Ok peeps, ebay tips required...

/me wonders how close Mr. M is to the ferry...

-- Chet

Er, I think there's a Dublin ferry about , oooh, 5 miles from here? And I'm about 6 miles from John Lennon Airport (cheap flights from the IOM)...

In news:ADovc.2293$ snipped-for-privacy@news-text.cableinet.net, Pete M decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

Oh dear...

How long you reckon i'd get out of it before i had to throw it away? No i don't wanna know...

-- Chet

Yeah, your photography is absolutely terrible.

I'm always more tempted to place a bid if someone has taken the time to produce decent shots - and preferably not in a location that looks like a dodgy breaker's yard.

Yeah, I know. .the only photo's I've got of the bloody thing though.. I'll try and get some better ones tomorrow.

Oh, and the dodgy breakers yard happens to be the Limo company HQ :-)

Well, I sort of guessed that..... still looks well dodgy, though.

bloody scousers.

Although not the best of photos, these are the ones I took when I put the Primera on Ebay:

Ooooo after seeing the pic of the limo's in the background, was that big black truck jeep limo thing in southampton a few days ago? Saw something very similar, and it was bastard big, along the lines of road going ocean liner!! Much coolness!

Max

In news:1gerrd7.60q5h18h3skrN% snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk, SteveH decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

Ahem, from a Taffy Manc I shall take this as the compliment it surely is ;-)

I like Primeras, but I'm too bloody tall (long in the leg)[1] to get comfy in the mk1s. Otherwise I'd have it.. Besides, I'm on an insane ebay car buying spree at the moment.. it's always nice when ye olde inbox is full of mail about things I actually like.. unfortunately, that appears to be because I'm buying cars like it's going out of fashion.. (Mk1 Primeras having never been *in* fashion are exempt :-p)

In news:40be2406$0$6330$ snipped-for-privacy@mercury.nildram.net, Max Hamlet decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

Nope, but they do tend to be imported through Soton. There's a big Limo importer fella round them there parts.. Ours came through there, I think it's Soton registered HX52 summatorother

don't I know that feeling.

Douglas

In news: snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de, Douglas Payne decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

It slips slightly going into third, or it might be fourth. Revs rise for half a second or so, then it engages properly. According to the previous keeper, who owned it for 100000 miles and about 8 years, it started doing it at about 80k miles, and never got any worse. It's dead easy to drive around it anyway. Takes about 10 minutes to adjust your driving style and after that you just don't notice it. If you give it some proper welly, it locks up exactly as it should. Rest of the time it's just a quirk. My 280TE used to do it as well, must be a sign of a miley old Merc..

Very!

According to the leaflet in the handbook, these are the official MPG figures (government ones, so it's worse than this)

• waves goodbye to potential purchasers *

Simulated urban driving 14.0 mpg 20.2 litres / 100km

Constant speed driving

Constant speed driving

According to Mercedes, however...

Simulated urban driving 18.6 mpg 15.2 litres / 100km

Constant speed driving 31.0 mpg 9.1 litres / 100km

Constant speed driving

According to me

bloody awful, but better than the Excursion

Even Brian James Johnson?

I've posted your Auction on retro rides. the guy that makes the V8 coffee tables, that posted here for a while, posts there too.

In news: snipped-for-privacy@news.individual.net, MeatballTurbo decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

Thanks Carl :-), good man yerself!

Just after I've sent the cheque in the post?

Peter

I was looking on

Peter

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I beliwve it is arroud the £4-500 for the V8 coffee table, about 8 hours work in the cleaning and building.