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When we lived at my in laws for a while the neighbors had one in the back garden, it’s still there as far as I know. Also had a completely utterly rotten Jensen Interceptor on the drive, it was so rotten there was just rust between the arch and the rear glass, the entire rear of the car was falling off. Got towed away for scrap about 10 years ago. Anyway, as you were...

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I do like a C123 Coupe. The 280 Twin cam has about 185 bhp and they hustle along okay with the 4 speed auto. ....

 

The Senior Partner of a Firm I worked for in the early 2000s had one. Insisted I look after it and run it whilst he mitched off to Brazil for a couple of weeks. One of the more unpleasant cars I've ever had to drive - the velour upholstery was harbouring all sort of fleas / bugs from his pet dog, so my skin itched every time I drove it. Eventually couldn't stand it any longer, and paid to have the interior fumigated. Couldn't wait to hand it back.

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I vaguely remember that Merc W123C being advertised on donedeal here about 10 months to a year ago as at the time My brother was sniffing about a blue one that was on there, being advertised by a car 'wheeler / dealer' near waterford  with all sorts of exotica like jags n Intergrale in the background... It was €800 the blue one, ex-UK and swelled with filler n rust, n blow'ins so I told him to walk away...

 

...anyways from memory your Gold one was on Donedeal at the time; at substantially more, but he didn't have the cash for it...

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On the way home from collecting the felicia I stopped by a friends garage and ended up buying an e30 too...

I had seen it months ago but had assumed that it belonged to the garage next door, I was actually there looking at a silver c class Mercedes he had mentioned wanting rid of for a couple of hundred, it looked average and not particularly interesting so I asked what the story with the e30 was, it was a customers car which had failed an mot and she wanted rid of it for £300.

I thought it was worth taking it on at that price so bought it and will be getting it transported tomorrow.70a5bdedbc08c403e984606130f6b68f.jpgf902d6e087f618ba2a69dd09af79410a.jpg

 

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Buyers remorse has subsided, I had been bidding on a Felecia last week and didn't win but the seller gave me a second chance offer today.

 

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That lived about a quarter of a mile from my house. Three streets away.

 

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Got the E30 back this afternoon.

 

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15" bbs alloys with centre caps, black comfort leather interior and wooden steering wheel!!! A steal at £300!

I put a battery on it and it fired right up, runs a bit lumpy but seems to go quite well up and down the road. I'm not sure whether to look for a 2.5 engine or stick with the 1.8.

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And here's a couple of pics of the Skoda

 

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I actually quite like it, it's the first proper shed I've bought in a while that I just don't give a shit about and have enjoyed ragging fuck out of it. It seems quite quick around town but on the motorway it can barely do 80mph down a hill. I've driven back and forth from Dunfermline to Glasgow a couple of times, got stuck in heavy traffic a couple of times and the car stayed at temp with no sign of overheating.

The front top mounts rattle but I do have a pair of new ones to fit at some point.

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