Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 22]

[nobrakes]

LayZ said:

Expensive but nice Werthers spec S211 diesel. Airmatic, nappa, memory seats, but strangely no bum warmers,

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/387105129608?

I’m sure he’d be tempted by £4500 in notes on the bonnet once you lift it and walk back to your car/the station.

Memory seats are a nice touch, as are the mudguards.

Needs a metal AA badge on the grille.

You can get into a 212 for 6grand.

Edited by nobrakes on Friday 21st June 18:42

[Bear-n]

benny.c said:

anotherswifty said:

This seems more thread and 4.2 SC too
https://www.carandclassic.com/auctions/2006-land-r...

This belongs to a mate of mine and it’s a very nice car.

Talk to me.

[tobinen]

Talk to the seller. We look forward to the forecourt shot.

[Bear-n]

I don’t have the gonads.

Plus the rise of these painfully predictable auction flannel descriptions like:

“If you’re looking for a well specified, viscerally quick L322 in great condition, you may just have found it.“

With the ending disclaimers along the lines of:

“This is a private sale so don’t blame us if it craps its pants in every direction ”

really do put me off.

Edited by Bear-n on Friday 21st June 21:50

[donkmeister]

Bear-n said:

I don’t have the gonads.

Plus the rise of these painfully predictable auction flannel descriptions like:

“If you’re looking for a well specified, viscerally quick L322 in great condition, you may just have found it.“

With the ending disclaimers along the lines of:

“This is a private sale so don’t blame us if it craps its pants in every direction ”

really do put me off.

Edited by Bear-n on Friday 21st June 21:50

Given recent news coverage of JLR products, if it's actually possible to get insurance to drive it away, it'll probably be nicked before it breaks again. So no need to worry!

[benny.c]

It’s been reliable in the few years he’s owned it and I was quite tempered to have it off him myself. It’s only the fuel bills that put me off.

[LayZ]

nobrakes said:

LayZ said:

Expensive but nice Werthers spec S211 diesel. Airmatic, nappa, memory seats, but strangely no bum warmers,

You can get into a 212 for 6grand.

212s are gauche though and not as good. Forever will be 2010 design spec, not timeless like 211. Strong opinions, weakly held etc.

[nobrakes]

LayZ said:

nobrakes said:

LayZ said:

Expensive but nice Werthers spec S211 diesel. Airmatic, nappa, memory seats, but strangely no bum warmers,

You can get into a 212 for 6grand.

212s are gauche though and not as good. Forever will be 2010 design spec, not timeless like 211. Strong opinions, weakly held etc.

Understood. I could have stretched to a basic 212 many moons ago, but wanted a bit more ‘go’ so opted for a 2008 211 320cdi on the basis all the niggles had been sorted. It’s a bid dated looking in comparison, but has been great.

There should be years left in that beige one.

[dscam]

QBee said:

Wulf Sternhammer said:

GeniusOfLove said:

Wulf Sternhammer said:

Erm...

https://youtu.be/e-v0Ez1Bd4c?si=0-weLT83Xvf-EjCV

In other rather sad news. My barge fund is about be somewhat depleted due to my current daily driver now looking like this:


30-40mph impact. The back of the passenger side wheel is now roughly inline with the A pillar.

Not going to lie, the fact that the same accident in an '80s or early '90s car would have left us both with more than a couple of cracked ribs each, scares me a little.

Very glad you've both made it out largely intact, as you say stuff like that is at the back of my mind when I'm messing around in some ancient biscuit tin of a car.

This is the result of a severely spheksophobic driver (me) having a wasp land in his lap and straying literally 6 inches or so, off a narrow Welsh country road in panick. I'm not even joking.

Before judging, just thought I'd add that the last time I was stung by a wasp, I swelled up, turned blue and stopped breathing. There is a reason for the phobia of the stripy little barstewards.

Edited by Wulf Sternhammer on Friday 21st June 13:43

My daughter has the same issue with the barstewards.
Last time it was 5 Epipens, an inhaler gadget that the paramedics brought, and an ambulance trip to hospital.
You have my sympathy and usderstanding.

Username change to FWasp would be valid!

[tobinen]

Crazy price for an Allroad but someone really wanted it - £9,504 inc:

https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic-auctions/2...

[sixor8]

I've been dipping in and out of that auction today, that was incredible. The guide price was £2k - £4k, but an internet bidder and somebody in the hall went tit for tat from under £5k up to £8800.

A lot of cars went quite cheap I thought, and not just the non-runner basket cases. Big Mercs now seem undesirable, for some.

[dscam]

I see the nice E34 I linked made £5k too - good money for it.

[Pablo16v]

Crikey when I opened the link I expected to see a low mileage V8 one, not a 2.5tdi

[nobrakes]

Pablo16v said:

Crikey when I opened the link I expected to see a low mileage V8 one, not a 2.5tdi

I know! I was shocked, too.

Nice car.

[daqinggregg]

Wulf Sternhammer said:

QBee said:

21st Century Man said:

Who doesn't love an old school Hyundai Stellar with a V8?

Who cannot remember ever seeing a Hyundri Stellar with a V8?

Erm...

https://youtu.be/e-v0Ez1Bd4c?si=0-weLT83Xvf-EjCV

In other rather sad news. My barge fund is about be somewhat depleted due to my current daily driver now looking like this:


30-40mph impact. The back of the passenger side wheel is now roughly inline with the A pillar.

Not going to lie, the fact that the same accident in an '80s or early '90s car would have left us both with more than a couple of cracked ribs each, scares me a little.

I’m guessing a nice summer lunch, in the beer garden of a country pub, is a no then.

Mosquito’s and wasps, I fail to see what they bring to the party; that prat, with the ark has a lot to answer for.

[tobinen]

Did anyone see at what price the SL600 reached? It's unsold on the ACA website. I was watching the GP.

edit: £13,068 inc. The updates are slow.

Edited by tobinen on Sunday 23 June 17:10

[bolidemichael]

macron said:

Yes, their "interior demonstrator". Curious. As is this, and close enough to Friday

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/47329796...

I used to see it pootling around, what an odd collaboration that was!

I was catching up with this thread in the morning, a couple of days into my long weekender motorcycle trip to Normandy. Unbelievably, I then jumped on the bike and spotted one in this town, about fifteen minutes later! It was a military green and looked rather handsome for a curio.

[W00DY]

tobinen said:

Did anyone see at what price the SL600 reached? It's unsold on the ACA website. I was watching the GP.

edit: £13,068 inc. The updates are slow.

Edited by tobinen on Sunday 23 June 17:10

Sounds good value.





https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285924398653

Nothing says you;ve made it like a colour matched Nokia and a walnut-finish Becker Mexico.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

W00DY said:

Sounds good value.





https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285924398653

Nothing says you;ve made it like a colour matched Nokia and a walnut-finish Becker Mexico.

I think I could live with the car, but not the price.

[21st Century Man]

I couldn't live with that interior even as a gift!