I went to see the '88 560SEL today, and of course for $500 I expected to see a ton of problems. I was very pleasantly surprised to see that the car was in remarkably good shape. The original black paint was in terrific shape, and the only problems I could find with the body is a small dent in the rear driver's side door. The interior needed nothing more than a detailing, all the leather (black) was intact and not even too hardened. The Burlwood trim is in excellent shape, in fact I couldn't really find much wrong with the interior at all.

There's no rust anywhere on the car, it's clearly never been in an accident, and the motor started up fairly easily. It won't hold an idle and it stalls unless you hold the gas, but it revs up and sounds strong and powerful. Kinda reminds me of my old '96 Impala SS.

To my extreme surprise, I appear to be only the third owner and the guy I bought it from appears to have only put a few thousand miles on it. The motor is kinda dirty, the valve cover seals are shot (he included new ones and new motor mounts).

Anyway, I stole the thing for $500!! Now I have two W126 cars, a 300SE and a 560SEL.

I will post pictures as soon as I get the thing towed to my house. Oh yeah, 186K on the clock.


$500!! Heeeheeeheeheeeheee

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1990 300SE "Corinne"- 145k daily driver - street modified differential - PARTING OUT OR SELLING SOON - PORTLAND OR. AREA - PM ME FOR DETAILS
1988 560SEL "Gunther"- 190K passes anything except a gas station
1997 S420 - 265k just bought it with a rebuilt trans. Lovely condition