Brian Damaged
West Midlands
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 9,555
Club RR Member Number: 33
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Apr 21, 2012 16:49:20 GMT
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'.....a Mercedes-Benz' '94 W124 E200, apparently the 'last of the true Mercedes'. Purchased today from JackoM535 of this very forum, and previously owned by Technics1974. So it's still 'in the family', so to speak. Something I've always wanted but have always managed to talk myself out of. Until now. One or two odd jobs to do on it, but nothing that will prevent it from being pressed into immediate daily service. She did the 90-odd mile trip home without complaint and in absolute comfort. More pics and info in a proper Reader's Rides thread tomorrow. If it stops hailing!!! So, SO pleased. ;D
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Apr 21, 2012 16:58:34 GMT
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Just seen this on FB, a fine purchase. I especially enjoyed your wife's comment ;D
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 9,555
Club RR Member Number: 33
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Apr 21, 2012 17:00:02 GMT
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Just seen this on FB, a fine purchase. I especially enjoyed your wife's comment ;D "That's the nicest-looking car you've owned since we met 17 years ago. If you paint that to look like ANY sort of f***ing Police Car, Tank, or Nazi Staff Car I WILL divorce you" She meant EVERY word. ;D
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tardis
Part of things
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Apr 21, 2012 17:03:55 GMT
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Very nice :-), I love these big German tanks just never come across the right one at the right time :-(
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Apr 21, 2012 17:22:06 GMT
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Your wife has an excellent taste It will even look better with the 16" 8 hole alloys (92 style?) or the 16" 15 slot alloys.
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Click picture for more
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Apr 21, 2012 17:33:43 GMT
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Nice one Brian! That is lovely.
As soon as I seen the for sale ad for this one I was a bit gutted I brought my Mercedes W202 a week before.
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Apr 21, 2012 17:35:03 GMT
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Very nice. Is it an oil burner?
Will the missus divorce you if you out some 19's on it?
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Koos
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 9,555
Club RR Member Number: 33
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Apr 21, 2012 17:50:14 GMT
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Very nice. Is it an oil burner? Will the missus divorce you if you out some 19's on it? No, it's the cooking M111 2-litre 16v petrol donkey with switchable spazzmatic box. Not fast (the book says 0-60 in 10sec and 125mph), but not as thirsty as I imagined it would be. Again the book says 21mpg round town and 35-42mpg on a run, I poured £40-worth in at a garage near Higham Ferrers, did 65-70 all the way home (91m) and the fuel gauge barely moved. I dunno what the current wheels are off, but I've put a bid in for some tidy OEM 15" 8-holes going cheap on the Bay, I'm not planning on chopping it about to be honest. Famous last words. LOL
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VWPowered
Europe
No-Rice - Est 2002
Posts: 1,450
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Apr 21, 2012 19:17:56 GMT
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nice purchase bri
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81 Bedford CF 2.3D Cavalier Coachman Stratus 86 Volkswagen Polo Mk2 1.6 8v 87 Austin Montego 1.6HL 'Daily' 91 Rover Montego 2.0TD Countryman Estate 93 Rover Montego 2.0LXi Estate
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Apr 21, 2012 19:23:20 GMT
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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Apr 21, 2012 19:26:21 GMT
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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markbognor
South East
Posts: 9,970
Club RR Member Number: 56
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Apr 21, 2012 19:32:09 GMT
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Nice work Brian, look's exceptionally straight. Now make with the chopping about.
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ToolsnTrack
Posted a lot
Homebrew Raconteur
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Club RR Member Number: 134
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Apr 21, 2012 19:46:12 GMT
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I have some w202 8slot 15s going for cheapness.
Also:
DIPLOMATIC IMYOOOOONITEEEEEE!!!!!!
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Apr 21, 2012 19:50:31 GMT
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good choice brian. should be a trusty workhorse. my 220 coop is getting on for 156k, still giving silent, wafty service.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
Club Retro Rides Member
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Apr 21, 2012 20:15:15 GMT
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Apr 21, 2012 20:59:12 GMT
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Some of these would look the dogs danglies... And they're Merc wheels so shouldnt cause a divorce!
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Koos
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 9,555
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Apr 21, 2012 21:48:46 GMT
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^^^^If only I had the dollar^^^^^ Alas the BD Fun Fund is now bone dry for a while, thanks in no small part to the unscrupulous ass-raping metered out by my insurance company this morning when I swapped my policy over. Revenge will be served in the form of them losing my business AND the wife's, come renewal time. Twunts. Anyway, I'm not going to let that spoil my day. I keep peeking at it on the drive from behind the kitchen blinds and getting little flurries of (non-sexual) excitement. Never had that before from a car, apart from my old Land-Rover years ago and a certain rusty air-cooled French one.....
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Apr 21, 2012 21:55:19 GMT
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You mean that thing where you peek out onto the drive and do a little internal 'squee!' at the fact it's your car? If so, I can entirely empathise because I did that for about a week after buying the Princess and still sometimes do. Top buy, and very much a less-is-more car. Listen to the wife, she is wise when it comes to the appearance of this particular motor.
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MrSpeedy
East Midlands
www.vintagediesels.co.uk
Posts: 4,789
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Apr 21, 2012 21:57:34 GMT
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That is a purchase I seriously doubt you'll ever regret "Some say, they're the last properly built Mercedes before the bean counters took control" Probably true, mine feels like a 4 year old car and its now 21, but, they do like to rust
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Apr 21, 2012 22:06:21 GMT
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Anyway, I'm not going to let that spoil my day. I keep peeking at it on the drive from behind the kitchen blinds and getting little flurries of (non-sexual) excitement. Glad you;re happy with it, I was like that when I first got it too Hope you're ears weren't ringing too much when you got home !
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Jacko
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