I was at the Pick and Pull today to get some tires for my Chevy van, can get really good tires for a good price if you pick carefully, you know reuse, re-cycle.

On the way in, near the entrance was a nice looking 420 SEL, at least I think that was the number, it had chalk writing all over the body, just like all the cars out in the yard do. I looked it over thinking it must be on the way out to be picked over, the seats were in excellent shape, front and back, my color, the light tan. Score, I’m thinking.

I asked the lady at the gate, and she said they must’ve just bought it, would be a week or two before it’s out in the yard.

I found two good tires, I was leaving, and I see it’s gone and it suddenly hit me that it would’ve been useful to know the model number. That’s how they list them on theit website, make, year, and model number. No W126 or any other designation
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I couldn’t see it through the fence, so I go in the front office to see if they have the paperwork and if they’ll tell me the model number so I can save a trip to the yard, just watch the website to see when that year and model number is added.

The guy said oh you mean that long Mercedes, the green one, the one that looks pretty good? I say yeah, he says ‘oh sorry no can-do, that’s on the government buy-back program, we can’t touch it, just ...’ and he made a motion of crushing it.

I suspect they do it in a lot of states, if you fail smog you can get about 1000 bucks from the state to retire it after it’s past a certain age, I forget 30 years, something like that. Holy Shiite, I am not a happy individual at this point in time.

Tires looked great, the body was great, some blistering on the paint.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

That's California for you!

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2017 Chevy Colorado Diesel (nanny state emissions)
2005 Volvo S40 T5 AWD, 77k
1987 Mercedes-Benz 300D turbodiesel, 4 sp auto, 156k - 28.7 mpg
1996 Tracker 4x4, 2 door, 16v, 3 sp auto. 113k - 28.6 mpg

WARNING: this post may contain dangerous free thinking.

I'm telling you, it's an impossible dream, if only I had known the owner, I could have offered them a hundred bucks to let me swap the seats just before they took it in. Would have got the same money.

Oh well, dream on. But damn those seats looked good.

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Te futueo et caballum tuum

1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K