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dryle 
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coming back from france 2 yrs ago in caen saw a couple of Marcos i reckon they were in a rally or sumthing. if you go up to weston aerodrome there are generally a few nice cars. seen aston, bently, porsche and an rr phantom owned by citywest hotel.
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a friends dad has an F355. An F40 on the road near Pheonix Park was a big irish spot. Maybach & Phantoms in Dublin, a Jag XJ220 in Galway. There's a Veyron on the Galway-Oughterard road belonging to some builder according to my sister who lives there, but I haven't seen it yet. I've seen loads abroad - Veyron, 959, various AMG & Brabus in Germany, Enzo in Italy, SLR in Switzerland & Moscow, Z8 in Italy & Moscow. I've been in a Pagani, Bugatti EB110, & Edonis. Seen Lambo Murchialago, Gallardo & Diablo, a Testarossa, Diablo & T512R chasing each other by Brescia, grey & dirty 360 Stradale with plexiglass windows chasing superbikes between between Verona & Bolzano (I kept with them in my 1.4TDCi Fiesta rental as long as I could - what a hoot)... you can see a pattern here. Northern Italy is fantastic for supercar spotting.
Probably my biggest buzz was in Modena; fed up sitting @ the back gates waiting for prototypes, so strolled down to shop to buy a bit of grub. Came across a Daytona on a flatbed. went over to have a poke around, and saw inside an old garage with various classic Ferraris in various states or repair, scrap, service etc.. So I just strolled in, had a wander around, went in the back and heaps of old blocks stacked high, engines being repaired etc.. it was savage. No one even batted an eyelid at me. I took a few photos - I'll post them up tomorrow when I scan them in. |
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Over the years, I've been pretty lucky when it comes to seeing rare cars in the metal (or carbon fibre and all that).
Ferrari's (308, 355, 430, 360, F40, F50, Enzo, 512, Dinos!, and loads more) Aston's - they all look the same (well all the new ones do anyway), James Bond's original shape Aston (DB5- I think). A Lagonda in England - too clean, not sure if it was ever driven. Porsche - GT, 911 GT2/3s, loads of 911s. A few RUFs in Oz. And a rolled Cayenne here. Two genuine AC Cobras 427s - not kit cars. 1 Ascari 4 Zondas Lots of Lambos, old and new. About ten McLaren F1s and an SLR. But my favourite... A Honda S600  |
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been trying to think really, have been in some moderate exotics here but havent seen many lambos/ferraris and the like.. Been in an 01 S8 when it was near new, at speed! amazing for a yoke that big to go so quick! Same goes for 03 and 05 porsche cayenne 4.5V8, unnaturally quick. Been in a maserati 3200GT, not at speed though.. Most impressed by and really showing me up as having old man taste here was a Bentley Arnage Red label at the motor show in the nec a few years back.
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You can keep your Maybachs and Phantoms, mere blips on the radar, for me
there has only ever been one to stop me in my tracks and take my breath away, a white Lambo Countach with the doors up, as a kid in London. It ruined me. |
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for ireland with the celtic tiger you will see more of the modern uber cars, however for any1 who grew up in the 80's watching the likes of miami vice if you saw any of those cars it would be more special as they were never seen here. at the irish motor show years ago the national lottery had a £1 million pound car stand, they had a 959, diablo and a testarossa or f50 cant remember which ferrari |
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'Twas an F40. You're older than you think, it was waaaay before the F50! |
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I was with my mum at the Lotto stand at that car show in the RDS. She
had her press card as she was a motoring journalist back then so I got to have a really good look at them up close. and I got to sit in all the other cars. The best I was in was a Countach. And lads I did say IRISH roads. Some rare beasts I've seen here include a Miura on the N3 near Blanch, a blue (with blue Irish reg plates) Testarossa that a friend of a friend or my fathers owned, a Dino when I was in about 5th class in school parked in the school car park (remember that llatsni?), a blue Diablo on the queys in Dublin, a Porsche Carrera GT (which I sat into) in Des Cullens old showroom, a black Gallardo by the canal in Dublin, Paddy Hannigans Ferrari '97 F355 and now his '04 575, a lovely F430 Convertible with the hood down and the blond in the passanger seat on the Stillorgan road, lots of Astons, Bentleys (including 1 convertible), Porsches etc etc when working in Ballsbridge over the last few months. And I did see that '04 Maybach parked outside that Cafe Bar place on St. Marys Road in Ballsbridge all the time. Always parked on the double yellows with the guy in the hat reading the paper in the front. Thats all I can think of for now. Edited by flyingalexf68 |
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im that old i forgot about the em ah now what was it |
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alex you lucky git for being able to see those cars up close
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In the UK: Porsche 959 (red) Pagani Zonda (at full chat on the A1) McLaren F1 on the M1 (black) Lamborghini Murcielago (yellow) in....Macclesfield Rolls Royce Phantom (black) in....Wakefield
Overseas: 2 x Ferrari F40's going for it on the road leaving Kitzbuhel in Austria in 1990 - when they were pretty much new and a very rare sight indeed.
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Mercedes SLR in Bern, CH last October:
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Well I was only 10. (and they were locked s nobody could get in). I have pictures somewhere. As part of my mums job she had a new car every 2 weeks. I loved it, she hated it. Did it for 7 years. Gave up in 1994 before I could really appreciate them. She had all sorts of car but she told me recently that she never had any BMW's to test. Plenty of other nice ones though. S class Mercs, Lexus, MX-5 before it was launched here (1990) etc etc. The most memorable was the Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo. We went very very very fast in that. There was all the other run of the mill stuff too. I remember going on a two week camping holiday to France in a crappy Mazda 323 saloon sans air con. It was nice of Mazda to give her the car but why couldn't she ask Mercedes or Land Rover for a loaner in exchange for a glowing review??? |
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Good photo Horstan. I take it you're one of those tourists with the camera
hanging round your neck ready to take advantage of such an oppertunity. 
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(keep up KB, keep up Edited by thepits |
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that's your boss your slaggin'.. {back on topic} Edited by Rossi |
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Almost always. I basically have a camera on me to try and capture anything that takes the fancy, or anything that looks hilarious, or dodgy..... My Fuji S304 now has a 1Gb memory card permanently plugged-in, as does my Nokia 6233 (and feck does it need the whole 1Gb in order to record up to an hour's worth of video....) I did manage to snap a Maybach 62 near my office, but the night picture quality was sh*te... |
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