Bought my first Mercedes - a 9 year old 1973 280 - from a shady Iranian, at night in a shady neighborhood near Tysons Corner, VA. We literally drove it down the street 100 yards, turned around and returned to the house, after which I wrote Mr. "Tony" Alami a check for $4700. Those were the days before pre-purchase inspections were invented.
In the year we owned this wonderful car we had to repair the transmission and vacuum locks (for about $1500), but sold the car for $4850 to a dip. heading overseas. Not a bad intro to the marque... Andrew 1983 300TD 1985 300TD On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Wow. How do you guys do it? > > I wouldn't be able to sleep if I went and looked at some of the cars Kleb > has bought and not done a cursory check of maintenance items... > > Dan being retentive > > Sent from my iPad > > On Jul 15, 2015, at 10:49 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > >> Uh, you do go over the cars you buy in detail before you buy them, > don’t you? > > > > Apparently I don't. It was quite a surprise to me to find > > that the SEL didn't have an air filter in it. I'd driven > > it for quite awhile too, and we live on a dirt road. > > > > -- Jim > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
