ITS A DREAM COME TRUE.....FINALLY!!!!
ever since i can remember, hanging around my dad's Mercedes Shop, i have been around mercedes benzs. i am 22. (for time frame reference) i always knew that one day i would have my own Mercedes Benz....to drive, love, and appreciate. but then the shop was shut down due to a nasty stepmom, doing a dirty divorce, stealing everything, and i ended up living in germany for a long time. there i couldnt ever get a benz, because NO ONE my age can afford the enviromental tax for such a "HUGE" engine, and of course, the new ones are all too expensive. so then i came back here, after my apprenticship, and drove a CRX for a while. well, she lasted until 163k miles, where she ate a valve on the highway, and died. then i needed to get a car. sure enough, just like fate would have, the first day i picked up the paper, there was my dream coupe, sitting in someone's front yard, for only 550 dollars. i raced over there in the rental car, and bought her on the spot, without having ever seen her run or anything. she was brought on a flatbed to a friends benz garage, where a battery was installed, and she fired right up. a few small headaches later, and i have my perfectly running dream benz, just like i always wanted!
and the things good about her:
She is a masterpiece of mechanical engineering!
I get compliments from much older people almost every time i pull in for fuel.
Diesel torque enables me to dust riceburners all the time, earning me stares from all the "mis-informed" people who "think" they have the best kind of vehicle.
40 MPG speaks for itself on a 20 year old vehicle.
And last, but not least, she completes my "image" as a german......as in "there comes that german, in his benz, with his techno musik"
and she's just fun to drive, especially when flying past people driving v8 camaros on the interstate!