Mercedes 190E and car history
Discussion
Hello all,
I’ve read these forums for a long time, love reading through people’s car histories so I thought I ought to share my own, humble as it is compared to most people on here
I do love a good barge and have a particular affection for the 90s – I suppose what you grow up with never really leaves you
This is basically 2006 - 2011
First car, age 17. Hyundai Accent 1.5 GSi, inherited from my parents. Absolutely terrible and absolutely amazing in equal measure, it was my first taste of driving freedom. No idea what sort of power figures, but at the time all my mates were driving 1.0 Corsas, 106s, fiestas etc… so 1500cc seemed like a lot of engine
It was truly fantastic. Skinny ditchfinders, roly-poly suspension and I absolutely drove it like a 17 year old. I think cars like this teach you more about car control than the modern crop of power-assisted health-and-safety mobiles
Don’t seem to have any other pictures
Next was a tiny little Fiat
Black Seicento Sporting Abarth (this was pre-The Inbetweeners). Bought for £400. Did a few bits to it, sold about 6 months later for £650
Swapped the red interior for blue (or the other way around, I forget). De-oranged the outside. Fitted tights over the rear lights!
Next at the age of 18/19 (2007), I was working for an extreme sport company and the opportunity arose to lease a commercial 4x4 (long story). So as any self-respecting 18 year old would, I went full on gangster pick-up. Black, top spec Mitsubishi L200, in Animal trim. This was as awesome as it was a crippling financial life-lesson. Only held on to it for about 10 months until I finally admitted that I couldn’t afford it, and sent it back
Next was the first in a string of Vauxhalls. I needed any car at this point, and through a friend of a friend a Vectra turned up. If I’m honest, I had always had a soft spot for these (very un-PH) but I always liked the way the bonnet flowed into the wing mirrors.
It happened to be a 2.5 V6 auto, in rather nice barge CDX spec (full heated leather, cruise etc). Anyway, the seller took me out in it (the first time I’d really been exposed to a powerful(ish) petrol car, and I was instantly won over
I did quite a lot to this car over the 2ish years that I had it on the road
Next was another Vauxhall, a mk4 Astra 1.6 8v ‘club’
These photos go from mid 2010 to end of 2011
And things escalated quite quickly
The Vectra was stripped and donated it’s heart
PVS 2011
Players 5.0
Will write a bit more info on the spec and work done if anyones interested.
What followed was getting married and buying our first house, so this Astra got broken for parts.
2011 onwards to come...
I’ve read these forums for a long time, love reading through people’s car histories so I thought I ought to share my own, humble as it is compared to most people on here
I do love a good barge and have a particular affection for the 90s – I suppose what you grow up with never really leaves you
This is basically 2006 - 2011
First car, age 17. Hyundai Accent 1.5 GSi, inherited from my parents. Absolutely terrible and absolutely amazing in equal measure, it was my first taste of driving freedom. No idea what sort of power figures, but at the time all my mates were driving 1.0 Corsas, 106s, fiestas etc… so 1500cc seemed like a lot of engine
It was truly fantastic. Skinny ditchfinders, roly-poly suspension and I absolutely drove it like a 17 year old. I think cars like this teach you more about car control than the modern crop of power-assisted health-and-safety mobiles
Don’t seem to have any other pictures
Next was a tiny little Fiat
Black Seicento Sporting Abarth (this was pre-The Inbetweeners). Bought for £400. Did a few bits to it, sold about 6 months later for £650
Swapped the red interior for blue (or the other way around, I forget). De-oranged the outside. Fitted tights over the rear lights!
Next at the age of 18/19 (2007), I was working for an extreme sport company and the opportunity arose to lease a commercial 4x4 (long story). So as any self-respecting 18 year old would, I went full on gangster pick-up. Black, top spec Mitsubishi L200, in Animal trim. This was as awesome as it was a crippling financial life-lesson. Only held on to it for about 10 months until I finally admitted that I couldn’t afford it, and sent it back
Next was the first in a string of Vauxhalls. I needed any car at this point, and through a friend of a friend a Vectra turned up. If I’m honest, I had always had a soft spot for these (very un-PH) but I always liked the way the bonnet flowed into the wing mirrors.
It happened to be a 2.5 V6 auto, in rather nice barge CDX spec (full heated leather, cruise etc). Anyway, the seller took me out in it (the first time I’d really been exposed to a powerful(ish) petrol car, and I was instantly won over
I did quite a lot to this car over the 2ish years that I had it on the road
Next was another Vauxhall, a mk4 Astra 1.6 8v ‘club’
These photos go from mid 2010 to end of 2011
And things escalated quite quickly
The Vectra was stripped and donated it’s heart
PVS 2011
Players 5.0
Will write a bit more info on the spec and work done if anyones interested.
What followed was getting married and buying our first house, so this Astra got broken for parts.
2011 onwards to come...
So while buying our first house, and the associated ‘adulting’ that it comes with, the Astra had to go, I stripped it for parts
So transport became a Citroen Xsara 1.4 ‘west coast’
£230 local on ebay, with 12 months MOT. This very worthy car lasted approximately 3 months before I got massively bored of it and sold it
It had previously had flame stickers down the rear quarters
It was replaced by another silly Vauxhall. This time a mk3 1.7td that a mechanic friend of mine had started playing with. This was the legendary Isuzu engine
By the time I got it, he’d already fitted a garrett gt25, intercooler and pipework and turned the fuel up
What followed were Vectra V6 front brakes, mk2 GTE rear axle with disk brakes and RARB, Spax suspension and 25PSI boost
It was never massively fast to be honest (I’d say around 130bhp) but it made all the right wooshy noises and ran on chip fat
Now that I had my own place with a great driveway and garage, I had the opportunity to have multiple cars.
Next came a BMW E36 Compact 316i
Came on 5 series ‘turbines’ which was nice
This was a properly nice little daily. It was clean, low and simple
I had acquired an M50 non-vanos engine to put in it, along with some ebay drifty bits but then an old lady smashed into it outside my house and wrote it off
Meanwhile my Mrs had another mk4 Astra, a very nice well spec’d main dealer car which had had the entire Irmscher catalogue thrown at it. Seriously, someone early on in this cars life, and with questionable taste had thrown a lot of money at it
Anyway, being an early-20s female, she decided that a Fiat 500 convertible was the way forward, and so, rather than trade in the Astra for pittance, I decided to replace the mk3 with it
Here it is when she initially bought it from the dealer a couple of years previously
The first thing I did, as I seem to do with most of my cars, was hit it with a lowering stick
And the second thing I did, was get run off the A50 by a Royal Mail truck
No matter, I sourced some replacement panels (apart from the nearside rear quarter which remained dented) and set about ruining it some more
Following the untimely demise of my E36, and with the impending patter of tiny feet a new daily driver was required
VW Passat PD130
Not many pictures of this, it was a very good car to be honest. Fitted coilovers, FMIC, remap and a few other basic bits. It did go very well for a diesel estate car
This brings us up to 2014. Which in turn brought the birth of our daughter. Almost immediately, I sold the perfectly good diesel estate car, and bought a Jag
Here is the barge in question. £800 of 1999 S-Type 3.0 – in a good colour, with a manual gearbox
It was an absolutely lovely thing to drive and live with
So transport became a Citroen Xsara 1.4 ‘west coast’
£230 local on ebay, with 12 months MOT. This very worthy car lasted approximately 3 months before I got massively bored of it and sold it
It had previously had flame stickers down the rear quarters
It was replaced by another silly Vauxhall. This time a mk3 1.7td that a mechanic friend of mine had started playing with. This was the legendary Isuzu engine
By the time I got it, he’d already fitted a garrett gt25, intercooler and pipework and turned the fuel up
What followed were Vectra V6 front brakes, mk2 GTE rear axle with disk brakes and RARB, Spax suspension and 25PSI boost
It was never massively fast to be honest (I’d say around 130bhp) but it made all the right wooshy noises and ran on chip fat
Now that I had my own place with a great driveway and garage, I had the opportunity to have multiple cars.
Next came a BMW E36 Compact 316i
Came on 5 series ‘turbines’ which was nice
This was a properly nice little daily. It was clean, low and simple
I had acquired an M50 non-vanos engine to put in it, along with some ebay drifty bits but then an old lady smashed into it outside my house and wrote it off
Meanwhile my Mrs had another mk4 Astra, a very nice well spec’d main dealer car which had had the entire Irmscher catalogue thrown at it. Seriously, someone early on in this cars life, and with questionable taste had thrown a lot of money at it
Anyway, being an early-20s female, she decided that a Fiat 500 convertible was the way forward, and so, rather than trade in the Astra for pittance, I decided to replace the mk3 with it
Here it is when she initially bought it from the dealer a couple of years previously
The first thing I did, as I seem to do with most of my cars, was hit it with a lowering stick
And the second thing I did, was get run off the A50 by a Royal Mail truck
No matter, I sourced some replacement panels (apart from the nearside rear quarter which remained dented) and set about ruining it some more
Following the untimely demise of my E36, and with the impending patter of tiny feet a new daily driver was required
VW Passat PD130
Not many pictures of this, it was a very good car to be honest. Fitted coilovers, FMIC, remap and a few other basic bits. It did go very well for a diesel estate car
This brings us up to 2014. Which in turn brought the birth of our daughter. Almost immediately, I sold the perfectly good diesel estate car, and bought a Jag
Here is the barge in question. £800 of 1999 S-Type 3.0 – in a good colour, with a manual gearbox
It was an absolutely lovely thing to drive and live with
End of 2014 we moved house again. The fleet at that point was the 2003 Astra, 1999 Jag S-Type, and my wife’s 2014 Astra
I was gauging interest in the red Astra, and ended up selling it to a good friend of mine who fitted a Z20LET to it
Then I bought a Porsche. I was looking for a late model 986 with the 3.2 and IMS history, and about May 2015 came home with this
Next I moved the Jag on and replaced it with a £350 W202 C180
This proved to be an ace little car. Ran it for the 10ish months of MOT it had, should be held on to it to be honest. Never touched it with a spanner (other than to cut the springs of course) and it never missed a beat, drove brilliantly and wasn’t even particularly rusty!
At this point our second had been born. I now had 2 children, and a 2 seater Porsche Boxster…
I started looking for an SUV. I was looking at mid-2000s Range Rovers, Cayennes and X5s with V8 engines. Pretty quickly decided on an X5 due to the bork factor of the other 2. This was a bad move in hindsight, but I was browsing at work one day and made a few phone calls to dealers with a view to straight swap the Boxster. I found one that looked good in Milton Keynes, left work in a Boxster went straight to the dealer, drove home in an X5. Circa 240mile round trip
It was a 2004 4.4 V8 (N62) – so a facelift model with the N62 rather than M62 but pre the massive tax jump. Fully loaded as you might expect, bristling with 14 year old tech, most of which still worked
It was a very decent example of what it was. Very comfortable, quiet, fast etc. It was one of the only cars that I brought home which my wife very much approved of.
I never really connected with it though, and it proved astronomically expensive to run and keep on top of the niggles
The next purchase was entirely unnecessary. I was looking for a Subaru Forrester, was watching a few on ebay and then accidentally bought an Impreza. So I jumped on a train to Holyhead (which is really far away) and drove home in a 2000 Subaru Impreza Wagon
It was the normally aspirated version of the 2.0, in silver with silver bugeye WRX wheels – looked really good to be honest, and its arches etc had been given the once over, it was a nice car. Someone had put a leather interior in it (possibly from a bugeye, definitely not from a classic - never found out what it was out of) it didn’t match the doorcards though
My favourite things about it were the pillarless doors, and the fact that it had low range (never had any reason to use it, but still a cool feature)
It was noisy and fairly unrefined but drove very well, and proved to be MUCH better in snow than the X5
However, it’s big problem was that it looked and sounded fast. And it wasn’t
I was gauging interest in the red Astra, and ended up selling it to a good friend of mine who fitted a Z20LET to it
Then I bought a Porsche. I was looking for a late model 986 with the 3.2 and IMS history, and about May 2015 came home with this
Next I moved the Jag on and replaced it with a £350 W202 C180
This proved to be an ace little car. Ran it for the 10ish months of MOT it had, should be held on to it to be honest. Never touched it with a spanner (other than to cut the springs of course) and it never missed a beat, drove brilliantly and wasn’t even particularly rusty!
At this point our second had been born. I now had 2 children, and a 2 seater Porsche Boxster…
I started looking for an SUV. I was looking at mid-2000s Range Rovers, Cayennes and X5s with V8 engines. Pretty quickly decided on an X5 due to the bork factor of the other 2. This was a bad move in hindsight, but I was browsing at work one day and made a few phone calls to dealers with a view to straight swap the Boxster. I found one that looked good in Milton Keynes, left work in a Boxster went straight to the dealer, drove home in an X5. Circa 240mile round trip
It was a 2004 4.4 V8 (N62) – so a facelift model with the N62 rather than M62 but pre the massive tax jump. Fully loaded as you might expect, bristling with 14 year old tech, most of which still worked
It was a very decent example of what it was. Very comfortable, quiet, fast etc. It was one of the only cars that I brought home which my wife very much approved of.
I never really connected with it though, and it proved astronomically expensive to run and keep on top of the niggles
The next purchase was entirely unnecessary. I was looking for a Subaru Forrester, was watching a few on ebay and then accidentally bought an Impreza. So I jumped on a train to Holyhead (which is really far away) and drove home in a 2000 Subaru Impreza Wagon
It was the normally aspirated version of the 2.0, in silver with silver bugeye WRX wheels – looked really good to be honest, and its arches etc had been given the once over, it was a nice car. Someone had put a leather interior in it (possibly from a bugeye, definitely not from a classic - never found out what it was out of) it didn’t match the doorcards though
My favourite things about it were the pillarless doors, and the fact that it had low range (never had any reason to use it, but still a cool feature)
It was noisy and fairly unrefined but drove very well, and proved to be MUCH better in snow than the X5
However, it’s big problem was that it looked and sounded fast. And it wasn’t
One that I’ve missed, we’re a little out of sequence now
1989 Volvo 740 ex-funeral limo. Purchased for a banger rally
This thing was heroic. We won it on ebay for £650, the vendor (funnily enough a funeral director) delivered it to my house. Only he was several hours late and I didn’t have a contact number for him. Eventually he turned up in it only to admit that it’d taken him the best part of 5 hours to drive from Liverpool to Stoke-on-Trent because it had developed a running issue and kept cutting out
I looked over it with a friend and (one of 3 other mates who were going in on the car with me) and we agreed £500 and I dropped him off at the train station. I turned out the car was actually blue, and had been wrapped black
It had the 2.3 ‘redblock’ slant 4, with no turbo – which we understood to be a pretty bulletproof engine. We had a couple of months until the rally so threw a load of service parts at it, changed the inline fuel pump and various other things, to no avail. It was definitely a fuelling issue, so in the end we took the plunge and pulled the in-tank pump out. It was seized
At this point we were days away from leaving on the rally, and there was zero chance of sourcing a new one. Enlisted the help of a mechanic friend who lovingly teased it back into service. We then covered it in distasteful stickers and embarked on a 4000mile round trip to Vienna and back with no breakdown cover!
It did very well. Bearing in mind that this car had spent almost its entire nearly30year life plodding around at 30mph, we gave it absolute hell and it stood up remarkably well. It suffered a number of RTCs involving various members of our convoy, including a Mad Max style lifted, external rollcaged, side-piped Lexus LS400 (details and pictures available on request lol)
There’s a go-pro video somewhere on youtube of the Lexus physically pushing the limo up an alp to reach Hitler’s eagles nest
At one point we lost a starting relay somewhere between the ignition barrel and the start motor, and so had to resort to shorting the starter with a screwdriver to get it started (in a shower of sparks). Which was very alarming in petrol stations. So that night at the camp site we wired in a household light switch and mounted it under the dash – Push button start!
Also somewhere in Austria the alternator stopped charging and it died in a service station. We had fitted a DIY charge relay to a leisure battery in the back, powering a sound system, CB radio etc… and couldn’t figure out the issue. In the end connected the alternator excite wire straight to the battery, and we were off and charging! Albeit with every single warning light on the dash
I think my favourite part of the story was the fact that we got it home, put it on ebay and sold it to another group of lads, doing another stag-do rally… we started a hashtag on Instagram #swedishhearsemafia and checked on it a few days later to find the Volvo back in Europe, at the ‘ring
1989 Volvo 740 ex-funeral limo. Purchased for a banger rally
This thing was heroic. We won it on ebay for £650, the vendor (funnily enough a funeral director) delivered it to my house. Only he was several hours late and I didn’t have a contact number for him. Eventually he turned up in it only to admit that it’d taken him the best part of 5 hours to drive from Liverpool to Stoke-on-Trent because it had developed a running issue and kept cutting out
I looked over it with a friend and (one of 3 other mates who were going in on the car with me) and we agreed £500 and I dropped him off at the train station. I turned out the car was actually blue, and had been wrapped black
It had the 2.3 ‘redblock’ slant 4, with no turbo – which we understood to be a pretty bulletproof engine. We had a couple of months until the rally so threw a load of service parts at it, changed the inline fuel pump and various other things, to no avail. It was definitely a fuelling issue, so in the end we took the plunge and pulled the in-tank pump out. It was seized
At this point we were days away from leaving on the rally, and there was zero chance of sourcing a new one. Enlisted the help of a mechanic friend who lovingly teased it back into service. We then covered it in distasteful stickers and embarked on a 4000mile round trip to Vienna and back with no breakdown cover!
It did very well. Bearing in mind that this car had spent almost its entire nearly30year life plodding around at 30mph, we gave it absolute hell and it stood up remarkably well. It suffered a number of RTCs involving various members of our convoy, including a Mad Max style lifted, external rollcaged, side-piped Lexus LS400 (details and pictures available on request lol)
There’s a go-pro video somewhere on youtube of the Lexus physically pushing the limo up an alp to reach Hitler’s eagles nest
At one point we lost a starting relay somewhere between the ignition barrel and the start motor, and so had to resort to shorting the starter with a screwdriver to get it started (in a shower of sparks). Which was very alarming in petrol stations. So that night at the camp site we wired in a household light switch and mounted it under the dash – Push button start!
Also somewhere in Austria the alternator stopped charging and it died in a service station. We had fitted a DIY charge relay to a leisure battery in the back, powering a sound system, CB radio etc… and couldn’t figure out the issue. In the end connected the alternator excite wire straight to the battery, and we were off and charging! Albeit with every single warning light on the dash
I think my favourite part of the story was the fact that we got it home, put it on ebay and sold it to another group of lads, doing another stag-do rally… we started a hashtag on Instagram #swedishhearsemafia and checked on it a few days later to find the Volvo back in Europe, at the ‘ring
Whilst I’m digging around in photobucket, here are some more pictures of the other cars
The Passat at Cadwell
Provided excellent sleeping quarters while everyone else crawled around in tents like peasants
Some more of the Jag
Some more of the Boxster
Think this was on the way home from buying it
And some more Vauxhalls
The Passat at Cadwell
Provided excellent sleeping quarters while everyone else crawled around in tents like peasants
Some more of the Jag
Some more of the Boxster
Think this was on the way home from buying it
And some more Vauxhalls
So this brings us to 2018
Having been barging around for a few years I missed having a fizzy front wheel drive car. Since childhood I remember having a soft spot for the Ford Puma (I would have been 10ish when they were launched)
So I took a punt on a badly listed one and landed it for £340 on ebay. A lady owned (I suppose they all are) low miler with a few easy issues to sort and not too much visible rust
Turns out I really like it. I’m not very good at holding onto cars for very long but a year into it and I’m not bored of it. I’ve not managed any proper track time in it yet, aside from a chilled day at Curborough
I don’t really want to ruin it by turning it into a ‘track day car’ either (maybe I’m getting old). So far I’ve serviced it, had the cambelt done and the ABS pump rebuilt. And in terms of modifications, fitted Focus ST170 300mm front brakes (the standard ones really aren’t up to much), which in turn meant bigger wheels were required. Found a set of Mondeo ST24 16s which I think really suit the cars styling
Future plans will involve suspension. Apparently there is no such thing as ‘cheap’ coilovers for these because of the rear shock configuration. Something needs to be done though, although it does handle well, it sits very high
I also must attend to the rear arches before they get much worse. The rest of it seems totally solid though which is encouraging
For now it remains a very cheap and reliable little thing, its my go-to car for work, shopping etc, and provides smiles when pushed
Having been barging around for a few years I missed having a fizzy front wheel drive car. Since childhood I remember having a soft spot for the Ford Puma (I would have been 10ish when they were launched)
So I took a punt on a badly listed one and landed it for £340 on ebay. A lady owned (I suppose they all are) low miler with a few easy issues to sort and not too much visible rust
Turns out I really like it. I’m not very good at holding onto cars for very long but a year into it and I’m not bored of it. I’ve not managed any proper track time in it yet, aside from a chilled day at Curborough
I don’t really want to ruin it by turning it into a ‘track day car’ either (maybe I’m getting old). So far I’ve serviced it, had the cambelt done and the ABS pump rebuilt. And in terms of modifications, fitted Focus ST170 300mm front brakes (the standard ones really aren’t up to much), which in turn meant bigger wheels were required. Found a set of Mondeo ST24 16s which I think really suit the cars styling
Future plans will involve suspension. Apparently there is no such thing as ‘cheap’ coilovers for these because of the rear shock configuration. Something needs to be done though, although it does handle well, it sits very high
I also must attend to the rear arches before they get much worse. The rest of it seems totally solid though which is encouraging
For now it remains a very cheap and reliable little thing, its my go-to car for work, shopping etc, and provides smiles when pushed
And for the final chapter which brings us bang up to date
I had very little love for the X5 and it kept costing money, so I sought to replace it with something retro that I would enjoy owning and could hopefully keep for a while.
I was in the market for an E30 but couldn’t find the right one for sensible money, so started looking at its Mercedes contemporary, the W201 190
Found a nice one, and a deal was done. It’s a late model 1992 190E 2.0 auto. White over a black cloth interior, fairly minimally equipped and well looked after
So that’s it folks. As the Merc stands, I’ve serviced it, dropped the suspension a little (1.5 coils) on new brakes and tyres and its bumbling along very nicely
I want to sort some paintwork out in the summer, and I’m keeping an eye out for some cheap 16x8 ‘8 holes’, but it’s just gone through an MOT with flying colours and all seems well
Thanks for reading 13 years of some other blokes car history, if you’d made it this far
I had very little love for the X5 and it kept costing money, so I sought to replace it with something retro that I would enjoy owning and could hopefully keep for a while.
I was in the market for an E30 but couldn’t find the right one for sensible money, so started looking at its Mercedes contemporary, the W201 190
Found a nice one, and a deal was done. It’s a late model 1992 190E 2.0 auto. White over a black cloth interior, fairly minimally equipped and well looked after
So that’s it folks. As the Merc stands, I’ve serviced it, dropped the suspension a little (1.5 coils) on new brakes and tyres and its bumbling along very nicely
I want to sort some paintwork out in the summer, and I’m keeping an eye out for some cheap 16x8 ‘8 holes’, but it’s just gone through an MOT with flying colours and all seems well
Thanks for reading 13 years of some other blokes car history, if you’d made it this far
Driving over to the Fatherland in May. Would rather take the 190E over the Mrs Astra, but struggling to justify the enormously expensive breakdown cover
Any suggestions on Euro breakdown cover for elderly cars?
Also, I've got annoying and quite inconsistent water ingress into the boot. Suspect sunroof drains
Any suggestions on Euro breakdown cover for elderly cars?
Also, I've got annoying and quite inconsistent water ingress into the boot. Suspect sunroof drains
All continues to be well with the 190E. Paintwork is a little annoying, I've been quoted for sorting the worst of it so will look to do that over the next month or so
Also the exhaust backbox appears to be hanging a bit low, must check hangers
And here is the astra of boredom. A very decent white goods motor vehicle. We've had it nearly 5 years and it's only ever cost consumables
Also the exhaust backbox appears to be hanging a bit low, must check hangers
And here is the astra of boredom. A very decent white goods motor vehicle. We've had it nearly 5 years and it's only ever cost consumables
Did Hannover and back in the Astra in the end - 1546 miles in total, not the ideal car for the journey. It lacks poke, and really needs another gear. Felt a bit bad wringing its neck at 4.5k revs for hours on end. It ticked over to 50,000miles before we got home
Put a backbox on the 190, it was well overdue... and also fresh plugs and leads
And a picture of the 190E with my little sister's latest Merc. It's a petrol/hybrid arrangement and is bristling with buttons and cameras
Put a backbox on the 190, it was well overdue... and also fresh plugs and leads
And a picture of the 190E with my little sister's latest Merc. It's a petrol/hybrid arrangement and is bristling with buttons and cameras
Went to view another Porsche last week. Jumping on the bandwagon while I can and looking for an early 996 3.4 coupe, manual
Was going to view and probably purchase one this weekend. However in order to get this idea past my wife it looks like we're going on holiday first - and therefore my potential Porsche purchase will be delayed a little while
Something else to think about, is it'll probably mean getting rid of the Ford Puma (or at least stowing it away somewhere for a while). I am reluctant to take it off the road as its such a brilliant short commute/shopping car
Anyway, here's the 190E in an industrial estate in Cheadle
Was going to view and probably purchase one this weekend. However in order to get this idea past my wife it looks like we're going on holiday first - and therefore my potential Porsche purchase will be delayed a little while
Something else to think about, is it'll probably mean getting rid of the Ford Puma (or at least stowing it away somewhere for a while). I am reluctant to take it off the road as its such a brilliant short commute/shopping car
Anyway, here's the 190E in an industrial estate in Cheadle
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