Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 10]

[cat220]

BlueMR2 said:

cat220 said:

BlueMR2 said:

What do people think of this Volvo.

Its a V70 p1, 97,000 miles with a good sounding history.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-V70-T5-Auto-1999-Imm...

Looks good, serviced at Ron Sealey is a good sign too. Getting rare in that condition.

Apparently, they said it's one of, if not the best they have seen recently.

The door shuts at the rear are so clean, it almost looks like it's been resprayed.

5 hour journey for me, 1 way .

If it was a bit closer to me I'd offer to go and take a look but I'm on the west coast.

When I bought my e55 I flew from Glasgow to Heathrow on a Sunday morning, jumped in the car and drove it up the road. Great way to get to know the car. Not sure where in the country you are but a flight to Edinburgh could be an option?

[phil_cardiff]

I really want an LS400 at some point too. I had a 98 Corolla and the build quality was fabulous, nothing ever went wrong, no rattles, didn't use a drop of oil. Would love to know what Toyota could do when they were really aiming for top quality.

[derin100]

olly755 said:

The doom blue one bought last week (£480) needs nothing and drives nicer than the admittedly better looking DHP car.... Giving the blue one a thorough clean and machine polish at the moment and its coming up like a new pin.

You did WHAT?!! How much?!!

AWESOME!

£480?! For the whole car? Or for time-share in the whole car?

I'm going to have to play the "below budget/not allowed on this thread" card on that one.....Sorry!

[BlueMR2]

cat220 said:

BlueMR2 said:

cat220 said:

BlueMR2 said:

What do people think of this Volvo.

Its a V70 p1, 97,000 miles with a good sounding history.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-V70-T5-Auto-1999-Imm...

Looks good, serviced at Ron Sealey is a good sign too. Getting rare in that condition.

Apparently, they said it's one of, if not the best they have seen recently.

The door shuts at the rear are so clean, it almost looks like it's been resprayed.

5 hour journey for me, 1 way .

If it was a bit closer to me I'd offer to go and take a look but I'm on the west coast.

When I bought my e55 I flew from Glasgow to Heathrow on a Sunday morning, jumped in the car and drove it up the road. Great way to get to know the car. Not sure where in the country you are but a flight to Edinburgh could be an option?

Thanks for the offer (if you lived the other side), think we would go in my Dad's car, he'd probably visit his Sister on the way back then.

He's working Wednesday and Thursday however, not sure his back will cope with a journey that far the day after working either.

[olly755]

derin100 said:

£480?! For the whole car? Or for time-share in the whole car?

I'm going to have to play the "below budget/not allowed on this thread" card on that one.....Sorry!

The market dictated the price: I thought it looked cheap and answered the AT ad quickly, yet the vendor's phone had hardly been ringing off the hook. The demand obviously just isn't there for unfashionable 20 year old V8's with 168k miles, whether they are any good or not. Good news for us lot.

I posted this one a weeks ago. One owner, 25 stamps. £995. It'll be as good as gold I'm sure. Looks a ton of car to me. Nobody wants it.

[phil_cardiff]

olly755 said:

derin100 said:

£480?! For the whole car? Or for time-share in the whole car?

I'm going to have to play the "below budget/not allowed on this thread" card on that one.....Sorry!

The market dictated the price: I thought it looked cheap and answered the AT ad quickly, yet the vendor's phone had hardly been ringing off the hook. The demand obviously just isn't there for unfashionable 20 year old V8's with 168k miles, whether they are any good or not. Good news for us lot.

I posted this one a weeks ago. One owner, 25 stamps. £995. It'll be as good as gold I'm sure. Looks a ton of car to me. Nobody wants it.

Inspired by the thread I browsed auto trader for these last night and saw that one. There seems to be a raft of good quality 400s under 2.5k. And one with a very, very silly price in Cheltenham! I'd post a link but my 'phone won't play ball.

[Krikkit]

This joker?

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



JRG, 34k miles, £9450.

I was ogling the purple one last night, great colours.

[E65Ross]

BlueMR2 said:

cat220 said:

BlueMR2 said:

cat220 said:

BlueMR2 said:

What do people think of this Volvo.

Its a V70 p1, 97,000 miles with a good sounding history.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-V70-T5-Auto-1999-Imm...

Looks good, serviced at Ron Sealey is a good sign too. Getting rare in that condition.

Apparently, they said it's one of, if not the best they have seen recently.

The door shuts at the rear are so clean, it almost looks like it's been resprayed.

5 hour journey for me, 1 way .

If it was a bit closer to me I'd offer to go and take a look but I'm on the west coast.

When I bought my e55 I flew from Glasgow to Heathrow on a Sunday morning, jumped in the car and drove it up the road. Great way to get to know the car. Not sure where in the country you are but a flight to Edinburgh could be an option?

Thanks for the offer (if you lived the other side), think we would go in my Dad's car, he'd probably visit his Sister on the way back then.

He's working Wednesday and Thursday however, not sure his back will cope with a journey that far the day after working either.

Where's your commitment....I flew to Glasgow to meet Cat220 to pick my car up, then drove it back to Southampton that day/night. Stopped once for 10mins to refuel around Manchester.

[SpeckledJim]

Krikkit said:

This joker?

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



JRG, 34k miles, £9450.

I was ogling the purple one last night, great colours.

DP - "How much does it owe us against that new LS460 we sold the Major?"

SM - "£250, boss"

DP - "OK, stick it on at £10,000 for a fortnight and if it doesn't shift then block it, no reserve"

SM - "Aye aye, sir."

[BlueMR2]

SpeckledJim said:

Krikkit said:

This joker?

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



JRG, 34k miles, £9450.

I was ogling the purple one last night, great colours.

DP - "How much does it owe us against that new LS460 we sold the Major?"

SM - "£250, boss"

DP - "OK, stick it on at £10,000 for a fortnight and if it doesn't shift then block it, no reserve"

SM - "Aye aye, sir."

£6k of that is probably to cover the warranty of all those bit of rubber that will have perished and plenty of new bolts.

[BlueMR2]

E65Ross said:

BlueMR2 said:

cat220 said:

BlueMR2 said:

cat220 said:

BlueMR2 said:

What do people think of this Volvo.

Its a V70 p1, 97,000 miles with a good sounding history.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-V70-T5-Auto-1999-Imm...

Looks good, serviced at Ron Sealey is a good sign too. Getting rare in that condition.

Apparently, they said it's one of, if not the best they have seen recently.

The door shuts at the rear are so clean, it almost looks like it's been resprayed.

5 hour journey for me, 1 way .

If it was a bit closer to me I'd offer to go and take a look but I'm on the west coast.

When I bought my e55 I flew from Glasgow to Heathrow on a Sunday morning, jumped in the car and drove it up the road. Great way to get to know the car. Not sure where in the country you are but a flight to Edinburgh could be an option?

Thanks for the offer (if you lived the other side), think we would go in my Dad's car, he'd probably visit his Sister on the way back then.

He's working Wednesday and Thursday however, not sure his back will cope with a journey that far the day after working either.

Where's your commitment....I flew to Glasgow to meet Cat220 to pick my car up, then drove it back to Southampton that day/night. Stopped once for 10mins to refuel around Manchester.

Not sure how easy it is to fly without a passport.

The current owner doesn't really seem to know what work was done in the past, so it needs a pretty big service for whoever buys it.

[cat220]

BlueMR2 said:

E65Ross said:

BlueMR2 said:

cat220 said:

BlueMR2 said:

cat220 said:

BlueMR2 said:

What do people think of this Volvo.

Its a V70 p1, 97,000 miles with a good sounding history.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-V70-T5-Auto-1999-Imm...

Looks good, serviced at Ron Sealey is a good sign too. Getting rare in that condition.

Apparently, they said it's one of, if not the best they have seen recently.

The door shuts at the rear are so clean, it almost looks like it's been resprayed.

5 hour journey for me, 1 way .

If it was a bit closer to me I'd offer to go and take a look but I'm on the west coast.

When I bought my e55 I flew from Glasgow to Heathrow on a Sunday morning, jumped in the car and drove it up the road. Great way to get to know the car. Not sure where in the country you are but a flight to Edinburgh could be an option?

Thanks for the offer (if you lived the other side), think we would go in my Dad's car, he'd probably visit his Sister on the way back then.

He's working Wednesday and Thursday however, not sure his back will cope with a journey that far the day after working either.

Where's your commitment....I flew to Glasgow to meet Cat220 to pick my car up, then drove it back to Southampton that day/night. Stopped once for 10mins to refuel around Manchester.

Not sure how easy it is to fly without a passport.

The current owner doesn't really seem to know what work was done in the past, so it needs a pretty big service for whoever buys it.

You would be fine to fly just with photo id.

[RenesisEvo]

Krikkit said:

This joker?

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



JRG, 34k miles, £9450.

I was ogling the purple one last night, great colours.

A joker perhaps, but seems legit in comparison to this one:

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

'Stunning Lexus LS400...Good bodywork' with that very obvious scuff on the rear right corner, possibly mis-matched bonnet, and corroded wheels and tatty arches?

[31mph]

Anyone got any thoughts on this?

Been on sale for ages, but looks like it might go cheap (depending on reserve)



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112058468931

[idiotgap]

A bit of epic barging (for me at any rate) this weekend...

Took the family to Gatwick to catch a flight to Geneva for a trip to Morzine to visit friends and see the penultimate stage of le Tour, damn Easyjet wouldn't let us on the flight. Despite arriving at the airport well in advance by any usual standards we were held up by checking in buggies and car-seats as well as the lengthy security lines and having to trek what seemed like 900 miles across the airport to get to the gate with 3 young kids.

So, no availability on flights later that day even from Luton or Stanstead so...

We dug the car out of the airport parking and drove the alps.


Brilliant that a 1-5 smoker barge (£3.6k 2004 S211 E320 V6 petrol) can just take it with no bother.
I've left the family there and had to come back to get back to work so yesterday I did it again and without everyone else in tow I managed to pick up a load of wine on my way through.

Just hope the family manage to get on their flight back because I'm not going to go over and fetch them!

[Krikkit]

Fantastic barging, bravo! Exactly what it was meant to do - I would much rather barge it than be stuck in an airport.

RenesisEvo said:

A joker perhaps, but seems legit in comparison to this one:

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

'Stunning Lexus LS400...Good bodywork' with that very obvious scuff on the rear right corner, possibly mis-matched bonnet, and corroded wheels and tatty arches?

Stunning, but not in a way he would like. What a heap.

[olly755]

31mph said:

Anyone got any thoughts on this?

Been on sale for ages, but looks like it might go cheap (depending on reserve)



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112058468931

Very nice, although would be interested to see how much rear end damage was done to write off what was effectively an £8-9k car back in '08.

Lovely cars though. Alpina hit the bullseye in terms of E39 ride/handling combo for UK roads, and the 3.3 is a match for a stock 540i in terms of performance. I had four very happy years with a B10 V8, a car I found very difficult to replace, but would easily trade the M5 worrying oomph for manual gears and sharper rack 'n pinion steering of the 3.3.

[blueb10]

31mph said:

Anyone got any thoughts on this?

Been on sale for ages, but looks like it might go cheap (depending on reserve)



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112058468931

My old car! The advert is honest and truthful, the guy who is selling has a large and interesting collection of cars and when I did the deal with him it was an easy and pleasant transaction. I still have the car I got from him.
Probably the cheapest way to get in to Alpina ownership. Don't be put off by the cat D tag, I saw the car before it was repaired and before I bought it, it was only superficial damage, nothing structural.
A nice car, the only reason that I sold it was because I wanted something different and this guy had one of the cars on my list.
If you need any more information, PM me.

[blueb10]

Don't know why the ad refers to damage at the back end, it was frontal damage that caused it to be written off (bonnet, headlamps, radiator).
As I said, PM me if you want facts details.

[Krikkit]

Now that's fantastic barge history, thanks for sharing bb.