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That metal plate thing must have been a dealer-specific item, I'm actually not familiar with that for MB
This doesn't look like the worst old thing
Had a couple of guys come in driving a 300TD Waggon to pick up their 2000 Range Rover.
My memory of 190Ds and 200Ds is that they are nasty little cars to drive...they vibrate like hell.
Still, it was being driven, and in that harsh climate...that has to be worth something. I still recall seeing a documentary on the 1964 Alaska quake, and in a shot of traffic in a demolished area (after the tsunami I think), there was a fintail driving along.
0-60 on a calendar, unsafe for highway driving.
Alaska Quake
In the pictures I am thinking of I saw a mercedes parked on the side of the road.
Here is a neat shot of a Vette...
That Volvo in the larger pic must have been unusual then. Did Alaska attract odd cars? An old friend of the family lived there back in the day, and he always talked about driving his Renault Dauphine on the Alaska Highway.
Anyway one of Hugh's girlfriends has never driven a stick before and Hugh has one of the guys that maintains his cars show her how to.
On his 1959 300SL roadster that he has owned since new. :surprise:
She promptly got it stuck trying to drive up a steep driveway. Dragged the whole back end across the ground. :sick:
Pictures of Hef's 300SL
Edmunds TMV:$139 $655 $1,537
90 Talon TSI AWD
Edmunds TMV:$111 $468 $1,076
96 Disco
Edmunds TMV:$2,159 $2,766 $3,633
I guess if you are adverising for free, there is no real incentive to actually sell the item. Kind of like the housing market around here...ask rediculous amounts and then whine when it doesn't sell.
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
this car exemplifies everything that was wrong with the '70s
Look! an actual project
this guy must be related to Andre
I'm not sure I'm ready to see "restored" and "1986 F250" in the same sentence
for all that, it's still an '88 Mustang
homemade Avalanche
really not a suitable color for a Benz
Shiftymobile
Nice price range on the third one 600-120,000 dollars. :surprise:
I agree on the Mustangs.
Porsche 914 -- this would need further investigation. The "built" motor is of some concern. If he used Japanese flat top pistons and a big-bore kit, what we have here is a Japanese hand-grenade with a loose pin. But if it was built with quality parts and good mathematics ("...now if I flycut the heads, I get 11:1 compression---do I want that?")
Also there's the rust issue--if it's eaten into that unibody, not so good.
Mercedes SLK -- car for a chorus girl in Vegas
1986 Ford 250 -- looks like a good buy to me
'88 Mustang -- well, if it's your thing, the parts alone are worth the price of the car.
Yeah, I'm not so crazy about the color, either. I had thought about the seat sagging, but when that happens on a car, often it's an improvement for me because as the seat sags, it actually creates a bit more legroom!
I guess it could be possible that the seat track was messed up, so that I couldn't put it back all the way. I do remember though, that where I had the seat positioned, it was far enough back that I don't think you could get an adult back there with any degree of comfort.
I think we actually got off pretty lucky with the rain that year, although it was overcast all day and the skies seemed to be threatening to open up on us all day. I think it had rained the day before though, so the fields were muddy in places. And for some reason, this year they had the show in the grass instead of the parking lot, just to make it interesting I guess.
It looks like the cars didn't suffer much, if any damage, although I guess it's possible the '60 might have gotten hurt. I wonder if it was a very big deal to extract those cars from the hole, or if they just got written off?
I will say, though, that after 220K on my '96 Subaru, the harsh weather up here has nothing on the Northeast. I see ads on Ebay and what not that show all sorts of surface rust on engine components in Subarus that have less than half those miles, and yet there was not a spec of rust anywhere on my car... even with its once-yearly wash and wax.
But if you find a nice survivor, that could be a very nice cheap car.
Once they are banged up or rusted or the engine goes, yes, they are totally worthless except for parts. And that won't ever change. The SLCs chances of becoming a valuable car are utterly hopeless at this point.
Most "luxury coupes" suffer a similar fate. Look at the BMW 8 series or the BMW 635 CSi, etc. Nice cars I guess but nobody wants to touch them unless they are bargain-priced.
Why is this? A combination of too many of them still around, competition from their ragtop brethren, and punishing repair costs.
That was nicely worded but an understatement.
Most shops just hate to work on cars like this and they will charge accordingly.
Best time to buy cars like that is when the previous owner is financially exhausted, sobbing softly, bewildered and disillusioned. Then you buy it cheap, drive it while it still runs great (thanks to the $10K he sunk in it), then at the first sign of trouble, you unload it and you got a "free" ride for a while.
Cruel, but then life isn't fair sometimes.
The whole idea is to make sure there's a chair waiting for you when the music stops. That's all you have to remember about 450SLCs or any old foreign luxury car.
With domestics that are older, they tend to be way more archeological in technology. No overhead cam this and fuel-injected that and pneumatic-hydraulic whatzis.
AND....you got Pep Boys and Autozone to boot. No 450SLC parts at Kragen, last time I looked.
At least if you bought a shabby 280SL you might get some of your money back at least. But a 450SL is money down the old pipe IMO.
Pretty good price actually...realistic for a change. First thing I'd do is check it over for potential engine fires and make a list of what it needs...they always need something, it never ends, not even for ten minutes.
Could be a good deal there...nice car to drive. Just put $5000 away in a saving account for the maintenance.
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Limited Velvet Red over Wicker Beige
2024 Audi Q5 Premium Plus Daytona Gray over Beige
2017 BMW X1 Jet Black over Mocha
Like many other Jags, probably better to admire from afar, rahter than own.
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Limited Velvet Red over Wicker Beige
2024 Audi Q5 Premium Plus Daytona Gray over Beige
2017 BMW X1 Jet Black over Mocha
Ze French Girl Friend -
Very rare.
Very high maintenance.
Requires exotic fuels.
Accesories are very expensive.
Some say can be hard to get 'em to turn over, but not all models have this problem. In fact, some can be started by anyone passing by.....
Newer models are often stolen.
Older models can be hard to get rid of.
And of course -
Smokes. A lot.
Did I miss anything?
Now I am disapointed.
I will have to post a "mockery" ad one of these days, but I lack the necessary motivation. :P
I gotta wonder where that money went, or why you would put that kind of money into an old automatic prelude needing bodywork. And just what does "motor is straight" mean? Is that his way of saying "inline 4-cylinder"?
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
Didn't they build these until not too many years ago?
Didn't they build these until not too many years ago?