Perhaps Jason could do a deep dive on this new ratings system.

Yeah that’s my point about familiarity. If you’re used to wrenching on old Mercs and know what you’re doing, maybe you can do the work yourself at an acceptable price point.

A non-running Mercedes with chrome rims and wheel arches...... While $3,500 doesn’t get you as much as it did in the “before times”, it’s still a lot of money for something that doesn’t move on it’s own. If I lived close to it, and had some spare time for a project, I would offer the seller, $1,000 and tow it home,…

Being a former owner of a 380SL, I will confess I love them. They aren’t that fast or sporty but give off a lovely muted V-8 burble and guiding that long bonnet down the road makes you feel like a king.

The play is to buy the nicest SL you can afford. If this has any spot of rust under those chrome fender covers or if this doesn’t have it’s original hard top it’s a definite pass it by.

Yes, I’m not equipped to deal with old Mercedes electrical issues.

Seems to me they’re just reminding the management how much easier it would be to outsource and be done with unions. 

Want to die horribly?

Do not buy the Harbor Freight air hammer. It is about as effective as pissing on a stuck part.

Torch*  is my “I wasn’t asking you, I was telling you” tool of choice.

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Too lucky to die.

lol, if there’s one thing this woman is definitely missing, other than a car, is a clue. 

I live in the land of ice fishing and sub zero temps. I have driven on ice a few times. I may even drive across a river if the temp was cold enough long enough but no way in hell am I blasting down the length of a river, ever!

betting it was her dirty cheating boy/girlfriend’s car.

Never a good choice, thin spots are random.

“Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism”...perhaps you don’t understand the term? If you prefer to use Frank Luther Mott’s five characteristics, they’re very print-media-centric, but at least three, arguably four, of the five apply to all the Gizmodo sites.

And as we speak half of G/O Media’s “journalists” are sending in their resumes .

It’s a little pretentious calling their corporate PR operation a “newsroom” but other than that nothing new.