Once common cars that you don't see anymore
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there was a megane that colour always sat on N'ards just down from knock fire station back when they where first released - always stood out colourwise compared to other cars around that time/era
Jbridges522
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Some price for 130k - you dont see many of them for sale above that tbh, lots of rot issues, drive shafts, expensive part replacement vs value of the car
There was a non LUX model for sale in Ards a while back for that money but with 35k on the clocks
Mad money! Should be £1.8-2.5k MAX!
There was a non LUX model for sale in Ards a while back for that money but with 35k on the clocks
Mad money! Should be £1.8-2.5k MAX!
Jbridges522
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Thought the same tbh, boys in the comments saying its mint but even still
Its a LUX CUP model so has it all going for it - with the mods and tyre choice you would automatically assume its enthusiast owned but at those miles, its hit or miss tbh - I have been looking at them on and off this past year and very rarely you see any for sale with more than 130k on them
eg a friend in Ballymena had one which I was considering buying as I knew its history but he ended up needing headlights, headlight motors, springs and wheel bearings (having replaced some before) so was going to be an expensive repair for a £2k or less car
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My second car was a white Quartz
Sadly I have no pictures of it on the Fondmetal 5800 rim I put on it
Got to love those early digital cameras. This was a Sony that saved to floppy disc
Funny I seen one of these wee metros filling up in cushendall there a couple of evenings ago with a few young ones in it, same colour etc as that
See this most weeks when I’m delivering to the shop in Bellarena… been meaning to get a photo but I’m always in a rush.
Unusual to see outside M&S on Boucher rd the other day. On trade plates.
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TME actually on the road 
Fair play, what they're for!
Fair play, what they're for!TME actually on the road
Something like that in the garage and took out every now and again I get. Half the stuff sitting in garages about the country I don’t get.
He was sitting up at Creg na Baa when we passed later.TME actually on the road
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The island is like a lot of others in that you see older cars just getting used as daily smokers. We went for a family holiday in 1996 and loved it. I managed to get out looking for a pint of milk a few nights and did a lap of the TT course very late on and a few of the classic manx rally stages.
Cool place but the winters would be hell if you dont have a sensible pastime to keep you out of trouble. Had an ex schoolmate who went over there to work straight from university and ended up a borderline alcoholic after a few winters. Pulled himself out of it thankfully but it's a common island problem. Saw lots of similar problems on the isle of wight when I spent a year there too.
Yeah, even now "on" season, there's not a lot to do at night apart from take a drink. We're that busy during the day, its rock n roll with us, bed for 10
. We've driven past the same pub 4 evenings in a row and the same boy has been sitting outside biffing away 
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If you like BBQ (smoked) food, the restaurant in jacks bar in Douglas is really good.Yeah, even now "on" season, there's not a lot to do at night apart from take a drink. We're that busy during the day, its rock n roll with us, bed for 10