Re: [diesel_mercedes] You Eastern guys and rust.

 

"Many a beautiful body goes to the junk yard because a transmission or engine is 
gone."

Shewt, I've seen these cars turned in for scrap value just because they needed a brake job or a battery!  Damn cars last so long, people get tired of them.  Kid gets grandpa's old car, maybe is grateful, but wants something shiny and new, with comically-styled wheels and a bitchin' stereo.  At the first opportunity, the car is dumped at a charity, where nobody knows how to start it, and ends up at a salvage auction.  Seen it a dozen or more times, and I don't even go to the salvage auctions very much...!

(I bought my first Mercedes diesel from a such an auction.  Paid $300 dollars for a '77 300D, recently come here from Las Vegas and rust-free.  I set the valves and dropped in a strong battery in the parking lot, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank....  It finally fired up, and I drove it out of there.  Even the Klima I, with aluminum-bodied servo, worked with cold, R12 AC!)

Mark in Lakewood, CO

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From: "Lawrence Rhodes" <primobassoon@sbcglobal.net>
To: "diesel mercedes" <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:20:40 AM
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] You Eastern guys and rust.

 

Cars out West are so plentiful a used car isn't worth much. Supply and demand.
Many a beautiful body goes to the junk yard because a transmission or engine is
gone. If you have a good power train the best way to fix a rusty body is to get
one from somewhere in the rust free zone of the West and install your good parts
in it. Coastal cars do rust here so buyer beware. Lawrence Rhodes....

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