https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/481620986604984/
So this popped up last night so I messaged the dude to setup a time to
come look at it today. I had planned on trying to get it for around
$1500 if it was half way decent. Upon arrival the location is in a
trailer park, which was the first problem. When I arrived and walked
up, there was a couple of your text book trailer trash type people
sitting on the porch and and old man out messing with a charger on the
car. At the same time I notice another guy walking up. The 2 trailer
trash people started laughing about how we both showed up at the same
time. They were the ones running the fakebook ads from what I gather.
At this point I start getting a little pissed because I set an
appointment and drove 2 hours to see this car. I consider it extremely
rude of a seller to have people show up at the same time, especially
when you are traveling for a distance. The other guy also drove 2 hours
from Kansas, but had no trailer so not sure how he figured he was going
to get the car back home. Did the trailer trash think we would get into
a bidding war?
Anyway, the seller gets the car started finally and talks about how it
has not been driven since 2009, when it was last tagged. Now on to the
car. Of course paint is dead, but on the surface appears to be rust
free. Every single window, door, and body seal is cracked all to hell
and needs to be replaced. You can literally see water leaking out of
various places from under the body and the back seat area is wet. It
appeared to me it probably has hidden rust under the undercoating. The
drivers seat bolster is torn up and the passenger seat is out of a ford
or something. AC compressor and condenser is MIA and the lines are just
hanging loose, despite the seller saying the air blows ice cold. Car
has a little over 300k showing and engine sounded Ok and did not have a
ton of blow by. I put the car in reverse and never really felt it
engage. Car is parked in a driveway with a steep incline. Turbo waste
gate hose is unhooked from the turbo end and has a line routed to a tap
on the intake. Not sure what that is all about. Seller then hops in
the car and backs it down the drive to drive it up the street. Car is
revving up as he takes off and you can tell its slipping badly. No
telling if its low on fluid or just worn out.
Seller comes back with the car and I check the gauges and temp is pegged
at max. I inform seller of this. The other guy and I start talking and
he has never owned one of these. I told him within about 2 minutes of
all this starting I was not going to get involved because this was more
or less a parts car. The other potential buyer asks what I thought it
was worth and I explain in front of the seller that I recently bought an
85 that has perfect paint, perfect interior, garage kept example for $2k
this past summer, so this car would probably be worth maybe $800. In
the end, this guy did not make an offer either. He did want my number
though as he sounds like he may want to buy something from my fine fleet
of vehicles. This was funny because we started working a potential deal
right in front of the seller of this car.
On the way home, I spotted this car sitting out by the highway for sale
and stopped to look. I just so happen to be driving right by it and
have seen it for sale for a while.
https://stillwater.craigslist.org/cto/d/yale-1986-mercedes-benz-300sdl-turbo/7309187266.html
It is somewhat decent but a little rough around the edges. Has
potential maybe. I just texted the guy and offered him $1500 and he
says he might take it monday but has a couple of people that are
supposed to come look at it tomorrow. We shall see. Makes not
difference to me one way or the other.
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