Ginny-

One other word of advice when you inspect this car. Be sure to pull back the carpets and examine the floors for dampness. MB tend to rot from the inside out down here. Water gets in through bad windshield/window seals, get sucked into/under the sound deadening and rots the floor. The great undercoating on the underside keeps the floor looking pretty good for awhile.
Give the floors a heavy push where the seam to the rocker panels meets it ( on the inside under the carpets). If you hear a "crunch"- beware. It hasn't rained much around here in months so if it leaks it may be dry by now- but the car still has had 25 years to rot.

Rick

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