Best smoker barges 1-5 large [vol11]
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List is getting a bit too Merkel for me this morning; time for a little Deneuve. THIS is a barge, and that slight £200 over the list limit will surely be bargained away.
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C404358
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C404358
cat220 said:
0a said:
SpeckledJim said:
There's a fairly famous XJ buyer's guide posted by a chap called JaguarSteve that gets passed round the Jaguar subforum regularly, I'd try to track that down, it's excellent.
As said, rust is the risk - most of the oily bits are available, cheap, and lots of it is DIY-able. I've not found working on my Jaguars the absolute pleasure that working on an old Mercedes usually is, but it's not at all bad.
A 1999 Jaguar might carry the same badge as a 1970's / early 1980's Jaguar, but in quality terms they're not comparable.
Thanks. I have a train booked for tomorrow.As said, rust is the risk - most of the oily bits are available, cheap, and lots of it is DIY-able. I've not found working on my Jaguars the absolute pleasure that working on an old Mercedes usually is, but it's not at all bad.
A 1999 Jaguar might carry the same badge as a 1970's / early 1980's Jaguar, but in quality terms they're not comparable.
nobrakes said:
2006 730i L
Barge limit for 5 bags, Shirley.
Ok, it picks up the 500 tax, but it looks in great shape, has barge profile tyres and only 68k miles...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...
Heated steering wheel and electric blinds.
I posted one last page.. and it had the added bonus of having only 2 owners, 50k miles and and being an early 3.5 V8 E65...Barge limit for 5 bags, Shirley.
Ok, it picks up the 500 tax, but it looks in great shape, has barge profile tyres and only 68k miles...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...
Heated steering wheel and electric blinds.
CharlesdeGaulle said:
0a said:
I can't wait to have a good moan about a non Merc brand
Rarely do posts disappoint as much as this. I saw the poster and anticipated a murky phone picture of a barge on a forecourt. Get on with it man!r129sl said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
0a said:
I can't wait to have a good moan about a non Merc brand
Rarely do posts disappoint as much as this. I saw the poster and anticipated a murky phone picture of a barge on a forecourt. Get on with it man!I can already have a good moan about it being the most expensive car I insure on the fleet by a long way despite having a pretty low value.
0a said:
This evening gents.
I can already have a good moan about it being the most expensive car I insure on the fleet by a long way despite having a pretty low value.
I've managed to avoid this question for the first 6 years of my relationship, but last week the wife asked me how much it costs to keep our fleet on the road... Lol. Think I handled it fairly well. I can already have a good moan about it being the most expensive car I insure on the fleet by a long way despite having a pretty low value.
nobrakes said:
2006 730i L
Barge limit for 5 bags, Shirley.
Ok, it picks up the 500 tax, but it looks in great shape, has barge profile tyres and only 68k miles...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...
Heated steering wheel and electric blinds.
Flag holder on the passenger wing, hopefully it comes with the little pole as well! I'd love to hang a little PH flag on my barge.Barge limit for 5 bags, Shirley.
Ok, it picks up the 500 tax, but it looks in great shape, has barge profile tyres and only 68k miles...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...
Heated steering wheel and electric blinds.
0a said:
r129sl said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
0a said:
I can't wait to have a good moan about a non Merc brand
Rarely do posts disappoint as much as this. I saw the poster and anticipated a murky phone picture of a barge on a forecourt. Get on with it man!I can already have a good moan about it being the most expensive car I insure on the fleet by a long way despite having a pretty low value.
It is emphatically not as complete a product as a Mercedes, but aspects of the vehicle dynamics are unquestionable superior, to my tiny mind.
Not to mention it being the single most beautiful saloon car ever made, at any price. Underrated by dint of ubiquity.
SpeckledJim said:
0a said:
r129sl said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
0a said:
I can't wait to have a good moan about a non Merc brand
Rarely do posts disappoint as much as this. I saw the poster and anticipated a murky phone picture of a barge on a forecourt. Get on with it man!I can already have a good moan about it being the most expensive car I insure on the fleet by a long way despite having a pretty low value.
It is emphatically not as complete a product as a Mercedes, but aspects of the vehicle dynamics are unquestionable superior, to my tiny mind.
Not to mention it being the single most beautiful saloon car ever made, at any price. Underrated by dint of ubiquity.
It is just a shame that nothing else on the car worked.
nobrakes said:
2006 730i L
Barge limit for 5 bags, Shirley.
Ok, it picks up the 500 tax, but it looks in great shape, has barge profile tyres and only 68k miles...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...
Heated steering wheel and electric blinds.
Blimey, does heating the steering wheel cause it to look like 268k miles when it's only done 68k?Barge limit for 5 bags, Shirley.
Ok, it picks up the 500 tax, but it looks in great shape, has barge profile tyres and only 68k miles...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...
Heated steering wheel and electric blinds.
Jobbo said:
nobrakes said:
2006 730i L
Barge limit for 5 bags, Shirley.
Ok, it picks up the 500 tax, but it looks in great shape, has barge profile tyres and only 68k miles...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...
Heated steering wheel and electric blinds.
Blimey, does heating the steering wheel cause it to look like 268k miles when it's only done 68k?Barge limit for 5 bags, Shirley.
Ok, it picks up the 500 tax, but it looks in great shape, has barge profile tyres and only 68k miles...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...
Heated steering wheel and electric blinds.
That steering wheel does look veeery shiny for those miles.
Barge purchase and a substantial bit of man maths involved. A while back I was bidding on a very tidy 540i M-Sport, deal fell through due to the fact that the seller was being a dishonest prick.
Figured that I only live once, so I did one better, got myself a BMW M5, an early 2000 E39 to be precise at 3 times the cost....which will be delivered in may..if I'm lucky. Bear with me, long read and zero pics as of yet, only viewed the car once...
Thing is, that the car is on the home stretch of being "restored" if you will by a guy I know, I was good friends in my younger years with his brother, who now sadly is dead. Anyway, the owner has the hobby and passion of buying older interesting cars and pretty much rebuilding them to a very high standard, and that is all that he does with them, he doesn't drive them, this one he got in october in 2014, and drove it 100 miles home from Stockholm where he bought it, and a week or so later a 550 mile round trip to Malmö in the south to get the dead pixels fixed. Since then the car has been in his garage.
It has since been treated to a full overhaul of pretty much everything, the engine has every seal and gasket bar the head gaskets replaced, it has also been "washed" internally in the lack of better wordage 5 times or so, he showed me the oil filter canister and that was clean enough to eat soup from... Every line or hose has been replaced by brand new OEM items, brand new CCV etc. Smoke and leakdown tested, checked for carbon build up etc.
Clutch and flywheel are brand new OEM, all the driveshaft bearings are brand new OEM. The gearbox has had every seal replaced and the oil changed, same with the rear differential. Pretty much every suspension component aswell are brand new aswell.
Body wise it's in really good absolutely rust free nick, every emblem is brand new, a few bits of window trim had very small imperfections on them, so they were replaced with brand new OEM items aswell. All the lights, all of them on the car are brand new, bought over the counter in the same way as all the other bits were, at our local BMW dealership.
When I was there on wednesday he was in the process of fitting a brand new Bilstein B14 fully adjustable coil over set.
All the original bits will be supplied with the car, head and tail lights, complete stock suspension, 2 complete sets of 19" allows of which one are brand new Dots roadster black I think they are called with brand new Michelin pilot super sports, the other set are BBS challenge in ok shape, sadly the car is missing it's original set of Style 65's. I'm not a fan of 19's so both sets will be sold and the car will be fitted with a set of Style 37's that I know are half of an inch to narrow in the rear, I can live with that while I source a set of 65's.
it also has a Borla catback exhaust, don't yet know it that is something that I might like, but as long as there is no drone in the car and it's quiet while not driving under load it can stay
Current owner has saved every reciept for every nut and bolt in a 3 ring binders, over £10000 in parts alone, everything is OEM, from the dealership, so if there is one 15 year old M car that is relatively safe to buy it will be this one.
The car itself as a rather poorly specced one, I guess the guy that ordered it had scraped together the dosh to get an all singing all dancing 540 or a bare bones M5, and chose the latter.
It's Imola red with the F2AT part leather part M-textur Alcantara interior, if it's rare of not I don't know, but I have never seen it before tbh. It's in great shape however. It has the small screen nav unit, electric rear blind and electric heated memory seats, but no sunroof, and I prefer a car w/o if I'm honest so thats just a plus, neither does it have the fold down rear seats, also a plus, since it makes for a much more comfy rear seat. Vin number is GJ19384
Going to be a long month or possibly even 2 before picking it up, and the owner can't be rushed, - the car will be delivered when it's prefect- is what he told me when I asked a possible delivery date.
Pics will come soon of the work in progress and a readers ride thread aswell when I have taken delivery. I have no problem disclosing the price, it's 175.000 Swedish, which in todays exchange rate is £14700.
Figured that I only live once, so I did one better, got myself a BMW M5, an early 2000 E39 to be precise at 3 times the cost....which will be delivered in may..if I'm lucky. Bear with me, long read and zero pics as of yet, only viewed the car once...
Thing is, that the car is on the home stretch of being "restored" if you will by a guy I know, I was good friends in my younger years with his brother, who now sadly is dead. Anyway, the owner has the hobby and passion of buying older interesting cars and pretty much rebuilding them to a very high standard, and that is all that he does with them, he doesn't drive them, this one he got in october in 2014, and drove it 100 miles home from Stockholm where he bought it, and a week or so later a 550 mile round trip to Malmö in the south to get the dead pixels fixed. Since then the car has been in his garage.
It has since been treated to a full overhaul of pretty much everything, the engine has every seal and gasket bar the head gaskets replaced, it has also been "washed" internally in the lack of better wordage 5 times or so, he showed me the oil filter canister and that was clean enough to eat soup from... Every line or hose has been replaced by brand new OEM items, brand new CCV etc. Smoke and leakdown tested, checked for carbon build up etc.
Clutch and flywheel are brand new OEM, all the driveshaft bearings are brand new OEM. The gearbox has had every seal replaced and the oil changed, same with the rear differential. Pretty much every suspension component aswell are brand new aswell.
Body wise it's in really good absolutely rust free nick, every emblem is brand new, a few bits of window trim had very small imperfections on them, so they were replaced with brand new OEM items aswell. All the lights, all of them on the car are brand new, bought over the counter in the same way as all the other bits were, at our local BMW dealership.
When I was there on wednesday he was in the process of fitting a brand new Bilstein B14 fully adjustable coil over set.
All the original bits will be supplied with the car, head and tail lights, complete stock suspension, 2 complete sets of 19" allows of which one are brand new Dots roadster black I think they are called with brand new Michelin pilot super sports, the other set are BBS challenge in ok shape, sadly the car is missing it's original set of Style 65's. I'm not a fan of 19's so both sets will be sold and the car will be fitted with a set of Style 37's that I know are half of an inch to narrow in the rear, I can live with that while I source a set of 65's.
it also has a Borla catback exhaust, don't yet know it that is something that I might like, but as long as there is no drone in the car and it's quiet while not driving under load it can stay
Current owner has saved every reciept for every nut and bolt in a 3 ring binders, over £10000 in parts alone, everything is OEM, from the dealership, so if there is one 15 year old M car that is relatively safe to buy it will be this one.
The car itself as a rather poorly specced one, I guess the guy that ordered it had scraped together the dosh to get an all singing all dancing 540 or a bare bones M5, and chose the latter.
It's Imola red with the F2AT part leather part M-textur Alcantara interior, if it's rare of not I don't know, but I have never seen it before tbh. It's in great shape however. It has the small screen nav unit, electric rear blind and electric heated memory seats, but no sunroof, and I prefer a car w/o if I'm honest so thats just a plus, neither does it have the fold down rear seats, also a plus, since it makes for a much more comfy rear seat. Vin number is GJ19384
Going to be a long month or possibly even 2 before picking it up, and the owner can't be rushed, - the car will be delivered when it's prefect- is what he told me when I asked a possible delivery date.
Pics will come soon of the work in progress and a readers ride thread aswell when I have taken delivery. I have no problem disclosing the price, it's 175.000 Swedish, which in todays exchange rate is £14700.
Edited by PowerslideSWE on Friday 31st March 15:20
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