Junkman's Irish Climate Improvement Mission A Full Success! - Caution: P6 Series 1 V8 Porn!

[Eddie Honda]

Does this mean people will use them in 37 years hence?

If there are any left, that is.

No. It'll take at least 52.

[Junkman]

Anyway, my lonesome mission in a desolate clime continues.

 

Today I found a shop for adult material:

 

 

 

It was closed.

 

Relegated to window shopping, I found a shop that actually doesn't sell anything.

But it has this on display:

 

 

 

I haven't got the foggiest what it is, or what purpose it serves, but found it delightfully shite.

It must be utterly reliable, too:

 

 

I bet it was expensive. If it weren't expensive, the Irish would have never bought it.
 

The shop also had this in it:

 

 

 

 

I papped some lorryshite:

 

 

Weird how these accompanied me practically throughout my concious life and suddenly became a rare sight.

 

 

Just when I needed some, I found a closed petrol station:

 

 

 

 

 

One could think the MAN lorry became surplus when this station ceased to require its service.

 

 

 

I needed to replenish some supplies, but the shop was - you guessed it - closed:

 

 

 

So I went for an imaginary drink at a closed pub:

 

 

 

An imaginary drink. How fucking hopeless is that?

[Cleon-Fonte]

On the upside, at least there's no traffic.

[Asimo]

That cutaway car is a driving school "how it works" teaching aid. Much of it looks like 1973ish Audi 80, but not the headlight or bumper.

[AMC Rebel]

That cutaway car is a driving school "how it works" teaching aid. Much of it looks like 1973ish Audi 80, but not the headlight or bumper.

 

I wondered if it was one of those (driving school things).  Of course that was before Clarkson and his boorish pals told everyone to stop caring about how anything worked and just get the tyres smoking.

[Junkman]

That cutaway car is a driving school "how it works" teaching aid. Much of it looks like 1973ish Audi 80, but not the headlight or bumper.

 

Try Fiat 600 for size.

[Junkman]

On the upside, at least there's no traffic.

 

Now that you mentioned it, it occurred to me, that the only times you see living people in this country, is when you are in a tailback.

[Dirk Diggler]

You're in a very depressing part of our land; I'd love to see that P6 on Aughrim Motors ex forecourt (it's a closed garage contained within an old railway station with tracks that disappeared 40 years ago, give it a google)

 

Have you spent much time in Wicklow / Wexford (to a lesser extent)?

 

Eta if you fire up the googley machine, try Pratts Garage Shillelagh Wicklow too; now abandoned; still with some surprising sights in the compound

[Junkman]

What I always wanted to show you but couldn't be arsed hitherto is what greets you at Dublin airport:

 

 

I couldn't wait to hand over my spare millions to these crooks if I had any.

 

This is where the car spends its weekends:

 

 

 

 

Like every Monday, I woke it up:

 

 

 

 

I drove to my country retreat, where I decided to stay for the time being.

I kind of like the half hour of daydreaming on my way to work in the morning.

[Junkman]

Right.

My tireless Climate Improvement© yielded the first results.

Hence today I decided to take a shortcut back to the GGG Country Retreat®.

And we all know, that a shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

In the end, there were 110 miles more on the odometer.

 

I leave you alone with the pics, because I think anything else would be annoying.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Felly Magic]

Was the cafe in the true irish trasdition? I.e shut? LOL Nice shots there JM, I miss the days when I used to just go for a drive for the hell of it

[Junkman]

Of course it was closed. Or have you ever seen an open one in Ireland?

Well, I did once, to be fair. It was run by a bunch of Dutch people.

Everything else in that town was closed as well, btw.

And if you think my photos lack people and other cars, so does the country.

 

If you want to do a trip like that, I urge you to fill up whenever you can.

Don't wait until the level is low. Always top up when there is an opportunity.

Because when you need it, there will be no open petrol station anywhere.

[Eddie Honda]

Waft over this way Wed/Thu if you're bored. I'll be in.

[Junkman]

Wahey!

[bub2006]

Beautiful pictures junkman. It's a place I want to explore too.

[Felly Magic]

I remember a 'just for the hell of it' drive, had a loan car, Felicia diesel, 600 miles on the clock, had it while my car was being serviced, drove to Scarborough, had lunch, drove back via Pickering, Thirsk, Ripon & Harrogate, then Skipton, Blackburn, Bolton, Rochdale,over the pennines, Huddersfield, then on to the 62 and home, did around 400 miles in a day just for shits & giggles, dealership went bonkers when they saw how many miles I'd done, I'd filled the car back up though, used under a tank of juice as well.

[Junkman]

When my parents dropped their Seville STS off for service, they got a Trans Am as a loan car.

Being only in their mid Seventies, they spontaneously decided the only proper thing to do when you have a Trans Am is a road trip.

So they drove from Munich to Lake Garda for some pizza and ice cream.

 

Anyway, if anyone wants to do the trip I did yesterday, it's from Newbridge to Emo. The interim points are:

 

Blessington

Ballysmuttan

Sally Gap

Laragh

Glenmalure

Drumgoft

Aughavannagh

Rathdangan

Baltinglass

Athy

Vicarstown

 

It's about 110 miles and took me 4 hours at a very leisurely pace.

Make sure you have enough petrol and take a few provisions,

there is no infrastructure whatsoever between Blessington and Baltinglass.

It's just unspoilt nature out there, apart from the rather annoying littering.

 

The Rover wasn't switched off once during the trip, the longest it ever ran uninterrupted.

Towards the end, there was some pronounced lifter rattle.

However, this morning, it was silent again.

[stormee]

Incredible landscape! Must visit this country!

[Eddie Honda]

Had a PM this afternoon from a Junkman in need. He was asking for suggestions of where locally he could get an oil/filter + ATF change done.

 

Step right this way sir, Leinster CVT Centraal doesn't just do CVTs...

 

(Sorry about the fuzzy pic, camera phone is awful in low light conditions)

 

He's wafting his way back now to the middle-of-nowhere continuing his Climate Improvementâ„¢ mission.

[Felly Magic]

I think Junkman needs an old diesel loco such as a class 37 to aid in his climate improvement programme