DUBLIN PORT RALLY

06.07.14

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Major All-Island Vintage Vehicle Show Announced

 

Inaugural Dublin ‘Vintage Port’ Rally to take place on

 

Sunday September 28th 2014.

 

 

Veteran, Vintage and Classic commercial and private vehicles from all over Ireland will gather at Dublin Port for the inaugural Dublin “Vintage Port” Rally on Sunday 28th September 2014 from 10.00 – 18.00 hrs. You and your group are cordially invited to attend.

Organiser Ed O’Neill is anticipating a large turn-out for the event, with owners of many rarely-seen vintage cars, trucks, buses, fire appliances and military vehicles already committed to attend on the day. “We would like to invite owners of pre-1990 classic or vintage commercial and private vehicles to join us on the day. Details of how to enter a vehicle free-of-charge is available on our website at www.dublinportrally.com ”.

As well as vehicles on show, there will be transport-themed collectibles sales and exhibition stalls; a vintage bus service touring Dublin Port and special incentives for attending exhibitors.

Funds from this event will go to support the excellent work undertaken by Barnardo’s Ireland, and the gathering is being supported by Dublin Port Company.

More information from Ed O’Neill +353 83 333 82 66 or Edo@dublinportrally.com

 

 

A SELECTION OF SOME OF THE VEHICLES CONFIRMED FOR  “VINTAGE PORT”

UPDATED

JUNE 30 2014

 

B11  – Latest sign-up for the Dublin Port Rally on Sunday Sept 28th is the TMSI’s 1967 Leyland Atlantean D44. The only one of 217 single-door 78 seat examples which still survives, the appearance of D44 is sure to create a buzz at “Vintage Port”

 

L1 – Guinness Thames Trader YYI 219

 

L2 – Guinness Albion Flat Bed Truck

 

B9 – RA106, one of 153 Leyland PD3s in the CIE fleet and built at Spa Road Inchicore

 

B10 – D464 immaculately preserved in the late 1970s “Mid Buff” livery of CIE

 

B4 – CIE Leyland Atlantean AN68 D839 dating from 1976

 

B5 – GMC Nu Look city transit bus

 

Ref : B1

1959 CIE Leyland PD3 –  RA37

One of 152 “RA” Class buses built by CIE at their Spa Road, Inchicore Works between 1959 and 1961.

 

 

 

 

Ref : M3- ZV 10469

1969 Kaiser-Jeep Corp. M51A2 6×6 Dump Truck

US Army Engineers 5Ton XCountry/10Ton Highway rated M39 series of trucks
Continental LDS465A1 multifuel engine, 185hp

 

T1 -The TMSI’s repilca open-balcony tram No 224

 

B6 & B7

Ulsterbus 1983 Leyland Leopard BXI334 and 1989  Leyland Tiger NXI 4247

 

Ref : B2  –  ZSI  48

KC48 is a 1983 GAC ex Dublin Bus one of a fleet of 202 Bombardier / GAC city single deckers that operated in most Irish cities entering service between 1983 and 1985

 

Ref : M1 – ZV 53295

The MAN KAT 1 was introduced between 1976 and 1983. This particular vehicle KFOR was new in 1978 and is powered by a Deutz V8 256 diesel engine.

 

B7 – Toronto Transport Commission GMC Fishbowl 2290 seen here in service in Canada

 

B8 – RH7 dating from 1990 was one of almost 650 Leyland / Volvo Olympians that entered service between 1990 and 1999

 

Ref : M2 – 93D31513

ACMAT (Ateliers de Construction Mécanique de L’Atlantique, also known as ALM-ACMAT), is a  producer of cross-country and tactical military vehicles since 1958. This 1993 model is a former Irish Defence Forces vehicle.

 

Ref : B3 –  35 VZJ

KE 35 is one of a fleet of 52 Bombardier single deck bus/coaches that first entered service in 1981