First registered in February 1990, I've had the car for nearly four months now. I'm chuffed to bits with it and still amazed how well it cleans up for a 20 year old motor car with just over 120k on the clock.







Aside from the initial service, all I've spent is £15 on two new wiper blades. It's only doing 19 mpg but then most of my journeys are short, stop-start jobs.

Waft on ...

 

Looks great!

 

Mercs of that era seemed to be bulletproof. Not entirely sure the modern ones are their equals in that respect.

 

Happy birthday old boy!

 

It does clean up very well by the looks of it

Nice to see that not everyone has decided to trade in their old (but still working) cars for the scrappage scheme Those older Mercs seem to go on for ever, and it shows.

I think there's just as much fun to be had keeping an older car running these days. Sure the mpg will be a bit lower, and you won't have quite the same number of "toys" inside, but I think older cars generally have more character

 

I think they're now somewhat better than the shit they made 5-10 years ago.

But the W124-126 era M-Bs were timelessly brilliant cars.

 

A class-act.

A good friend has a 560 SEC - a sublime cruiser and surprisingly quick too.

 

Looks in good nick

 

Looks great, but what toys does it have - cruise, A/C, electric seats?

 

It doesn't have aircon, but it has electric (but not heated) seats, electric headrests, cruise control, electric sunroof, electric windows all round.

All the above work except the sunroof which I think is just stuck. As I mentioned in another thread, the disconnected LPG tank is still in the boot blocking access to the manual sunroof crank so I need to get that removed before I attempt to free it.