Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 9]

Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 9]

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JF87

686 posts

120 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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swiveleyedgit said:
SuperHangOn said:
JF87 said:
Thanks all for the E430 appreciation. (It's not metallic, so I'm guessing my particular shade of doom blue is Midnight - too bloody cold outside to go and check the code right now.) Difficult to imagine it finding much love elsewhere! Certainly not in my street, where I'm getting the same kind of what's-gone-wrong looks I last had when I rolled up in a Maestro some years ago.

Seems to be doing better mpg than I expected, though there isn't even an onboard computer to confirm this. Still plenty in the tank at any rate - the vendor left it three-quarters full (when I saw the petrol gauge needle in the listing photos I sensed I was onto a winner).
Great buy, almost as sexy as my blue diesel estate thumbup

Not to be a doom-monger but I would check those spring perches when you get the chance, they can look ok at first glance but fester away under the mastic sealant so you need to pick at them a bit. I had mine replaced for £150 so not the end of the world if they are.
Check the jacking points as well, my 210 looked fine until I took the sill covers off.
Waved a torch into the relevant areas before I bought the car - they all seemed eerily rot free, but will need to take wheels off etc for a proper check.

Seems too good to be true, especially given the vendor's summary of his ownership: 'I only used it in the winter.' yikes


CharlesdeGaulle

26,099 posts

179 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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defblade said:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...



Tidy looking big Volvo for not too much wedge (and a £650 850 posted on the best-of-the-basement thread from the same search).
Great colour and looks in good nick. Yummy velour too.

But ... manual and a bit 'hearing aid' internally.

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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CharlesdeGaulle said:
defblade said:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...



Tidy looking big Volvo for not too much wedge (and a £650 850 posted on the best-of-the-basement thread from the same search).
Great colour and looks in good nick. Yummy velour too.

But ... manual and a bit 'hearing aid' internally.
When there is such a thing as a 170 SE then I can't see the argument for a 140 S at all, unless it is under £500.

All the SE bits are nice things to have.

CharlesdeGaulle

26,099 posts

179 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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SpeckledJim said:
When there is such a thing as a 170 SE then I can't see the argument for a 140 S at all, unless it is under £500.

All the SE bits are nice things to have.
That's true. I'd missed the fact it was a 140 S. Still a nice colour though.

Bonefish Blues

26,454 posts

222 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Dawn Blue. Mrs BFB hates it on my S60 hehe

bob-lad

2,212 posts

104 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Can't believe these are dropping within a good haggle of budget

Jaguar XK8 4.0



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


harrykul

2,770 posts

225 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Got the s124 back from the detail: came up well.





Krikkit

26,500 posts

180 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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Good grief. I'd be worried about leaving that outside it's so clean. tongue out


0a

23,879 posts

193 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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That looks fantastic - better than new! I hope one day mine will look like that!

MajorMantra

1,265 posts

111 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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CharlesdeGaulle said:
Great colour and looks in good nick. Yummy velour too.

But ... manual and a bit 'hearing aid' internally.
I like that colour too. But 2.4l and only 140bhp? So it's thirsty and slow?

bob-lad

2,212 posts

104 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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harrykul said:
Got the s124 back from the detail: came up well.
Wow, what a finish.

I'm tempted to get the XJ-S done properly, that's splendid.


Krikkit

26,500 posts

180 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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MajorMantra said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Great colour and looks in good nick. Yummy velour too.

But ... manual and a bit 'hearing aid' internally.
I like that colour too. But 2.4l and only 140bhp? So it's thirsty and slow?
Yep.

My parents had a 170hp SE from new when I was a mere slip of a teenager, great car, topped out at 140 on the autobahn with 1000 miles on the clock!

deadslow

7,962 posts

222 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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bob-lad said:
Can't believe these are dropping within a good haggle of budget

Jaguar XK8 4.0



http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
Nice car and particularly nice in Mistral.

tercelgold

44 posts

108 months

Thursday 11th February 2016
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defblade said:


Oh.
My.
God.

I think something just happened in my trousers.






Although it is just possible the turn-over lights on my old Opel GT would give the clamshells a run in the coolness stakes wink
1965 Buick Riviera Gran Sport Coupe

Lot No. 772

Auctioned on Saturday, August 3, 2013

Sold for $ 85,250 / £58883.87 British Pound http://www.auctionsamerica.com/events/feature-lots...


These are not in sub £5K barges, and I hate everyone, for even by slight suggesting I could ever afford one. But i'll get over it smile


Edited by tercelgold on Thursday 11th February 23:54

dbdb

4,311 posts

172 months

Friday 12th February 2016
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harrykul said:
Got the s124 back from the detail: came up well.




That's lovely - really beautiful.

dbdb

4,311 posts

172 months

Friday 12th February 2016
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tercelgold said:
defblade said:


Oh.
My.
God.

I think something just happened in my trousers.






Although it is just possible the turn-over lights on my old Opel GT would give the clamshells a run in the coolness stakes wink
1965 Buick Riviera Gran Sport Coupe

Lot No. 772

Auctioned on Saturday, August 3, 2013

Sold for $ 85,250 / £58883.87 British Pound http://www.auctionsamerica.com/events/feature-lots...


These are not in sub £5K barges, and I hate everyone, for even by slight suggesting I could ever afford one. But i'll get over it smile


Edited by tercelgold on Thursday 11th February 23:54
They're expensive cars now, but were not particularly for a long time. Long ago when I was at school in the mid/late 1980s, I went on a Geography field trip to (IIRC) Oswestry. I was in the lower sixth and doing a half hearted bit of research for my A level project on Christaller's Central place theory. It involved aimless wandering around town coupled with occasional visits to pubs.

I was a huge fan of American cars at the time and possessed the kind of 'beardage' only ever seen in extreme youth and the Smoker barge thread - for me it was American cars; here it is Mercedes.

That's when I saw it - partially hidden at the back of a used car lot was a metallic green Buick Riviera with a right hand drive conversion by Ruddspeed. A VERY rare car. It was in reasonable nick from what I could see - and the garage owner didn't have a clue what it was, had been stuck with it and just wanted rid. The car was CHEAP!

I was hugely excited - I had the money saved for it and decided to buy it. Then the problems began! My late dad utterly forbid me to have the car and also forbid anyone to help me by going down to down and get it (I couldn't drive - I had not passed my 'test) - and we had a huge argument during which he explained I would never be able to buy it. He had a great strength of personality, so that was the end of it. I suspect he thought that if I had something I liked it would sap my motivation. Sadly he had that backwards.

One thing he was right about is I will never own one - they became expensive and I can't afford one now! I do wonder what happened to that car though.

BeirutTaxi

6,627 posts

213 months

Friday 12th February 2016
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deadslow said:
bob-lad said:
Can't believe these are dropping within a good haggle of budget

Jaguar XK8 4.0



http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
Nice car and particularly nice in Mistral.
Just be aware that if the gearbox goes (which it has a fair chance of doing in these cars) then it's a £2k repair bill.

On the other hand, some people pay that amount in interest on PCP finance for their dreary Eurobox.


Edited by BeirutTaxi on Friday 12th February 06:41

wack

2,103 posts

205 months

Friday 12th February 2016
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dbdb said:
I was hugely excited - I had the money saved for it and decided to buy it. Then the problems began! My late dad utterly forbid me to have the car and also forbid anyone to help me by going down to down and get it (I couldn't drive - I had not passed my 'test) - and we had a huge argument during which he explained I would never be able to buy it. He had a great strength of personality, so that was the end of it. I suspect he thought that if I had something I liked it would sap my motivation. Sadly he had that backwards.

One thing he was right about is I will never own one - they became expensive and I can't afford one now! I do wonder what happened to that car though.
Sounds like your dad wasn't a car enthusiast , neither was mine , he managed to make 2 Volvo (slow)estates and a Subaru Forester ( much better but his first words when he overtook something were this is too fast) last from 1976 to when he gave up driving in 2013.

He'd have done exactly the same as your dad, killed a dream if it involved a car

A few years ago he gave me £5000 so I went out and spent it on a XK8 , he went nuts but I was 47 then so he couldn't stop me , the pleasure that car gave me was immense

Next week I'm picking up a Maserati bought with the lump sum from my pension thanks to the government changing the rules for 55 year olds.

I'm fairly certain he'll go to his grave not knowing I've bought it because he lives 200 miles away and I couldn't stand the look of disappointment on his face

Luckily that's a gene I didn't inherit

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Friday 12th February 2016
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BeirutTaxi said:
deadslow said:
bob-lad said:
Can't believe these are dropping within a good haggle of budget

Jaguar XK8 4.0



http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
Nice car and particularly nice in Mistral.
Just be aware that if the gearbox goes (which it has a fair chance of doing in these cars) then it's a £2k repair bill.

On the other hand, some people pay that amount in interest on PCP finance for their dreary Eurobox.


Edited by BeirutTaxi on Friday 12th February 06:41
The dowdier XK8s have been well inside thread budget for a long time. £5k should buy something very eye-catching indeed.

(£300 for a second hand gearbox and the same again to fit, I'd have thought?)



hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Friday 12th February 2016
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harrykul said:
Got the s124 back from the detail
Wowsers, that is some finish. Congrats, you must be over the moon.

Is that like an all day 250/300 quid job?

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