HMC Motors- Mystery machine

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HMC Motors- Mystery machine

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I’m hoping soon to move house and this jalopy should hopefully help....
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It’s a 2000 Mercedes Vito 110 cdi. It has no door bottoms, 3 different resprays in 3 different colours, and an awful lot of clag when you boot it. I must say it is fun to drive and it seems to attract pity/revulsion/admiration in more or less equal measure.
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Re: HMC Rotten green bogey- or my Mercedes Vito

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Definitely admiration from me.
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Re: HMC Rotten green bogey- or my Mercedes Vito

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What a clapped out piece of shit.
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Re: HMC Rotten green bogey- or my Mercedes Vito

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That’s just what my (ex)wife said
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Re: HMC Rotten green bogey- or my Mercedes Vito

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Whilst lowering local property values by its very existence on the street, it also developed a LOUD Exhaust note, mainly due to the system snapping shortly after the fannymold.....
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No doubt an engineers mind would assess shortcomings in how the system was mounted contributing to a stress fracture, but being a Luddite I bodged it up....
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It’s much quieter, for now at least. It was starting to give me max power flashbacks, what with the paint colour and blaring exhaust, if not the vehicle itself.
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Re: HMC Rotten green bogey- or my Mercedes Vito

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Is the minty green the original colour?
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Re: HMC Motors- Max power flashbacks?

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No, it’s originally a very sober dark green, followed by blue, followed by a half hearted (slime?) green

I’ll get a pic near a shutline for a time team esque trip into past resprays.
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Re: HMC Motors- Max power flashbacks?

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Now that's the sort of thing you wouldn't give a damn about denting and other road users would give a wide berth. Ideal for moving house.
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Re: HMC Motors- Max power flashbacks?

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That’s it. If it got driven into, nicked, whatever I couldn’t care less; that’s strangely liberating.

Give me an old/rare/ mint something or other and it’s something to fuss and worry over. Don’t get we wrong- I’ll probably have something that ticks some or all of those boxes in the future but right now I simply can’t be bothered.
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Re: HMC Motors- Max power flashbacks?

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chadders wrote: Fri May 17, 2019 12:08 pm Now that's the sort of thing you would give a thorough nut and bolt restoration after moving house.
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