S124 E36 AMG - saved from the scrappage scheme

[verysideways]

Hello everyone.

New member, been here a few days now, but finally collected my car on Friday. It was due to be scrapped against a new Audi A6 and i managed to find out in time to save it.

Less than 200 W124 E36s were made, and in rhd they were:
24 coupés
14 cabs
12 saloons
7 estates

This particular car was bought as an ex-demo when it was six weeks old for just under £52k (June 1995) and has been a daily driver ever since; it's now done 250,000 miles. The owner for those 15 years had every service done at the supplying dealer, Mercedes Benz of Cheltenham and Gloucester. They ran out of pages in the first service book so it has a second (170k miles to 247k miles).

It's lived on a farm for all that time so it's remarkable that it's survived so well, but the first thing i did when i got it home was clear all the mud out of the inner arches, take a clay bar to the paint, polish it (twice!), wax it, vacuum it out, clean and feed the leather, and so on.

Anyway, i'm just happy that i saved it from the crusher

Here's what it looked like when i got it home:

And this is during the process:

Here's my view:

And here's the end result:

And now i think i've earnt a cuppa!

 

[skyeceltic]

nice job !

 

[stevieb15]

Congrats, looks great but how did you "save" it fromm the scrappage scheme?

 

[verysideways]

Congrats, looks great but how did you "save" it fromm the scrappage scheme?

The chap who owned it was part-ex'ing it against a new Audi under the scrappage scheme; effectively £2k against a new car, but the old car has to be crushed.
Thankfully my sister works for this chap and she mentioned it to me and i managed to persuade him to let me take the car rather than allow it to be crushed.

 

[teddycatkin]

Well done !!!

 

[ryanadam]

So the old boy, lost two grand on the deal. Or did you give him two grand for the car.bill

 

[verysideways]

So the old boy, lost two grand on the deal. Or did you give him two grand for the car.bill

Paid for the car.

 

[turbopete]

nice car. well done!

 

[Michael G 2]

Welcome aboard thats a great E36 you've got.

 

[The German Flower Pot]

superb

you should genuinely feel chuffed that you have saved a bit of motoring quality

you say you paid for it

was it the £2k he would have got off a new car (even thought eh ****ers have raised the prices of the cars by more than the £2k in the first place)

 

[syncropaddy]

Well done for saving a legend .....

 

[dizzy lizzy]

welcome - good job

 

[JEZ.S320L]

You should be very pleased with yourself.

Congratulations - you've got yourself a nice motor.

 

[television]

Congratulations on everything and welcome

 

[verysideways]

Thanks - sooooo happy it didn't get crushed.
Does make me wonder what else has been crushed though

 

[parthiban]

I can't believe they would crush a car like that! If there were only 7 estates ever made, and some would have been written off, there could only be a handful of those left!

Well done for saving it

 

[Andygas_E36]

Another saved S124 E36 in the world!

Hello, Verysideways!
It is really best car for all the time! Excellent work! My congratulations!
I live Russia, but I'm happy owner of S124 E36 AMG too. I'm very glad to find the people who feels the difference between a "brand new Audi" and real museum piece from Stuttgart... Sorry, Affalterbach, of course!
Hope, we can be useful for each other - the knowledge and experience about our "lovely cars"... in spite of LHD and RHD and colours of saloon-leather!

Good luck, AMG-clubman!

P.S. Please, sorry for my bad English language, I hope it's understandable.

 

[*Thumper]

Somebody buy that man a pint ...... or two !!!!!

 

[LSD]

A good deed done - I'm sure the car will repay you in its way.

I didn't realize the estates were quite so rare.

 

[mikestrivens]

I can't believe they would crush a car like that! If there were only 7 estates ever made, and some would have been written off, there could only be a handful of those left!

Well done for saving it

I think it was 7 of these estates imported into the UK as RHD, rather than ever made. There are at least four owned by members on this site, but nevertheless still a rare beast.