You gotta love Mercedes.

[wafter]

As a teenager I had a paper round and if the owner was a lad short we would end up doing two routes and the second would be the big houses around Penn driving from house to house in a 500sl! And I got paid double!
Paid for the auto express magazine!!

Nice - although I hate to think what sort of fuel economy that returned!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

And so did she:

One also features in her excellent song 'My Church' (got to listen to the couplets in it!!)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouWQ25O-Mcg

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I still fancy one of the ‘W123’ estates
The 80’s models with the lovely thin chrome roof-rails, & colour-matched hubcaps

Or, a UniMog….


Daughter has an A-Class ‘AMG Line’(?), that has absolutely no appeal for me

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/classic-trucks-wagons.253943/page-21#post-6824342

There's actually a red one, not too far from me, but I think if the doors were opened, it'd sag................
One of these please, as a diesel/manual

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

As a teenager I had a paper round and if the owner was a lad short we would end up doing two routes and the second would be the big houses around Penn driving from house to house in a 500sl! And I got paid double!
Paid for the auto express magazine!!

The owner of the company, I worked for in Leeds, between '86 & '97, had 2 M-B's (amongst his other cars), a 560 coupe, & 500SL 'drop-top'
Later, he also had (from memory) an A-M 'Virage', DB7, Ferrari F355 (I think that was the one??? - the 'Goldeneye' car)

 

[Jameshow]

Also like the classic Merc limos

I shouldn't do as I got married in one!!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/37431042...tixoXeJTeO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[steveindenmark]

This reminds me of Triggers broom sketch. 😁

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I still fancy one of the ‘W123’ estates
The 80’s models with the lovely thin chrome roof-rails, & colour-matched hubcaps

Or, a UniMog….


Daughter has an A-Class ‘AMG Line’(?), that has absolutely no appeal for me

Daughter is p/x-ing it, for a new car, possibly arriving at the end of the month
Curiously, when she wanted it/got it, it was a 'sliced bread' car for her

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/classic-trucks-wagons.253943/page-21#post-6824342

There's actually a red one, not too far from me, but I think if the doors were opened, it'd sag................
One of these please, as a diesel/manual

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On the back of looking at a website, at a 'CSK', I saw this
It's rather nice, but...... it's wrong colour for me, and not a diesel/manual
(still the only modern M-B, barring a UniMog, that I'd want)
https://www.waltmotorcompany.co.uk/...-benz-280-2-7-te-5dr-for-sale-in-newbury-u33/

 

[Illaveago]

Burkina Faso is a French speaking country adjoining Ghana. This 190 has passed a million miles allegedly. I had one back in the nineties.

View: https://youtu.be/KNllOMDF0I4

"Not the Nine O' Clock News" had a sketch similar to that !

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 20th

WestGate Retail Park
Wakefield

There was a rather odd VW Polo parked near by, a few minutes after