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Baz
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Back From France.....At Last
« on: Aug 29th, 2006, 11:43pm » |
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Unfortunately, due to some technical difficulties I was unable to do my annual "Scorpio in France" diary this year, partly due to not having a Scorpio with me to write and photograph!
Following damage to the auto transmission fluid cooler, (slight crack in the pipe causing fluid to seep out and onto hot exhausts!) and a bodged repair by a French bloke which caused more damage to the gearbox seals, I was forced to hire a nice new 2006 Merc S Class for a fortnight. These are some pics I took and also some of the inside for Sally!
We did see a few "foreign" Scorpios but only 3; 1 dutch and 2 french. Someone noted recently that a lot of the European Scorpios seem to be mid or low spec models. Looking back at my older photos from last year and these here, I would concur with that assumption too.
I did get a few odd looks when I slammed on the brakes in Paris and jumped out of the £60,000.00 Mercedes to take pictures of an old Scorpio Ghia!!
Things started off so well, a nice leisurely trip to Dover and booked into the hotel where I took this picture of the Scorp with the sunset in the background!
Unfortunately, the next photo was of the car on the side of the Autoroute looking all forlorn!
Pics of the foreign cars I saw:
An arty one with the Eiffel tower and the scorpio below!
Some shots of the poor old scorpio on a french recovery truck and the English one sent to take us home last night. Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of the story because at 4 o'clock this morning, the recovery truck got a blow-out and we sat on the hard shoulder for an hour and half while someone came out to fix it. Finally got home at 7 am this morning!!
I am now seriously considering buying an S class (not a new one though!!) and either keeping the Scorp for weekends or selling the whole lot, FDS and all on Ebay!!
Finally for Sally, some other shots of the S Class.... what a car!!
Oh and the weather in the South of France was crap at times too!!
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Snoopy
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Re: Back From France.....At Last
« Reply #1 on: Aug 30th, 2006, 6:32am » |
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So all in all Baz, NOT one of the best holidays youhave had. Except of course for the MERC. they are nice though!
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Re: Back From France.....At Last
« Reply #2 on: Aug 30th, 2006, 2:21pm » |
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very nice pics thats one car ! ( oh i do mean the silver scorp ) if you buy a s class sell me ya scorp 
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Re: Back From France.....At Last
« Reply #3 on: Aug 30th, 2006, 5:47pm » |
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Glad you're back safely Baz.
Hope your damage isn't too costly.
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Re: Back From France.....At Last
« Reply #4 on: Aug 30th, 2006, 6:01pm » |
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how did you find all those scorpio's in france  my sister lives in france and every time i go over, sometimes twice a year i have never seen any 
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Re: Back From France.....At Last
« Reply #5 on: Aug 30th, 2006, 8:36pm » |
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Welcome home Baz.
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Matt
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Re: Back From France.....At Last
« Reply #6 on: Aug 30th, 2006, 8:41pm » |
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look at it this way baz, urs is the better looking of the scorps you saw, even with the roof box
but could you really part with your scorp?
btw, ive never seen that shape s class before  , is it a mainland european one or something?
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Danny_R
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Re: Back From France.....At Last
« Reply #7 on: Sep 1st, 2006, 4:39pm » |
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haha some slight rain in that last picture Baz!!! I've been on camping trips where its done that for the whole 2 weeks.
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Re: Back From France.....At Last
« Reply #8 on: Sep 1st, 2006, 4:56pm » |
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I am suprised that merc didnt have a big heap of electrical gremlins.
Its missing it battery cover
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