Best smoker barges 1-5 large [vol8]

[AllyBee]

0a said:

I have the SL and W124 booked in over the next 2 weeks with my mechanic.

The SL needed a fuel filter according to my internet searches - now in my possession for £12 - but the fuel smell has completely disappeared. Is there anything else that could cause a fuel smell?

There's an exhaust blow that CDG highlighted to me that I think still needs a little attention but it's making the v8 sound even better.

The w124 needs the brake pads fitting - what a lovey smoker. I put the r129 in the garage today and collected the w124 after 5 days and it drives so well.

The. w124 wins in terms of "rightness".

Edited by 0a on Wednesday 20th May 00:39

If this is the case then surely the 500e is the ultimate car? I appreciate that the cost of one is above the upper limit of this thread.

[0a]

r129sl said:

mccrackenj said:

r129sl said:

mccrackenj said:

I'll PM you later. But don't blame me!

Cruel.

OK then. The ad's a bit sh!te, mind.

http://cars.donedeal.co.uk/cars-for-sale/mercedes-...



What have I done . . . . ?

There is something very right about it. Thanks, John.

PS: I'll do my own research but I assume it is easy enough to import a car from the Republic?

EDIT: it looks easy enough to import a car from the Republic and so I have made enquiries of the vendor... Now watch Mrs r129sl dish out a might bking.

Edited by r129sl on Wednesday 20th May 16:01

WELL DONE!

[Sterillium]

This just seems incredible to me... £1500 for a Northstar 4.6ltr V8.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-X-CADILLAC-SEVILLE-...

[0a]

That's a great spot - I really like it. I have a soft spot for American cars. [I probably would never buy one in the UK though]. RHD as well.

[mccrackenj]

0a said:

r129sl said:

mccrackenj said:

r129sl said:

mccrackenj said:

I'll PM you later. But don't blame me!

Cruel.

OK then. The ad's a bit sh!te, mind.

http://cars.donedeal.co.uk/cars-for-sale/mercedes-...



What have I done . . . . ?

There is something very right about it. Thanks, John.

PS: I'll do my own research but I assume it is easy enough to import a car from the Republic?

EDIT: it looks easy enough to import a car from the Republic and so I have made enquiries of the vendor... Now watch Mrs r129sl dish out a might bking.

Edited by r129sl on Wednesday 20th May 16:01

WELL DONE!

F*CK!

I didn't expect that - and so quickly.

Well Done Jonathan (assuming it was you but, really, who else could it have been?)

I feel a not insignificant sense of responsibility; but, thankfully, Mrs Rodger doesn't know where my balls live!

Looking forward to another thread on Readers' Cars about an Ivory-over-Safari 190e being stripped down and sorted very soon.

Please don't tell me how easy it is to import from RoI to UK. All these cars are on the same land mass as me so I want to believe that importing one is a cumbersome, bureaucratic and expensive process.

Its interesting that for 'cultural and historic reasons' there are an awful lot of old Mercs in the Republic of Ireland - let's just say that the the % of old Mercedeses Vs old Jaguars and Rovers in RoI would not correlate with the relative proportions of same in UK. For that reason that particular site is a regular haunt of mine. Unfortunately the mad car tax regime down there means that all the more recent stuff - certainly the vintage that we're interested in - attract horrific road tax, hence nearly all the late 80s and 90s stuff is 2.0/2.2/2.3 4 pots. But the odd gem does turn up.

I'm just waiting for the euro to crash so that I can swoop and bag something really tasty.

Maybe I'll buy up a job lot of W124s and W201s and sell them on to my Barge Thread chums, with a small fee.

[r129sl]

mccrackenj said:

F*CK!

I didn't expect that - and so quickly.

Well Done Jonathan (assuming it was you but, really, who else could it have been?)

I feel a not insignificant sense of responsibility; but, thankfully, Mrs Rodger doesn't know where my balls live!

Looking forward to another thread on Readers' Cars about an Ivory-over-Safari 190e being stripped down and sorted very soon.

Please don't tell me how easy it is to import from RoI to UK. All these cars are on the same land mass as me so I want to believe that importing one is a cumbersome, bureaucratic and expensive process.

Its interesting that for 'cultural and historic reasons' there are an awful lot of old Mercs in the Republic of Ireland - let's just say that the the % of old Mercedeses Vs old Jaguars and Rovers in RoI would not correlate with the relative proportions of same in UK. For that reason that particular site is a regular haunt of mine. Unfortunately the mad car tax regime down there means that all the more recent stuff - certainly the vintage that we're interested in - attract horrific road tax, hence nearly all the late 80s and 90s stuff is 2.0/2.2/2.3 4 pots. But the odd gem does turn up.

I'm just waiting for the euro to crash so that I can swoop and bag something really tasty.

Maybe I'll buy up a job lot of W124s and W201s and sell them on to my Barge Thread chums, with a small fee.

Arrgh! Not me. st. Thank goodness. st. Thank goodness.

I'd even checked out the ferries and been to see my mechanic... Oh well, it wasn't meant to be.

Meanwhile, here's some barge goodness, no reserve at Historics at Brooklands, but have we had it before on Ebay? Front wings look dodgy.

http://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2015-06...





And this XJ-S, estimate a bit over budget, leaper would have to go, but looking super:

http://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2015-06...





Plenty of other stuff of note there, too, including some no reserve RR Silver Spurs which inexplicably command love and affection in some quarters here. To be honest, a lot of the reserves look set too high (but what do I know) and there are so many entries that if they're to get through them all they may have to hurry, so there may be some bargains.

[Kinky]

S3_Graham said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Located near Farnborough. Otherwise destined for the tip prior to a house move.

Didn't realise you were in Farnborough? I work at the airport and live near Hook. ALawson that PM'd about my 124 is in Fleet. Thats 3 of us pretty damn close!

Make that 4. Work in Hook and live in Sunningdale

[mccrackenj]

r129sl said:

mccrackenj said:

F*CK!

I didn't expect that - and so quickly.

Well Done Jonathan (assuming it was you but, really, who else could it have been?)

I feel a not insignificant sense of responsibility; but, thankfully, Mrs Rodger doesn't know where my balls live!

Looking forward to another thread on Readers' Cars about an Ivory-over-Safari 190e being stripped down and sorted very soon.

Please don't tell me how easy it is to import from RoI to UK. All these cars are on the same land mass as me so I want to believe that importing one is a cumbersome, bureaucratic and expensive process.

Its interesting that for 'cultural and historic reasons' there are an awful lot of old Mercs in the Republic of Ireland - let's just say that the the % of old Mercedeses Vs old Jaguars and Rovers in RoI would not correlate with the relative proportions of same in UK. For that reason that particular site is a regular haunt of mine. Unfortunately the mad car tax regime down there means that all the more recent stuff - certainly the vintage that we're interested in - attract horrific road tax, hence nearly all the late 80s and 90s stuff is 2.0/2.2/2.3 4 pots. But the odd gem does turn up.

I'm just waiting for the euro to crash so that I can swoop and bag something really tasty.

Maybe I'll buy up a job lot of W124s and W201s and sell them on to my Barge Thread chums, with a small fee.

Arrgh! Not me. st. Thank goodness. st. Thank goodness.

I'd even checked out the ferries and been to see my mechanic... Oh well, it wasn't meant to be.

Meanwhile, here's some barge goodness, no reserve at Historics at Brooklands, but have we had it before on Ebay? Front wings look dodgy.

http://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2015-06...





And this XJ-S, estimate a bit over budget, leaper would have to go, but looking super:

http://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2015-06...





Plenty of other stuff of note there, too, including some no reserve RR Silver Spurs which inexplicably command love and affection in some quarters here. To be honest, a lot of the reserves look set too high (but what do I know) and there are so many entries that if they're to get through them all they may have to hurry, so there may be some bargains.

Thank goodness indeed! I've never been more relieved to hear of someone NOT buying a car.

Not a big fan of early XJSs but that's lovely - sans leaper of course.

Edited by mccrackenj on Wednesday 20th May 22:43

[W00DY]

r129sl said:

And this XJ-S, estimate a bit over budget, leaper would have to go, but looking super:

http://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2015-06...





Plenty of other stuff of note there, too, including some no reserve RR Silver Spurs which inexplicably command love and affection in some quarters here. To be honest, a lot of the reserves look set too high (but what do I know) and there are so many entries that if they're to get through them all they may have to hurry, so there may be some bargains.

That is magnificent.

[Agent Orange]

r129sl said:

Plenty of other stuff of note there, too, including some no reserve RR Silver Spurs which inexplicably command love and affection in some quarters here. To be honest, a lot of the reserves look set too high (but what do I know) and there are so many entries that if they're to get through them all they may have to hurry, so there may be some bargains.

There's a lot of good stuff in that particular auction. This caught my eye in particular... had I not just bought the SL I'd be all over this.
Estimate £5,000 - £6,000

http://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2015-06...

[cat220]

W00DY said:

r129sl said:

And this XJ-S, estimate a bit over budget, leaper would have to go, but looking super:

http://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2015-06...





Plenty of other stuff of note there, too, including some no reserve RR Silver Spurs which inexplicably command love and affection in some quarters here. To be honest, a lot of the reserves look set too high (but what do I know) and there are so many entries that if they're to get through them all they may have to hurry, so there may be some bargains.

That is magnificent.

Agreed, however the bonnet not being closed is annoying.

[RobinBanks]

Sterillium said:

This just seems incredible to me... £1500 for a Northstar 4.6ltr V8.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-X-CADILLAC-SEVILLE-...

Yes, I now realise that I want one of those.

[velocefica]

SpeckledJim said:

0a said:

300c 5.7 with pre applied Bentley badges. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...



I fully expect a thread scuffle over these, and resultant purchases from this post

I suspect the proud owner of this egregious temple to Onan may himself be a wand of potentially record-setting proportions.

What pleb looks at that and believes it's Bentley

[r129sl]

mccrackenj said:

Please don't tell me how easy it is to import from RoI to UK. All these cars are on the same land mass as me so I want to believe that importing one is a cumbersome, bureaucratic and expensive process.

Insure it on the VIN. Drive it home. Get a MOT. Register and tax it (£55 plus £240).

I had the 129 MOT'd today (by pure fluke I checked last night when it expired and it expired tomorrow). Pass with no advisories. And according to my mechanic i twas a "proper" MOT: "it even went to the MOT station". Although I am told that the tester asked whether the odometer was right and whether I really wanted that mileage put on the certificate (244,514).

[SpeckledJim]

W00DY said:

That is magnificent.

Thud.

What a spec. Exactly the kind of colour for early XJ-S. Sooooo right.

[BlueMR2]

RobinBanks said:

Sterillium said:

This just seems incredible to me... £1500 for a Northstar 4.6ltr V8.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-X-CADILLAC-SEVILLE-...

Yes, I now realise that I want one of those.

I like the advert.

"The last long drive it had was around 350miles with an average mpg of just under 25mpg."

The picture of the dash shows an average mpg of 11.5, lol.

[BigTom85]

BlueMR2 said:

like the advert.

"The last long drive it had was around 350miles with an average mpg of just under 25mpg."

The picture of the dash shows an average mpg of 11.5, lol.

I was going to post exactly the same thing!

I guess 20 odd is realistic. For some reason I quite like it!

[W00DY]

I can't imagine they're much good to drive and likely ill-designed for the wet british roundabout.

As a kid they were proper cool, but now they just seem a bit rubbish.

[BlueMR2]

W00DY said:

I can't imagine they're much good to drive and likely ill-designed for the wet british roundabout.

As a kid they were proper cool, but now they just seem a bit rubbish.

If they were RWD they would probably be a great laugh for a cheap price, especially if a supercharger fell on the engine.

But FWD... ah well.

[tobinen]

Another fan of that XJ-S here (also without leaper, naturally)