Bloody Big Bad Benz is the Bloody Biggest Piece of Tosh

[Junkman]

In the great old tradition of when a car is shit, sell it to a friend.

[chaseracer]

Christ, I hope not.  Get bidding, people.

[forddeliveryboy]

Good pics - much impressed. Who wrote the ad? It could almost be Mercedes themselves. "One of the rear windows is a touch intermittent but always complies in the end". This will surely appeal to those who get weak-kneed at German logic and superiority phallasy. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Thank you. Getting those photos involved doing a three point turn on a canal towpath.

 

I bet I'd have got a lot of forum likes if I'd Frank Spencer'd the car into a canal while trying to sell it. 

[Cleon-Fonte]

I can't work out whether I'm with Junkman or Conrad on this car. On the one hand that pedal positioning is unforgiveable, the inspiration for the seats seems to have been taken from a Bridlington B&B mattress and if it does accelerate it never feels like it. On the other hand it does have a certain laid back imperiousness about it, and it sounds like a truck at low revs (which I like). Plus of course it has those rear headrests .

 

It's the only German car I've driven which hasn't made me recoil in horror and disgust, which means I must like it. Still think a VW D24-powered Volvo would do much the same things in a rather more characterful fashion, though.

[forddeliveryboy]

Thank you. Getting those photos involved doing a three point turn on a canal towpath.

 

I bet I'd have got a lot of forum likes if I'd Frank Spencer'd the car into a canal while trying to sell it. 

 

 

Not just good pics - bloody good wording, too. Ultimative Respekt.

 

Would be surprised if you don't encourage some poor fellow into parting with the best part of a grand for it, who isn't on here. Although I once saw my Dad sell a rusty old bicycle for £££ by telling the poor elderlylady she shouldn't buy it, being rusty and the rest. 

 

Perhaps this whole thread has been one big sales-spiel, part of a post-graduate course in psychology? I'm almost wanting it myself having dared venture onto ebay. Weird.

[chaseracer]

Outbid.  Thank feck.  That was close*...

[Junkman]

Don't worry, judging by the stuff Junkman's been suggesting as a possible replacement the new thread will be exactly the same except I'll be the one complaining. 

 

Yeah, about such *important stuff like a wiper switch not feeling expensive enough or a fuel gauge having the wrong fonts.

[Inspector Morose]

Outbid.  Thank feck.  That was close*...

 

<Bids again>

[Jim Bell]

I like to guess the end price of auctions. I'm going £790 as a hammer price on this lovely Mercedes car.

[billyboy406v6]

I aint bidding cos Mercs are crap !

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

It is a good advert - it will be interesting to see what it does sell for.

[Dave_Q]

6/10 for the advert, title does not contain RETRO or DRIFT?? and description is too well written.

 

Should also include phrases such as I NO WOT DESE R WURF and WILL ONLI GO UP IN VALU.

 

With that description the only type of person you'll attract is an actual human, not an ebay car buyer.

[twosmoke300]

Dont forget - the high mileage - which is nuffin for on ov thes injuns 

[Guest Hooli]

Good pics - much impressed. Who wrote the ad? It could almost be Mercedes themselves. "One of the rear windows is a touch intermittent but always complies in the end". This will surely appeal to those who get weak-kneed at German logic and superiority phallasy. 

 

Remove switch, open it, clean manky contacts, pick up springs & ball bearing from the floor & it's fixed.

 

Worked when I had a W124 anyway.

[chaseracer]

^ Aus gezeichnet!

[Junkman]

Those pictures are like a scene from a 1980s episode of Der Alte, where Hauptkommissar Leo Kress and the other members of Munich's Mordkommission II arrive in a W124 to some Bavarian riverbank to inspect the body of some rich housewife.

 

 

I don't even want to know what Conelrad was doing there.

[Junkman]

6/10 for the advert, title does not contain RETRO or DRIFT?? and description is too well written. Should also include phrases such as I NO WOT DESE R WURF and WILL ONLI GO UP IN VALU. With that description the only type of person you'll attract is an actual human, not an ebay car buyer.

 

What about SALING THIS ON BEEHAFF OFF A FREIND WHO DUSNT DOO COMMPETERS, ECLECTIC LIGHT AND INDOOR TOILETS ?

Also, a GENNYWINE REASON FUR SAIL is missing, since on eBay evidently one has to justify why one is selling a car.

[dugong]

COME BACK SALE WATER PARK WE LOVE YOU

[richardmorris]

Watching , but can't bring myself to bid in case i win!

[Junkman]

Don't be such a fuss.

[hauserplenty]

You gonna buy another 124? They grow on you. /Mercedes apologist

 

GLWTS.

 

I would but...KOLEKT 2NITE M88

 

&C.

[Peter C]

Sold for just over £1,100. Not a bad price.

 

Who bought it? Anyone we know?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Not that I know of, no. 

 

Quite content with that price. 

[Peter C]

I hope the buyer sees the transaction through to the end. If not I've got a monkey in my back pocket that I'm happy to exchange for the old Benz.

[chaseracer]

Maybe I should have Fleabayed the 300E after all.

 

Maybe not...

[richardmorris]

I think that achieved a decent price.

[Dave_Q]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one stalking a man from the internet's ebay auctions.

 

I actually watched the last 1 minute LIVE, I was willing it to go higher but it didn't work.

[dugong]

I ended up 'one wheel peeling' a W124 for some bloody nonsense earlier this week.

It was by far the shabbiest E I'd ever driven but from the driver's seat you wouldn't have known it.

Got me some useful spares for eBay as well.

 

Anyone want some headlight protectors and tan floorpan / OEM floormats for moneyz exchange?

 

Can deliver to Midlands megashite meet tomorrow.