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Jim B. · #14 09-03-2006, 05:36 AM

Hey Ruben you got a LOT for your money by willing to do some prep with pulling the trim yourself.

LOTS different than the white sedans with the gray lower body cladding.

Yours looks like it got dipped in white paint! A really monochromatic look!

The W124s were great Mercedes, many people, inlcuding me, think they have
the handbuilt quality of the great old Mercedes built to a cost no object by the German engineers and were the LAST of the E class series to have had it - we all know what came in 1996 and it was a lot less good.

This is the one you'll keep for years and years, after you get out of school and be working on diesels full time, right.

You really got a great deal from the paint shop though. Compare what you paid to the typical price you'd have to pay in the Bay Area for a good Mercedes paint job if you walked in off the street, it would be about $8,000.

When I lived in the City till 2 years ago, when the Volvo or SEC got hit, we always went to Eurodesign in South City (San Mateo Avenue) and Rick Martinez, it was Insurance work for us, so we could afford to have the best, and he did Ferraris, Bimmers, highline Mercedes, last time we were in, there was a Brand NEW S55 AMG sedan in, the owners wife got pissed at him and keyed EVERY PANEL on the brand new car (So new it still had the dealer's temporary sticker on the wsindshield). I wonder what made her so mad at him.

My ex wife was from Peru, and the attitude towards paint jobs on cars there was decidedly different.

There used to be an assembly plant in Lima that assembled CKD (completely knocked down) Dodge Coronet sedans from about 1968 to 1978 (when they were called Dodge Monaco's. There were also mid 60's Chevy Bel Air and Ford Custom 500 sedans, everywhere around, and they used them for "Collectivos" they all had the 6 cyl. engine.stick shift engines, and they would be used for trips to the Andes cities, up in the Sierras, load up the passengers with their luggage and off they'd go.

They were painted with a very straightforward approach. Color was chosen and buckets of house paint were purchased. The cars looked like they'd been approached straight on with a broom, and the paint applied broadside on.

Trim , preparation? No me tomes el pelo. Ja JaJa.