My first and current Mercedes was previously owned by my brother(he has no idea how much I love him for this).It's a 86 300E. It has 200k mi. on it,but it still drives better than any other car I've ever owned.
This is how I aquired the masterpiece(mine anyway). I was driving a 90 Honda Accord with 213k on it. He knew I always wanted to own a 300E, so he went out and bought one, just so he could have one before me. He does that alot to make me envious. Well, I've never known my brother to keep a car for more than 6 months tops. He purchased the car in Sept.99 and sure enough by Jan.00, he was ready to sell the car(not that he didn't like it, that's just how he is). Well, he tried to sell the car for $5500. but no one wanted it. They said it was too old(Thank all of you idiots ). Anyway, after not being able to sell the car, he approached me and asked if I was interested in the car. I was, but I couldn't let him know how much. So, I told him to let me get back to him. I knew that I was taking a chance on him finding someone to buy it but, that was the chance I had to take. It was now Feb.00, and still no takers, so he came to me once again. His proposal was, he would give me the Benz for the Honda, I figured let me see how good I actually was. I told him that I was in the process of saving for a house and I didn't have any money to give him. He told me since I'm his only brother he would do a straight up trade. Now I'm thinking ok what's wrong with it. He told me he just tuned it up completely,changed the fuel pump and filter but bascially that was it. I ran this by my wife who was totally against this(NOT THAT I WAS GOING TO LISTEN TO HER ANYWAY, THIS WAS A BENZ WE'RE TALKING ABOUT). To end this story I now have a 86 300E that I love, he sold the Honda for $3500, not that I care, my wife has had her 89 Maxima for sometime now, still haven't bought the house, still looking. BUT, I have a Mercedes Benz ...
The wheels and the exhaust is courtesy of my brother, he also has 17' wheels for it sitting in his basement but I don't think I will put them on, living in NYC. I already bent a chrome 16" Lorinser rim here, so I doubt that I will by these from him..Maybe, I don't know for sure..


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Richie
1986 300E
tint windows
clear corners
euro headlights
16"silver borbet s type
soon to be 94/95 taillights
stainless steel exhaust

[This message has been edited by rich30769 (edited 11-14-2000).]