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

[Junkman]

Incredible landscape! Must visit this country!

 

If you find this incredible, wait until you hit the West Coast and the far North.

Man, it's beautiful as in beautiful. There is no pollution whatsoever out there.

Unless I show up with one of my Climate Improvers that is.

[Dirk Diggler]

I live near Laragh; wish I'd known you were passing and I could have shown you the magic hill near the route you took where cars roll up

 

And the cheap restaurant 100 yards away from the pretentious closed delicatessen, Glendalough Green

 

Next up, try the coast road from Wicklow to Wexford; get a photo at Kiltennel church under the arch

 

Lovely pics

[Junkman]

Okay, the following few are re-posts of posts that have not been lost during the recent server "rebuilt", which didn't cause any posts being lost.

[Junkman]

Right, some catching up to do.

 

As already reported by Eddie, oils and filters were procured.

The place I got the stuff from also sold this:

 

 

The GGG endorse it wholeheartedly!

[Junkman]

Fancy a total stranger pulling up on your driveway and the bonnet release?

 

 

 

Eddie didn't mind.

Did you know that he has a most wonderful collection of chod?

 

 

 

 

He is also very much into drftmosheenz:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So many, many thanks again!

It is mucho appreciated.

 

 

Needless to say that I borked it and somehow the Rover ended up with roughly three litres too much gearbox oil.

[Junkman]

This week, the former Irish outpost of the GGG in Newbridge was recommandeered.

This is the view from my temporary command central:

 

 

[Junkman]

Anyway, the excess gearbox oil needed to go.

Hence a plan fomed in my twisted brain, that I could syphon it out by inserting a suitable pipe into the dipstick tube.

Such a pipe was procured and smuggled through Airport Security® this morning.

 

I wanted to syphon 2 1/2 litres out right at the airport car park where the car spends its weekends, before the drive from Dublin to Newbridge.

However, this turned foul. Although it's theoretically possible, it goes by the rate of one drop per second, so the amount necessary would have taken six weeks.

Hence I did drive the car as is and decided to do some shopping in form of a universal screenwash pump and some electrickerial haberdashery.

 

And low and behold, nothing is too difficult for an engineer:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Result:

 

[Junkman]

I then went on a drive to check whether all systems are a go (the fuck they are, btw) and visit a car wash, since the car is terribly dirty.

However, of the two car washs in Newbridge - you guessed it - one was closed, the other one derelict.

(The cleanliness* of the local shitboxes does reflect this spectacularly. Well, to use the term 'reflect' in this context is rather misleading.)

So I thought sod it and just drove around. This is where I ended up:

 

 

Another one of Ireland's numerous thriving* establishments.

 

But look at what was in the back yard.

 

OMG PORSHE POWAH:

 

 

OMGMGB POWAH:

 

[Junkman]

So I drove on a little and ran into a man with obviously impeccable taste:
 

 
He and a few friends who where with him summoned me to follow them.
A convoy formed and after an hour or so driving through the outback, we took over an entire village:
 

[Junkman]

Now, what the pictures don't convey is the eerieness of the whole thing.
Apart from us car guys, there was no sign of life whatsoever. Nothing. Not a soul.
There was nobody. Not one. The only people you see in the pics are the car people.
 
And the only two conveyances clearly belonging to whatever lives* in that village are these:

 
 

 
So when most of the guys went into a place that didn't look very inviting, I thanked them very much and set off.
I was scared shitless.

[BavarianRetro]

And not even revenue use the new post code system.

 

I love Ireland but know what it is; beautiful but so so corrupt

 

Surface of Wicklow Gap is better; but Sally Gap is a beautiful drive

 

 

 

Been there.  Done that. More than once. Stayed in Laragh, and Glendalough in June and then Laragh and  Rathdrum in September.  Going again in a couple of weeks.  Staying in Ashford this time, then a cottage in Woodenbridge.  Lovely bit of the world.

 

[Junkman]

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

 

Fuck Google. Google is for stay at homes. And the NSA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

For the ones not familiar with the Irish geography, in order to get to these from Newbridge, you must first pass this beauty:

 

 

 

 

Then this one:

 

[Junkman]

In between those semi derelict garages, you pass some closed ones:

 

 

And some properly derelict ones, of course

 

 

 

[Junkman]

Some abandoned cars in an abandoned town:
 

 
 
And the way back through the forest:
 

[pshome]

So when most of the guys went into a place that didn't look very inviting, I thanked them very much and set off.

I was scared shitless.

You obviously missed the best part of the event, free hookers, stuff 'n Rock n Roll

[Junkman]

Nah man. They only say they are catholics.

[pshome]

Catholics? Lame excuse! Did they behave like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddM7kJ9xQfA

[richardthestag]

I like that the old ford scene has not chosen to fit entirely inappropriate complete gash rimz to the cars

[Junkman]

Been there.  Done that. More than once. Stayed in Laragh, and Glendalough in June and then Laragh and  Rathdrum in September.  Going again in a couple of weeks.  Staying in Ashford this time, then a cottage in Woodenbridge.  Lovely bit of the world.

 

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I'll be here.

[eddyramrod]

Bloody hell, and I thought I lived in some beautiful places.

[Junkman]

Beautiful alright, but I will seriously need some counselling after this is over.

I haven't been this depressed in years.

[Junkman]

I am the only one who obeys the signage!

 

[Dirk Diggler]

In between those semi derelict garages, you pass some closed ones: And some properly derelict ones, of course   

That first picture; that garage isn't closed, you just have to knock in at the house across the road

 

Thought everybody knew that

[Dirk Diggler]

Everybody from all these villages commute to Dublin everyday; visit some of the same scenes on a Saturday night and it'll be busy; but you won't be able to shake the Stephen Kingesque feeling that they've all crawled out from under their houses

[Junkman]

Yesterday I decided to take a more scenic* route home, to avoid all those dystopian and delapidated places

I attributed to being caused by a former main road being replaced with a motorway.

 

Thus I followed the Central Kildare Touring Route.

 

It was even worse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I need some liquid for my vapey, but:

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I love it the way it is; I love the old cinemas that remain, the Stella in Rathmines has been opened back to a full auditorium, fully restored and is opening as a cinema with full seat food service; I know it'll be full of hipsters but I can't be bothered with the multiplex cinema 'experience'

 

That picture you have with the campus sign on it; where is it? I love the way the old market houses have mostly been repurposed; they're great buildings with often great stories attached

 

And Kildare really is hollowed out commuter county; Naas and Newbridge are soulless towns that people just happen to live in, I quite like Naas though

[Junkman]

I love it the way it is;

We certainly have very different tastes and perceptions. I didn't find even the ex DDR as depressing.

I also find it remarkably cynical to advertise this level of decay as a "Touring Route" for tourists.

 

 

That picture you have with the campus sign on it;

Not sure which one you are referring to.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Seeing all these photos of deserted towns, I finally understand the Irish National Anthem. 

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

That picture you have with the campus sign on it; where is it?

 

Here it is: https://goo.gl/maps/UG5bEdMcVwA2