Time to say goodbye to my R350 - Page 2 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

#16 04-01-2009, 06:37 AM

I'm glad you enjoyed your minivan.

Jim B. · #17 04-01-2009, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Johnhef

I want to strip the 500SEC parts car, transfer the interior to the 380SEC and sell it. Put the euro 380 engine in my 380SEL and get it on the road and replace the head on my 87 300D... i think in that order, I want the 300D to be the daily driver again.

Now you are talking my language!! I love the old ones. I am thinking about pulling the trigger on another 560 SEC I have found for sale, I was up to 12.30 am this morning, detailing it and working on it, now it's a decent 5 foot car, a nice driver; These do clean up pretty well.

171k on it, straight body, sold new at the Mercedes Benz dealer in Bakersfield, an '89 199 Pearl Black/268 gray, bone stock, straigt unrusted lifetime Calif car, excellent price, runs out well and I finally got it to clean up nice.

I was exhausted, and slept like the dead, slept the sleep of an honest worker, like a guy that works with his hands. A PPI and trip to the DMV for a new sticker is on tap this morning.

Why another pearl black one? It runs out good, cleans up pretty good, and there is this girl I like, who needs a car. We'll see.

seen on the road......

Sunrise, this morning, after
I cleaned it up all last night......

Johnhef · #18 04-01-2009, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ForcedInduction

I'm glad you enjoyed your minivan.

minivans have sliding side doors and soccer ball stickers on the rear tailgate.

Johnhef · #19 04-01-2009, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ImBroke

hello cheaper insurance rates. Thing looks like a shoebox, yuk. I couldnt' talk Deb into a CDI version of the R class.

It sure was quite an ugly thing wasnt it, but usefull as hell. Why, my last night with it, I brought home 14 tires in the back of it

C280 Sport · #20 04-01-2009, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnhef

minivans have sliding side doors and soccer ball stickers on the rear tailgate.

+1

C280 Sport · #21 04-01-2009, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnhef

It sure was quite an ugly thing wasnt it, but usefull as hell. Why, my last night with it, I brought home 14 tires in the back of it

I dont think they are that ugly of a car.

Ara T. · #22 04-02-2009, 04:18 AM

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Originally Posted by ForcedInduction

I'm glad you enjoyed your minivan.

If people can enjoy old slow stinky diesel powered grampa cars, it doesn't seem a stretch that one could enjoy a minivan.

suginami · #23 04-02-2009, 12:35 PM

Johnhef,

Why don't you participate in that Mercedes subsidized lease program for the dealer techs?

My neighbor is a tech at Penske Mercedes in Covina, CA, and he leases an ML350 for about $100 / month.

Johnhef · #24 04-02-2009, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by suginami

Johnhef,

Why don't you participate in that Mercedes subsidized lease program for the dealer techs?

My neighbor is a tech at Penske Mercedes in Covina, CA, and he leases an ML350 for about $100 / month.

again, see signature for the answer

here's the last I saw of it, they spent all day cleaning it yesterday and even got the tire marks off the headliner

TheDon · #25 04-02-2009, 10:08 PM

lol, nice

RobTheMod · #26 04-03-2009, 02:40 AM

Yeah, it's hard to justify a lease car with a fleet like that...

Although I am aware of the 124 and 123 in your sig, it would seem that you subscribe to my old boss's (300SD and 560SEC owner, btw) theorem that "the W126 is the only car that's worth a damn..."

I guess it's like my Audi thing. I work on likely more 1996-2005 Audi A4s than anyone else in at least the eastern portion of Phx, AZ... and proudly drive my 1993 ancestor. To my car-enthusiast customers who have a sense of humor, I've claimed that it's because I insist on owning an Audi that runs...