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Originally Posted by the mole aaahhh the familiar interiors of a 115 ....gogi why dont you post an obituary for the dead black one... |
Oh ok! although I cant sleep thinking that the guy scrapped it after making a deal with me?? Amol, I think the car is still there, is it?
Well, the story goes that The Mole put me on to a car which was lying around for years due to neglect. The Mole (Amol) belongs to our kind of club who would try to even restore junk just to give it a new lease of life, provided its worth it and not exorbitant.
This pre 1975 220D was a rust bucket but I decided to restore it. The price was decided but........
Got exited and even planned everything till I learnt it was sold to a local mechanic who was wanting to sell it to the scrapper and wanted his pound of flesh in the bargain. Learning how unreasonable this whole exercise would be I gave up...with a heavy heart but i think it was worth giving up. Later We learnt that there are no papers for the car etc, etc. The Mole being the brave heart that he is then wanted to step in and take over. He took a lot of convincing that the new price quoted was not only unreasonable, it was stupid and then a visit to my body shop guy convinced him that this was going to be a not so feasible project.
If its not Resting in peaces now it will sure be soon. RIP O great 115. At least The Mole and me would sleep better knowing in our hearts that we tried
I am just dumb founded. The interiors were still good but the engine which I realize now would need a lot of work or even replacement. Certain parts had rusted so badly that they were almost like brown paper. Guess some decisions should be taken with the Mind and not the heart but then can we help it, if its almost always the other way around... |