Parisien
Active Member
Had been looking for the last 3-4 mths, drove a few looked at a few more, then considered A124 cabriolets, just saw one of those in very poor shape today, dismissed it immediately.
Looking at the usual web sources, prices, specs and condition seemed to bear no relation to each other.
So Tuesday night past I had gotten back from Belfast and checked our local Gumtree, thought to myself, that looks nice, mileage a bit high but a decent ad to give an overall flavour of ...this car has potential. Had done a round trip of 230 miles to look at two cars so it was a long day. Fortunately it was dry and the test drive and checks ticked so many boxes I was genuinely flabbergasted and that only happens once in a pink, mauve, orange moon.!!!!
The seller has been a recent convert to the silver star (3-4 years) and has a minter W124 260 (50K miles) plus restoring/spending a fortune
...on a 500SEL currently, he'd only had it 6/7 months but need to off load one of his three cars.
Did the usual visual checks, looked at all four jacking points, any dampness leaks etc, all very good or absent. The drive was exhilarating, tons of mid range poke, no shakes rattle or rolls, well impressed. Hood went up and down perfectly, hard top was mint.
Result? Hands shaken and deal done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:bannana:
As I'm off on holiday shortly I wont collect it til next month, roll on the summer!
Looking at the usual web sources, prices, specs and condition seemed to bear no relation to each other.
So Tuesday night past I had gotten back from Belfast and checked our local Gumtree, thought to myself, that looks nice, mileage a bit high but a decent ad to give an overall flavour of ...this car has potential. Had done a round trip of 230 miles to look at two cars so it was a long day. Fortunately it was dry and the test drive and checks ticked so many boxes I was genuinely flabbergasted and that only happens once in a pink, mauve, orange moon.!!!!
The seller has been a recent convert to the silver star (3-4 years) and has a minter W124 260 (50K miles) plus restoring/spending a fortune
...on a 500SEL currently, he'd only had it 6/7 months but need to off load one of his three cars.Did the usual visual checks, looked at all four jacking points, any dampness leaks etc, all very good or absent. The drive was exhilarating, tons of mid range poke, no shakes rattle or rolls, well impressed. Hood went up and down perfectly, hard top was mint.
Result? Hands shaken and deal done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:bannana:
As I'm off on holiday shortly I wont collect it til next month, roll on the summer!
