A car for Life?
- Hooli
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Re: A car for Life?
Like escaping the EU, it's worth waiting for and the short term financial loss.
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Re: A car for Life?
Think I have discovered it chaps.....A car for life.
Just received the invoice for the welding on the damper van. Be paying that fucker for the rest of my life, no worries.....
Just received the invoice for the welding on the damper van. Be paying that fucker for the rest of my life, no worries.....
There's a great long bar in Rock & Roll heaven.......
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Re: A car for Life?
Yeah, remind me to not add up the XJR since I got it in Jan.
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Re: A car for Life?
So while old Mercs are still cheap, get the engine out of a simpler, earlier one and plonk that in your engine bay if you want to keep it for life. Rwd, big engine bay. Easy job.mercrocker wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:16 am Yep, this is what will kill my 190E. OE dizzy no longer available, parts for the fuel injection are likewise. Been chasing an idle problem for over a year now....
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Re: A car for Life?
My grandfather drove a Jag until he gave up driving at 92. He could get in and out of it. He reckoned it being low-slung kept him fit.
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You want more, hmm? Then keep posting your lame-arsed pro-brexit drivel in non-politics threads.
There. That's told the cunt.
On the road:
1998 Disco 4.0 V8 (manual)
1994 Vauxhall Calibra 3.0 V6
Running but need fettling:
1986 Honda CBX750F
1991 Maserati 222 SE
1990 Yamaha XJ900F
Tax & MOT-exempt, woohoo!
1982 Suzuki GSX1100SZ Katana
1998 Disco 4.0 V8 (manual)
1994 Vauxhall Calibra 3.0 V6
Running but need fettling:
1986 Honda CBX750F
1991 Maserati 222 SE
1990 Yamaha XJ900F
Tax & MOT-exempt, woohoo!
1982 Suzuki GSX1100SZ Katana
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Re: A car for Life?
Was it you posting the llamas on Autoshite? Heard of it, never saw one.
As I suspected I was right about everything.
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Re: A car for Life?
Nope, I've not posted on that site since modgate.
On the road:
1998 Disco 4.0 V8 (manual)
1994 Vauxhall Calibra 3.0 V6
Running but need fettling:
1986 Honda CBX750F
1991 Maserati 222 SE
1990 Yamaha XJ900F
Tax & MOT-exempt, woohoo!
1982 Suzuki GSX1100SZ Katana
1998 Disco 4.0 V8 (manual)
1994 Vauxhall Calibra 3.0 V6
Running but need fettling:
1986 Honda CBX750F
1991 Maserati 222 SE
1990 Yamaha XJ900F
Tax & MOT-exempt, woohoo!
1982 Suzuki GSX1100SZ Katana
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Re: A car for Life?
I'd report ya for abuse but the owner here is a lazy twat who'd do fuck all about it.
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