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[r129sl]

Stegel said:

Grunt Futtock said:

lostkiwi said:

This has potential with a bit of haggling:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...



Looks reasonable aside from a slightly odd shut line on the bonnet front edge.

Bit of a sleepy hollow vibe going on in that photo though....

I was going to say it looks like the NS bonnet latch has not caught, but looking at the wing / bumper alignment I'm not so sure. Don't MM SLs have a plaque of some sort within the interior or am I mistaken - I would expect to see a picture of that in the ad.

I'd say it's just a sticky bonnet catch. It's also a pukka Mille Miglia edition: the red and black leather and the carbon fibre with red threads were only on that model. The carbon fibre is lifting on the centre console, too: they all do that.

[cat220]

r129sl said:

cat220 said:

Usget said:

cat220 said:

I know there is lots of love for the 123 on this tread. This was parked a few cars along from me at Bondi beach today. Looked in great condition...

I remember seeing that car when I was at Bondi!

Small world! Great to see these cars still being used properly! Looked very cool (well at least to me)

Buy your own here. Way out of budget but the roof boxes alone warrant the rule breaking. That and the photo location: gravel, grass, country cottage all rolled into one. Shame there's no mention of mileage and shame also it's a manual, although in reality that probably makes it much easier to drive in fast-moving traffic.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1986-Mercedes-Benz-300TD...

Lovely but not at 8k, already too many cars thinking of selling the SL when I get home mainly due to the lack of use.

[0a]

Wow I love this, I wonder what it will go for in the end? Like mine but with 12 cylinders! http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C735250#

[0a]

I wonder how bad this is for £3,250. V12 and 100k. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

[0a]

65k mile 750. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

Lovely small wheeled-ness!

[Croutons]

300TE W124 on a K plate, £1500. Estate, leather, white a bit marmite, still, I can hear you salivating from here.

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/188718/merc...

[nocturnal octopus]

I like that, and I need an estate. If I bought it I'd have a black Merc and a white Merc. It's been off road for the last two years though, with quite a few rusty bits underneath by the look of the MOT history.

0a said:

65k mile 750. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

Lovely small wheeled-ness!

I love that E38s are so affordable right now, at least to buy into if not to run. Was I reading upthread that we think they are near the bottom of their depreciation curve?

I was looking at this 750i Sport ad earlier:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

MOT site doesn't flag up any disasters, and although I don't usually like silver it seems to suit a blue leather interior.

[Lowtimer]

nocturnal octopus said:

I love that E38s are so affordable right now, at least to buy into if not to run. Was I reading upthread that we think they are near the bottom of their depreciation curve?

Who's "we"?

By definition, any car that was very expensive new and is now available dirt-cheap is obviously near the bottom of depreciation. They are bumping along very low values but that's been the case for some time. But for most cars the end of depreciation is not a reflex curve, it's a straight line - being cheap now doesn't mean they are going to start going up soon or even ever, they might just fade away into oblivion. They're in exactly the same boat as the (non-M5) E39 despite the antics of a couple of dealers who have put one or two examples on at M5 money just to see if there are any mugs out there.

It's only four months since BV72 obtained a perfectly serviceable 530i, with MOT, for exactly zero of our finest English pounds. I'm not really seeing E34 or E32 Fives and Sevens appreciating so if their replacements are going to perk up it's probably another decade to wait at least, to allow 90% of the current fleet to go to the scrapper.

[harrykul]

Agreed, I'd say that this is the case with almost all non-M Bmws. it's probably the same for everything except Stuttgarts finest: they don't seem to rise again anything like the Mercs of the same period.

[PowerslideSWE]

markh1 said:

Long time thread lurker here....

thought some of you chaps might find the price of this E39 540 touring manual 'interesting'

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

Looks lovely but I will be interested to see how long they have it at that price

In all fairness it looks to be in great nick, but how much? M5 money that.

[PowerslideSWE]

Lowtimer said:

Who's "we"?

By definition, any car that was very expensive new and is now available dirt-cheap is obviously near the bottom of depreciation. They are bumping along very low values but that's been the case for some time. But for most cars the end of depreciation is not a reflex curve, it's a straight line - being cheap now doesn't mean they are going to start going up soon or even ever, they might just fade away into oblivion. They're in exactly the same boat as the (non-M5) E39 despite the antics of a couple of dealers who have put one or two examples on at M5 money just to see if there are any mugs out there.

It's only four months since BV72 obtained a perfectly serviceable 530i, with MOT, for exactly zero of our finest English pounds. I'm not really seeing E34 or E32 Fives and Sevens appreciating so if their replacements are going to perk up it's probably another decade to wait at least, to allow 90% of the current fleet to go to the scrapper.

Prices are on the up on good examples in Germany atleast. Not air-cooled Porsches kind of up tho. Short wheelbase ones more so due to rarity, LHD is something like 1300 facelifts made and RHD facelift short wheelbase ones are very very rare at just 113 made. Car in question is neither tho.

Edited by PowerslideSWE on Saturday 23 April 10:00

[Usget]

0a said:

Wow I love this, I wonder what it will go for in the end? Like mine but with 12 cylinders! http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C735250#

That is drop-dead fandabbydozey. I'd love to run around in that for the summer. I wonder if the fabric roof is chuffed, though, since they seem so keen to advertise it with hardtop in-situ?

[tobinen]

Yes, I rather like that SL600. Do they have the usual coil pack issue as per other M120 motors?

[k-ink]

0a said:

I wonder how bad this is for £3,250. V12 and 100k. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

It depends on how it's been stored. We had a V12 in the garage for decades. It was only run on warm days and hence looked mint.

[cat220]

This w124 260 looks decent...

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C733818#

[harrykul]

tobinen said:

Yes, I rather like that SL600. Do they have the usual coil pack issue as per other M120 motors?

Early versions like this example are old school with a distributor iirc

[Lowtimer]

Usget said:

That is drop-dead fandabbydozey. I'd love to run around in that for the summer. I wonder if the fabric roof is chuffed, though, since they seem so keen to advertise it with hardtop in-situ?

Unless I knew the individual car from its previous life, an R129 isn't a car I'd be interested in buying at auction, only in situations where I could take considerable time to make sure *everything* works, with the roof mechanism high on the list of things needing demonstration.

[mccrackenj]

Interested in yor opinions chaps.

I was planning on having the atf & filter changed on the 260E. The car has only done 56,000 miles but there is nothing in the service history to indicate it's ever been done. But, the car drives perfectly, gear changes are smooth, no noises, clunks or jerkiness, absolutely nothing amiss. And I inspected the fluid and it's dark pinky-red and clear.

So, do the atf & filter anyway or leave well alone? I'm leaning towards 'leave well alone!' at the minute.

[Croutons]

Volvo 940 Wentworth saloon, under thread budget...

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C715563

[Jimmy Recard]

0a said:

I wonder how bad this is for £3,250. V12 and 100k. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

That's excellent apart from the leaper, US lights and the number plates