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28 January 2006, 07:57 PM
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4 new tyres for it would cost you more than I paid.
Luckily, its tyres are just about new!
10 months' MOT, 140k, almost FSH including a recent major one.
Luckily, its tyres are just about new!
10 months' MOT, 140k, almost FSH including a recent major one.
28 January 2006, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Scooby Soon!
some where around £995? 
That was the asking price on ebay for a buy it now - I offered much less and drove away this morning,
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28 January 2006, 08:56 PM
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I did 60 miles in it this morning and it did about 20ish to the gallon. I was using kickdown a bit and kept slipping into 3 figures (on my private road) as it's so quiet and feels slow even though it ain't
I'm only going to use it as a run about - you don't buy an old 5 litre V8 for economy LOL.
I'm only going to use it as a run about - you don't buy an old 5 litre V8 for economy LOL.
28 January 2006, 11:00 PM
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Don't suppose a bloke called Garrick owned that one?
Looks very much like the old car a friend on my dad had...AMG everything..except the engine
He had a recnt (gold) nice paint job on it too, pity about the ripply primer and bad preperation underneath - whoever resprayed should have been shot at dawn
Looks very much like the old car a friend on my dad had...AMG everything..except the engine
He had a recnt (gold) nice paint job on it too, pity about the ripply primer and bad preperation underneath - whoever resprayed should have been shot at dawn
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29 January 2006, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by ALi-B
Don't suppose a bloke called Garrick owned that one?
Looks very much like the old car a friend on my dad had...AMG everything..except the engine He had a recnt (gold) nice paint job on it too, pity about the ripply primer and bad preperation underneath - whoever resprayed should have been shot at dawn
Looks very much like the old car a friend on my dad had...AMG everything..except the engine
He had a recnt (gold) nice paint job on it too, pity about the ripply primer and bad preperation underneath - whoever resprayed should have been shot at dawn This has a few upgrades but not in the engine dept - it handles really well for such a whale sized car with its stiff suspension, and snakes nicely in the wet when you nail the loud peddle.
It's only £202 per year to insure it too - less than my 280E which is puzzling???
29 January 2006, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by J4CKO
Is that why they call you old Four Cars ?
The 280e and 450 are going in the next few days though.
31 January 2006, 01:39 AM
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Originally Posted by brickboy
Looks in excellent nick, and in Jewish Racing Gold too
Underbonnet looks very tidy. Mint!
Underbonnet looks very tidy. Mint!
Foooook only knows how to remedy that?
I'm no engine virgin but this lump scares me - the sheer size of it make my *** twitch.....
31 January 2006, 08:27 AM
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Autochoke works off a vacuum diaphragm I think -- a carb specialist should be able to sort it easily, or it may respond to a squirt of carb cleaner (about a fiver from a motorbike shop -- OK, I know it's around 1% of what you paid for the car )
If you whip off the airfilter box the choke unit will be a big lump stuck on one side of the carb body. Squirt the cleaner into the venturi and through the passages, then have a good push & pull on any levers / rods you can find. WD40 the external linkages too. Might do the trick.
)If you whip off the airfilter box the choke unit will be a big lump stuck on one side of the carb body. Squirt the cleaner into the venturi and through the passages, then have a good push & pull on any levers / rods you can find. WD40 the external linkages too. Might do the trick.
