Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 21]
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Bonefish Blues said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
BrettMRC said:
21st Century Man said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
The SC430 love transcends all, but many of our treasured Thread denizens are not yet ready to come out and embrace the fact.
You are Alfred Douglas aicmfp.
Purple and tango btw.
BrettMRC said:
Bonefish Blues said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
BrettMRC said:
21st Century Man said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
The SC430 love transcends all, but many of our treasured Thread denizens are not yet ready to come out and embrace the fact.
You are Alfred Douglas aicmfp.Purple and tango btw.
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Bonefish Blues said:
And wheels, too - the original dinner plate centre caps are awful, but replacement with a 5-spoke centre cap transforms.
Purple and tango btw.
That's true. You take the purple, I'll have the metallic brown. Purple and tango btw.
Diesel Barge Sympathiser said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Bonefish Blues said:
And wheels, too - the original dinner plate centre caps are awful, but replacement with a 5-spoke centre cap transforms.
Purple and tango btw.
That's true. You take the purple, I'll have the metallic brown. Purple and tango btw.
Morning esteemed friends.
I have been looking...
I have settled on A8, pale leather, LWB and as many nice options as poss.
I went to look at a 3.0 LWB TDI yesterday in Bicester and it was an absolute toilet!
Arrived a touch early and the guy selling it was revving it senseless. It smelled hot. The brakes were massively hot. There was a bit of oil in the coolant reservoir. the engine was hissing like a pissed off snake, a lot of interior features were goosed.
Amusingly, my chum was outside talking (inaudibly) about the rear blind not working. As they chatted, I pressed the button with impeccable timing and the blind simply fell down into a scrumply mess on the parcel shelf.
The search continues.
I need one soon (leaving in 1 month) and the sooner I get it, the more vigorous the shakedown can be.
I have been looking...
I have settled on A8, pale leather, LWB and as many nice options as poss.
I went to look at a 3.0 LWB TDI yesterday in Bicester and it was an absolute toilet!
Arrived a touch early and the guy selling it was revving it senseless. It smelled hot. The brakes were massively hot. There was a bit of oil in the coolant reservoir. the engine was hissing like a pissed off snake, a lot of interior features were goosed.
Amusingly, my chum was outside talking (inaudibly) about the rear blind not working. As they chatted, I pressed the button with impeccable timing and the blind simply fell down into a scrumply mess on the parcel shelf.
The search continues.
I need one soon (leaving in 1 month) and the sooner I get it, the more vigorous the shakedown can be.
Bonefish Blues said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
BrettMRC said:
Maybe I should ask Lexus to find me one, it can be a stable mate for the LC...
That would be quite the combo. One for excitement, thrills and its pure beauty. The LC for the golf club. 
21st Century Man said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Interesting SOTW today, bringing predictable responses.
I started to read, then stopped. Depressing ignorance and prejudice, much like anything to do with BMC/BL/ARG/MGRover.I think the 75 needs to be viewed in the context of the time, you could argue that the very well paid crystal ball gazing goatee bearded styling cocknoshers at BMW and MGR should have forseen that the whole retro thing would be short lived, certainly shorter lived than the life cycle of a car, but they were hardly alone in that mistake. It's also not utterly grotesquely ugly like the S-Type, merely a bit twee.
Firmly in the 75s favour is the fact it was an excellent car, evidently well made given how many you still see around, offering something totally unique at a time that everything else was becoming faux sporty, and before they were gutted by the incompetents at MGR they were well equipped and trimmed. If you can get a V6 or soot chucker at shed money in good working order I think you'd be mad to walk past it, whatever your feelings on the styling. I've never met someone who owned one and didn't rate it.
Firmly in the 75s favour is the fact it was an excellent car, evidently well made given how many you still see around, offering something totally unique at a time that everything else was becoming faux sporty, and before they were gutted by the incompetents at MGR they were well equipped and trimmed. If you can get a V6 or soot chucker at shed money in good working order I think you'd be mad to walk past it, whatever your feelings on the styling. I've never met someone who owned one and didn't rate it.
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 24th June 10:17
stickleback123 said:
I drove one in 1999 when they came out, and owned a Rover 800 at the time. I can't think of any car from any manufacturer that took such a massive leap over it's predecessor as the 75 over the 800.
It was a massive step.Non barge mention should be made of the Mark 1 Focus against the Escort 6!
RicksAlfas said:
It was a massive step.
Non barge mention should be made of the Mark 1 Focus against the Escort 6!
OK yes I take it back, that was an even bigger leap.Non barge mention should be made of the Mark 1 Focus against the Escort 6!
I hated those Escorts, I used to have to drive them quite a bit and at 3 years old they were already totally shagged but like all Ford models before the Focus they all mericfully vanished from our roads long before their contemporaries.
The mk6 escort was so rubbish, I remember when the focus came out, you could still buy new escorts, heavily discounted too.
So rubbish, this is why I never really understand the love for the escort Cosworth which was based on the mk5 escort which was even more crap, it wasn't even that fast. Early to mid 90s Ford were building awful stuff (mondeo was good though)
So rubbish, this is why I never really understand the love for the escort Cosworth which was based on the mk5 escort which was even more crap, it wasn't even that fast. Early to mid 90s Ford were building awful stuff (mondeo was good though)
maxwellwd said:
The mk6 escort was so rubbish, I remember when the focus came out, you could still buy new escorts, heavily discounted too.
So rubbish, this is why I never really understand the love for the escort Cosworth which was based on the mk5 escort which was even more crap, it wasn't even that fast. Early to mid 90s Ford were building awful stuff (mondeo was good though)
The Escort Cosworth was a cut down Sierra chassis with an Escort body on top, I believe.So rubbish, this is why I never really understand the love for the escort Cosworth which was based on the mk5 escort which was even more crap, it wasn't even that fast. Early to mid 90s Ford were building awful stuff (mondeo was good though)
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