Best smoker barges 1-5 large [vol11]
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aww999 said:
Unless you really NEED to carry around wardrobes on a regular basis, there is just so much room in an LS that you can probably manage. I've done a couple of airport collections for family, and you can get four adults, plus driver in the car, then all of their suitcases and hand luggage in the boot. It swallows all of the crap that my two small kids require (pushchairs, toys, endless bags, coats etc) and it all just looks lost in the boot.
Not wardrobes but bikes with 25 inch frames and 2 metre long skis, I'm slightly on the tall side. An estate is just easier to slide my bike into fully built and I won't have to remove wheels. Regularly pick up logs for the stoves and it's nice to just pile them up in the boot.bargain modern barge or nightmare in waiting?...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-545I-SE-AUTO-4-4-V8-...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-545I-SE-AUTO-4-4-V8-...
This would make nice transport for a few years to come. Why did the original owner specify everything but heated seats? Only 35k miles.
http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/imgser-uk/servle...
http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/imgser-uk/servle...
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Lovely, I dearly wish I was in a position to snap that up.
Returning momentary to the Honda Legends - having looked trhough the prices, there's definitely been a step shift downwards in the prices (hooray, at last!), it wasn't that many months ago where the only ones at 5k or below were well north of 100k, with cars half that mileage approaching double thread budget. Fingers are crossed the trend continues, and I can finally try one next year.
r129sl said:
This would make nice transport for a few years to come. Why did the original owner specify everything but heated seats? Only 35k miles.
http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/imgser-uk/servle...
Oof. That's lovely looking.http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/imgser-uk/servle...
I would be concerned though as the early W211s don't have the best reputation, oder?
Thoughts would depend entirely on how much of it has been replaced or genuinely fully overhauled over the last four or five years. If it's been looked after properly, and that means stacks and stacks of enormous bills for things other than normal servicing and consumables, then it might be fine. If not then it is probably no more than an eccentric basis for a £20K restoration project. Generally this is easier to swallow once you already have a car and shovel a lot of money into it every year while continuing to get your use out of it for the 11 months a year it is running. Doing it all at once is very painful. You would have to have a very strong reason to want that specific individual car, in order to spend that amount of money on a non-exotic type which is still in plentiful supply, when for £10K you could buy the best one in the world.
I am not actually knocking the idea - while I hesitate to recommend it as a course of action to anyone else, it's the sort of thing that I've been known to do, and which more famously r129SL does with his old 124 estate. If you have read his long rolling resto thread here -
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
- you will be aware what is involved. It's not for everyone.
If you are the rare person to whom this way of doing things makes some kind of warped sense, then congratulations and welcome. But don't pay £2K for the car, try offering a grand.
I am not actually knocking the idea - while I hesitate to recommend it as a course of action to anyone else, it's the sort of thing that I've been known to do, and which more famously r129SL does with his old 124 estate. If you have read his long rolling resto thread here -
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
- you will be aware what is involved. It's not for everyone.
If you are the rare person to whom this way of doing things makes some kind of warped sense, then congratulations and welcome. But don't pay £2K for the car, try offering a grand.
Edited by Lowtimer on Saturday 3rd December 15:17
Scottsz said:
Sub 2k 211, E280 CDI, nearly 400k miles, 9 years old, thoughts?
Lowtimer has made some very good points. A lot will depend too on the state of the bodywork and how tired the thing looks and feels. I'd imagine that, to run up that sort of mileage, it's been used mainly on the motorways, so a low-stress motoring environment.
It could be a decent buy but, in my view, only if you run it as-is and resist the termptation to 'improve' it. And bear in mind that when you come to sell you'll be looking for the very rare buyer that doesn't care about massive miles.
I'd be looking at it as a £1500 purchase with long MOT, with a view to rolling the dice and getting as far as I could go without spending a penny until it fails to proceed and returns a surprising amount on EBay as a spares/repair car.
I reckon you could have a cheap 12 months motoring.
I reckon you could have a cheap 12 months motoring.
I'd agree with that, very careful management of expenditure would hopefully give you some cheap motoring, and when it does expire you can hock it to a breaker on eBay who will strip and sell the parts as "GENUINE LOW MILES".
The LS looks fab, my second-favourite colour after purple. Agree on the space, had a lift to the airport in one once, and its boot was truly cavernous.
The LS looks fab, my second-favourite colour after purple. Agree on the space, had a lift to the airport in one once, and its boot was truly cavernous.
olly755 said:
W00DY said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
K12beano said:
edo said:
Great idea - but to be proper "PH" the signs have to be in Welsh, don't they?
(reference the "It's Welsh, you 'tard" in response to "Ambiwlans" - sorry for the Spoiler if you already knew this!)
And besides it has woeful headroom.
CharlesdeGaulle said:
That looks great, a fantastic ad. I am sure it will sell quickly. Seems like a bit of a bargain compared to the usual examples out there. r129sl said:
SpeckledJim said:
...non-quantitative stuff about appearances, gut-feeling, styling, rightness, je ne sais quoi, coolness and interest...
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Lowtimer said:
For those who missed it first time around:
https://www.mercedes-benz-classic-store.com/en/acc...
I am sure this will be familiar to many here: https://www.mercedes-benz-classic-store.com/en/acc...https://www.mercedes-benz-classic-store.com/en/acc...
MB Website said:
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0a said:
how is that 390 just how with 6 mths mot Lowtimer said:
For those who missed it first time around:
https://www.mercedes-benz-classic-store.com/en/acc...
You want to read the blurb for the lady fragrance. https://www.mercedes-benz-classic-store.com/en/acc...
Copywriter on some kind of drugs said:
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Uh huh. Do we think this is a bad joke? I fancy writing to Dieter Z and asking, really, you know, aren't you maybe, just perhaps, going a bit too far on this one.Anyway, here's a bear hug of bursting bork which looks to me like staggeringly good value. I think it has some kind of special wood, Designo flaming maple or something. And an owner who couldn't take a photograph if his life depended on it. And some seriously gash number plates. I think if I were viewing this, I'd go equipped with replacement plates, just in case I bought it and had to drive it home.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MERCEDES-BENZ-CL420-S-CL...
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