"Slave2anMG" (Slave2anMG)
08/03/2015 at 11:16 • Filed to: None
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"Slave2anMG" (Slave2anMG)
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Four speed manual, power windows and sunroof. Acceleration? Bring a sundial...
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Slave2anMG
08/03/2015 at 11:21 |
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We’ve got one that’s a stick without the sunroof or power windows. It’s not quite Epic Stripper enough to be missing the righthand mirror or have cloth seats, but it’s close. It’s currently down with a #1 cylinder’s-rings-have-gone-fuck-this, aka no compression and legendary blow-by and oil consumption.
Brian, The Life of
> Slave2anMG
08/03/2015 at 11:23 |
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Mine was the same color with body panel colored hubcaps, crank windows, a sunroof, and a slushie. Yours was slow; mine was even slower. I loved that car :’)
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Slave2anMG
> Brian, The Life of
08/03/2015 at 12:07 |
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I dunno - I had a shop that did anything more substantial than oil changes for me...and they swore that mine was the slowest 240D they’d ever seen, manual or auto. And to this day, 20+ years later, I rue the day I sold that car.
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Slave2anMG
> Brian, The Life of
08/03/2015 at 12:09 |
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And I’m pretty sure that the original owner put on the Bundt wheels afterwards; the spare was a steelie. Color was Manila Beige by the way.
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> Slave2anMG
08/05/2015 at 19:34 |
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My uncle had a similar car and did something that seemed like a brilliant idea at the time but ended up costing him in the long run. Since he was in sales he did a lot of driving, so a slow MB seemed like just the ticket - easy to cruise along once you get it up to speed. Living near the border with Mexico he found that he could get fuel over there for about 25% of what it cost in the US, so he had an auxiliary tank added between the rear wheels. So far, so good...
What he didn’t know was that the sulfur content in the Mexican fuel was considerably higher than what was sold on this side of the border. The problem is that that the combustion byproducts combined with this extra sulfur becomes sulfuric acid which basically ate away his engine from the inside. Oops. All of the money he saved on cheap fuel (and then some) ended up being used to rebuild or replace (I forgot which) the engine, and I’m sure it wasn’t cheap.