Two W108's near me

[JustPassinThru]

Hello, I don't own a vintage, unless you consider a 1985 W123 as vintage. Lately I've begun pulling W123 and W126 parts from strip lots and selling them online.

A small local lot received in tonight, while I was standing in the driveway, two W108's. Neither has obvious body damage. One is a 280SE, the other a 280S. Both are white. They don't look bad a'tall...the 280S has Thermo King air conditioning, a beautiful complete grille, and excellent --they look darn near new, in fact-- bumpers, also has what look like 4-inch-high chrome license plate lamps, and yellow fog lamps above the front bumper--chrome on these is immaculate. Also has tear-free red seats. Dashboard is complete on it. Both cars have electric windows, one has good glass all around.

Not to seem mercenary, but if I don't take from them this lot will send them to the crusher Monday afternoon, so in the spirit of wanting to help fellow Benz owners tinged with a bit of capitalism I'm wondering if there is anything it might be profitable to grab from these?

[tram]

Originally Posted by JustPassinThru

Hello, I don't own a vintage, unless you consider a 1985 W123 as vintage. Lately I've begun pulling W123 and W126 parts from strip lots and selling them online.

A small local lot received in tonight, while I was standing in the driveway, two W108's. Neither has obvious body damage. One is a 280SE, the other a 280S. Both are white. They don't look bad a'tall...the 280S has Thermo King air conditioning, a beautiful complete grille, and excellent --they look darn near new, in fact-- bumpers, also has what look like 4-inch-high chrome license plate lamps, and yellow fog lamps above the front bumper--chrome on these is immaculate. Also has tear-free red seats. Dashboard is complete on it. Both cars have electric windows, one has good glass all around.

Not to seem mercenary, but if I don't take from them this lot will send them to the crusher Monday afternoon, so in the spirit of wanting to help fellow Benz owners tinged with a bit of capitalism I'm wondering if there is anything it might be profitable to grab from these?

Where are you?

[JustPassinThru]

Originally Posted by tram

Where are you?

PM sent.

[twinockchef]

Yes were are you?

[JustPassinThru]

Near Chehalis, Washington. It's actually not a strip lot, it's just a backyard operation with a wrecker and a crusher. All they normally do is haul 'em in, crush 'em, and then haul the cubes to a metal recycler in Tacoma. I had to wave cash and plead, to persuade them to not crush them at once.

I'll PM my cellphone number to those who respond; I'll be there from 8 to 5 tomorrow. Keep the phone call short, my battery is low. Or, better, leave your number and I'll call back with the phone plugged into my car charger. Pics not possible, my phone is an old Nextel walkie-talkie brick. It's out in a rural area, so I don't know for sure if there will even be cellphone reception there.

I have a good set of backyard mechanic tools, but if it requires finesse you'll have to give me detailed instructions. I have a lot of experience pulling W123 and W126 parts, so probably won't break anything. However, I doubt there will be time to pull a camshaft, windshield, or anything serious like that.

[JustPassinThru]

OK, done pulling from them. They're history. Within the next week I'll clean up what I pulled, and post decent pics over on BenzWorld.

One question: with an eye toward preservation, on stuff like the long aluminum piece which goes across the cowl above the firewall, and on the grille, which in sunlight looks incredibly good but in the dark under bright flash shows flash rust...what would people recommend I do? Not clean them at all? Mother's aluminum and mag cleaner? Household ammonia? Four-ott steel wool? Or...?

[Palolo]

Preservation: wipe down with a light smear of lightweight oil or liquid wax like Turtle Wax "Ice". Other products are just as good, probably, the main thing being to create a barrier between air and the piece.

Post the Benz World link when you have it. That red interior looked good to me. Someone will like/want it.

Thank you for saving some W108 pieces. There's fewer and fewer due to "crush 'em and ship 'em" policies at the yards, but I understand the economics just aren't there for them to hold a niche interest car like the 108 for long.

[JustPassinThru]

I started it in the Vintage section:
Two W108's parting out - Benzworld.org - Mercedes-Benz Discussion Forum

I like the BenzWorld forum better than PeachParts (this one) because PeachParts has too short a time interval of non-activity before it automatically logs me out. If I have to upload a 2-to-4 MB picture to tinypic.com and then post a message with a link to the picture, by the time it's uploaded and I go back to post, PeachParts has already logged me out. BenzWorld though gives enough time to upload pics and compose and post a message with a link(s) to pics.

[Tomguy]

Originally Posted by JustPassinThru

I like the BenzWorld forum better than PeachParts (this one) because PeachParts has too short a time interval of non-activity before it automatically logs me out. If I have to upload a 2-to-4 MB picture to tinypic.com and then post a message with a link to the picture, by the time it's uploaded and I go back to post, PeachParts has already logged me out. BenzWorld though gives enough time to upload pics and compose and post a message with a link(s) to pics.

This has never happened to me. It's interesting that you say this. I think my timeout is like 2 weeks? However, I'll forward this post to one of our forum admins who has control over this (it should be a global setting) to see if he can see the issue or cause.

Can you let us know what OS & browser you use to further help? Just to see if it's ignoring the session time in the cookie.

[TnBob]

XP and Firefox is what I use and I dont remember every being logged out.

[JustPassinThru]

Opera 11.61 under Puppy Linux 5.28. BenzWorld.org and superturbodiesel.com keep me logged in for hours, perhaps days, I don't usually leave my computer on overnight.