Why can’t I find a deal like that? Was the car rusty? Sent from my iPhone
> On May 29, 2018, at 8:35 PM, Dimitri via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Ok so yesterday while tending to my Tufts student rentals, I see a well > patinated dark olive green 280SEL 4.5 with palomino leather interior on a car > trailer in the the Tufts Fletcher School parking lot. I pull in behind it > with my 78 240D and encounter two young guys. One of them starts telling me > how he just bought it for only $1700 and trailered it down from Searsmont, > Maine. These guys were no more than 20 and one of them a Tufts undergrad. > They were very interested in my 240D and excited to see that it has a 4 speed > manual (most millenials don’t know how to drive a manual) and said that they > had seen it on the street earlier. One of them, the now new owner of the w108 > found it on Craigslist and drove all the way from Southern CT to pick it up. > They were both extremely knowledgeable about vintage Mercedes and together > tore apart and rebuilt an m116 in a 380SE at age 17. The guy plans to > megasquirt it. I told him that a good friend of mine had already done so on > an m117. > > The car came with a lot of paperwork and the original bill of sale from 1972 > sold to Peter Gregg of Jacksonville, FL. He googled the guy and discovered > that Gregg was a famous race car driver! > > Refreshing to see young kids with a true passion for old Mercedes! > > Sent from my iPhoneI > > _______________________________________ > 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
