Near Charleston SC
--R
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
where are you/said cars located?
Rich Thomas wrote:
There is this auto repair place nearby, always busy. Has a yard with
some junkers, and more better cars parked in back. I see some fairly
nice looking older Benzes there, have been there for awhile. I
stopped to talk to the owner, ask if they are parts cars, customer
cars, cars for sale, or what. He says sorta some of all the above.
So I go looking around, there is a very nice 350SD (not SDL) there
parked in back. Then a 300D with so-so dk blue paint and a very nice
dk blue interior, looked pretty good. Then out in the boneyard is a
115 300D, paint faded badly but body/chrome in very good condition,
all the bits there (incl some extra lights in front -- fogs?)
interior ratty. And an SEL. So I go in to ask about these cars.
350SD has a blown head gasket, AC needs a bit of freon once a year,
customer did not want to pay to have it fixed so there it sits. Ask
him how much he would take for it (it is a VERY nice looking car).
He says a $1000 would be a fair price. I ask him about the rodbender
engine, he claims not to know about that, but this one starts and
runs well other than the cooling system gets pressurized. Hmmmmm.
I have never seen just the SD, it is just like the one I just bought,
but much much nicer. Hmmmm.
He says the guy who has the 300D wants $1500 for it, which seemed
fairly reasonable, and there was another Benz there, a 126? SEL I
think that sorta ran but was in half decent shape, said he would sell
both as a pkg, not that I want them but the SEL could be a good parts
car I guess.
He says the 115 was running fine but the blower resistor overheated
and caught fire, burned under the dash or something, guy didn't want
to fool with it, so it got parked in the boneyard but has not been
stripped or anything. He was gonna find out what the owner might
take for it, if anyone is interested in that car it looked pretty
solid but nasty paint and interior but mostly very nice chrome and
other bits. I figure it for crusher cost+a bit maybe.
So, anyway, if anyone has any interest...
I am thinking about this 350SD. It was very clean, silver with the
light gray interior, looked well-taken care of (there are some people
around here with lots of Benzes and money, some very nice cars).
Didn't check the miles. Assuming it is just the head gasket and not
a cracked head (is that a problem on these cars? could it be the
head not the gasket?), that wouldn't be much problem to fix, right?
And if it is running half well, drive it till the rodbender starts to
act up, or even do a pre-emptive rod job now? I vaguely recall some
discussion of that procedure -- how hard would that be? I am
thinking that for $800 (if I beat on the guy a bit) or $1000 and some
parts and a bit of time, a very nice car could be running.
What say y'all?
--R
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