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We will be entering the parade in Kilkenny this year . The parade will start at 1 sharp and we can gather from 12 on the Dublin road around St.John’s Church. If you are coming give Niall our re elected chairman a call just to give him a idea of numbers for the day 086 2460508.
We will be poping into” Bollards” back room for a cup of tea immediately after the parade, just park your car in the Market Yard car park
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Ultan Burke shared Connacht Veteran & Vintage Motor Club’s post to the group: Irish Vehicle Registrations Past & Present.
24 January at 13:41 ·
Update. Car recovered by the Gardai and 2 people arrested yesterday. ( Thursday )
GREAT NEWS….. WELL DONE TO ALL INVOLVED
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Split screen Morris stolen last night
Urgent Appeal
McDonalds Garage in Spencer Street, Castlebar was broken into last night, a 1952 light green Morris Minor was stolen, registration 1662ZM, has a split windscreen. Reg plates will probably be removed and colour could be changed. If anyone notices any split windscreen Morris Minor in good condition for sale of any cilour,please let me know and please share or repost. The owner has had this car for years and restored it himself, he is very upset. Thanks.
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OUR AGM IS COMING UP ON TUESDAY 13 OF FEBRUARY IN DANESFORT HALL AT 8.30…EVERBODY WELCOME, NEW AND OLD MEMBERS. WITH LOTS TO CHAT ABOUT AND PLAN FOR 2018. SEE YA THERE.
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Dear Sir or Madam,
I am from Tipperary in Ireland and enquiring if you may know of a vintage car owner in Ireland that would own a Toyota Corina 4-door 1981 model car? Please see attached image from Google Images, as a reference image only of the model type.
The reason is am putting together a documentary film.
Please see further info on my webpage https://nryanpurcell.simdif.com/
As part of the film, a neighbour who drove school pupils including myself home from Primary School every drove a Toyota Corina 4-door 1981 model car, which was a chocolate brown/ light brown colour. He unexpectedly died when I was ten years old. He was in his seventies. There is a same model type of car in Nenagh but in a red colour.
I would like to incorporate a visual of the same type of car in the documentary film perhaps in the form of a photograph or filming the dashboard of the car, showing the driver’s hands, as if it was the neighbour driving pupils including myself home.
Could I please enquire if you may know somebody that would own a similar vintage car, preferably before the end of January coming?
Many Thanks.
Kind Regards,
Nicholas Ryan Purcell
Telephone: 0505-20001 / 087-2501344
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KEEP THIS DATE FREE IN YOU LIST OF SHOWS TO GO TO 2018
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A TOTAL OF €2800 WAS RAISED FROM OUR CHARITY ROAD RUN LAST SUMMER. THANKS TO ALL THAT RAISED THIS GREAT AMOUNT. THE MONEY WAS HANDED OVER TO THE CARLOW /KILKENNY HOME CARE TEAM AT OUR LAST CLUB MEETING OF 2017 IN DANESFORT HALL. OUR ESTEEMED CHAIRMAN Mr Niall Mcgrath HAD TO PULL OUT AT THE LAST MINUIT DUE TO ILL HEALTH SO HANDOVER WAS DONE BY OUR VICE CHAIRMAN Mr Declan Good
ALSO DISCUSSED AT THE MEETING WAS A TRIP TO LLANDUDNO FOR 2018, Mr Sean Doheny HAS MANAGED TO GET A DEAL WITH THE FERRY COMPANY FOR CLUB MEMBERS OF €240 RETURN TRIP. SEAN CAN GIVE YOU DETAILS OF A CODE FOR THIS DEAL WHEN YOU BOOK IT. IF THINKING OF GOING YOU WANT TO DO IT SOONER THAN LATER ESPECIALLY FOR HOTELS AND B&BS..
ALSO SEAN LETS US KNOW THE CELTIC CLASSIC CARS TRIP WILL BE IN KILKENNY ON THE 29th OF APRIL WITH OVER 50 CARS OF ALL SORTS BOOKED FOR THIS TRIP. IT LOOKS AS IF IT WILL BE ON THE PARADE PLAZA THIS YEAR,SO A FEW STEWARDS MIGHT BE NEEDED ON THE DAY…
WE SPOKE ABOUT THE SPRING RUN WITH Declan Good LOOKING AFTER SAME AFTER THE SUCCESS OF THE LAST SPRING RUN TO BIRR. IT LOOKS LIKE A TRIP TO JIM BOLANDS COLLECTION IN NAAS WITH A STOP IN TRACEY’S OF THE HEATH FOR DINNER ON THE RETURN TRIP HOME. THE DATE FOR THIS TRIP HAS TO BE CONFIRMED….
ALSO IT WAS DECIDED AS THE MORRIS MINOR IS CELEBRATING ITS 70th BIRTHDAY OF ITS LAUNCH , IT WILL BE THE FEATURE CAR OF OUR SHOW ON THE 26th OF AUGUST. WE WELCOME THE MORRIS IN ALL ITS FORMS VANS CARS PICKUPS AND TRAVELLER
The British Motor Show of 1948 opened on October 27th at Earl’s Court and attracted more than half a million people. After the austerity and rationing of the war and postwar years – you could drive rather less than 100 miles a month on the petrol ration in 1948 – a keen demand had built up, sharpened by many who had discovered the joys of driving in the armed forces.
The stars of the show were the sturdy little Morris Minor, the ‘people’s car’ of its day, and the smart Jaguar XK 120. While the new Jaguar took the prizes for stylishness, it was the Morris with its rounded nose, frog-like headlamps and a windscreen split by a vertical bar that was the motor everyone might hope to own.
The first Minor had been launched by William Morris, the future Lord Nuffield, in 1928 as a competitor to the successful ‘baby’ Austin Seven, and lasted until 1934. Its 1948 successor was the brainchild of the Greek-born engineer and designer Alec Issigonis, who had started work for Morris in 1936 and who would go on to design the Mini.
During the war, while the Nuffield group diverted its energies to the patriotic production of munitions, the managing director, Miles Thomas, gave Issigonis a free hand to develop a new small car for the postwar period. Originally called the Mosquito, the Minor was designed to combine maximum seating space with minimum size (12ft 4in long, 5ft 1in wide, 5ft high) – which was why it had such small wheels – as well as reliability, inexpensiveness and a top speed of 62mph. Looks were not top priority.
The Nuffield group resumed production of its prewar models as soon as the war ended and was required by government regulation to export most of them abroad. Lord Nuffield, now in his seventies, had no opinion of Issigonis and professed to be unable to remember his name — ‘Issy-wossisname’ was as near as he could get. He had to be persuaded to allow the Minor to be shown at Earl’s Court where it was a tremendous hit.
The engagingly half-timbered Minor Traveller and the Minor vans were introduced in 1953 and the Minor was the first British car to hit the production mark of one million, at the end of the decade. The last Traveller was turned out in 1971.
Soundly engineered, reasonably priced and cherished in its day, the Minor has become a classic, eagerly sought after by collectors.
ON A FINAL NOTE OUR AGM HAS BEEN ARRANGED FOR TUESDAY 13th OF FEBRUARY AT 8.30 IN DANESFORT HALL
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Dear Kilkenny Motor Club,
I am just emailing you with regard to a car event that we are running here at the Cork International Hotel on Sunday 25th March 2018.
We are running our 2nd fundraising car show in aid of Bumbleance ( https://www.bumbleance.com/ ).
The inaugural event happened in 2017 here at the hotel and during that afternoon we raised over €8000 for the National Children’s Ambulance Service. We had such a great turn out of cars and bikes and we were incredibly grateful in particular to the Car Clubs who really jumped on board to support the event.
This is a short video from last year’s show –
It is such a wonderful charity that are in desperate need of funds so we decided to get on board to help them again this year.
We are running the car show on Sunday 25th March 2018 and it will be run as a family fun day.
Our kind neighbours at Cork Airport are giving use of the long term carpark which is accessed via our hotel for the weekend.
The plan is to run the event from 11am-4pm on the Sunday.
Adults will be €5 entry and children will be free. We will have various activities over the day including some outdoor music if the weather is on our side.
For those that wish to arrive on the Saturday evening, we will have live music and some complimentary finger food for exhibitors. We will obviously have security in the car park as it is a secure zone being part of the airport so cars can park there from the Saturday afternoon.
I just wondered if you would be able to circulate this to your members and revert back to me with a guide number of exhibitors.
I am just looking to initially get an expression of interest before I compile a list of competitors and exhibitors for the show. After you revert to me, I will then send you through a booking form so that we can get each cars details for the show in advance.
I look forward to hearing from you.
With Kindest Regards,
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