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[Lowtimer]

Greetings from the Lakeland Motor Museum where there might not me any mobile coverage to speak of but there is at least wifi in the cafe, where I am presently lurking in the hope of encountering other threaddists. And, if it helps, being in an old dark brown leather jacket, glasses, short hair and a pair of moderately scruffy blue jeans

[Riley Blue]

Wish I was there, unfortunately time is precious this weekend and I can't get away. Enjoy yourselves, it's one of my favourite museums - and don't forget the photos, lots of photos.

[tobinen]

Congratulations Ben, I was thinking CL600 from what you were saying at MB World but I didn't realise bmthnick1981 was selling his. Looks very good.

I wonder how the barge meet is going? Nearly 12.00 so almost underway, if not already.

[Lowtimer]

I'm here with 0a and 0a's dad and deeply envious of his sublime 190e

[BigBen]

slippery said:

Enjoy my old car, Ben! I miss it too.

Nick mentioned it was previously yours. I think I should go and introduce myself to the guy who had it 2nd then I think I will have met (albeit virtually in your case) every owner.

I hope the meeting is going well, if the weather is the same as here it is a nice day for it. Just been out doing the ARB ball joints on the S211, not too difficult and will make a big difference.

Tomorrow is for R230 / W140 love!

Ben

[Lowtimer]

The weather is entertainingly moist. Wish I'd brought an Amphicar

[defblade]

Could you get much bargier than this?

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/s...

[Caruso]

defblade said:

Could you get much bargier than this?

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/s...

That would be great for family holidays.
"Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"
Whirrr...thunk...silence!

[Riley Blue]

Lowtimer said:

The weather is entertainingly moist. Wish I'd brought an Amphicar

Did you all survive the deluge?

[Lowtimer]

I did. Can't speak for the others but you know how it is, only properly ancient and once-expensive cars are capable of handling this sort of weather.

Actually the 944T was epic today in seriously heavy rain. You'd think an early-gen laggy turbo with 300 hp and no traction or stability control would be a handful in these conditions but it's just such a great car across country even on windy steep roads. Amazing traction, lovely balance, perfect damping for those roads and all the overtake you could ever want.

I stayed as far off the main routes as possible and made excellent time both ways from and back to North Yorkshire: I think the rain and low cloud suppressed a lot of the other traffic that you get up there on the wilder Dales routes on pretty days. And I imagine all the cyclists were watching the Tour de Yorkshire.

[r129sl]

We really enjoyed the submarine meeting today. Any leaking barges were surely found out. A big, big thank you to Oa for organising it. Mrs r129 is a bit miffed that she didn't get a go and in your 190, so there must be a repeat performance (though I'd count that as a narrow escape for your car). It was great to see three fantastic Jags, I was pretty taken by the saloon. And now I want a 944 as well...



Kids look like they're really enjoying the picnic:

Edited by r129sl on Sunday 1st May 18:17

[Lowtimer]

That 190 is ace and dibbsy when 0a wants to move it on.

Some weekend soon I'll come up your way with the 944 when the weather's less awful.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

We're just back from the Lakes Loser Conference. Only took 3 hours to get back, but stinking weather for the first couple of them, and busy roads. Anyway, well worth it and a nice meet at a nice venue. Great to put some faces to names.

Shame we didn't get to see very much of harrykul and mccrackenj, but the brief chat was good. And that S Class, blimey; in thread budget by about 2030 I imagine.

Thanks to 0a for organising, and to everyone for making the effort to go. Gaydon Motor Museum next time!

[bob-lad]

We're back from a very soggy weekend too. Great to put faces to cars/names.

Took a mix of A roads and Motorways on the return trip to liven things up a bit. Few things are less exciting than a couple of hundred miles of motorway spray in something as low as an XJS.

The slow close doors on that S class were sublime and the antithesis of the slam-clunk of my car.

Hopefully the ladies didn't get too bored being drowned in the car park staring at old cars

[alec.e]

Thanks Oa! Great to meet you all. Loved the range from the 190 to the W222 S-Class.

Some of my photos here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110603972221652441469...

[CharlesdeGaulle]

alec.e said:

Some of my photos here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110603972221652441469...

Thanks alec.e - good pics, with a few of my car too. Foolishly, I didn't take a single one.

Shame we missed the chance of a group shot showing us drenched by mid-afternoon.

[Stegel]

Despite the weather I'm sorry I missed Loser Conference II - that said, I would have probably been in the SL and it failed to proceed for the first time in my ownership. Despite living on a CTEK, it refused to start after sitting on the drive for 2 hours. A couple of hours charge got it going and a new battery is on order, but roof and roll bar switches now permanently illuminated. Better here than in a wet car park!

Edited by Stegel on Sunday 1st May 20:54

[straightsix]

This must be the world's cheapest CLK55

£1500 with half an hour to go if anyone is feeling very brave.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Benz-AMG-5-4l-C...

[bob-lad]

straightsix said:

This must be the world's cheapest CLK55

£1500 with half an hour to go if anyone is feeling very brave.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Benz-AMG-5-4l-C...

It certainly looks like it's done every one of those 300k miles.

[SuperHangOn]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-W140-MERCEDES-S320-...




http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-MERCEDES-BENZ-W140-...