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Re: Classic for under £10K

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There is a follow up to the previous post. The Skoda Estelle had some modifications done as followed up by Hub-Nut in a subsequent video.... here
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Gosh! That's a bit of a sleeper!!!
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I suspect that, following Top Gear's ridiculing of it, this car will remain as a rightful member of this thread. However one has to think back to realise exactly what 'Super Deluxe' meant in 1971!! :-D
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Looks lovely in red :D I've always liked the looks of the early Marina, especially the Coupe. Just such a terrible shame it had such rubbish mechanicals underneath the pretty clothes...
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This fits on this thread at the moment but I wouldn't be surprised if it climbs up to the sister thread Classic for over 10k. A car my father-in-law had always wanted having had an earlier Mk IV Zephyr but he could never find one he liked!! :-D
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I'm sorry to say bobins that despite totally admiring your classic Merc at lunch last week I'm afraid I have you topped here. Is there a better classic Merc on the planet? :-D
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Oh, there definitely are :-D There's some gorgeous classic Unimogs out there - pure functionalness over everything else :lol:
Granted, though - that fire truck does have some useful additional features.
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bobins wrote: 23 Aug 2024, 09:50 Granted, though - that fire truck does have some useful additional features.
Handy for watering the garden.
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Handy for washing the garden out on to the drive and into the road on full whack!
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Who cares about the garden, it's the beer pumps that get the win from me :lol:

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Nice one!
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A favourite colour on a V6 auto, hmmmm
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Anyone for a pocket rocket? :-D
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Not a classic I know, but this may be a very good buy for someone needing family transport and it looks pretty good in white!! :-D
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Apart from his is manual, it's an exact match for my father in law's 6.

It's a big car, surprisingly not very roomy in the back, not so much headroom (which you might to be poor given the swoopy shape) rather it's quite narrow on the width so lacking in shoulder room for three adults in the back.
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I think he's had some DPF clogging related troubles but otherwise been okay.

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