here's a 91 mercedes convertible normally i'd say
you're out of your mind to buy used mercedes
especially one as old as this it's a 91 but not only is this a convertible
this baby is a rarity in the united states a
standard transmission one two three four five speeds and here's our top line on
the ground we took it off it does have a
convertible top but it's all raggedy because it hasn't been used and the
plastic mirrors ripped out now back in 1991 this baby
cost 68 000 a lot of money today a lot more back in
1991 and the guy selling this one originally
wanted about seven or so but it looks like it's gonna go for
about three and my customer's smart he's not having me check it out after he
bought it he's had me check it out before he buys it
so let's see a 68 000 car for 3 000 yes it's a mercedes things can
get expensive fast but he wants a knock around weekend car
it's a nice looking convertible no arguing that and yeah the convertible
top is crap but it looks good the way it is and when
you want you can always take the regular hard top and put it back on
that's perfectly fine needless to say you're gonna make
certain concessions when you're buying a 68 000 car for
three grand now strangely enough the ac still blows
cold on this thing it only glows cold out of the side vents it doesn't blow
cold out of the middle of that spot you could spend more money tearing the
dash apart and fixing the stupid automatic system is one of the worst
ever designed so at least it's blowing cold maybe you
could just put a little fan here to blow it faster in your face
i've done that in my own cars check it out try finding a standard transmission
in a mercedes in the united states it's got the beautiful lock up to get it
in reverse you have to pick it up and then put it in reverse
so you can't accidentally think this is first
and ruin the transmission put it reversed it won't go into
reverse it'll only go into first that way to get it in reverse you pick it up
then it goes in very good safety device and look at the leather seats the
germans use thick leather like motorcycle jackets
they're still not even really torn it's kind of amazing
even still got the windscreen for the converter when it's down even it's got
one little hole in it you can't have everything for three
grand but it still has the original mercedes wheels
now this car is a top speed of 142 miles an hour and it's a german car
so even though it's this old they'll probably still do 142 miles an hour but
my advice is you buy a car like that don't do that because german cars
old ones are like old athletes they may be able to go
almost as fast but something's going to break i had a customer buy one years ago
took it on the highway toes it in here what's wrong it said you
blew the engine i said what are you doing i said i was going 130 miles an
hour and the engine made a noise and stopped working the german cars they'll
keep going fast but then they'll blow up when they're this old don't
push them fine car for cruising 70-75 here that's the speed limit when you're
driving to san antonio anyways it's fine for that
just don't push it now the biggest drawbacks of these old ones are
their automatic transmissions that go out and they cost a lot of money to fix
you can fix them but it costs a lot of money
this has a standard transmission they're relatively bulletproof
and they're much more fun to drive their rares hence teeth of the united states
this is the first time i've ever had a customer
look at one with a standard transmission from 91
back in the day you can get a few of them but they're very hard to find but
hilariously enough here in the united states they're also harder to sell that
way 90 something percent of americans don't know how to drive a
standard transformation they all drive automatics that's one reason you can't
unload this thing at a really high price if it was an automatic it'd probably be
gone you're only going to get specialty guys
my customer he wants a standard he wants a fun toy for zipping around
as far as i can tell about what i've checked so far this one is in decent
shape yeah it's got all kinds of electronic
failures that's what happens as they age but it starts runs shifts perfectly fine
the clutch doesn't wear out it doesn't slip and even the stupid
mercedes pneumatic door locks that use vacuum
pressure to lock and unlock the doors in the trunk
they still work i used to love working on those crappers back in the day
they're all electronic now because they use vacuum pressure to
unlock and lock the doors so if they get a leak good luck find a leak
it's a vacuum system there's no pressure to see what's leaking out they leak in
so they're always fun to work on but this one still works amazingly enough
it's a 91 they used to make some good in
deutschland this one was made in germany of course
give the old door a tug there's a sticker stew cart and then on
the side made in germany you want to talk about a
solid car yeah it's heavy but listen to the door it's heavy and
even though it's only got a six cylinder engine this thing gets like 14 miles a
gallon in the city and you're lucky if you can
get 20 on a highway you don't buy this thing for gas much you buy it for having
fun driving and handling it handles really well for
an old 91 now for a car that's only got 228
horsepower that's pretty crappy cast mileage but
really it's a heavy solid car even though this thing is old as the hills
it still feels safe driving it around we'll take it for a spin
and even though it's old as the hills let's see how it starts up
you gotta crank it a little but it stacks right up you can see a bunch of
gauges don't work the water temperature oil pressure the
tachometer doesn't work either says it has 135 000 i believe it's
relatively close by the noise the engine makes
or doesn't make and on this old thing hey the seat belt's still locked
i know where we go with the top down it is still a solid feeling car
you do have to shift it all rarity in the mercedes these days
still corners quite well no it wasn't ever a real dragster off the line like i
say it's a heavy vehicle it weighs quite a
bit but we'll see what it can still do still burn rubber
still shifts smooth this is a fun car to drive
now it sure is hot in the texas sun driving this thing with the top down
it's 99 degrees out really for three thousand dollars this
could be a fun toy i did a compression test of the engine
and that's probably the real mileage that's on there
it's got somewhere it burns a little bit of oil as they age almost all these
straight six cylinder mercedes engines will burn a little bit of oil from a
combination of worn piston rings with more often worn rubber valve seals
that's what goes out in them but doesn't seem to use that much oil
oil is cheap this engine still sounds good doesn't
make a lot of clacking could be a fun toy
now normally i'd say you got to be out of your mind buying a used mercedes
sports car but you got to worry mainly about two
big things the engine the transmission this is a standard
one they don't have problems and the clutch isn't even slipping so it's got a
lot of life left in it but two the engine's in good shape and
if it's going to be a toy the guy might put a couple thousand
miles a year on it this thing could last them decades
if he takes care of it and babes it around like i say
it'll do 142 but not for all that long so if you keep it under 80 probably last
a really long time as long as you add oil as it burns up
now i stick my finger in a tailpipe there's a tiny bit of black
you can see this it's not even black but it's not all oily and slimy
so it's not an excessive oil burner and considering you're getting this
beautiful hard top it even matches the color of the car
heck it's worth it as a fun toy yeah the convertible top's all ragged
and the plastic's ripped out of the windows but you don't even need it it's
great the way it is and you can put the hardtop on when you don't want to have a
convertible it's so old so what if it rains and gets
inside half the electronics don't work anyway
heck if you can get a 68 thousand dollar car for three grand
and it runs and the ac still blows cold even though it's only on the outside
bouncing out the middle what the heck i mean the guy started
asking like 79 now he's coming down to close to three
so i'll tell you hey maybe not a bad deal but mark my
words just don't buy this thing as an everyday
driver that'd be a big mistake and here's some bonus questions and
answers well here's one for you if you want to
collect michael jordan memorabilia his 1996
mercedes-benz s 600 lawrencer is for sale in the
documentary the last dance so it's been in a movie and you
even get a plaque that said michael jordan owned this car
now realize it is a mercedes-benz it is an
s 600 which are notorious for being money pits as they age this particular
one has a v12 engine in it but it also has 157 000 miles on it
i guess old michael liked driving all over the place in that thing
but of course like anything else a celebrity owned it so
it's going to go for a lot more than it's actually worth i had a customer
down the street sell one they paid like 140 grand for the thing
when it was new and they ended up selling for like four grand so
i'm sure michaels is going to go for more than that but
hilariously enough this thing is a 1996. it's a v12 engine but that v12 engine
only produced 389 horsepower ford ecoboost four-cylinder one the mustang
is pretty close to that that's a four-cylinder engine so
time has passed michael's car buy maybe that's why he's selling it now
it's going to be sold at auction so if you want some michael jordan
memorabilia why not buy the mercedes then he put 157 000 miles
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