980’s Rolls Royce Silver Spirt, and probably a Mercedes S500 W140, ohhh and a Alfa-Romeo 164 I know IWFTSTS had one when he was a pup, I’m extremely jealous Frank!
Traded it in for a 2nd hand CRX. The dealer wasn't happy when the clutch on the Alfa packed up shortly afterward, even though he had test driven it, he shoulda known............'cos I had an inkling....
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I think I saw my old Primera in Finglas yesterday for the first time in a decade.I got really excited for some reason.Cant explain it.I think I miss when cars smelt and sounded like cars.I never remember complaining about cabin noise in that yoke. Probably because the engine was screaming.
I dunno if I saw my current heap in ten years would I still be as excited.Cant upload a picture for some reason..
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A wanked out French panel van!!
Laffin, I’d have a few hapes given half the chance.
Currently own a 1986 Volvo 740, 1990 Carina II, 1992 Carina E, 1999 Avensis as well as the wanked out french converted panel van.
Money no object? 1990 BMW E34 535i, 1980’s Rolls Royce Silver Spirt, and probably a Mercedes S500 W140, ohhh and a Alfa-Romeo 164 I know IWFTSTS had one when he was a pup, I’m extremely jealous Frank!
Traded it in for a 2nd hand CRX. The dealer wasn't happy when the clutch on the Alfa packed up shortly afterward, even though he had test driven it, he shoulda known............'cos I had an inkling....
They’re fantastic cars, I’m not really into Italian stallions but I think they’re absolutely gorgeous. Current market forces means you couldn’t get a bad one for under €5k
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A wanked out French panel van!!
Laffin, I’d have a few hapes given half the chance.
Currently own a 1986 Volvo 740, 1990 Carina II, 1992 Carina E, 1999 Avensis as well as the wanked out french converted panel van.
Money no object? 1990 BMW E34 535i, 1980’s Rolls Royce Silver Spirt, and probably a Mercedes S500 W140, ohhh and a Alfa-Romeo 164 I know IWFTSTS had one when he was a pup, I’m extremely jealous Frank!
Traded it in for a 2nd hand CRX. The dealer wasn't happy when the clutch on the Alfa packed up shortly afterward, even though he had test driven it, he shoulda known............'cos I had an inkling....
They’re fantastic cars, I’m not really into Italian stallions but I think they’re absolutely gorgeous. Current market forces means you couldn’t get a bad one for under €5k
Mary Robinson had one in 1990:
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2056607146/old-state-cars (https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2056607146/old-state-cars)
It only dawned on me the Alfa did a Romeo and Giulietta! Wherefore art thou? 8)
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I would like a 00C silver petrol avensis and spend a good few quid on it to make it as good as new.
IE. engine overhaul, custom made seat covers, very expensive valet, new wheels, total re spray and basically replace anything that can be replaced like wipers, lights, etc..
I think I'm In Love !! oops
(https://i.postimg.cc/wyTHWHrV/ey-Jid-WNr-ZXQi-Oi-Jkb25l-ZGVhb-C5p-ZS1wa-G90b3-Mi-LCJl-ZGl0cy-I6ey-J0b0-Zvcm1hd-CI6-Impw-ZWci-LCJy-ZXNpem-Ui-Onsi-Zml0-Ijoi.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/wyTHWHrV)
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/38k-milesnct-june-232000-toyota-avensis-1-6/29505501 (https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/38k-milesnct-june-232000-toyota-avensis-1-6/29505501)
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I'm trying to talk me small fella (22) in to buying this ??
Which is MY dream car.
(https://i.postimg.cc/wx5mLvKH/ey-Jid-WNr-ZXQi-Oi-Jkb25l-ZGVhb-C5p-ZS1wa-G90b3-Mi-LCJl-ZGl0cy-I6ey-J0b0-Zvcm1hd-CI6-Impw-ZWci-LCJy-ZXNpem-Ui-Onsi-Zml0-Ijoi.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/00-toyota-avensis-long-nct/35449353 (https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/00-toyota-avensis-long-nct/35449353)
But he ain't going fer it, he has his heart set on a 10 year old Fookin BMW or Audi fer about 13 Large.
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Old Mk 2 Jag with spoked wheels .Screems class motor even Big Dommos youngfellas youngfella likes them .Or an old bedford van with no seatbelts and sliding doors .
I'm liking the old Bedford idea, if money was no issue then pick up an old crocked one and do it up to perfection without going full Gotham garage on it.
(https://i.postimg.cc/L4rvxh5W/vintage-rusty-1957-bedford-ca-calthorpe-home-cruiser-camper-van-parked-BFRHW4.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/t7NhTqhd)
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I'm trying to talk me small fella (22) in to buying this ??
Which is MY dream car.
(https://i.postimg.cc/wx5mLvKH/ey-Jid-WNr-ZXQi-Oi-Jkb25l-ZGVhb-C5p-ZS1wa-G90b3-Mi-LCJl-ZGl0cy-I6ey-J0b0-Zvcm1hd-CI6-Impw-ZWci-LCJy-ZXNpem-Ui-Onsi-Zml0-Ijoi.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/00-toyota-avensis-long-nct/35449353 (https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/00-toyota-avensis-long-nct/35449353)
But he ain't going fer it, he has his heart set on a 10 year old Fookin BMW or Audi fer about 13 Large.
As this is fer a 22 year old lad I'm thinking; Engine overhaul, custom made seat covers, very expensive valet, and basically replace anything that needs to be replaced like wipers, lights, etc..
Respray the side trims and bumbers to scarlet red to give it a mean cool look ??
Any other constructive advice would be welcome.
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Well, the car is older than he is. He's also unlikely to get insurance on a 23 year old car.
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Mondeo V6
Escort RS 2000
Sierra Cosworth
or failing those
Rover P5 3500
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M11 Jag with wire wheels .or Morgan 4 wheeler .
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Ford capri or mini cooper
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Ford capri or mini cooper
The capri would have to be a 2.8 injection
Failing that if settled for a RS2000
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VW ID4
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You said "dream", so any car that comes with a driver, and his salary paid 24/7/365, Lotto job!
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VW ID4
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Any car parked outside my gaff in Kerala.
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Ford capri or mini cooper
Big difference there TD42, can you explain ?
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VW ID4
If I ever win one in a raffle, you can have it !
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Mondeo V6
Escort RS 2000
Sierra Cosworth
or failing those
Rover P5 3500
You seem to be a Ford man Bubba.
I saw this most georgeous aquamarine/torquoise '65 Ford Mustang up at Circle K in the Nest this morning, I had a real good look over it and chatted to the driver, he was heading fer some rally in Watergrasshill this morning. It was a real beauty.
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Mondeo V6
Escort RS 2000
Sierra Cosworth
or failing those
Rover P5 3500
You seem to be a Ford man Bubba.
I saw this most georgeous aquamarine/torquoise '65 Ford Mustang up at Circle K in the Nest this morning, I had a real good look over it and chatted to the driver, he was heading fer some rally in Watergrasshill this morning. It was a real beauty.
Only those 3 Ken. Although I might consider a Shelby Cobra or Mustang .
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Mondeo V6
Escort RS 2000
Sierra Cosworth
or failing those
Rover P5 3500
You seem to be a Ford man Bubba.
I saw this most georgeous aquamarine/torquoise '65 Ford Mustang up at Circle K in the Nest this morning, I had a real good look over it and chatted to the driver, he was heading fer some rally in Watergrasshill this morning. It was a real beauty.
Only those 3 Ken. Although I might consider a Shelby Cobra or Mustang .
I've had all those 3 in the past, firstly an Orion which is the Escorts twin brother, I gave it to the misses when I bought a 9-Y-O BMW 520, defo the Beamer best car I ever had but God himself could not afford the maintence costs.
I had a lovely Mondeo but wrecked it ignoring the nua speed ramps and ended up trading it with 18K fer a family 7 seater.
I also had a basic ugly Sierra fer a few months, hated the yoke.
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Mondeo V6
Escort RS 2000
Sierra Cosworth
or failing those
Rover P5 3500
You seem to be a Ford man Bubba.
I saw this most georgeous aquamarine/torquoise '65 Ford Mustang up at Circle K in the Nest this morning, I had a real good look over it and chatted to the driver, he was heading fer some rally in Watergrasshill this morning. It was a real beauty.
Only those 3 Ken. Although I might consider a Shelby Cobra or Mustang .
I've had all those 3 in the past, firstly an Orion which is the Escorts twin brother, I gave it to the misses when I bought a 9-Y-O BMW 520, defo the Beamer best car I ever had but God himself could not afford the maintence costs.
I had a lovely Mondeo but wrecked it ignoring the nua speed ramps and ended up trading it with 18K fer a family 7 seater.
I also had a basic ugly Sierra fer a few months, hated the yoke.
Orion vs RS 2000 ? laffin
Mondeo vs Mondeo 3.0 Top Gear car of the year ? Laffin 2
Sierra vs Sierra Cosworth ? Laffin 3
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Orion vs RS 2000 ?
DeVito vs Schwarzenegger rofl
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Orion vs RS 2000 ?
DeVito vs Schwarzenegger rofl
Laffin 4
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Orion vs RS 2000 ?
DeVito vs Schwarzenegger rofl
Laffin 4
The Orion was a perineum. Depending on your proclivities, it was the pointless bit between two entertainment centres.
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Not much point in having a muscle-car as a private car as there is no where to drive them.
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If I didn't drive for a living I wouldn't even own a car.Nowhere to drive any cars nowadays with any enjoyment.All I get to enjoy now is red lights and speed ramps.I'd make more progress on one of those leccy scooters TBH.
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Not much point in having a muscle-car as a private car as there is no where to drive them.
Not much point in asking whats the dream car if they`re too powerful to drive .
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Not much point in having a muscle-car as a private car as there is no where to drive them.
Not much point in asking whats the dream car if they`re too powerful to drive .
As the OP would suggest;
.... What would your Dream practical car be just to drive around town and go to the shop or on holidays ?
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Not much point in having a muscle-car as a private car as there is no where to drive them.
Not much point in asking whats the dream car if they`re too powerful to drive .
As the OP would suggest;
.... What would your Dream practical car be just to drive around town and go to the shop or on holidays ?
My bad Ken. I don`t have a dream practical car.
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VW ID4
If I ever win one in a raffle, you can have it !
Thanks. There's no way I could justify handing over the guts of €45,000 in used notes for the amount of work I do in the cab... I'd have to double my hours just to pay for the fucker.
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i had my dream car and did'nt realise it.
2012 Toyota Avensis.
i had a dream last week she was parked in the driveway decommisioned with all the taxi livery removed from her.
fully valeted interior and freshly washed at night with water beeding off her.
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I saw - no - heard this up at the T1 drop-off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_t8lzrSglU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_t8lzrSglU) just this morning.
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there's wunna them that does be parked along the road in the baldoyle industrial estate. fairly sure she's grey as well.
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there's wunna them that does be parked along the road in the baldoyle industrial estate. fairly sure she's grey as well.
181D?
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Not much point in having a muscle-car as a private car as there is no where to drive them.
Not much point in asking whats the dream car if they`re too powerful to drive .
As the OP would suggest;
.... What would your Dream practical car be just to drive around town and go to the shop or on holidays ?
My bad Ken. I don`t have a dream practical car.
Thanks fer your input Bubba, that's a pretty fascinating list you have but they are not practical fer just about town.
My Dream unpractical car would be an old classic Cadillac Eldorado but as it is such a head-turner and with my dislike of the Limelight then unlikely that I would ever drive it.
(https://i.postimg.cc/wjJZfDYv/1955-cadillac-eldorado-659742117e3eb.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)