Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 13]

[E65Ross]

TurboHatchback said:

I know it's £995 over thread budget but I thought this deserved a place through sheer magnificence. One magnificently red V12 landyacht:

Link?

[anonymous-user]

E65Ross said:

TurboHatchback said:

I know it's £995 over thread budget but I thought this deserved a place through sheer magnificence. One magnificently red V12 landyacht:

Link?

Click the photo.

8 years in storage, I wonder if the loom still exists or is mouse nest by now

[TurboHatchback]

wsurfa said:

E65Ross said:

TurboHatchback said:

I know it's £995 over thread budget but I thought this deserved a place through sheer magnificence. One magnificently red V12 landyacht:

Link?

Click the photo.

8 years in storage, I wonder if the loom still exists or is mouse nest by now

Impossible to say without seeing it. It could just need some fresh petrol, new tyres and an MOT or it could be a huge restoration job costing thousands depending on how it's been stored. The pictures look good at least but it's a purchase for a braver/richer man than I sadly.

[Krikkit]

Bloody lovely though, what a bold purchase from new. I bet the salesman had a quiet chirp at such a magnificent exterior colour.

Edited by Krikkit on Thursday 20th December 12:00

[Stegel]

wsurfa said:

E65Ross said:

TurboHatchback said:

I know it's £995 over thread budget but I thought this deserved a place through sheer magnificence. One magnificently red V12 landyacht:

Link?

Click the photo.

8 years in storage, I wonder if the loom still exists or is mouse nest by now

When it first appeared on the market a few months ago, it had a similary bright blue partner - heaven knows what the story is with two of them being laid up. There’s a far more subtle green one on eBay at present, albeit a grand or so more - as someone said above, you’d need to be keen on keeping it forever as there can’t be a massive market for them, and we are decades away from them entering fintail coupe, or even 126 SEC, territory.

[r129sl]

Stegel said:

wsurfa said:

E65Ross said:

TurboHatchback said:

I know it's £995 over thread budget but I thought this deserved a place through sheer magnificence. One magnificently red V12 landyacht:

Link?

Click the photo.

8 years in storage, I wonder if the loom still exists or is mouse nest by now

When it first appeared on the market a few months ago, it had a similary bright blue partner - heaven knows what the story is with two of them being laid up. There’s a far more subtle green one on eBay at present, albeit a grand or so more - as someone said above, you’d need to be keen on keeping it forever as there can’t be a massive market for them, and we are decades away from them entering fintail coupe, or even 126 SEC, territory.

It was also £8k, so I guess the market is very soft given the reduction in price. I always think pictures taken in summer are a bit of a giveaway come December. The blue one was nicer.

[tobinen]

Yes, I'd agree C140s have stayed in the doldrums price-wise. Quite a few more years to go before they appreciate I think. I don't think fire engine red is the colour for them though. I'll stick with mine for a while yet as it's not worth selling and I couldn't replace it for anything comparable for the money.

[bolide]

Mr Micawber said:

How about a 530d m-sport touring with the wrong wheels and not inter-galactic mileage?

https://www.gumtree.com/p/bmw/bmw-530d-touring-m-s...

Nothing wrong with BMW Style 42s on an E39!

[olly755]

bolide said:

Nothing wrong with BMW Style 42s on an E39!

That does look very nice, although I’m still partial to a pre facelift on the optional split-rim Style 5’s.

[Krikkit]

Split-rim alloys with bolts etc always look like they'd be horrendous to keep vaguely clean...


On the subject of lovely interiors/colour combos, has anyone tried an X351 XJ? This one popped up as a "related" search item and I'm struck with what a lovely combination of hues it is. Massively out of thread for a few years yet mind.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...





Pretty much the connect-4 of interior colour combos for me:

• Light seats
• Dark(er) dash/wheel
• Light door panels
• Tasteful wood

[anonymous-user]

There were some lovely combinations on the early X351, and they're depreciating like all big Jaguars. A 5.0 Portfolio with the claret dash and cream leather would do nicely.

If you go onto the configurator now it's a lot more limited :-(

[SouthernSkye]

G’day one and all.
Thought it was time for a wee update on my daily driver barge.
It’ll be 5 years on Jan 7th I will have owned this (52 plate) Jeep Grand Cherokee 4l straight 6. She’s just topped 88k on the odo. Since my last check-in here, which was some time ago,apart from service items/tyres etc. the following has been needed:
I bought 2 well used NS mirrors in the hope I can cobble a good one from those 2 and the one (that stopped folding) that is currently on the car. £120 for that pair.
A s/s cat-back exhaust as the one on the Jeep finally looked as if someone had put a shotgun at the rear box. To be fair “slight blow from exhaust” had been flagged as advisories on the previous few MOTs. Cybox was the cheapest s/s system I could find…being a tight-ersed yorkshireman, It was sub £300 inc.delivery! It does give the straight 6 benzine gobbler a beautiful burbling note. ABS sensor failed a few weeks ago when I was in Inverness. Diagnosis, part and fitting was about £200. As I was away from home I just got Jeep to sort it whilst I was in town. That’s it apart from, as previously stated, consumable items.

Recently took the auld Jeep on a 1050 mile 4 day trip as, whilst down in Nottinghamshire around a month ago, I made a semi-impulse purchase of a 2 berth caravan. We were down that way in the Wifes “sans tow-hook” Astra, so I had to plan a return visit from Isle of Skye to go and get it home. I am not guilty of serial caravanning but I do use one when I am on shift at work away from home. My £700 Avondale had served me well for 3 years but it was time for a wee upgrade in comfort for my old bones 😊. The Jeep and I took 10 hours to get from Skye to Mansfield, a 500 mile door-to-door run. She ran splendidly and, apart from rain, the weather was OK but chilly and the XL Dunlop SP winters were not really needed, could have stayed on my grabber AT’s but, hey-ho, Dec.in the Scottish highlands is a lottery, so the winters had been popped on a few days before. I did an mpg check full-to-full from Abington service Lanarkshire to Asda Sutton-in-Ashfield and was very surprised to see the calculation come out as 24.8mpg. I did (90% of the time) stick to the speed-limits and was not accelerating hard very often, still a nice surprise though.

Spent a day with my old Mum and collected my caravan to set off on a Saturday following the easiest caravan towing route. M1 A1M, A66, M6,M74 M73 A9 to Perth for the overnight stop. Very strong headwinds on the A66 made me keep a good eye on the rapidly falling needle of the fuel gauge. I was even needing to accelerate downhill such was the wind strength. Made the BP services at (something??) Thore near the M6 end of the A66 with some (fuel) breathing room. A calc. full-to-full indicated 14mpg. Filled up and then onto Perth for the overnight stop at Noahs Ark Caravan park. Made it in daylight, quickly set up the ‘van and had a pleasant overnighter.
Sunday morning hitched up and away onto the A9 by 8:30 for a few miles to the Perth visitors centre just off the A9. Nice breakfast and coffee before heading inverness-wards, A fill up, quick shop and coffee stop at Asda Inverness inshes then onto the final stretch Lochness side and, finally, to Skye.

The Jeep did me proud (ignoring her serious drinking habits!) and, with the company of Radio2, Classic FM and a trio of Budgie Cds (The MCA albums, a great CD 3some of serious 70’s rock if anyone is interested?) it was a totally uneventful trip.

Problems with the Jeep? Well, apart from the (to me) offensive non-folding NS mirror, there is an occasional soaking in the passenger footwell. Will have a play with the drain channels during the winter. Pop the Jeep in my wee shed (in the picture) stick some sounds on the stereo and have a prod. Also the non OE fitted stereo is driving me nuts. Will need to chase the speaker wires and check/replace to stop the regular cutting out of some of the speakers. That’s about it apart from a winter hoover/clean and wipe-over inside and out.

As an aside, I was laying in bed last night after, once again, picking several random pages of the Barge thread to drool over, and I realised am guilty of being a serial Barge(ista). Barring the 2 cars prior to the Jeep (XJ diesel sovereign [BL05WXX if anyone sees her around] - £17k at 3 years old, and XJ X300 XJR – around £8k IIRC) all the following were easily sub 5k and, in fact, were my only car. 3.6 XJ40, Classic RR 3.5 V8 Vogue, Isuzu Trooper 3.0td, Granada Scorpio 2.9 V6, 7 series BMW 2.8 – think that was on a “B” prefix…whatever model that is? – Chevrolet caprice Classic (RHD) 5.0l V8. Rover SD1 V8 SE. There’s more, but the mind fails me.

Anyway, with that I’ll sign off with a Happy Christmas and a peaceful and healthy New Year to one and all.
May your barges be blessed.
Richard.

[Prinny]

Nice story (apart from the caravans) . I did wince at the having to accelerate downhill part.

B was ‘84 so that’d suggest an e23 (sharknose type) 728i.

[r129sl]

Krikkit said:

Split-rim alloys with bolts etc always look like they'd be horrendous to keep vaguely clean...


On the subject of lovely interiors/colour combos, has anyone tried an X351 XJ? This one popped up as a "related" search item and I'm struck with what a lovely combination of hues it is. Massively out of thread for a few years yet mind.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...





Pretty much the connect-4 of interior colour combos for me:

• Light seats
• Dark(er) dash/wheel
• Light door panels
• Tasteful wood

The colours are delightful. These cars are massive, though, aren't they? They have all the feline litheness of, well, a big, over-fed dog. I'm not sure the big polished planks of polished wood on the doors are every subtle, either.

[SouthernSkye]

Prinny, aye that was the 7 series I had. It was silver with a blue and black interior, a very dull and uninteresting place to be. Unlike my Jaaaags and Scorpio which were all light interiors .

Apologies for the caravan content btw
Rgds
Richard

[Prinny]

Things are taking shape (finally) with the SL. Dash dismemberment to commence tomorrow once I pick it up from the alignment being finished.

To go in:


And the wheels are finally on (more pictures to come!)

[Krikkit]

Good stuff Prinny, I'm sure the thread consensus will be to burn you at the stake, but I like the wheels. They're period correct.

In fact, I always have this image from the Simpsons when looking at a non-standard 129: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDAJ67F2L4E

r129sl said:

The colours are delightful. These cars are massive, though, aren't they? They have all the feline litheness of, well, a big, over-fed dog. I'm not sure the big polished planks of polished wood on the doors are every subtle, either.

I think it's representative of them sizing it up to be an S-class rival (or trying!), whereas it was significantly smaller in previous generations. Compared to a modern Range Rover etc it's not silly at all imo.

[ATM]

CLK500
£3500

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202514633930

[CAPP0]

Notwithstanding Krikkit's comments about the auto box, is this worth me taking a look at it:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

I've just rejected a (much more expensive) car which I bought a couple of months ago and it's being collected from me tomorrow. I probably mentioned further up, we have Xmas and NYE plans which the lack of a large dog-carrying car is going to bugger, so I need to jump into something sharpish.

Don't gazump me!

[anonymous-user]

CAPP0 said:

Notwithstanding Krikkit's comments about the auto box, is this worth me taking a look at it:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

I've just rejected a (much more expensive) car which I bought a couple of months ago and it's being collected from me tomorrow. I probably mentioned further up, we have Xmas and NYE plans which the lack of a large dog-carrying car is going to bugger, so I need to jump into something sharpish.

Don't gazump me!

If you can you want a '04 MY car (so 53 plate onwards) with the silver rings on the dials. They had a few electronic updates that solved a fair few of the common problems with earlier cars, such as instrument cluster failure, and had modified gearbox software that didn't drop into idle whenever the car stopped and cause excessive wear.

Take off the oil cap with the engine running and cover it with your hand (or a latex glove) and you should feel it being sucked into the engine slightly. If you feel it pushing or the glove inflates the PCV system has failed and if it's been like that for a while it may be leaking a fair bit of oil. Other than that it's just the usual old car things to look for.

Comment about the X351 looking as feline as an overfed dog made me laugh. I believe the footprint is about the same as the X350, but that's a bit of a labrador too.