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1982 300sd, new project car to restore

It doesn't matter if you know what you're doing, as long as you look like you know what you're doing.

Still less creative than a trunk-mounted miniature meth ICBM.

...It's Tuner Tuesday: Meth Rocket? - Didn't You Hear...

they catch em around here all the time cookin in the trun.saw an article awhile back where they caught somebody walking around in a wal mart pickin stuff he needed to make his crank and was cooking it right in the store as he walked around.

They should have evacuated the store and let him keep cooking it. Rumor has it that meth cooked by rednecks tends to explode -- be a lot cheaper to scoop him into a pail than to keep him in the hoosegow.

The reporter referred to it as a "beat up Mercedes with Mississippi plates".

But, it is a 1986-1991 2nd generation 300SEL/560SEL;

Top of the line S class of the time.

Awful that such an iconic Mercedes Benz fell into hands like this.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

Moneys short, times are hard. The only people who have the $$ for this type of car may well be working in such an enterprise.

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Grumpy Old Diesel Owners Club group

I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

This is true, $500 cash is hard to swing for a car these days.

In "beat up" condition its hard to even give these things cars away, unfortunately.

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TC
Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

Was it "beat up" before or after it became a lab?

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Grumpy Old Diesel Owners Club group

I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

I have a guess (before) since a meth dealer owned it. If you said anything different other than crack I'd have to reconsider. Where I grew up there is a LOT of meth going around in some circles. Its not a drug where you can get really rich unless you don't use, almost all of the dealers are junkies themselves and pour all their money into their habit. You also use to get a feel for how pure the drug is. I'm sure there are kingpins somewhere, but in my experience it was probably a junker longggg before coming into the hands of a street dealer.

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TC
Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

but no surprise. Poor car.

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Jim

btw in the OP that news reporter looks like he's unsuccessfully holding in the most massive ****

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TC
Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

Roseanne Barr's sister was a meth kingpin in the midwest.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

and that would probably be here in iowa.i know when they were married her and ton arnold had a restaurant and some farm land in the ottumwa area.s.e. of des moines.and as for the mercedes he probably got it from a tweeker that owed him money.

Ooops, it was Tom Arnold's sister:

Wish I Didn't Know |

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Will the member fess up? Did they confiscate your car. Did not have Colorado licence plates so that thins the possibilities out a bit.

Actually if I was driving around with canadian plates in the american south in an old clunker I would be expected to be pulled over and checked. Not for being a mobile lab particularily either. Whoever it was just is not too bright.