Thousands of Cars Ravaged by Sandy Up for Auction - weather.com

Wonder how many vintage Mercedes are in there?
Believe I may have to check their lists...

https://www.iaai.com/

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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A Bugatti is listed. A '1929' is how it is described.

But it look like a kit car that was popular in the 70's.

There are also 158 Porsches listed, three Lambos, nine Ferraris.

Over 2,000 Mercedes, so this might really be worth a look.

The oldest Mercedes is a 1977 6.9. It is pretty rough looking.

All the others are a lot of 123's and 107's. One 560 SL 107.

When you move into the 90's there are a lot of 300E's.

Four Royce autos, one a 2007 Phantom that looks like it would buff out OK.

The other three are Silver Shadows/Spurs.

I would love to find a nice low mileage SD or SDL.

Value on them is low enough that they would easily be totaled without any real damage.

All mechanical things SD can be taken apart and cleaned, lubed and put back into service.

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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I spent the 2 weeks after Sandy in Zone A Staten Island and Brooklyn/Queens/LI and saw plenty of MB's flooded.

6 or 7 S500's on Staten Island with water marks up to the mid drivers windows

E320/430's by the dozen either submerged or flooded to the windows (5 Towns of LI and Brooklyn Manhattan Beach)

M series flooded to the windows.

Realize there was RAW SEWAGE in the flood waters as well as Pertoleum/fuel Oil so I would be VERY wary of any Sandy flood vehicle.

Most dealer cars were bought by Export Salvage firms and are on their way to South America or Middle East/Africa. Saw this happening as I was doing Structural Inspections for the NYC DOB and for private clents. Lots of Pick Ups, SUV's, etc all being stripped of the intriors and on site drying ovens being used (Semi trailers with 2 or 3 Propane Turbo Jet Heaters thru the sides) and then they reassemble and load onto Leaseway car carriers and truck to Jacksonville/New Orleans for container shipment.

Year before last I worked for a dealership that had an ML in inventory that was a Katrina victim. Apparently, they sunk about eight grand into trying to make it sellable and it didn't work. It was still sitting in the back lot not running when I left the place.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

Saltwater damage and freshwater damage are two completely different animals!!!

Cars with EITHER type of damage would be in mint condition ONLY on the continent of Atlantis.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)