'89 300E
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Well , the tax and mot is up next week on the Merc
So... As I can't be arsed going to the post office to tax it or getting new tyres put on for the mot it's time to chop it in for something else .
Fancied another old Merc and as we're bound to get a good summer I thought I'd have a look round for an old SL . Trouble is really good ones are making big money and there's an awful lot of rough old dogs out there it took a while to find something reasonable for not a lot of money .
I was hoping to find a decent 500 but at the money I was willing to spend I decide to
buy on condition and history which meant an early 300 . ...
Off up to the Lakes tomorrow . Hope its sunny .
Cue Jason and Darren , get your 'old man ' jokes in now .
So... As I can't be arsed going to the post office to tax it or getting new tyres put on for the mot it's time to chop it in for something else .
Fancied another old Merc and as we're bound to get a good summer I thought I'd have a look round for an old SL . Trouble is really good ones are making big money and there's an awful lot of rough old dogs out there it took a while to find something reasonable for not a lot of money .
I was hoping to find a decent 500 but at the money I was willing to spend I decide to
buy on condition and history which meant an early 300 . ...
Off up to the Lakes tomorrow . Hope its sunny .
Cue Jason and Darren , get your 'old man ' jokes in now .
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You and mick cliff can start a Ddk , SL breakaway group
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Looks great RussDarren65 wrote: You can't beat an old Merc!
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Too......many......jokes....
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Hey, don't ditch that 24 valve engine. I ran a 300TE-24 sportline for a while: 7200rpm redline! In a merc! It was the most rev happy bus I'd driven in a long while. Brilliant brilliant 6 in line.
Many happy miles!
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Had a couple of 124's. coupe 3 litre in bronze the kids called it the Pimp Mobile, sold it to drug dealers from Borehamwood, the scariest sale ever ! And a 200TE estate that I bought for £4k, drove for 12 years and 150,000 odd miles, sold it the day we moved back to Australia for £2800 !!!
Brilliant cars. I have a W210 240 estate and its falling apart with 140k miles on it ((
Brilliant cars. I have a W210 240 estate and its falling apart with 140k miles on it ((
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I've done about 500 miles and so far I'm pretty impressed , well screwed together.
It's no sports car obviously and the gearbox doesn't seem to know if it's coming or going but as a cruiser it's great . As Bert says it'll rev for fun once it's rolling .
I think I prefer it with the hardtop on .
Which one have you got Mick ?
I've done about 500 miles and so far I'm pretty impressed , well screwed together.
It's no sports car obviously and the gearbox doesn't seem to know if it's coming or going but as a cruiser it's great . As Bert says it'll rev for fun once it's rolling .
I think I prefer it with the hardtop on .
Which one have you got Mick ?
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Same as yours Russ - 300SL 24 - but a bit earlier @ 1990, FSH, 68k miles, history from day 1.rvzz wrote:Which one have you got Mick ?
Deffo a cruising machine. Looks best with hardtop on or top down, looks crap with soft top up
Trying to work out some hoisting arrangement for the hard top - too heavy for my weakling wife and my neighbour is not always to hand
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Nice Mick
You're right about the hardtop , bit heavy for the Missus . I've made myself a stand for mine , copied from a design I found on t'internet .
You're right about the hardtop , bit heavy for the Missus . I've made myself a stand for mine , copied from a design I found on t'internet .
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i have had my '89 300TE for a couple of months now, great car, ticks all the boxes. practical family mobile as needed and still nice to drive and look at. has got 136k miles on it so only just about run in.
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I have just bought this 1992 190E 1.8, 66,000 miles. No rocketship, but very solidly build. Due to get a set of winter tyres this week and be my winter wheels.
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Assume an SL600 is quite a rare car ?
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Hi James, I think there were over 10,000 SL600s throughout the R129 production run - quite a lot for such an expensive car. I haven't seen the numbers, but I would think less than 10 per cent were RHD? Only one of them was Ron Dennis grey, of course! The rarer car is the SL60, which was an AMG V8 - supposedly only about 50 in RHD.