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  1. 24 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

    Are you in Angola now? I used to go regularly but not been for a couple of years. I have spotted a very few Chinese made vw santanas kicking about but not much else of note.

    Yes I am,  loads of really interesting stuff knocking around on the streets still, especially if you have an interest in commercials.  

  2. Really like a ZX for some reason.  They have a fantastic unburstable workhorse nature about them.  What was the order of the trim levels?  Is advantage just an advantage over walking or over other trims?  Where does Aura sit?  Did a bASe exist? 
     

    My partner had one up until a few years ago, it was her first car and we are trying to figure out what derivative it was.  Power steering, central locking and a CD player.  Nothing else apparently.  Turbot weasel estate.  

  3. Thanks, funny you mention that.  I bought a tow bar for it (yet to fit) which would in theory let me do bike racks.  

     I reckon it’ll make a hilarious and surprisingly good tow car being heavy, powerful and having a traditional slush box.  

    13 minutes ago, dome said:

    That's quite a fleet you have there! I looked at an 840 a few years ago but needed something to cart bikes about and there was no way mine would fit in one sadly

     

  4. So you’ve had the Range Rover story to this point, but I’m a serial motoring masochist.  This thread is going to become a general diary on running old shit cars.  Allow me to introduce the rest of the fleet.  

     

    There’s this thing.  89 300 SEL.  Bought a long time ago to keep wear and use off another car in winter.  Yes, it was a WBOD.  At well under a grand and I didn’t expect to keep it for long.  It has accidentally become a classic in my ownership so I’ve shown it a bit of love and had it cosmetically sorted.  It continues to require very little mechanically.  Velour, wheel trims and looong seat rails.  

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    Below is the car I have owned the longest, it has been in my ownership for over a decade now.  Bought when worthless, like the merc it too has become a classic in my ownership.  It looks derelict here but that’s just frost and hay.  Don’t believe what people tell you about these.  They’re not a nightmare and really quite simple by modern standards.  

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    Sometimes you need a smol.  My girlfriend uses this day to day because I believe the correct number of cylinders is more than four,  it’s a 325ti.  Great fun and far sportier than the big 8 series.  The poor thing gets very little in the way of pampering.  It is extremely muddy (but not in this photo).  Requires moderate amounts of mechanical intervention, certainly more than the Mercedes.  

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