Vehicle: 380 SL, 500 SEL (W140- the King of the Road!)
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Posts: 619
ELIZABETH I THINK IT'S THE BIG ONE BRING THE OXYGEN TANK!
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1993 500 SEL (W140-the King of the road!)
1984 380 SL (Der Panzerwagon)
You know you're German if:
You went to school in a Gymnasium
You check your shoes for candy on December 6
You have real candles on your Christmas tree
You know a Frankfurter is a person not a hotdog
Schnitzel with noodles is your favorite meal, not a song in a cheesy musical!
You drive the Autobahn in a Mercedes-Benz at the speed of sound!
The issue with a car that has seen no life on the street, is that inevitably, when it does finally get out, it will fall to pieces. Scratches, fluid leaks, corroded metals... regardless of how well it has been stored, 20+ years without proper regular flogging is going to have an undesired effect. how were the chassis rubbers preserved? suspension components? even simple things like shock absorbers, would have required to be removed and inverted regularly, to keep the piston seals lubed. Sadly, the only real future the car has, is in a display, away from greasy fingered, drooling slackjawed yokels. If someone stored this car 'properly' the storage maintenance costs, have far outweighed any value the owner has perceived for the car, if it's going for 50K.
what a crying shame.
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First I'd drive it, then I'd jack it up and spend another $10K fixing all the things that started to leak as soon as I turned the key, then I'd rebuild the suspension to replace all the rotted rubber, then I'd drive it some more.
On second thought I'll just keep my 78.
I hear you. Once bought a 1967 250se from the PO's widow. It had sat for 13 years since his death. Took a bit of rubber as it had been sitting in Tucson.
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