So, the Tuesday before (Eve of Christmas Eve?) Christmas eve, I put my '85 Dodge Ram D100 shortbed on craigslist, for sale or trade, on Christmas Eve I was contacted by a man wanting to trade his 1994 Mercedes E320 wagon, I was skeptical at first. My truck had 130k miles on it, 318, needed some work where the previous owners did a botched job of installing the intake, and threw on a worn out half way rebuilt Holley 4160. I was done with constantly messing with the truck while trying to fix up my '77 Olds. Keep in mind, the Mercedes is the second car. The 1977 Olds is my project, so I need something solid to drive while I fix it up.

The car is metallic silver, 153k miles, grey interior (wish it was black or something, the only life brought to the interior is the forest cut down to trim my dash).

After having driven the car (And now owning it for nearly a week), I'd say I'm likely going to hang onto it until it tries to find the bottom of my pockets.

The previous owner was the second owner, and the original owner kept this car up really well. Looking in through the oil cap, the engine is like new, no smoke seeps out, so the PCV system is good. Radiator was recently replaced with a genuine MB radiator. Valve cover has been replaced, engine wiring harness has been replaced. It's had a few other things done I'm sure, but that's all I know of.

It has a few options, the grey leather interior, silver paint (With someones attempt at two toning the rockers because the paint was fading and a paint match is nigh impossible), Becker radio, power telescoping steering wheel, sunroof, third row seat.

Now the bad, the car is in need of tires, oil pressure sending unit, smog pump isn't functioning (It's throwing some error, light flashes four times, air injection sensor I think?), and the blower motor resistor, think it could use a blower motor too, it squeals and rattles, plus the following switches are broken as well;

Power mirror switch (Guy who test drove it before the guy I got it from broke these switches), hazard light switch, rear view mirror adjustment, fog light / euro parking light function on the headlight switch, and uh... That's it that I know of.

So yeah, that's the car, I'm just it's driver and keeper. So far it's a fun car, but I haven't pushed it much though 'cause the tires scare the hell out of me.

Oh, and I'm Ben by the way, a 25 year old who is very amused by the go button under the gas pedal of this car. *** end of the car hunkers down, front end shoots to the sky, and off we gooooooo!

Apart from installing a aftermarket stereo, 5.25 components in the doors, with the tweeters unhooked, and 4" coax speakers in the dash powered by a 4ch amp somewhere in the car, I don't really have any plans for the car apart from driving it and obsessing over how shiny the silver paint is after 20 years of being driven between FL and VA.

EDIT: Almost forgot, pics here:





That's my Goldsmobile in the background, by the way. I'll be getting a few more pics today, of the engine bay, wheels, tires, a small spot of rust I found, and what little body damage it has. So stay tuned if you are interested.

 

welcome aboard!
i luv W124s...

 

Thanks, and yeah so far I really like this car. Steering is a bit more sensitive than I am use too. I've mostly driven older vehicles, newest vehicles I've driven have been trucks and vans, so this car has been a bit of an experience.