One For Classic Car Fans.....

[monkers]

Good choice @monkers I’ve always had a soft spot for the coupes.

I bought this for my 50th, still enjoying it 6 years later

View attachment 572115

It replaced this which I bought myself for my 40th

View attachment 572116

I plan to buy another 911 for my 60th, Mrs Gunk and I will then go off on a European road trip

Nice motors - future classics - who knows? I do love a coupe. Good luck with the 60th plans. I've never owned a Porsche, and I've all but given up driving now. I sold the Merc years ago, but the wonderful old Rover was sold recently. I tend to just use a bike these days.

 

[DRM]

I remember those rusty Mercs years. An acquaintance bought a new E class, in less than three years the bootlid was so rusty that the bootlock fell right out.

I was looking for a car for a present to self for my 50th birthday. I tried Porsche Boxsters, Maserati 3200GTs, Jag XKs, all kinds of motors, but I couldn't get as comfortable in anything as I could in my Rover 3500S (P6), possibly because I was troubled with backache at the time. I tried sitting in close to twenty cars at one car dealership. Just as about to leave, they had a Mercedes CLK being back from the valeters - ten minutes later I'd agreed to buy it. It didn't have quite the personality of car that I thought I was looking for, but it was a helluva thing. I think this model is still widely overlooked today. Prices are very low, and they just don't seem to have the rust problems of other Mercs.

View attachment 572069 View attachment 572070

I saw an abandoned Merc S Class parked on an industrial estate last year, it was a 51 plate car and had just about rotted away to nothing, the door bottoms, sills , bottom of the boot lid, leading edge of the bonnet, weren’t just rusty, but were missing, this was a car that would have been about £70,000+ when new, ok it was 19 years old, but when someone parks next to it in a little Peugeot of the same age without a mark of rust on it, it makes you wonder what on earth were Mercedes playing at.

 

[gbb]

Having many east European colleagues, I think a couple had what would have been very expensive Mercs when new, Pawel had a really really nice 57 plate Mercedes, the model I never knew but very big and luxurious. But It went, something went wrong, just too expensive to repair.
Theres another 53 plate in the carpark at the moment, poor condition but it too would have been an expensive car when new.
Good condition or a banger, both will probably be consigned to the scrap heap if something too big goes wrong...even something like the injectors going would finish a lot of owners.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Watched one of the American based episodes of 'Wheeler Dealers' last night
It wasn't because I like watching Mike Brewer, it was due to the episodes star
M-B 300Turbodiesel estate
One of the few MBs I like, barring the (80s) G-Wagons, & the 'Ponton' saloons

Not forgetting this M-B range though!!

 

[DRM]

Having many east European colleagues, I think a couple had what would have been very expensive Mercs when new, Pawel had a really really nice 57 plate Mercedes, the model I never knew but very big and luxurious. But It went, something went wrong, just too expensive to repair.
Theres another 53 plate in the carpark at the moment, poor condition but it too would have been an expensive car when new.
Good condition or a banger, both will probably be consigned to the scrap heap if something too big goes wrong...even something like the injectors going would finish a lot of owners.

One company I used to visit for work had a Merc S500 that belonged to the director , it according to one of the staff cost £85,000 new, every time it went in for repairs to the technology that kept failing, the bills were in the thousands, yet still it was kept, the only people to drive it was, very occasionally the director, but mainly the chauffeur, god help any body who runs one privately it'd bankrupt them

 

[monkers]

One company I used to visit for work had a Merc S500 that belonged to the director , it according to one of the staff cost £85,000 new, every time it went in for repairs to the technology that kept failing, the bills were in the thousands, yet still it was kept, the only people to drive it was, very occasionally the director, but mainly the chauffeur, god help any body who runs one privately it'd bankrupt them

Conversely, I never had a hint of any problem with the CLK 240 I ran for a couple of years. The cost of replacing 12 special type spark plugs at the 50 000 service was a bit eyewatering though!

Mercedes were building cars in many parts of the world at one time where build quality was not so good. As I understand it CLKs were German built and less prone to problems than some other models.

 

[Gunk]

Conversely, I never had a hint of any problem with the CLK 240 I ran for a couple of years. The cost of replacing 12 special type spark plugs at the 50 000 service was a bit eyewatering though!

Mercedes were building cars in many parts of the world at one time where build quality was not so good. As I understand it CLKs were German built and less prone to problems than some other models.

My rusty C class was a South African built car

 

[Profpointy]

Spotted a Peugeot 305 while out on the bike today. Probably the best diesel car of all time.
View attachment 567008

My ex Mrs had one. It seemed to go like a rocket, though not that powerful on paper. Pleasant to drive too

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 18th
1.

Okay, not really a classic, but still not a common sight

Whilst visting this https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/t...75/page-162#post-6318227]this railway feature. I saw 2 of these in similar states
Amongst others

Citroen BX, I believe?
With the roof-rails

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 18th
2.

On my way to the site mentioned/linked in #1 (after calling at ASDA - Durkar, for fuel)

(off) Durkar Low Lane
Durkar
Wakefield
(near jct29/M1)

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Had a couple of Citroen BX's an 1.9 non Turbo Estate & a BX GTi loved them both, wish I could buy Gti now

 

[Ian H]

I thought it was an old Fiat 124, but the badge suggests that it's a Russian-built VAZ, known as Lada in the UK.

 

[Oldhippy]

If you got a good one they went forever but a bad one only worked as a skip if you cut the roof off.

 

[Ian H]

Note the hole in the bumper for a starting handle.

 

[DRM]

If you got a good one they went forever but a bad one only worked as a skip if you cut the roof off.

I once saw a Lada that had actually been dumped in a skip!