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[Junkman]

I hope it was a planned gone and not taken by rag and bone men.

 

It was the former, but at this point I wouldn't have cared one way or the other.

[320touring]

I asked for a quiet room at the hotel. 6am the plant room kicked in.

 

Not best pleased!

[Jim Bell]

[320touring]

Indeed.

 

I have, however, amused myself by logging onto the free wifi at the venue using my alter ego Frank Dreben:)

[dugong]

I hope it was a planned gone and not taken by rag and bone men.

If I couldn't have arranged transport, I would have fragged it; every other alternative I tried either ignored me or fell through. Junkman had had enough, and I'd had enough of him having enough because it was snide on him.

 

Anyway, you'll be seeing it again before seeing it again. In effect, seeing it twice, from different angles.

[phil_lihp]

The 220SLi is in for its MOT today. Wish it luck!

[dugong]

GOOD LUCK, THROBBING R8

[purplebargeken]

Luck!

[Eddie Honda]

I had a phone call this morning to say one of my fleet is now toast due to a fire last night...

 

Well I suppose the fleet is now down to a more manageable 14.

[Eddie Honda]

A Daf 44. I'll take a look at the mess on Friday.

[trigger]

[Jim Bell]

I pressed LIKE in Ehondas post, as there's no SYMPATHY button.

[mercrocker]

I tried to press Like but my finger wouldn't let me....Poor DAF, there aren't enough in the world already.

[oldcars]

sad news, any chance it can be rescued?

[dave21478]

Fat Smurf tries his hand at time-lapse photography with poor results....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcW3O3I-oC0

 

4 new non-metric tyres arrived for the Metro, so thats them fitted and on the car now. I added 80 grams of airsoft pellets to each wheel for dynamic balancing since I dont have a tyre balancer machine.

The original wheel trims wont clip onto the new rims properly so I plan on using cable ties to hold them without the spring clips but the edge of the trim is tight to the tyre sidewall and will rub as the tyre moves so I will have to sand off 5mm or so around each lip.

[Eddie Honda]

sad news, any chance it can be rescued?

From what I was told, maybe a bumper if I'm lucky. I just had the idea of checking Twitter

 

https://twitter.com/DubFireBrigade/status/654053171363479552

 

Disnae look good. :'-( (It's a barn, not a warehouse.)

[Mike D]

I decided to treat myself to some two wheeled shite at the weekend - Pass me the wolf howling at a moon t-shirt and a tasselled waistcoat!

 

 

[Jim Bell]

The profiles on those tyres are perfect.  Theyre making some proper nice Sportsters these days.  I'm sure when I was at school, they were considered with derision.

 

 

I would. 

[MarvinsMom]

i like the hardly dangerous sportster, much more practical looking machine when compared with the other mechanised sofas in their range,

 

not that i know anything at all about motor cycles....

[gordonbennet]

Kinell, my bloody benz with the snapped half shaft is a 320 coupe, course everythings different on the 320's (ie where all the other 124 bottom ball joints are £13 odd, on the 320's they're part of the wishbone @ £525 a side)...my Indy has an estate 320 that pairs up in the merc catalogue...if one off that don't fit a new bastard is, wait for it 751 and that aint 7.51 nor is it 75.1 its the three figures without a decimal point.

double bollocks

[vulgalour]

Bad news, EHonda, bad news

[fred]

 Cooked dinner for the ailed old dears - tea, etc etc .......and now I feel like this - slammed !!

 

 

[bub2006]

Holy fuck. Did that man die? The bed practically bent in half. And what the smeg is paul Daniels doing?

[Noel Tidybeard]

Holy fuck. Did that man die? The bed practically bent in half. And what the smeg is paul Daniels doing?

well everyone wanted jake to prove the bent mr floppy....

[LC Torana]

[oldcars]

From what I was told, maybe a bumper if I'm lucky. I just had the idea of checking Twitter

 

https://twitter.com/DubFireBrigade/status/654053171363479552

 

Disnae look good. :'-( (It's a barn, not a warehouse.)

nightmare mate, Does not look good at all 

[bub2006]

well everyone wanted jake to prove the bent mr floppy....

That would explain it. Still don't explain the magician though. Some folk have strange fetishes

[purplebargeken]

Bye bye appetite. Possibly forever.

[The Moog]

Missus Moog has given merc a thumbs down. Whilst she likes it the hassle of changing from her civic has put her off.

 

Out of interest put it into cartakeback and got quotes from free to £225!

 

Going to clean the inside and move it on. It has no place now in the fleet.....sadly

[Bear]

What sort of Merc?