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| BenzBeard | Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:32 am |
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Hi there people! (I may make mechanical Foobar in this short tale, please forgive my ignorance!  )Im from Cambridge, and i cycle mostly everywhere. But circumstances have changed and i would like a car. So i went looking! It took me around 4 months looking at different makes, models, shapes, sizes and trying to find that very elusive 'price is right' price! My list of cars that i have owned previosly is short: I past my test in Feb 04 at 18 years of age, and bought my first car for £50 from my Grandad, a 1986 1.1 Ford Fiesta Firefly! This car was fantastic, cheap to run, cheap to fix and reliable, unless it was wet, damp, cold or too hot, ok so not so much reliable but it was my first car, i loved it! My second car about a year later was a step up? in the ford range, 1991 fiesta 1.1 Pop Plus, this car sucked. And luckly for me, but not for the brick wall, it cost nothing, and a friend of mine crashed it into said wall. After that i figured that a slight rethink would benifit me, I bought for £500 a 1993 vauxhall Cavalier.... do i need to say anything.... And then i went carless for a while I was a busdriver at the time so i had pleanty of hours on the road and anymore just seemed silly. Roll on Feb 09, five years after joining the road i decided it was time to get back on it! My criteria were: Less than £1000 cost Less than £500 insurance Good looking (from my point of view!) Not Diesel Engine must be injection not a Carb 1.6-2.0 Not shockingly thirsty Able to get me down to Southend monthly Automatic (It seems to relax my driving, found that out from driving a friends 1997 S-class) Start!! hot, cold, wet, damp, monsoon!!! And so i started! Lots of ebaying and autotradering, a couple of train tickets, but nothing that really caught my eye. Untill Mr S-class dropped by again and i thought, mmmm maybe i can get a hold a mercedes?! I hadn't really been searching for mercs just because of the obvious, 'Ha, I cant afford a Mercedes!!', but i had a look around and found a few for around the £1000 mark, but one finally stood out. A little garage in Tostock, had a 1992 190E in blue, with 120,000 miles 8 months MOT and 6 months Tax. I went and had a look and a drive and fell in love! It needed a good clean inside and out, but was pretty much rust free, all the electrics worked and hadn't got any of the faults that the internet said to look for... it was priced at £650 and i negotiated to £575 and bought it!! Now its home and clean on the outside here is a picture!  Any how i better get back to work! I'll get some more pictures when we get another sunny day! I will just say I am now very proud to be a Mercedes Benz 190E owner! |
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