My First Car: '67 Toyota Corolla with 110K. Bought in '72 for $250. Sold for $25 in a bar a few months later. Bill of Sale written on a cocktail napkin. No remorse.

was a 1969 pontiac tempest.had an olds 400 big block.what a motor!two speed tranny would leave a patch of rubber at 72 mph if you had the balls to hold the pedal to the floor.she got pretty squirrely at that moment.

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1984 300D turbo 155k

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Bought a `65 Econoline back in high school for $350. Painted it, did the interior up like they did in those days, and sold it a few years later for $750.

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300TD W124, Two VW TDI Passat Wagons,Cummins Ram 250, Kubota Tractor
23 cylinders sipping the sweet sauce of the soy bean

1974 Vega $25. in 1980; it had 35,000 miles on it and was a total rust bucket.

Sold it for $900 a month later.
A wiring fire in the wipers burned it up.

A FREE Chevette with hail damage that looked like some one took a sledge hammer to it.
A gallon of bondo took care of those craters; sold for $700.

When I was in college I bought an 1972 Austin America for $35. It had a four speed auto trans and would only go in reverse. I bought a junkyard trans for $25 and fixed it myself. Later on the crankshaft broke, bought a junkyard crank and bearings for $25. Junkyard parts for this car was not too hard to find and most cars in the junkyard had 50k to 70k miles on them. Although this car was one of the worst cars ever made I drove it for many years.
On a dark rainy night I drove it too fast around a bend and rolled it. At the time I didn't think I could give it away but a guy driving by house saw it and offered me $200. He just bought one and needed an engine and seats. That was a lucky day.

My neighbor had a Rambler station wagon and when he bought a new car they wouldn't take it in for trade. He asked me how he could get rid of the car so I gave him $25 for it, fixed what I could without cost and cleaned it up. Sold it a week later for $100.

1991 Toyota MR2 for $250, sold it for $3000 after adjusting valves.

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1980 500SE/AMG Euro
1981 500SEL Euro
1982 380SEL
1983 300TD
1983 500SEC/AMG Euro
1984 500SEC
1984 300TD Euro
1986 190E 2.3-16
1986 190E 2.3
1987 300D
1997 C36 AMG
2003 C320T 4matic

past: 1969 280SE 4.5 | 1978 240D | 1978 300D | 1981 300SD | 1981 300SD | 1982 300CD | 1983 300CD | 1983 300SD | 1983 380SEC | 1984 300D | 1984 300D | 1984 300TD | 1984 500SEL | 1984 300SD | 1985 300D | 1986 300E | 1986 560SEL | 1986 560SEL/Carat | 1987 560SEC | 1991 300D 2.5 | 2006 R350

Mine was a 1965 Mercury Park Lane, the big 4-door sedan with the reverse-slanting power window in the rear and an acre of trunk. Bought it for $500 in 1981. Not exactly the most economical car around; I think I got 15 mpg on the highway once. But it was smooth and solid, and never failed to start.

I sold it in 1985 for the same amount to a family who needed room for their kids.
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-- Paul W. (The Benzadmiral)
('03 Buick Park Avenue, charcoal/cream)
Formerly:
'97 C230, smoke silver/parchment; '86 420SEL, anthracite/light grey; '84 280CE (W123), dark blue/palomino