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Old 06-26-2007, 05:40 AM
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How about a bumper sticker "Look out for falling parts"

Or "Watch your oil pan"

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Old 06-26-2007, 05:56 AM
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I would love to have that thing just to piss off the neighbors. I bet it smokes like a sum***** too, even better! Amazing it has 300K considering it looks to have not much care in its recent lifetime.
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Old 06-26-2007, 09:16 AM
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ya think the banjo bolt is clean? "regularly checked fluids" um... riight. (in my best bill cosby voice) what's a fluid... I'm guessing from the body condition, that the brakes were of little concern. 900.00? um, ... no.
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Old 06-26-2007, 12:57 PM
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LOL, no way down the streets. Just tint the glass, fix the A/C, adjust valves...
You forgot the two 15s in the trunk and spinner 20s!!

We need a 'big pimpin' smiley...
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Old 06-26-2007, 01:20 PM
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I wonder if that is the one they used in a Geico or State Farm Insurance commercial
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Old 06-26-2007, 01:23 PM
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Old 06-26-2007, 01:25 PM
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How about a bumper sticker "Look out for falling parts"

Or "Watch your oil pan"
That's funny. I saw a bumper sticker last week that said "Honk if parts fall off."
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Old 06-26-2007, 01:44 PM
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A hitch and a bumper sticker that says "If you can read this, my trailer fell off."
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Old 06-26-2007, 02:13 PM
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Damn, I can't stop laughing at that thing!
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Old 06-26-2007, 02:32 PM
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That should buff right out....
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Remember this one? At least this guy was honest...

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1978 Mercedes 240D Automatic

As many know, early Mercedes diesels came in several flavors.

1. The 300d 5 cylinder automatic, which was really underpowered.

2. The 240D 4 cylinder stick, which was dangerously underpowered.

3. The 240D 4 cylinder automatic, which was suicidally underpowered.

With the last choice, many came with factory air. Turn the air on and the car literally might never reach 55mph floored on dry, level ground.

This is the car I am selling (#3 w/air). Here is the run-down on the vehicle (and speaking of run-down, read on).

THE GOOD

It starts and drives.

Most of the lights work.

All the doors open and shut.

It has bumpers.

It has a hood and window glass.

It comes to a stop sooner or later when U press the brake pedal.

The rubber is OK.

Running as rough as it does, the shaking feels kind of good on your back at idle.

Throwing huge billowing clouds of smoke out the back, as it does when you hit the gas, it would make a great get-away vehicle (as long as whoever was chasing you was on foot, and not in great shape.)

The BAD AND/OR UGLY

Few, if any of the gauges work

The engine smokes.

It has been out of registration for a while.

It has oil leaks.

It sounds like it might be running on three cylinders.

There are so many vacuum leaks you always have to manually shut the engine off by pressing the emergency stop button in the engine compartment

The dash is coming off.

The seat backs are missing.

There is a huge wire coil sticking out of the driver's seat bottom that would make any proctologist or accupuncturist proud.

The car has been used for storage for years. Not a bad thing, until you realize that some of the stored items used to be food.

Most of the trim is missing.

None of the climate control stuff works right.

The places where there is still carpet don't smell very good.


This car was owned for twenty years by an elderly man who was from another country and had never owned a car. He is not a bad guy, and was very proud of his car. So proud in fact, that he would polish it almost daily. Unfortunately, he did not know the difference between rubbing compound and wax. So he used rubbing compound, almost daily. When he bought the car, it was somewhat oxidized, with the original burgandy paint job in restorable condition. I explained to him that after he removed the oxidized paint with rubbing and polishing compounds, he could wax it and have a shiny old car. He understood as far as the rubbing compound. It took him about a month to rub his way down to the primer on the roof. He must have realized that the color change from burgandy to gray was not a good thing, so he stopped there - and went out and bought some spray paint. In his early seventies, he did not see very well, so he experimented with a variety of colors trying to get a match. When none of Home Depot's offerings exactly matched the original finish, he had the somewhat logical idea of redoing ALL the paint. So he went out and bought a case of spray paint.and went to town. At least it was Rustoleum - there is very little rust visible on the vehicle today. Well, the spray finish wasn't very shiny (except maybe where it was thick enough to sag and run), so he shellaced the car. And there it was, his shiny Mercedes.

And now it can be yours!

Well, almost - so far we can't find the title.

So, you might be asking yourself, what good is this vehicle? Well, there are many things you could do with it for fun and profit.

F'rinstance -

1. You could make bets with people about whether or not it runs, and then dissapear with their money in a cloud of blue smoke.

2. You could commit suicide by taking it on the freeway.

3. You could add a quart of Roundup to the oil and drive around the neighborhood killing all the joggers and crabgrass.

4. You could commit suicide by slowly backing up on a windless day.

5. You could cut the roof off, fill it with dirt, and grow toxic vegetables.

6. Put on a "wife-beater" and leather chaps, and drive it to LAX and stop in front of terminals yelling "TAXI!, TAXI!" and try and coax people to get in. If anyone actual gets in your "cab", turn around and tell them "your it!", jump out and run away, leaving them with the vehicle.

7. You could park it across the front of your driveway as a barrier to suicide car-bombers.

8. Save it as the "vehicle-of-choice" to drive to IRS audits.

9. Dust off that leisure suit and drive it around Venice telling hippie-chicks it runs on biodiesel, and see how lucky you get. Tell 'em your Beemers in the shop. Show them the tofu under the carpet. It'll get 'em hot, I promise.

10. You could get really stoned, pile all your friends in it, and drive it in to Mercedes dealerships to get estimates on restoring it. See what Hans has to say. They have free espresso and munchies. Make sure they itemize the repair estimate. Make sure to ask about warranties.

I am sure you can think of even more uses for this wonderful, one-of-a-kind vehicle. So give me a call at 310-507-3539 and we can discuss the next chapter in the life of Das Wreck.





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Old 06-26-2007, 02:55 PM
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Oh yes, I remember.
I have the listing printed out and filed away somewhere, lol.

At least the 240D doesn't have the dents of the SD
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Old 06-26-2007, 02:58 PM
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I have the listing printed out and filed away somewhere, lol.
I saved both of these ads- they are classics and I crack up every time I read them.


You think this guy could have come up with a better upside for this car other than "fluids changed regularly"
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Old 06-26-2007, 03:52 PM
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being as this beater is located in L.A looks like it was used in some hollywood stunt.could also be a veteran daily driver on the L.A freeway circuit.
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Old 06-26-2007, 04:30 PM
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being as this beater is located in L.A looks like it was used in some hollywood stunt.could also be a veteran daily driver on the L.A freeway circuit.
thats what I said.. I rember a commercial not too long ago for an insurance company and I saw a W126 just like that one doing donuts in a dirt field

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