While picking up the SL after dealer prep one year, the saleperson and I double-checked the door map pockets and found a 9mm handgun. No big deal being in Texas, but I didn't stick around to see who the previous owner was that came to get it!

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

A friend of mine bought an old VW bus in the late 80s, I think. It had been owned previously by a roadie for the Dead. He checked it out real thoroughly, found some old coke paraphenalia and some roaches, figured he'd found everything. He and a buddie went traveling through Cal and into Mexico and back. No troubles.

A few months later, he pulled out the spare and hidden under a bracket was a film can full of odorless (by then) but potent bud. Oh man, if they'd been caught w/ that it Mexico or at the U.S. border?!? It was during one of the Zero tolerance, impounding vehicles for mere possession eras.

Whew....

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

It was a P. F. Flyer, like the one on the bottom.

Sorry boys and girls but I can't turn this one loose yet. We contacted the PO of the Chevy and he told us that HE put the shoe under the intake. Anyone have a guess as to why???

please tell me you asked....

It was the sole support of the manifold?

Stop some vibration noise?

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

a less logical place to hide a 9mm? perfect shape though....if it was a high top....

Alright, no one is thinking logically here! The athletic shoe was obviously to make it run better!!!

Oh brother....where's the 'roll eyes' button?

We need an 'ear of corn' avatar for corny, don't we!!!

No doubt, my friend. I can't believe I so looked forward to finding out what the purpose of the shoe was....

Forgive me and I promise to never pull anything like this again!!

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Here's one that most people won't believe:

In 1988 my parents were visiting Spain. My dad saw a ad in a local newspaper for a used Mercedes. He and my mom went to look at it. It was parked in a chicken koop(sp?) in a very rural village. The owner told my dod that the car had belong to his mother who bought it new and had gone on her honeymoon with it. The car was a 1954 300S coupe with metal sunroof. and factory luggage still in the trunk. It had less than ten thousand kilometers on it. Under all of the dust and chicken poop the car was still as new. The owner said it drove and even started the engine. My mom, not being accustomed to being in barns and farms wanted nothing to do with car and kept pestering my dad to leave. The son offered my parents a glass of his own homemade wine to drink while a price was dicussed. Most farmers produce their own wine for local consumption. He wanted about $2000 u.s. for the car at the time. Dad sent me a postcard explaining the car and mistakenly put 1964 as the year. I thought it was a 220SE coupe and didn't think much of it. Later, after they returned from Spain< I was looking through Hemmings and my dad pointed to a picture of a 300S coupe and said that looked like the car had seen. Five minutes later he was on the phone, trying to get a friend of his to go over and see if the car was still there. It had been sold. I wonder where that car is today.

Another time, in the mid seventies, dad looked at a 300SL gullwing that had 22,000 miles and was perfect. The asking price was $7500.obo. He turned it down because he thought it would be unreliable(his 190SL was a horrible pos).
He still has the newspaper ad for the gullwing. At the time, they were just used cars, that nobody knew how to work on. How times have changed, eh?

In the late 70's there was a local guy that had a Plymouth Superbird for sale in his front yard for months.Asking price? $1200!!! Back then,just another used car.Now,big$$$$$$