Speaking as someone who owns a sibling to this car, simply put:

Bwahahahahaha..... And that’s the surest sign the seller knows jack about old Mercedes. They’ re wonderful cars, but there’s no money to ‘flip’.

I am a W124 lover of many years, and those who recognize me know I never shut up abouthow fantastic these cars are.

This guy just doesn’t know how to stop, does he? Amazing.

Yup. It’s ‘fake racer/car girl’ instead of ‘fake geek girl.’

If I didn’t know he passed away in 2000, I’d be asking you...

Amen.

Don’t assume lack of knowledge, either, though. I run into that one all the damn time. Guys try to tell me all these things about my car (30 yr old vintage Mercedes) and insist I just don’t know my car.

The fact that you used the “it’s just a car” line just shows how much you don’t get it.

Dude, the Mercedes was a 50 year old family heirloom. There is no ‘replacing it with something better.’ Even all the work and love put into that Galant can’t be ‘bettered’. Honestly? That’s really kind of an insensitive, callous thing to say.

Well, at least they don’t have to worry about having to drive an actual stick-shift...

Oh crap, I just read the Petrolicious article. I’m actually crying now.

As the owner of another ‘family heirloom” Mercedes (albeit not one quite as glorious as the Pagoda), my heart breaks for him. Mine’s only the ‘88 260E my Dad bought when I was in high school, but it was his baby and became a member of the family. It’s now been in my life longer than Dad was,* and losing it at this…

My Dad always told me not to run the tank low because 1) of the ‘crud’ in the bottom of the tank, and 2) to avoid running out of gas if you get stuck in traffic.

The number 1 rule I was taught:

Dude.... I would pay goo money to watch an all-Trabant series. Make it like a new version of IROC—top drivers from every series stuck racing crappy East German cars.

True, but none of those were set in the current time period of the show, like Magnum, Miami Vice, McGyver, and so on. Part of the reason the shows worked in the ‘80s is because there many parts of them that worked then but not now. For example, I love “Simon & Simon”, but it’d be next to impossible to do today, due…

I admit, I read the headline and was ready to (jokingly) give him some crap about it here in the comments, but then read that. Fair enough. When you lose two friends to a series in a few years, I don’t blame him one bit.

I’m thinking something sleek & older or vintage.... A Jaguar, Triumph, or something similar...

Yeah, the clerk overreacted, but that’s got to be near the top of the ‘most justifiable & understandable overreactions” list. I’ve honestly stopped filling up & promptly gotten the hell out of there more than once when I noticed someone smoking at a gas pump. You want to be an idiot and flambé yourself and your car,…