sonic
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- Your Mercedes
- E350CDI, SLC250d, FJR 1300
Looks like a BMW2000TiLux in the background.I went to work for a new company that had been after me for about a year to which I finally relented in 1995.
The boss said I would need a car so gave me a signed blank Company cheque, (yes, literally) and said go get yourself anything you wanted with a limit of Z$70,000.00 (About US$14,000.00).
I had a customer that I knew from the company I worked for previously, (Dulux - Glasurit) who had a beautiful white 1985 w123/200. So I hightailed over there and asked him what he wanted for it - it was his personal car - Z$60,000.00 I filled out the amount straight away before he changed his mind and drove away as happy as Larry!! He threw in the Sheepskin Seat Covers.
I left after a couple of years after I had succeeded in doing what he had hired me for - he said I could keep the car. As well of a bit of a golden handshake!
That is how I got into Mercs.... Now on my 13th. Or 14th....
Here it is just after I bought it home with my lovely wife adorning the bonnet!