It took a little while longer to move the Mercedes on than I hoped, but it left for its new home 3 weeks ago. I then had to wait a couple of weeks to begin my search for my new car as I was too busy with work to go and look at anything.
The hunt for a liquid yellow 200T then began, and it quickly became clear that it was slim pickings. I finally found one and arranged a viewing, only for the guy to decide that he didn't want to sell it a few days before. I was pretty gutted! I had been looking at another online at a specialist car dealer in the Midlands, but the pictures on the listing weren't great so I wasn't convinced.
It was late on a Friday night, bored of hours of searching for cars and coming up empty, I then re-read Chris' progress thread. Chris' car looks awesome and was the main reason I wanted one in this colour, despite the dealer's images - I thought the actual car will look so much better in the flesh. So I bit the bullet and went to look at it on the Sunday.
When I got there the car was sitting there at the door of the unit and I don't mind admitting that within about two seconds I had decided to buy it. Thankfully after a very thorough inspection, it turns out it was in great condition. As was all of his stock to be fair, never seen such a clean inventory.
Here she is on the Monday, after driving to a meeting with my boss. Not the best pictures - I was in a rush to get back in and drive her.
This is the best pic I have taken so far, but the car was a little dirty after a couple of trips to the office in London.
I'm so pleased with it! Not had a chance to have a proper blast in it yet, only normal driving (had a few little plays), but I love it. It already has a few things done to it, but I have so much more planned! I ordered a few little things the day I got it, so will have some updates soon.
The hunt for a liquid yellow 200T then began, and it quickly became clear that it was slim pickings. I finally found one and arranged a viewing, only for the guy to decide that he didn't want to sell it a few days before. I was pretty gutted! I had been looking at another online at a specialist car dealer in the Midlands, but the pictures on the listing weren't great so I wasn't convinced.
It was late on a Friday night, bored of hours of searching for cars and coming up empty, I then re-read Chris' progress thread. Chris' car looks awesome and was the main reason I wanted one in this colour, despite the dealer's images - I thought the actual car will look so much better in the flesh. So I bit the bullet and went to look at it on the Sunday.
When I got there the car was sitting there at the door of the unit and I don't mind admitting that within about two seconds I had decided to buy it. Thankfully after a very thorough inspection, it turns out it was in great condition. As was all of his stock to be fair, never seen such a clean inventory.
Here she is on the Monday, after driving to a meeting with my boss. Not the best pictures - I was in a rush to get back in and drive her.
This is the best pic I have taken so far, but the car was a little dirty after a couple of trips to the office in London.
I'm so pleased with it! Not had a chance to have a proper blast in it yet, only normal driving (had a few little plays), but I love it. It already has a few things done to it, but I have so much more planned! I ordered a few little things the day I got it, so will have some updates soon.
