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Title: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: regisw116 on 19 March 2007, 05:06 PM
hi everybody

i'm régis, french owner of a 1979 280 se, it drives with both fuel and gas ( GPL/LPG)

i works on w116 since ten years and i have another one in parts (  :() with tan leather ( but destroyed by rust).

i speak english quite well, maybe i could help some membres (?)

in fact, i'm happy to have find such a community on the net ( in france we have also a big one, but it's general)

how can i show you some images of my loved car ?

thanks

régis

Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: Brian Crump on 19 March 2007, 05:35 PM
Wecome Regis. France is a wonderful country. I go to Paris for my annual holidays and always enjoy it. In which part of France do you live?
Mforcer will show you how to post pictures (hopefully?) and we would love to see your car.
Regards,
BC
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: oscar on 19 March 2007, 05:36 PM
Hi regis,

Welcome aboard. For posting pictures, you can upload into the gallery here (http://gallery.w116.org/main.php).  You can create a photo album in any one of those sub albums.  However, I think the gallery is still being updated.  We will be able to see your car in there but I'm  not too sure if you can post from gallery into a thread.

You can also join and upload to photo sites like imageshack and photobucket.  You might have to search for them to find their URL's

Does that all make sense  ???   It all gets a bit complicated but once you start playing around with them you'll get familiar with it.

Look forward to hearing more about your car.
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: Mforcer on 19 March 2007, 06:04 PM
Hi Régis and welcome to the forum! We all hope you find this forum both helpful and fun!!

You should access the gallery (http://forum.w116.org/index.php?action=gallery) (same link as at the top of each forum page) where, once logged in you will be able to upload any W116 photos to show off your car. You are able to create your own album if you have more than a few photos. We love photos! :)
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: WGB on 19 March 2007, 07:51 PM
Bonjour Regis,

Welcome and please put your photos in the Gallery.

Bill
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: gregdeklerk on 20 March 2007, 12:40 AM
Hi Regis.

Welcome to the forum. Look forward to seeing pictures of your car.

Greg
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: gregdeklerk on 20 March 2007, 06:07 AM
Je ne parle pas Francais.
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: robgee on 20 March 2007, 06:47 AM
Salut l'accueil de Regis nous regardons en avant à vos données Considère Robert.  :)
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: Andrew116 on 20 March 2007, 10:23 AM
Sooooooo  ;D
Hello Régis.
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that has an GPL/LPG system installed in their 280SE  ;)
Hope we get to talk more about our "specials".

Have a nice day,

Andrew in Romania.

PS: Si tu veux, j'ai en cont de Yahoo Messenger. Nous pouvons parler en Français, Englaise ou Roumaine.  ;)
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: Tomi on 20 March 2007, 10:32 AM
jesus, what a lingual group  :o. welcome Regis, good to have some Frenchmen aboard (since other French have switched models and disappeared ?)
regards from the north
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: Martin 280s on 20 March 2007, 10:39 AM
Boas vindas do Brasil Régis,
Please send pics of your car. I was once on the Eurostar on my way to Brussels and I distinctly remember the French countryside flash by, it was very pretty from what I could see at 300Km/h.

Is this a new poll coming up? What languages do we speak being mother tongue or second, third etc?
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: regisw116 on 20 March 2007, 05:01 PM
thank you everybody, you are a great enthusiast group! i can see that! :D

merci de ton accueil ami français!

so you can't post directly images on subjects if i understand

can i put a link to my favorite french mercedes community ?

thank you all !!!
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: regisw116 on 21 March 2007, 01:10 PM
so here is my car!:

http://mercedes-benz.forumactif.com/Les-classes-S-c3/W116-f8/quelques-photos-de-ma-w116-t5875.htm

and a link to this forum, in french of course
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: oscar on 21 March 2007, 06:15 PM
Hey regis

Nice photos.  The red one looks like my 280S red colour.  Is the roof a darker colour or is it just how the photo appears?  A very clean and straight engine bay and interior.  What are your plans for the rusty silver one?  Thanks for sharing. :)
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: gregdeklerk on 21 March 2007, 11:56 PM
Nice car Regis.
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: regisw116 on 22 March 2007, 12:54 PM
hello

oscar: my roof is orange-tan, like the interior

for the engine, i use belgom alu, with paper 600 ( water), and my hands of course!
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: robgee on 24 March 2007, 10:41 AM
Hi Regis I just thought I would translate a joke I hpe it works as well in french.
regards,
Rob

Donc j'étais dans ma voiture, et je conduisais le long de, et mon patron a donné un coup de téléphone, et il a dit ‹ Vous avez été promu ›. Et j'ai dévié. Et alors il a donné un coup de téléphone un deuxième temps et dit ‹ Vous avez été encore promu ›. Et j'ai dévié encore. Il a donné un coup de téléphone un troisième temps et dit ‹ Vous Etes le directeur général ›. Et je suis entré dans un arbre. Et un policier est monté et dit ‹ ce que vous est arrivé › ? Et j'ai dit ‹ je careered de la route ›.
I think it does work what do you think mon ami.
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: James R on 24 March 2007, 12:59 PM
Il parle français bien et rigole même mieux mais je crois que ''careered'' n'est pas un mot français !!??
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: gregdeklerk on 26 March 2007, 12:20 AM
Ek kan nie verstaan hoekom julle mense nie Engels kan praat nie!!
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: editjunk on 26 March 2007, 05:16 AM
Alors, là, je suis bluffé. Tant de mecs qui parlent français, et moi qui pensé qu'en Australie ça ne parlait que le Strine. Génial!

Merci donc à Régis - tu nous a dénoué nos langues!
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: robgee on 26 March 2007, 05:24 AM
That's not fair Greg I don't have Afrikaans-English translation software.
Rob >:( ??? :P ::)
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: gregdeklerk on 26 March 2007, 05:41 AM
Quote from: robgee on 26 March 2007, 05:24 AM
That's not fair Greg I don't have Afrikaans-English translation software.
Rob >:( ??? :P ::)

Rob you have just burst the illusion I had of you. I thought you were a man of many talents and could speak many languages!! So you have been cheating all along? Do you want some help?
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: oscar on 26 March 2007, 05:52 AM
Hey, how about appauling Polish written with incorrect grammar and spelt incorrectly using aussie phonetics.

Ahem

Tso ti moofish? Ya cheh nya rosumeyeah. Ya nya moshure rosmahvyuch por frarnsiscoo i por nyemetsku. Prosha rosmahvyuch angelskoo yuk nya por ya nyeahbenda mookvyensi piss such!!

A big thanks Mum, for helping.
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: robgee on 26 March 2007, 05:59 AM
Just to clarify my thinking Greg, are you asking if I want some help with my cheating or your translation.
Rob
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: gregdeklerk on 26 March 2007, 06:02 AM
The translation of course. I am an officer of the court. I would never dream of aiding and abetting a serial cheater.
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: robgee on 26 March 2007, 06:10 AM
No of course not My Lord I am a lawyer you know I don't tell untruths.This is what one calls an ambiguous statement.
ROB
Serial cheater confidante to statesmen politicians journalists and lawyers.
Not to forget those bastions of truth Used car salesmen.
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: gregdeklerk on 26 March 2007, 06:24 AM
I just call it "being economical with the truth". ;D ;D
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: James R on 26 March 2007, 02:35 PM
Hey donde estan los servicios ? Me guste tu estilo !

That's all I know in Spanish. I get by though.
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: robgee on 26 March 2007, 08:38 PM
James the Mitsubishi Pajero is never bought by Spanish folk or South Americans ever wondered why?
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: oscar on 27 March 2007, 04:14 AM
Quote from: robgee on 26 March 2007, 08:38 PM
James the Mitsubishi Pajero is never bought by Spanish folk or South Americans ever wondered why?

Rob, what's the answer, I can't remember, you're killing me here.  Someone said the toyota MR2 was inappropriate naming in France. 
What does Pajero mean in Spanish?
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: robgee on 27 March 2007, 04:38 AM
Hi Oscar its slang for wanker . :-\ :-\
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: gregdeklerk on 27 March 2007, 04:50 AM
I am sure it won't be a big issue for Mitsubishi to re badge the Pajero under another name. It is done by most manufacturers in different markets.
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: oscar on 27 March 2007, 04:54 AM
Maybe they should just badge it "Mitsubishi Wanker" in Spanish speaking countries.  It's the same as calling it Pajero elsewhere, true?
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: robgee on 27 March 2007, 05:00 AM
For that very reason its calle Shogun in UK Euro and US markets.
Rob. ::)
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: robgee on 27 March 2007, 08:25 PM
It is called the Montero in the US and Spain and Shogun in the UK only.

Gee you can access wikipedia to Michel wonders will never cease. :-\ :-\
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: Martin 280s on 29 March 2007, 10:35 AM
Quote from: robgee on 26 March 2007, 08:38 PM
James the Mitsubishi Pajero is never bought by Spanish folk or South Americans ever wondered why?

That's a bit of a fib, there's hunderds of them in Brazil. They seem as a bit of a status symbol!
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: robgee on 29 March 2007, 10:42 AM
Correct my if I'm wrong Martin but don't they speak Portugese in Brazil and not  Spanish as my second wife was from Peru i think that its a slang word in Spanish not so in Portugese and I will qualify this statement by saying South American Spanish as opposed to speech impediment afflicted Spanish in Spain (poor old King Philip and his lisp). :-X
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: Martin 280s on 29 March 2007, 10:45 AM
They/we do speak Portuguese in Brazil. It's the only Latin American country which does due to the Portuguese invasion in the being of the 16th century.
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: regisw116 on 29 March 2007, 02:36 PM
je suis content d'avoir trouvé ce site qui est réellement international pour les amateurs de w116 comme moi

i'm really happy to have find this group wich is really international for lovers of w116 like me

voulez vous des cours de français ?

would you want lessons of french ?




sweet dreams

Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: Brian Crump on 29 March 2007, 06:23 PM
Quotevoulez vous des cours de français ?
Well I can speak a little and have studied in Paris but it is so easy to forget the language unless I use it constantly. Obviously, your English is good. It is better than my French  :-[
Are you a Stephanois? Is that the correct word?
The closest I have been to your area is when I spent 2 weeks in Haute Provence in 2005.
Regards,
BC
Title: Re: new french owner of a w116 280se
Post by: regisw116 on 31 March 2007, 06:17 AM
to brian crump: yes, i'm a stéphanois, it's correct! ;D