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clay 

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> On Dec 12, 2020, at 10:32 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes 
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> 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. 
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