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[Josh Tagg]

A new addition to the fleet arrived today, it's very green so the tree huggers will be happy. Pure 80s Mercedes it's lovely, 4 litre v8, electric seats, pillarless coupe. 47000 miles from new with 2 owners. All original tool kit, first aid kit, car cover and books complete. Not been on the road for 10 year but it's in very good condition, had it on the ramp and found hardly any rust anywhere. Going to pull the fuel out and hopefully get it running in next week.

 

[Jacob100]

Well done. Amazing colour scheme and interior.

Will keep my eyes peeled for it on the streets of Sheffield ...

 

[tonytoyota]

I like the look of that car

 

[StarCruiser]

Nice, though I wouldn’t mind betting the AC cannot be regassed due to zero availability and zero replacements. Depends on the refrigerant of course.

 

[Michael Montgomery]

Last f the true bulletproof era of Mercedes models made. Have a soft spot for these always. Congratulations on a stunning motor. Josh

 

[chapel gate]

When cars were cars...
Ems uncle used to have one in the same colour.

 

[StarCruiser]

I had the chance to buy a 350 SL of the same era. A couple of years younger but it had spent much of its life in a garage by the sea. It would have been too much work and too much time and too much money. My neighbor knows mercs of that era. I’ll mention it to him.

 

[chadr]

Lovely, I'm almost as green as the car

 

[Josh Tagg]

After a few fuel issues we've finally got her running on all 8 cylinders. Took the fuel metering unit to pieces (running the Bosch k Jetronic system) which was full of shite and seals were all hard. So bought a repair kit and got that fitted, then ran on 7 cylinders so a big improvement on before. So cylinder 8 just didn't seem to be firing, could pull the lead off and didn't make a difference. Plug sparking and fuel there, only thing we could think is the injector was spraying properly. So ordered a full set off injectors and put them in yesterday, sounds a dream! Little bit rich but just needs a fettle. Dads going to mot it tomorrow so should be on the road soon. We've also rebuilt all the brakes.

 

[Josh Tagg]

She has been taxed and insured today, pain in the arse miss fire we've had for a while was eventually tracked down to injector seals! So obvious but luckily a cheap repair and not a bad job, test drive last weekend all went well so looking forward to get some use out of it now.

 

[Josh Tagg]

Milage really racking up now I've used it a couple of times for work.....