Technical data:
Model: Merlin plus 2
Year of construction: 2002
Engine: Ford Sierra 2.0 L- 4 cylinder DOHC, fuel injection
Power: 92 KW
Builder: Bruce M.
Special features:
Right-hand drive, stainless steel exhaust system, sliding windows, wooden dashboard, toolbox integrated in boot lid, new wire wheels with wing nuts since 2009.
It's 2011 and a cold January is keeping us in a paralysing stupor. Inwardly a desire for change. The visit to Klassikwelt Bodensee the year before year is constantly on my mind and makes me browse through the offers on the Internet. What and how is completely open, but there is no success, and it is always the same. Classic cars, convertibles, roadsters up to 1970 - nothing suitable. Then on 16.01.2011 wrong entry, without year of construction, and on the first page a green car, right-hand drive, with everything I was looking for. From then on it went very quickly. Phone, appointment, short-term licence plate and on the evening of 20 January 2011, the free space in the garage was taken (after a snowy drive through the Eifel). Registering the car for April with German papers was no problem, but there was a surprise on the first drive on 01 April. The visit to my classic car friend Thomas was suddenly interrupted with "Who owns the green car in front of the house?" and left me the first damage to my car. But I was completely wrong. In front of me was a young woman who lived in the same town as Thomas and told me that she also had a Merlin (the second one in Saarland) and would be happy to get to know me better. It was our Heike and we have done a lot together with our Merlins to this day. My first Merlin meeting was in Bremen in the same year. Any repairs that needed to be done were done in the winter.