Shitting in the shallow end. *Panda fiddling*

[Tickman]

1 minute ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Hang on, are you buying back a slinky yellow two seater which you should never have sold?!

I just borrowed it.

[gm]

 

1 minute ago, Tickman said:

I just borrowed it.

the one with pac man on the back window ? ace  

[Jim Bell]

3 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Hang on, are you buying back a slinky yellow two seater which you should never have sold?!

[Jim Bell]

Just now, gm said:

 

the one with pac man on the back window ? ace  

[Jim Bell]

PLUCKED from it's parking space and ready to point south.

High powered sports car, seen here with an SLK. 

 

 

Roof down. Hat on. Pray for sun, hit the road. 

 

Traditional pez shot. 

 

 

Traditional delivery malfunction.

 

 

 

Traditional breakfast shot. 

[Jim Bell]

Reports from the road said almost 150 miles were achieved before rain caused the roof to close. 

 

 

Still goes great. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jim Bell]

 

 

They say you should never go back. 

I absolutely love the power delivery on this thing. It just hooks, books, then goes and goes and goes. Getting back in it has reminded my of why it went in the first place though. It's very cramped and uncomfortable for a lad my size. With the roof down it's epic. 

[Jim Bell]

 

 

First things first then. Naked carpets will NOT STAND. 

 

Luckilly, I had some OEM Merc nice rubber floor mats in stock. 

 

 

 

That's better. 

[Jim Bell]

Big thanks to @Tickman @davehedgehog31 and @sdkrc for combining for what might have been a three or four way?! vehicle swap/collection/delivery mission. 

I never cease to be gobsmacked by the kindness and willingness to get shit done that Autoshite folk display. 

[Jim Bell]

A look round the car then. It has more brown and green then in previous years, but these colours come to us all eventually. 

Brown. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green. 

Nice bit of moss. 

 

 

 

Decals still hanging in there. 

 

 

 

Interior. 

 

Console. 

 

Cracked dash. 

[Jim Bell]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sdkrc]

I set off at ~530am this morning and had the roof down for 140 odd miles. Was glorious. Morning sunshine, supercharged whistling and almost no dobbers on the motorway.

The journey very nearly turned into a 4 legger with 3 cars collected but it didn't quite pan out right. 

30mins of my journey was looking for the button for the fuel cap and driving home for some WiFi so I could Google it. 

[Jim Bell]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Had a good run round in the damp today. 

It's a fun thing to drive, and very cool but getting into it after the Rexton really emphasises the lack of space in the SLK for someone my size. 

Not sure whatll happen long term. 

[Jim Bell]

1 minute ago, sdkrc said:

 

30mins of my journey was looking for the button for the fuel cap and driving home for some WiFi so I could Google it. 

Spoilers, you just press the back of the cap door. 

[sdkrc]

2 randoms please

[Tickman]

6 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Not sure whatll happen long term. 

We all know...

[Jim Bell]

18 minutes ago, Tickman said:

We all know...

 

 

 

I'll put you down for number 13. 

[Tickman]

42 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

 

This bit was in place but broken until one day when I opened the window and it vanished off the face of the earth!

[Dick Longbridge]

Is this automotive ping pong? 

[greengartside]

[Jim Bell]

2 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Is this automotive ping pong? 

 

[RichardK]

So the rear arches - when I bought it in 2012 on the blue forum there were some gentle blebs and the seller did them before delivering it to me.

That repair has held up well, I think! Perhaps it could be done again still. Shame the sill ends have succumbed 😕 Those wings have hung on precisely six years longer than the point where I'd started planning to buy genuine new replacements (£360 each at the time).

Dashboard is like ??. But that's not a hard part to source and replace... Also did it not have factory mats before?

[Barry Cade]

Yay , another SLK back. I'm sitting in a Travelodge in Towcester.. realised today what Sally Traffic was going on about when she mentioned Toaster..   

 

7 hours down in my SLK on the way to the Black Forest, 2nd tank just brimmed, working out at just over 36mpg, sitting all the way down the M6 with cruise on 80. Nothing to report.

[Jim Bell]

9 hours ago, RichardK said:

😕Also did it not have factory mats before?

It did have when it left, but not when it returned. I put some in to protect the clean carpets originally but they've disappeared over time. New ones in now though. 

[Jim Bell]

*supercharger noises*

 

 

[garbaldy]

Love the over exaggerated head wobble 😄

Sounds good while on the guzzle though.

[Jim Bell]

39 minutes ago, garbaldy said:

Love the over exaggerated head wobble 😄

Sounds good while on the guzzle though.

That's the car pulling Mach3. I was hanging on for dear life. 

[mercedade]

@Jim Bell Have you achieved true internet fame?!

 

[Jim Bell]

22 minutes ago, mercedade said:

@Jim Bell Have you achieved true internet fame?!

 

Nah man, I just stole the pics from the internet. Nothing you read in my thread is actually real. 

[SRi05]

16 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Nah man, I just stole the pics from the internet. Nothing you read in my thread is actually real.