Does anyone else agree?
I put something together this week that I reckon will land well here, given how seriously many of you look after your cars. It’s about the oddly deep satisfaction of sorting out an SLK’s service file. When I picked mine up the previous owner had folded years of invoices into the document pouch and more or less forgotten about them. Servicing, tyres, MOTs, brakes, suspension, the works. I took them home, spread the whole lot across the floor and put them in date and mileage order, and honestly it was one of the best evenings I’d had with the car before I’d even turned a wheel.
You can read the ownership styles in the paperwork. The keeper obsessed with tyres, the one meticulous about annual servicing, the one who fixed things before they failed. The car’s whole character is in there in black and white.
Full thing here if you fancy it:
Good timing too. Just had a proper round of work done at Klasse ahead of Le Mans, not only the bits that needed doing but a fair amount I simply wanted sorting while it was in. It’s all gone straight into the folder behind everyone else’s, another few lines in a story that started before me
I put something together this week that I reckon will land well here, given how seriously many of you look after your cars. It’s about the oddly deep satisfaction of sorting out an SLK’s service file. When I picked mine up the previous owner had folded years of invoices into the document pouch and more or less forgotten about them. Servicing, tyres, MOTs, brakes, suspension, the works. I took them home, spread the whole lot across the floor and put them in date and mileage order, and honestly it was one of the best evenings I’d had with the car before I’d even turned a wheel.
You can read the ownership styles in the paperwork. The keeper obsessed with tyres, the one meticulous about annual servicing, the one who fixed things before they failed. The car’s whole character is in there in black and white.
Full thing here if you fancy it:
Good timing too. Just had a proper round of work done at Klasse ahead of Le Mans, not only the bits that needed doing but a fair amount I simply wanted sorting while it was in. It’s all gone straight into the folder behind everyone else’s, another few lines in a story that started before me
