That'll be my lunch time work out, loading a car on a trailer... -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300
On June 15, 2017 2:04:49 PM EDT, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >So I went and looked at these two cars, both are 420SELs. The black >one the guy bought a year old in 1989 and has driven it since up until >a >year ago when it started having engine problems of some vague sort. It > >doesn't look too bad, he took fairly good care of it. It's dirty now >and the paint is faded but the interior was half nice. Some poosing on > >the paint would help a lot. He took it to a local indy who fooled with > >it for a week or two, he went and got it and a week later something >happened, there is a hole in the front of the left bank valve cover >that >looks like the timing chain punched it, but the chain looked OK from >what I could see there. Anyway he takes it some guy in the hood and >parks it out front. He knows some other guy with a 420SEL with a >supposedly good motor, and buys it. This car is a turd. The PO lost >the >key when his trailer burned down, so no key to try to spin it but the >guy says it was running. The place where it is parked was supposed to >swap engines but it never happened, now both are dead and he has to >unload them. I got them both for $425, maybe at least one good engine >if not both, one half-decent car, the other a turd. I am crazy but I >can pick off some parts worth a $100 or $200 or so and scrap the turd. > >They both had good wheels so there's that. > >Max doesn't know it yet but he is going to help me load them tomorrow >and Saturday. And Curley might have some interest in some bits of >them, >so there's that too. > >Kleb has infected me. > >--R > > >On 6/14/17 10:36 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: >> Looks to me like both are gassers, wonder if there is an engine there >for >> Curly? Not to far from my work, maybe a fifteen minute drive, we can >> combine with lunch at that soul food place in North Chuck that we >went to >> once? >> >> ------------- >> Max >> Charleston SC >> >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >>> What say you Max? I wonder what these things are. I might have to >go >>> look at them, I need to become the Kleb of Charleston. >>> >>> https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/6171901835.html >>> >>> -- >>> --FT >>> Winston Churchill: >>> “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or >small, >>> large or petty, >>> never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. >>> Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming >might of >>> the enemy.” >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> 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 >> > >-- >--FT >Winston Churchill: >“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, >large or petty, >never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. >Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might >of the enemy.” > > >_______________________________________ >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
