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[donkmeister]

dscam said:

Does look nice this and the price seems entirely reasonable these days.

What is the device fitted to right side of the upper centre console??

I suspect that's a mount for a more modern phone or GPS. Quite incongruous, despite attempts to mount it out of the way.

[donkmeister]

danmarr14 said:

dscam said:

Contrast with this ‘project’ for which the seller is looking for thread max…

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305485054314?mkcid=16&a...



I do have something of an unhealthy want to fully clean and detail it though.

Record it and you'd probably make your money back from YT revenue...

Interesting choice of tyres. Aside from the whole filthy thing, if it has been used/kept up with tyre pressures etc why wouldn't you spend a few hundred quid on a good valet and MOT?

I was thinking the same! "I only drive it on sunny summer days, so I fitted wet weather winter tyres to it".

But, I remember a Vauxhall Vectra of all things that had an unusual combination of tyre size (it had the sport package), top speed (it was a 2.8T) and max axle load (it was an estate) which meant I had a choice of just two tyres at the time. That was from both the online merchants and my local tyre shops...

It's not inconceivable that an S-class would have similarly limited tyre options. Probably a bit easier these days with lots of high powered SUVs and generally fatter, faster cars.

[QBee]

Re the winter tyres.....

When I ordered a new Renault 25 back in 1987, I specified aircon.
The salesman thought I was mad - and said so.
"Why on earth do you want aircon? It's November".

Mind you, it seems to have been November for the last 6 months this year.....

[dscam]

donkmeister said:

dscam said:

Does look nice this and the price seems entirely reasonable these days.

What is the device fitted to right side of the upper centre console??

I suspect that's a mount for a more modern phone or GPS. Quite incongruous, despite attempts to mount it out of the way.

In one of the subsequent pictures there appears to be a curly black cord running from it under the steering column. Weird.

[tobinen]

Happy Friday. One-owner Shad One, sir?

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1698101

[biggbn]

tobinen said:

Happy Friday. One-owner Shad One, sir?

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1698101

Absolutely wonderful.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

biggbn said:

tobinen said:

Happy Friday. One-owner Shad One, sir?

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1698101

Absolutely wonderful.

Yeah, that's very me. At least in my mind it is.

[W00DY]

Wheels are a bit much, but the chav in me rather likes it slammed.





https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126427079957

[TommoAE86]

Pinnacle of the VIP scene, I am not a fan of the wheels either but the rest of that car

[donkmeister]

W00DY said:

Wheels are a bit much, but the chav in me rather likes it slammed.





https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126427079957

But it and try a fast lap of the Ring... You'd only be the second to do it and we could get a leaderboard going!

[ingenieur]

tobinen said:

Happy Friday. One-owner Shad One, sir?

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1698101

Vendor = Inglebys LTD. Has no showroom, just takes pictures of cars outside a church parked at a wonky angle or similarly in other local side streets

[anotherswifty]

TommoAE86 said:

Pinnacle of the VIP scene, I am not a fan of the wheels either but the rest of that car

Not usually my cup of tea, but despite the stance and wheels, there’s something about that. It says you could be a somebody, whether in a good or a bad [a*s] way.

[martynr]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

biggbn said:

tobinen said:

Happy Friday. One-owner Shad One, sir?

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1698101

Absolutely wonderful.

Yeah, that's very me. At least in my mind it is.

So blue...so nice...but the price.

[martynr]

danmarr14 said:

dscam said:

Contrast with this ‘project’ for which the seller is looking for thread max…

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305485054314?mkcid=16&a...



I do have something of an unhealthy want to fully clean and detail it though.

Record it and you'd probably make your money back from YT revenue...

Interesting choice of tyres. Aside from the whole filthy thing, if it has been used/kept up with tyre pressures etc why wouldn't you spend a few hundred quid on a good valet and MOT?

Because it is rotten as it was owned by a scotsman. The seller decided that enough is enough. Unless the price drops it will only be good for a scrap in a few years if not now.

[21st Century Man]

Love the Friday Shadow.

[TommoAE86]

Saw this in my local looking amazing.

[biggbn]

W00DY said:

Wheels are a bit much, but the chav in me rather likes it slammed.





https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126427079957

Love it as is!!

[biggbn]

TommoAE86 said:

Saw this in my local looking amazing.

You win the internet today. Wow

[macron]

^ you do!

As we're doing Friday Chav, here's a £2k A8 V8 with tinted headlights.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/2024041085...

[bolidemichael]

biggbn said:

TommoAE86 said:

Saw this in my local looking amazing.

You win the internet today. Wow

How is it possibly that the bravery of design made it through the committee? Thank goodness for the post war era.