For Sale Chaseracer's Merc for sale! Roll up!!

[chaseracer]

 
"Here we have..."
 
...the ex-Wobbler Merc W124 300E, as seen in CCW on occasion.
 
1990 G-plate, 180K; MOT Feb 2015, currently on SORN (garaged).
 
Indestructible 4-speed auto, recently serviced by the bloke who built Red Victor 3.  Four new Avons 6000 miles ago.  New driveshaft (OUCH!) a bit before that.  Straight-six runs well, needs new idle-control valve (obtained, not yet fitted).
 
Body good; front floor lightly tickled for MOT, slight bleb on rear arch.  Good cloth interior, very comfortable. Sunroof and driver's window currently u/s.  On steels at the mo (with RAIR silver-edge trimz!) but alloys as above available.
 


 
FOR SALE: £695 ono

[Timewaster]

How will you decide who won? Pick a Mercedes vin number then wait by the roadside for the next merc to go past?

[chaseracer]

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[richardmorris]

Is this like one of those charity raffle prizes you hope you won't win?

[HillmanImp]

This raffle is undoubtedly better value money than the Volvo. If you win it you 'should' have a pretty good car............however who is going to be drunk enough to bid on it on a Monday night? I am getting there but I have a problem and as such I am saving my £25 for another box of Heldenbrau Super before I start playing gabba techno at full volume at 1am and start shouting at people who aren't there, until the police turn up and I wake up in a cell again covered in vomit and self pity. 

 

Or even worse I might have bought the winning ticket for this...  

 

A Friday or Saturday night is defo the way forward for this kind of shizzle methinks. 

[purplebargeken]

Yeah, build the suspense and do it Friday/Saturday night. I'd buy a thingy.

[purplebargeken]

3 pedals or 2. Can't remember 

[Spiny Norman]

3, but possibly not in the way you might think....

 

I've been following this old Merc's progress on here since the early Dollywobbler days and it I wasn't such a lazy bastard when it comes to travelling to view a car or it wasn't so far away I'd probably have had a shot of it myself by now, it looks like a really nice old bus.

[Inspector Morose]

Having travelled in it for a few miles I can concur that it really is a sorted solid old tub and well worthy of being used properly. Too juicy for my linings but for those with the means, you won't get better.

[chaseracer]

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[dome]

I may well be drunk this weekend so this could be £25 well spent*

[chaseracer]

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[chaseracer]

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[trigger]

So what do we do then? Pick a model number and PayPal you £25?

 

What happens if you don't get enough offers, do you refund the money back?

[nacho man]

I would be up for a punt on this at £25. Facts man, give me facts!

[chaseracer]

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[chaseracer]

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[dollywobbler]

I suspect this is suffering from following on too soon after the Volvo. It was a great idea, but not necessarily one that stands up to a decent sequel. You may have to wait a bit and try again. Personally, I find £25 too much to risk. But then I'm not a fan of gambling really.

[brickwall]

I agree DW it needs a "teaser trailer" for the viewing public and then build it up. Having said that, I was thinking about it.

[purplebargeken]

I would also chuck a bid in but having read Vulgalors tombola thread............. I have to make a decision.

 

Can you afford to hang on a bit? A bid would be forthcoming.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Bernie_Shitpipe played a blinder coming up with this idea, having one every week is never gonna work though, there's just not enough of us on here to sustain 'em all

[chaseracer]

It remains for sale at £695 or nearest amusingly insulting offer.

[Pillock]

Can't help feeling the raffle format won't work too often. You need a unique edge.... How about renting out a large quarry, filling it with props and running a Takeshi's Castle style endurance test where the winner gets a Merc? I'd pay £25 to enter that.

[Cavcraft]

You've got to think of something different, as Pillock has alluded to. I might need to offload the BX in a week or two, already have a plan for that should it come to it.

[chaseracer]

Thanks for all the advice, everyone.

 

Would you turn it back in a FS thread please, Billy? Cheers.