Anyone on the list interested in a nice 48,000 mile, 4 cylinder diesel engine complete with all accessories, including automatic transmission?
I just bought the holdings of a Polish fellow who owned 26 Mig aircraft with some 238,000 cubic feet of spare engines and component parts which he bought at the fall of the USSR. When Russia stopped being USSR, his friends and family called him up and said, "The airbase here is for sale".... so he bought it... shipped it to USA, and has been selling off new engines and like new Mig aircraft since then.. until he turned 84 and his wife and family here said.. stop now.. he did. As I worked through the layer upon layer of parts, I discovered a crate with the engine and a load of other parts taken from the Mercedes, along with the dash and speedo from what looks to be a very low mileage wreck, which he gathered up while in Europe and shipped along with everything else... The engine is Pristine clean, as the transmission, and gives every indication it's hardly used.. The shipping docs I've found with the crate are in Polish... so will need to translate them ASAP. The gentleman was a WW2 veteran, fought the Nazis as a Polish resistance fighter, wounded at 15, and a "very interesting fellow" to know.. Brilliant yet a bit eccentric.. Just got the crate pulled out today, and the lid off.. will take some pics ASAP if anyone is interested in owning the engine. I also now have what looks like a completely refurbished head, with new valves and cam.. precups, etc.. AND a used head, in "as removed condition" .. no written history on either of them..... yet discovered... Engine is still in the crate.. will need to pull serial numbers to determine exactly for sure what it is.. "looks like that's a 240 engine" .. "ok" ... "lets move it to the triage area" .. "done"... That's if so far.. _______________________________________ 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
