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Old 04-11-2013, 06:22 PM
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A little rust means no trunk floor, at all.

Beat up interior means it doesn't have an interior and the gas pedal is a piece of re-bar. One of the door windows was held up by blocks of wood. The door handles were pieces of bailing wire.

One quarter was completely smashed in.

The WVO system was jimmy rigged together. The battery was moved to the trunk, unsecured and sliding around.

Steering, brakes, suspension, vacuum system were basically nonexistent.

Runs well means that it has a miss or two and blows smoke from all around the turbo. Couldn't get it to make any sort of power, even revving the **** out of it.

Would be a fine parts car, but not for a grand. Ad had bad pictures and basically said that it ran well, was beat up, but would get you where you needed to go. That's how I would describe my wagon, so I didn't think it would be that bad, probably on the same level as my wagon.
I used to work in a junkyard, and about 99% of the cars we got for scrapping were in better shape than what you describe.

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Old 04-11-2013, 07:05 PM
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Here's the ad: 1980 Mercedes 300SD Diesel Veggie Conversion
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Old 04-14-2013, 09:37 AM
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Did you insult the seller by telling him you wouldn't take the car if he gave it to you
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did you just walk away?

Curious minds want to know.
He was a really nice guy. I just told him that it was above me skill level, that I couldn't do much with it and it would be better for someone with more experience. I did offer to buy it for parts though. haha.

The pictures in the ad were taken before the fender was crushed.

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