Had some rust but not too bad. The car was completely original. Sent from my iPhone
> On May 29, 2018, at 11:10 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
