You got a good deal there even if you didn’t work the deal a bit. The Fakebook boys will be all excited about that even with the rust. They are paying stupid money for turds 💩but that doesn’t look too bad.
--FT Sent from iPhone > On Dec 12, 2020, at 2:40 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Appears this buy bought the car off the original owner in 2015 and it has > been in tulsa the whole time. The rust must be due to body seals leaking > rather than salt issues. > >> On 12/12/2020 1:32 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >> The vehicle below popped up this morning so I messaged the guy and went to >> look at it. Supposedly ran with parked but won’t go into gear. When I arrive >> the dude has a massive estate sitting on 130 acres. He has what I could >> consider to be close to a mansion for a house. Very very large house. This >> happened to be right next door to where my ex wife’s family used to live so >> I am very familiar with the area. This area is full of old strip mining coal >> pits and in fact the land he has used the be the county dump for many many >> many decades. I think they quit using it in the early to mid 80’s then >> covered it over with dirt and years later this guy bought it and built his >> mansion. I did not mention the fact that his place has decades of buried >> trash under it, surely he knows. In case he didn’t I did not want to stir up >> something. Anyway on to the car. Looks decent but does have some rust (see >> photos). We threw a battery in it and it started right up. Clutch pedal >> feels normal but it won’t go into gear at all. With engine off it seemed to >> go into gear. Got it loaded up on the trailer and brought it home. Fired it >> up and I will be damned if it doesn’t go into gear now just fine. Pulled it >> off the trailer and took it out. Shifts fine thru the gears. Noticed temp >> started creeping up so got it home. Radiator appears to be low. I also >> noticed a fairly good leak out of the heater valve so I guess that needs to >> be replaced. Has a good oil leak out of the valve cover gasket. >> >> Will probably go thru and do a full service on it, clean it up and get it >> flipped fairly soon. Upon further inspection it appears the rust is worse >> than I thought. I noticed all along the passenger side at what I assume is >> the seam along the floor panels is rusting with the undercoating peeling >> back. Figure I can still flip it for $2k or so. >> >> >> >> https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/204847997905019/ >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> _______________________________________ >> 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
