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I've always been partial to the 15" pentas on the W116 with the AMG spoiler that Styria made up.

Might take a few days of 5,000 classics driving into the CBD and clogging things up before they realize there are quite a lot of us and we all vote!

An LPG car would be an instant no for me unless I am buying as a parts car. Some of those conversions were shockingly bad, and as a classic car fuel consumption is not the issue that it is for a daily commuter.

I think it will be much harder for the government to take this right away in countries like Australia, UK, USA with a thriving classic car movement and industry. Having said that, I think you're right and we as owners and enthusiasts will have to fight for it.

Turns out there are anchor points for lap/sash belts in the back of a W111 cabriolet. I found it hard to get a good answer to this question. https://www.classicjalopy.com/2021/07/w111-cabriolet-rear-seatbelts/

I've seen plenty of Impala W126s for sale, 420SELs in particular. I would say its pretty popular. Bornite on the other hand is quite rare

I don't think classics will be outlawed. The amount of pollution they generate is negligible as they are just not used very much. There was quite a good video on Harry's garage that basically said the CO2 from running a classic for a year was about the same as single plane ticket from London...

6132 is back up on Lloyds so I guess it passed in last time: https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/LotDetails.aspx?smode=0&aid=24320&lid=3028528&pgn=4&pgs=100

Good you've found somebody to take this on who knows what they are doing. Its a real issue with all the knowledge that is being lost as people retire.

I'm interested in the work Porsche are doing with synthetic fuels. Not only might it provide a good source of fuel for our classics, but they might not go off or be polluted with ethanol!

It certainly could be, but I've had the situation in the jag a few times with fuel 4-6 months old making the car not run as well as it should. Perhps there are so many more additives than there used to be?

I used one called STA-BIL. I've seen it here either at Supercheap or Repco. I know the owner of the shop I take my jag to recommends using a stabilizer to his customers that only take the cars out a few times per year for shows.

Interesting Brian. The DS is a mechanical pump, with no return line. The Jag on the other hand uses an electric pump with a return line so much more fuel is circulated around. I never noticed this on my traction avant, but being a pre-war design ran very low compression. Off the top of my...

I've noticed that fuel seems to be more and more sensitive about its age. Recently I had a few issues on my Citroen DS I was waiting to have repaired. This meant that by the time I had that done, the fuel in the tank was from March. Now I have it back I have been using it for errands...

Its funny because the W126 is in many ways a W116 mk2, but it looks terrible in gold, whereas Ikon gold looks great on the W116.

Actually I just looked at the VIN, and given its 10702462, probably south african made.

I really like this SLC https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/LotDetails.aspx?smode=0&aid=24320&lid=3009067&pgn=3&pgs=100 Its a private import, but not sure where from. It looks very well looked after, so perhaps Japan? If that is the case, good for condition, not so good for the very detuned...

Here is a list of year by year colours for the W126 http://www.meinbenz.de/farben/126/Farbcodes126.htm Generally the move to conservative colours started in the mid to late 80s so the early colours are more vibrant. Its interesting that some colours like Black with red interior were really...

This is a list of colours for the W123 models. There are some really interesting ones here as the W123 spans a period where the colour options were changing a lot. It also got some of the new colours that came in with the W126 later in production...

These are the colour options available on the 116 model. There is sometime about the 116 that makes it wear bright colours better than nearly any other mercedes model. This includes yellows and golds etc. I think a 450SE in Mimosa yellow would be a very nice car to own for example...