Val Doonican sings this well good it is written by Tommie Connor. This finishes a trilogy of Val Doonican songs which I enjoyed when young and hope others have discovered and will also reap benefit from. The pictures I have added are mostly gleaned from the tinternet via Google Images. Paint Shop Pro 10 has helped me adjust and add to them. The motor that has been adapted for O'Rafferty's motor car was a Ford Model "A" Roadster through the years of 1929-32 ... I think. The map where it shows the shaky road between Dublin and Cork is pretty accurate ... and the pics of O'Connell Street are from ... I guess the 20's and 30's ... the GPO being an up to date photograph. As I have said before ... Hope you get a smile and some pleasure out of this. Post Script ... Look out for Paddy McGinty's Goat and Delaney's Donkey, the other two of Val Doonican songs. Rock on Val ... I thought it interesting to show the lyrics ... so ... O'Rafferty's Motor Car (Tommie Connor) Now Dinny O'Rafferty's motor car Is the greatest I declare It's made up of bits and pieces That he's picked up here and there The engine must be ages old But it's still got lots of power With a gallon of stout in the petrol tank It does ninety miles an hour What a wonderful motor car It's the greatest ever seen It used to be black as me father's hat Now it's forty shades of green On TV and the radio And in every public bar The burning question of the day Is O'Rafferty's motor car Now two of the wheels are triangular ...
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