The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T(Vol XIX)

The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T(Vol XIX)

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PRO5T

4,033 posts

26 months

Saturday 16th March
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First sunny (this is sunny in the borders!) Saturday and the first tank of V Power. On board is showing 16 mpg on my favourite test route hehe

ATM

18,351 posts

220 months

Saturday 16th March
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1989 FIAT PANDA - 1000 Super

£4500

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1619865








Bubbas Grill

178 posts

30 months

Sunday 17th March
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They are great! But me want 4 x 4 .

carinaman

21,370 posts

173 months

Sunday 17th March
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What's going on with the spare?


Crook

6,813 posts

225 months

Sunday 17th March
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https://www.instagram.com/p/C4iL8L_IXlC/?igsh=MTQ1...

I’m afraid I don’t know how to post images from instagram: this account has some very nice cars featured but there is a dark brown SL (described as a 300?) which is coming up for sale and quite honestly it’s the most beautiful R129 I’ve ever seen.

biggbn

23,661 posts

221 months

Sunday 17th March
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ATM said:
1989 FIAT PANDA - 1000 Super

£4500

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1619865







Love these, but I'd want the full hair shirt 750l with the 4 speed and even more basic interior. Adored mine

biggbn

23,661 posts

221 months

Sunday 17th March
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Chris Stott said:
DeejRC said:
1. So glad I’m not the only one with a weird secret Spyker man crush. Always thought they looked suitably weirdly tres cool. Never really understand why so many don’t like them.

2. MG. Legendary figure, life very well lived and a properly classy gent. He enriched our lives smile
The proportions are strange, and even if you like them, I don’t think anyone could say they are anything other than terrible hood up… plus there’s the interior, and the steering wheel in particular… it’s Liberace on cocaine laugh

Still, someone is insane enough to bid £120k for it and there 3 days still to go… what do I know laugh
You do you man, things an absolute gas! Love the interior

andy43

9,764 posts

255 months

Sunday 17th March
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Crook said:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4iL8L_IXlC/?igsh=MTQ1...

I’m afraid I don’t know how to post images from instagram: this account has some very nice cars featured but there is a dark brown SL (described as a 300?) which is coming up for sale and quite honestly it’s the most beautiful R129 I’ve ever seen.
It’s nearly Easter!
129 not on their website yet but they do have this chococaramel delight as a substitute.
https://www.lartdelautomobile.com/fiche/mercedes-s...

W00DY

15,512 posts

227 months

Sunday 17th March
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Crook said:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4iL8L_IXlC/?igsh=MTQ1...

I’m afraid I don’t know how to post images from instagram: this account has some very nice cars featured but there is a dark brown SL (described as a 300?) which is coming up for sale and quite honestly it’s the most beautiful R129 I’ve ever seen.
It genuinely makes me a bit sad that something so perfectly delicious is so rare and has probably spoiled all other (lesser) R129s for me. If they sold 5 in that colour combination I'd be surprised.






Chris Stott

13,480 posts

198 months

Sunday 17th March
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The interior is fabulous. And the wheels.

A couple of years ago I was sat outside a bar here in southern Spain… it was a typically beautiful, sunny day, A Cayenne drove past… macadamia… the paint colour looked stunning in the bright sunlight.

I fear the Merc may not look quite as good under a typically dull British sky laugh

dscam

1,883 posts

188 months

Sunday 17th March
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W00DY said:
Crook said:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4iL8L_IXlC/?igsh=MTQ1...

I’m afraid I don’t know how to post images from instagram: this account has some very nice cars featured but there is a dark brown SL (described as a 300?) which is coming up for sale and quite honestly it’s the most beautiful R129 I’ve ever seen.
It genuinely makes me a bit sad that something so perfectly delicious is so rare and has probably spoiled all other (lesser) R129s for me. If they sold 5 in that colour combination I'd be surprised.





Got to agree, W00DY.

Previous contender was an early UK car, 500SL with the green tartan/check cloth interior - offered a couple of times over the last decade.

I’m imagining the perfection of a two car carnage with this brown one along with the similarly equipped S-Class recently discussed on the barge thread…


Crook

6,813 posts

225 months

Sunday 17th March
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dscam said:
Got to agree, W00DY.

Previous contender was an early UK car, 500SL with the green tartan/check cloth interior - offered a couple of times over the last decade.

I’m imagining the perfection of a two car carnage with this brown one along with the similarly equipped S-Class recently discussed on the barge thread…

The Japanese import SL? If it’s the one I’m thinking of that was the one I wanted to buy so went to have a look at the closest SL to me so I could get a benchmark and ended up buying that.

Patrick Bateman

12,212 posts

175 months

Sunday 17th March
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Cat N Z4 coupe but appears in good nick and an extremely rare green with tan leather-

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134962934514?mkcid=16&a...

dscam

1,883 posts

188 months

Sunday 17th March
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Crook said:
dscam said:
Got to agree, W00DY.

Previous contender was an early UK car, 500SL with the green tartan/check cloth interior - offered a couple of times over the last decade.

I’m imagining the perfection of a two car carnage with this brown one along with the similarly equipped S-Class recently discussed on the barge thread…

The Japanese import SL? If it’s the one I’m thinking of that was the one I wanted to buy so went to have a look at the closest SL to me so I could get a benchmark and ended up buying that.
A bit of Google reminiscing brings me back to this one - same car?




Mr Tidy

22,627 posts

128 months

Sunday 17th March
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Patrick Bateman said:
Cat N Z4 coupe but appears in good nick and an extremely rare green with tan leather-

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134962934514?mkcid=16&a...
Rare to the extent of being one of one that came to the UK!

McGee_22

6,747 posts

180 months

Monday 18th March
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Mr Tidy said:
Patrick Bateman said:
Cat N Z4 coupe but appears in good nick and an extremely rare green with tan leather-

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134962934514?mkcid=16&a...
Rare to the extent of being one of one that came to the UK!
The only 3.0Si Z4 Coupe in the UK?

carinaman

21,370 posts

173 months

Monday 18th March
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McGee_22 said:
The only 3.0Si Z4 Coupe in the UK?
I think they meant that colour exterior and that colour trim.

DeejRC

5,854 posts

83 months

Monday 18th March
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That’s not tan. That’s Caramac.
Considering the country is literally the first part of their name and Bavaria lives in leather for a quarter of the year, I do not understand how BMW so consistently makes their leather interiors so woefully horrifically low rent. It really is the diametrical opposite to what they do with their clothing - the modern lederhosen and tailored jackets/clothes are stunningly well cut and high quality garments.

Crook

6,813 posts

225 months

Monday 18th March
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andy43 said:
It’s nearly Easter!
129 not on their website yet but they do have this chococaramel delight as a substitute.
https://www.lartdelautomobile.com/fiche/mercedes-s...
That's lovely.

Crook

6,813 posts

225 months

Monday 18th March
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dscam said:
A bit of Google reminiscing brings me back to this one - same car?



I think that's the one/ if not a very similar one was on one of the traditional auction houses websites around 5-6 years ago.