Lovely Cars: Interesting, Classic, Retro, Barge 5-10k

[Trabi601]

Jimmy Recard said:

I think to get a V12 the surest way would be to get on a waiting list with an importer to get first refusal on one.

Or if you know what you're doing/fancy a gamble on a Japanese auction site, import one yourself

Yeah, I'm sure if I really wanted one, the guy who brought our Alphard in would source one for me.

[Jimmy Recard]

I've just read it back and it looks like I'm advising you on how to get one. It was just hypothetical musing as I've also noticed that V12s don't ever seem to end up on the market here.


I'd like one a lot but it's too expensive for me as a curiosity. With a Euromillions win I'd quite like to have that and a chauffeur to take me on pub crawls

[0a]

I like the look of this but don't know much about w123 mercs. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C833103

[Trabi601]

0a said:

I like the look of this but don't know much about w123 mercs. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C833103

Slow and noisy, I'd have thought with an old school non-turbo Diesel engine.

80bhp and 1.6 tonnes to drag around!

[CharlesdeGaulle]

0a said:

I like the look of this but don't know much about w123 mercs. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C833103

That would be utterly wonderful to drive slowly.

Great car. Great colours. Diesel = meh.

[Jimmy Recard]

Advertising it using his own insurance quote is a good idea. I bet a 17 year old in Tower Hamlets wouldn't pay £112 per year to insure it

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Jimmy Recard said:

I bet a 17 year old in Tower Hamlets wouldn't pay £112 per year to insure it

I suspect ghetto-kids woudn't want to be seen dead in a car like that.

[Krikkit]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Trabi601 said:

I make no apologies for going slightly over budget for this one.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REDESIGNED-TOYOTA-CENTUR...



Toyota Century V12.

I'd love to have that, but am not sure I'd ever love owning it.

I can't think of many cars better to waft around looking like a Yakuza. Fabulous.

[EarlOfHazard]

Krikkit said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Trabi601 said:

I make no apologies for going slightly over budget for this one.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REDESIGNED-TOYOTA-CENTUR...



Toyota Century V12.

I'd love to have that, but am not sure I'd ever love owning it.

I can't think of many cars better to waft around looking like a Yakuza. Fabulous.

I would respect a celebrity so much more if they got dropped off at an awards ceremony etc in something interesting like this, rather than the common Rangie or new S-class

[0a]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

That would be utterly wonderful to drive slowly.

Great car. Great colours. Diesel = meh.

A 9 points on the licence car for the classic barge lover

[Speed addicted]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

0a said:

I like the look of this but don't know much about w123 mercs. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C833103

That would be utterly wonderful to drive slowly.

Great car. Great colours. Diesel = meh.

Looks lovely, my first thought was how little hassle it would be to put something a bit more woofly and V8 under the bonnet. Something with enough capacity to make it spritely rather than outright fast. More for effortless cruising than bruising.

[layercake]

pretty strong money for that w123

[Lowtimer]

Speed addicted said:

Looks lovely, my first thought was how little hassle it would be to put something a bit more woofly and V8 under the bonnet. Something with enough capacity to make it spritely rather than outright fast. More for effortless cruising than bruising.

All you'd have to do is replace the engine, the gearbox, the back axle, the half shafts, the brakes, the suspension, the cooling system, the wheels and the tyres and a bunch of minor things. A dead-ish SL500 would be the ideal donor source of parts.

[Speed addicted]

Lowtimer said:

Speed addicted said:

Looks lovely, my first thought was how little hassle it would be to put something a bit more woofly and V8 under the bonnet. Something with enough capacity to make it spritely rather than outright fast. More for effortless cruising than bruising.

All you'd have to do is replace the engine, the gearbox, the back axle, the half shafts, the brakes, the suspension, the cooling system, the wheels and the tyres and a bunch of minor things. A dead-ish SL500 would be the ideal donor source of parts.

Hey don't you come in here with your common sense and actual reality!
I was just for changing the engine to something that produced about 3x the horsepower (and a much nicer noise) and leaving the rest alone, I'm sure it'd be fine if you were careful.
Probably.

[bob-lad]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Brilliant stuff.

What a pity that most of the major manufacturers aren't making this sort of stuff anymore. Where is Vauxhall's 2017 equivalent of that?

It probably looks like this now.

[anonymous-user]

What's that bit of string hanging out of the door shut?

[bob-lad]

Hopefully a thread from his chunky jumper rather than something important.

[DoctorX]

It's a a Peugeot, undoubtedly something electrical.

[bob-lad]

Peugeot, Vauxhall, Opel. Practically the same thing. Any minute now.

[mondayo]

Old 635 manual and located in.....Yugoslavia! Do you think that means you have to travel back to the 1990's to buy it?
http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C771706