Best smoker barges 1-5 large [vol8]

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golfer19

1,564 posts

132 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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CharlesdeGaulle said:
Golfer19 - you've proved rather good at this daft game of ours, but now you're really not helping!

Great spot with the SL.
Thank you oh wise one

r129sl

9,518 posts

202 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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rejn said:
S124 arrived this afternoon - and it seems pretty lovely.

Being a 12v diesel, it's a slow old thing, but it is perfect for wafting around in - feels solid and well built, and no issues yet. Electric aerial and sunroof both surprisingly fully operational!

Pics:


Edited by rejn on Thursday 30th July 21:26
The pics have gone. And this I'd like to see. Once you get used to it, I expect you'll find it's not that slow. They're in their element on the motorway.

V12 AMG

712 posts

108 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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CL600 bi turbo M275.
More reliable and much much more performance than those earlier cars.

I know both are sold but just wanted to show that they are out there within thread budget.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=1...
Under £4,400

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=1...
Under £4,200

Edited by V12 AMG on Thursday 30th July 21:40

rejn

1,991 posts

221 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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rejn said:
S124 arrived this afternoon - and it seems pretty lovely.

Being a 12v diesel, it's a slow old thing, but it is perfect for wafting around in - feels solid and well built, and no issues yet. Electric aerial and sunroof both surprisingly fully operational!
with pics this time:





harrykul

2,770 posts

225 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Bornite? Great find Richard!

rejn

1,991 posts

221 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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harrykul said:
Bornite? Great find Richard!
Thanks Harry - and yes, it is. It's a nice colour. And so far, seems to be in reasonably good condition. I'll take it for a proper run tomorrow and see...

V12 AMG

712 posts

108 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Jealousy isn't a feeling that shows itself to me very often...until I started reading this thread.

Bornite W124 estate on the right year. You're one lucky man.

rejn

1,991 posts

221 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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V12 AMG said:
Jealousy isn't a feeling that shows itself to me very often...until I started reading this thread.

Bornite W124 estate on the right year. You're one lucky man.
Wow - I hadn't realise quite how lucky I was, then. It seems like a nice car, and I thought the colour quite suited it (an earlier car I tried to buy was Beige, so this is a definite improvement!) - but my research hadn't got as far as which the best year is - was "K" the first year of the facelift cars, then? Mine seems unusual in that it's a 12v diesel in the facelift body (I think!?) - does that make sense?

0a

23,879 posts

193 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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rejn, that's a lovely looking W124 indeed.

Stegel

1,950 posts

173 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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r129sl said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Stegel said:
Why, oh why?!
It's infuriating, isn't it? Just gets peoples back up.

More importantly though, just promise me you'll keep that sensible purchase for your daughter to yourself, ok? If my brood discover that not everyone does in a motoring sense to their kids what I've done to mine, I'm doomed.
Car dealers. They must go to a special school where they are taught how to be like this. Diesel Golf? Been there, done that, sold it a fortnight ago, phew. It was a cheap car for three years and 50k miles, though. £5k in depreciation, maybe £3k in maintenance. Hmm, think I'll stick with the old Mercs. I have a set of barely used winter wheels and tyres for a Golf if anyone's interested.
I won't mention it, although I can't guarantee your daughter and mine haven't already found a connection on Facebook or similar based on their "eccentric" fathers' proclivities! But, God knows, I tried - I pointed at and cooed over every W201 I saw, but the Stegel female collective scoffed at the notion of them as the ideal, given their compactness etc., for learner drivers. On the upside, the Golf, replete with knee airbag etc,, has earned Brownie points with Mrs Stegel, so it's not all bad.

Winter tyres - hmm - I'm a convert, and it would seem strange not to equip Miss Stegel 1 with the capability to deal with the snow-pocalypse we're always threatened with "next winter".

mccrackenj

2,041 posts

225 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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CharlesdeGaulle said:
Mini-Barge update.

A little while back I bought a rather fetching Mercedes 190E, ostensibly as a family runabout and city car. The plan - insofar as there is ever a plan in this place - was for it to become the family runabout. All was fine in theory, but some of you may recall that the car's reception wasn't entirely positive, and various female members of famille deGaulle demonstrated a somewhat unbecoming emotional reaction. And not in a good way.

Luckily, the motoring gods conspired to help me remove the festering sore from their sight and consciousness. Less luckily, this involved a 'failure-to-proceed' experience. Luckily it was me in the car at the time. Unluckily, despite me thinking I'd managed to get away with it by keeping it secret, my mechanic chap inadvertently dobbed me in it, so the girls found out. And mocked. Without mercy and without respite.

Anyway, absence can be helpful. In the way that you introduced that unsuitable girlfriend to your smart relatives only once, and then hoped they'd forget her, the 190's absence at the home of my mechanic (whilst he disappeared on a refereeing trip to the US) allowed the tears to dry and the emotions to settle. Peace was restored; I was off the hook.

And then, hurrah, today the car was returned. The culprit was the fuel pump relay, since replaced, and the expert gave the whole thing a decent going-over. The only other thing that needed doing was a new windscreen wiper, so I'm feeling as though some shed Karmic-balance has been restored.

The next job is going to be a bit of bucket and sponge sudsy-love, and I'll replace the cheap nasty tyres with something more mainstream before the autumn, but for now I shall rejoice in the smug glow of knowing I was right all along. At least I will until madame returns next week.

Here it is, in all its unwashed green and tan glory. It was in thread budget, but only just. It's a nice way to travel.


Stick with it CdG. What a lovely thing, great colour combo.

cat220

2,762 posts

214 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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rejn said:
harrykul said:
Bornite? Great find Richard!
Thanks Harry - and yes, it is. It's a nice colour. And so far, seems to be in reasonably good condition. I'll take it for a proper run tomorrow and see...
Congrats, that looks lovely!

jke11y

3,181 posts

236 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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V12 AMG said:
CL600 bi turbo M275.
More reliable and much much more performance than those earlier cars.

I know both are sold but just wanted to show that they are out there within thread budget.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=1...
Under £4,400

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=1...
Under £4,200

Edited by V12 AMG on Thursday 30th July 21:40
Even as a car buyer with a decent set of stones on me, that pair are scary. I'd be spending a bit more I think as that plate / paint job / 6 year old 1000nm dynoplot are red flags. Would be fun until it broke mind you.

Added a neat gadget to the 55k tonight - plugs into the 3.5mm jack and is a little black box that creates a wifi zone in the car that you can share streaming music and YouTube / iTunes to. £30 all in and solves the problem of more modern media in an older car.

cat220

2,762 posts

214 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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mccrackenj said:
mccrackenj said:
r129sl said:
mccrackenj said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Mini-barge lifted from the retro thread. Under-budget, but a few jobs to do should lift it into here.

Ray Singh said:
Nice 2.6 Mercedes 190E in the best colour combo.

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/181104/1993...




Shame it is a catd - but pictures of damage do not look too bad and no history.
I may, allegedly, have made contact with vendor.

What was that I was saying only a couple of days and a few pages ago?!
This is in Boro, isn't it? If you need someone to go and have a look, it's only 45minutes from me. Would probably have to be next week, though.
Thanks Jonathan, that's a very kind offer - and I know it's a genuine one.

But, the car is sold already.







I wonder to whom . . . . . .
My last post may have been a bit too subtle



(Flight and ferry booked for 19 Aug)

I just can't help myself.
Excellent, good work! Hard to resist at that price!

cat220

2,762 posts

214 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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jke11y said:
Even as a car buyer with a decent set of stones on me, that pair are scary. I'd be spending a bit more I think as that plate / paint job / 6 year old 1000nm dynoplot are red flags. Would be fun until it broke mind you.

Added a neat gadget to the 55k tonight - plugs into the 3.5mm jack and is a little black box that creates a wifi zone in the car that you can share streaming music and YouTube / iTunes to. £30 all in and solves the problem of more modern media in an older car.
The new gadget sounds good, can you send me a link please?

Cheers,
C

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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cat220 said:
jke11y said:
Even as a car buyer with a decent set of stones on me, that pair are scary. I'd be spending a bit more I think as that plate / paint job / 6 year old 1000nm dynoplot are red flags. Would be fun until it broke mind you.

Added a neat gadget to the 55k tonight - plugs into the 3.5mm jack and is a little black box that creates a wifi zone in the car that you can share streaming music and YouTube / iTunes to. £30 all in and solves the problem of more modern media in an older car.
The new gadget sounds good, can you send me a link please?

Cheers,
C
Or post for all of us lurkers too pretty please smile

tobinen

9,184 posts

144 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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2 bornite purchases, congratulations chaps!

rejn

1,991 posts

221 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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0a said:
rejn, that's a lovely looking W124 indeed.
cat220 said:
Congrats, that looks lovely!
Thanks both.

I'll be able to provide a better update in a couple of days when I've been able to give it a decent drive!

Just after it was delivered, I took if for a short drive, the sun was shining, I opened the sunroof and I put on Radio 2 and Matt Munro launched into "on days like these" (as from the start of the film The Italian Job) - I thought that was a pretty good omen!!!

SuperHangOn

3,486 posts

152 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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You have no idea how long and hard I looked for one of those .... and you just rock up casually on here with one in sodding Bornite! Grrr!

With a modicum of TLC that will become the most dependable thing in your life.






Edited by SuperHangOn on Friday 31st July 08:36

rejn

1,991 posts

221 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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SuperHangOn said:
You have no idea how long and hard I looked for one of those .... and you just rock up casually on here with one in sodding Bornite! Grrr!

With a modicum of TLC that will become the most dependable thing in your life.
smile thanks SHO

I'm already finding it's quirks and liking them. I was just putting a couple of bags into the boot and trying to see how the "cargo cover" works - it took a while before I spotted the "hooks" on the tailgate - another great MB solution - very clever indeed!!


Edited by rejn on Friday 31st July 08:50

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