Guess it's time to stop being a lurker and get on the board. Been following the forum since Jan or so about the time this car showed up and it wasn't a Buick Grand National I thought I was getting but a 1990 560 SEC.
After the driver set my mind right, I had to own up to buying it after a crazy, impulsive lapse of whatever on a cold, dark, wet December Saturday afternoon in Seattle. Don't remember how it all came about but it did.
Got the car off E Bay out of Houston, delivered in early Jan and it's been a real trip since then.
Car had 128,00 miles or so and was in what I call excellent shape but maybe to an experienced MB man good or close. Every thing looked to be in good condition but the maintenance records were incomplete at best, most would say I did every thing wrong in buying this car but I got it and so far have no real surprises or complaints.
I have completed a list of most of the things I think you have to do to most used cars whether a MB or other make. And I have done a few things that I would call improvements to the overall great car, like changing the steering wheel, new exhaust system, modified air cleaner, and a few other small things, nothing radical or changing the essence of the car. A few pics
After the driver set my mind right, I had to own up to buying it after a crazy, impulsive lapse of whatever on a cold, dark, wet December Saturday afternoon in Seattle. Don't remember how it all came about but it did.
Got the car off E Bay out of Houston, delivered in early Jan and it's been a real trip since then.
Car had 128,00 miles or so and was in what I call excellent shape but maybe to an experienced MB man good or close. Every thing looked to be in good condition but the maintenance records were incomplete at best, most would say I did every thing wrong in buying this car but I got it and so far have no real surprises or complaints.
I have completed a list of most of the things I think you have to do to most used cars whether a MB or other make. And I have done a few things that I would call improvements to the overall great car, like changing the steering wheel, new exhaust system, modified air cleaner, and a few other small things, nothing radical or changing the essence of the car. A few pics