SSI - limited payout, doesn't require full retirement age. He signed up for it without letting us know, effectively cutting off his path to Medicare.

Ed's 63. Most of his adult life, he was "self-employed" and has hated "The Man" with sufficient passion that he a) didn't pay his SS taxes as he should have, so has next to no qualifying quarters, and b) didn't bother to file tax returns for, oh, a decade or two.

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1961 220b: first project car - sold.
2000 CLK 430: first modern Benz - sold.
2001 CLK 55: OMG the torque!!! - sold
1972 280SE 4.5: Baby Gustav
1991 300TE 4Matic: Gretel the Snow Bunny - sold
1978 300SD: Katz the Free Man - given away
1980 Redhead: Darling Wife