Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 21]

[Mr-B]

ferrisbueller said:

Honda, innit?

Certainly was.

[dscam]

Incredibly clean one owner W124 considering almost 300k on the clock. Quite incredible if all checks out:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334484006439?mkcid=16&a...

[dscam]

Full wedding spec but clean, tidy and in thread budget:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255595443177?mkcid=16&a...

[ferrisbueller]

Mr-B said:

ferrisbueller said:

Honda, innit?

Certainly was.

Honda used to be so good.

[Beaurepaire Canary]

Mr-B said:

Certainly was.

it's Friday, treat your self
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265745537534

chap in our block used to have a Honda CRX, same motor i think? It was lovely. Then the Honda's themselves went to around 160bhp with vtec if I recall correctly. And they'd be tiny in today's world.

Shame Honda have lost their way so badly since....

[ferrisbueller]

Beaurepaire Canary said:

Mr-B said:

Certainly was.

it's Friday, treat your self
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265745537534

chap in our block used to have a Honda CRX, same motor i think? It was lovely. Then the Honda's themselves went to around 160bhp with vtec if I recall correctly. And they'd be tiny in today's world.

Shame Honda have lost their way so badly since....

Honda did some amazing stuff back then. Should have kept mine. Halcyon days.

[Beaurepaire Canary]

dscam said:

Incredibly clean one owner W124 considering almost 300k on the clock. Quite incredible if all checks out:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334484006439?mkcid=16&a...

how's that look like that after 300k? that colour is gorgeous too - they used to do such a pallette didn't they. (ditch the stereo mind, but still...)

ETA: original stereo in the spares pile.

Edited by Beaurepaire Canary on Friday 24th June 21:35

ETA2: just noticed the cords and slippers (NOT in the spare pile)

Edited by Beaurepaire Canary on Friday 24th June 21:40

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Mr-B said:

All the talk of Rovers reminded me of a 216 Gti twin cam I had, the engine on that was so good for a 4 pot, best one I have owned. It just revved and revved and even near the red line felt smooth and felt like it had another 2000 rpm up it's sleeve.

I have very fond memories of my old 216 Gti twin cam

The engine was fantastic

[21st Century Man]

Rover and Saab

[defblade]

Mr-B said:

All the talk of Rovers reminded me of a 216 Gti twin cam I had, the engine on that was so good for a 4 pot, best one I have owned. It just revved and revved and even near the red line felt smooth and felt like it had another 2000 rpm up it's sleeve.

I drove a 216Gti around Thruxton on a Rover driving do many moons ago... lovely balance, much preferred it to the 220 which felt over-powered for the chassis... and to everything else they let me have a go at, in fact.

I did buy a 216 a little while later, but budget (and insurance in those younger days) meant I had to settle for the lesser SLi



Drove it everywhere on its door handles to make up for it though


Quite tempted by the white one linked on ebay, the price is very reasonable for a modern-ish classic - but I suspect it's one of those things better left in rose-tinted memory...

[Xpander]

Beaurepaire Canary said:

it's Friday, treat your self
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265745537534

chap in our block used to have a Honda CRX, same motor i think? It was lovely. Then the Honda's themselves went to around 160bhp with vtec if I recall correctly. And they'd be tiny in today's world.

Shame Honda have lost their way so badly since....

A few years ago I owned a 1990 Japanese-market-only imported DA6 Integra XSi (pic in profile). It had that very B16a 160bhp DOHC VTEC lump. What an engine.

Geeky fact - many folk think that the CRX was the first car to have that engine, but it was in fact the Integra XSi, then the CRX.

[Phil Dicky]

Yes I know not a barge but all this talk of CRXs .



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384959599253?mkcid=16&a...

[Earl of Hazzard]

That CRX is lovely

[ChocolateFrog]

dscam said:

Incredibly clean one owner W124 considering almost 300k on the clock. Quite incredible if all checks out:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334484006439?mkcid=16&a...

Not usually much of a Merc fan but that looks excellent.

What would you do with it though? At that mileage it'd only really make sense to carry on dailying it, which I can imagine being a pain in a 30 year old, 300000 mile car.

Edited by ChocolateFrog on Saturday 25th June 07:38

[tog]

ChocolateFrog said:

Not usually much of a Merc fan but that looks excellent.

What would you do with it though? At that mileage it'd only really make sense to carry on dailying it, which I can imagine being a pain in a 30 year old, 300000 mile car.

Edited by ChocolateFrog on Saturday 25th June 07:38

My daily is a 270,000 mile 29 year old car and the age and mileage are not problems per se. (I suppose I must concede that it is currently in having a replacement engine fitted, but it also had a replacement engine under warranty when much younger so new engines are not solely for the elderly!) The Merc does look nice.

[21st Century Man]

I would've thought it'd just do another 30/300k?

[ChocolateFrog]

21st Century Man said:

I would've thought it'd just do another 30/300k?

Maybe, although some issues will be cumulative. What was a couple of hours of fighting corrosion at 10 or 20 years old will be 50 hours of light restoration at 40 years old.

I think that'll be run as a shed. I've sold a perfectly serviceable V70 with 298k on the clock before and it was never MOT'd again.

[Nicks90]

dscam said:

Full wedding spec but clean, tidy and in thread budget:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255595443177?mkcid=16&a...

That's gorgeous, lovely lovely interior. But I couldn't drive a white car.
Wonder how much it would cost to have it repainted a nice period metallic green or doom-blue? Or even wrapped if that's cheaper.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Nicks90 said:

dscam said:

Full wedding spec but clean, tidy and in thread budget:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255595443177?mkcid=16&a...

That's gorgeous, lovely lovely interior. But I couldn't drive a white car.
Wonder how much it would cost to have it repainted a nice period metallic green or doom-blue? Or even wrapped if that's cheaper.

I agree. That's a terrific car but white doesn't suit it.

[trevalvole]

ChocolateFrog said:

dscam said:

Incredibly clean one owner W124 considering almost 300k on the clock. Quite incredible if all checks out:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334484006439?mkcid=16&a...

Not usually much of a Merc fan but that looks excellent.

What would you do with it though? At that mileage it'd only really make sense to carry on dailying it, which I can imagine being a pain in a 30 year old, 300000 mile car.

Edited by ChocolateFrog on Saturday 25th June 07:38

Surely the absent r129sl's S124 provides an example as to how it could be used?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...