When I was swapping the interior in my 87 300D I found a single serving pack of sauerkraut under the carpet under passenger seat. Somebody ate lunch in car while building it.

In my 300d I literally found a black leather glove right next to a knife shaped letter opener, under the back seat cushion.

OJ worked on your car ?



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"A liberal is someone who feels they owe a great debt to their fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."

.38 spent shell casings in the 240D

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The OM 642/722.9 powered family
Still going strong
2014 ML350 Bluetec (wife's DD)
2013 E350 Bluetec (my DD)

both my kids cars went to junkyard in 2023
2008 ML320 CDI (Older son’s DD) fatal transmission failure, water soaked/fried rear SAM, numerous other issues, just too far gone to save (165k miles)
2008 E320 Bluetec (Younger son's DD) injector failed open and diluted oil with diesel, spun main bearings (240k miles)

1998 E300DT sold to TimFreeh
1987 300TD sold to vstech

My old 68 200D broke the fan belt. Happened to be right in front of a service station. (Anyone remember those?) Pulled in and had them install a new belt. Next day I started noticing a knocking noise from under the hood when making sharp turns. Popped the hood and found a 3 foot crow bar hanging from the air cleaner inlet nozzle.

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2004 C240 Wagon 203.261 Baby Benz
2008 ML320 CDI Highway Cruiser
2006 Toyota Prius, Saving the Planet @ 48 mpg
2000 F-150, Destroying the Planet @ 20 mpg



TRUMP .......... WHITEHOUSE
HILLARY .........JAILHOUSE
BERNIE .......... NUTHOUSE
0BAMA .......... OUTHOUSE

In a car that I was scrapping: 72 Dodge Dart $10 in the heater vent, in today's money that's about $ 25. On cars with heat only, there was a door you opened under the passenger dash for fresh air, the $ was stashed in there.

What I've found in customers cars.

Some sort of Disco cologne under the seats of a 74 or so Porsche 914 . As a side note, this car was possessed, the German equivalent of Christine and curse of the Mummy all wrapped up in one. This car was previously owned by the x husband of my then lady friend. She had thought it was out of her life until years later it turned up in the hands of someone in our auto racing club.

The car had perpetual issues, others called it "The Black Devil Car." A few people that came into contact with it suffered such ills as their race cars motor blowing up and such. ( We told you not to sit in the car! )

Finally the engine blew up and was taken to a local race shop. While the engine was in the back of the shop truck on it's way to a Porsche engine specialist, the shop truck was crashed and totaled.

But wait, there's more! Finally with a good engine the 914 was up to speed. So much speed that it rolled over. . . , on a nearly flat surface,. . . without hitting anything. The final indignity was rolling the car back over on it's good side. Last I heard it was in CA causing earth quakes , global warming and sick puppies.

Ford 302 V8 , a short wrench in the oil pan. Someone must have changed the timing chain at some point and dropped it in.

A 3 ft tall fig tree in the back seat.

Lots and lots of french fries , hamburger bits and cookies in , you guessed it, mini vans.

Occasional tools under the hood, top of frame, inner body panels.

I was changing out the rusty dogleg(sheet metal below and aft of the drivers door) on my '75 MGB I found a mummified full grown frog (no possible way to find its way in without help) did not get pic's

My '64 Porsche Cabriolet, in the 'built into the body boxes for the speakers' pass side box: a wrapper from some limberger cheese. Yes, it still smelled. I was looking for the smell & found it there, , ,

(bought the car used, , ,)

-c-

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A gigantic bag of Pot where the spare was supposed to be in a 500SL back in the early 80's.

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1981 240D Four on the floor, Orient Red over Parchment, bought with 154,000 but it's a daily driver and up to 180,000 miles, mostly original paint and all original interior.

a large number of Hustler brand single serving sex lube packs in an 84 300D.

In a separate incident, while stripping a shot up 81 240 parts car I found an ID for the YMCA for a little kid from the early 80s who with a few decades added I realized was approximately my age. Found her on facebook, sent her a few pics of the car, and learned some history on it.

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HA! that's a cool story...

A roll of undeveloped film wetched underneath Betsie's drivers seat I came across when I took the seat and carpet out. I still haven't had it developed, but thinking about it now has made me damn curious on what would be on there. I should have it developed...��

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"The MB W123 is so bulletproof, you can drive them forever. Which is a good thing as it takes that long to get anywhere."
Betsie: 1984 W123 300D (hobby, 280k miles)
Myrla: 2001 Mazda Protege 2.0 ES 5spd (daily driver, 130k miles)
The Turd: 2007 Toyota Camry (wife's car, 118k miles)

Bought a car from a guy I worked with. In the process of cleaning it up found a 9/16" combo Snap-on line wrench with my initials and identifying marks on it. Asked him about it. Turned out he bought the car from a guy three years before.

I had replaced the master cylinder on the car 5 years previously and left it under the hood in the wiper motor valley where it had remained.

I had forgotten about losing it. It is now back in its proper spot in my wrench rack. Had just the tiniest bit of a rust spot on it where the finish had rubbed away. Gotta love those quality tools!

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― Brian P. Cleary, You Oughta Know By Now

Hah, that's awesome ^

I bought a 200D for $200.00, in the trunk were Two heavy bags for weight. Two $50,00 bags of new pennies.