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- [Auctioneer] Let's start this at a thousand dollars, anybody?
Thousand, got twelve.
I got your twelve hundred sir.
Twelve hundred twice, anybody else?
13, 17, 18, 24, 24, 25, 26, 27.
I got 27 over here, you want twenty-eight?
There it is, twenty-eight hundred dollars.
Twenty-eight hundred dollars going once.
Twenty-eight hundred twice, last call.
I'm going to sell it to you for twenty-eight hundred dollars.
Sold, twenty-eight hundred dollars.
- Yeah.
- [Auctioneer] There it is.
- Smooth.
So we bought a car at auction and it's a
91 Mercedes Benz SL 500 and we paid twenty-eight hundred
and I feel like that's a great deal.
- [Lucky] The strategy that you were using when you
were walking around trying to talk it down.
- Yeah, did that work?
- It was weird, because everyone was agreeing with you.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, that's no good.
- Shocks are wrecked, can't get
them anymore, they don't make them.
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Tony] In a place like this,
you never know what you're going to find.
There weren't a ton of cars tonight
and that one was my favorite from the get-go.
And, you know what, we got it for a
good price and now we get to modify it.
It's not in our wheelhouse, it's a Mercedes-Benz,
but we will figure something out.
- [Lucky] Absolutely.
(car engine revs)
Wait, am I Crockett or Tubs?
- [Tony] Oh, Jesus.
(both laughing)
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- [Tony] Alright, so we got back from the auction.
Auctions are super rad,
you never know what you're going to find.
- Yeah there was the 150,000 dollar Mercedes there.
- That's true.
- That sold for like seven grand.
- That was dope.
We found this Mercedes-Benz,
rear wheel drive, V8, two-seater.
I'm not trying to, like, prejudge or generalize
who would have owned this car, but drug dealers.
- Smugglers.
- Drug dealers had this at some point.
(both laughing)
- Living the "Miami Vice" life.
- That's right.
What's cool is it's an SL 500.
That's the top of the line the year this was made.
Five liter, big German V8 making 322 horsepower.
- V8 from the fatherland.
- That's right.
Ours is not making 322 horsepower.
- No.
- I'm floored, floored, floored, floored, floored.
- Did you hear that?
- There it goes. There it goes!
Oh, what happened?
- I don't know what that was.
(both laughing)
- That oil pressure went zero, that doesn't seem right.
Now it picks up, it's all over the place.
It feels a little loosey-goosey.
Suspension is pretty shot.
- We got something for that, don't we?
- Sagged out.
I need to work on this thing, bring it back up to spec.
(drill whines)
- [Lucky] So we just got this cream puff from the auction.
The lower controller and bushings are dry-rodded.
They're about ready to go south.
Sway bar bushings are dry-rotted.
The shocks are original and you know
they're going to get tested.
Have you seen the show?
It's going to get tested.
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(drill whines)
- [Tony] These upper mounts are all rubber
and the rubber is totally ripped through.
So good thing we're changing them.
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(hammer banging)
So just like the rubber in the upper strut mounts,
all the rubber in the lower control arms is shot.
Ball joints are wrecked.
We're not spending a ton of money,
we're just putting some new key stock pieces
in here, make this car road worthy.
(drill whines)
(ratchet grinds)
So the shocks are hidden back there
near these access holes and those little cubbies.
(ratchet clanks)
Old shocks are out, not as bad as the fronts, not great.
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(drill whines)
Oh yeah.
So we've got our rear shocks bolted in.
I'm going to throw these interior panels back together.
It's a good time, I think now, to put in a new battery.
- [Lucky] Will this do?
- We've got these Odyssey Extreme bad boys.
These things have twice the cranking amps
and will last three times as long as your regular battery,
which means I go back to Pennsylvania,
hang out with my family,
we're going to have this car for awhile.
Come back, fire it up, and we go cruising on the beach.
- It'll be out of gas, I'm driving it
the whole time you're gone.
- [Tony] So we just refreshed the whole suspension.
It should be good as new.
- So we're just going to flip this one, right?
- No dude.
- Open the bonnet, make sure the battery is not flat.
- Yeah, this isn't "Wheeler Dealers."
This is Hot Rod Garage, let's Hot Rod this thing.
- How many quid could we get for this?
- I don't know what a quid is man, remember this?
- Now we're talking.
- There we go, that's our show.
We've got our 2JZ for the engine comparison episode.
It's a three liter, six cylinder
Toyota engine with a healthy turbo.
This thing made 575 horsepower
and it is going to scoot that little
SL 500 around like gangbusters.
- That's my game right there.
- Weird Japanese engine, weird German car,
let's pair them together, go do some burnouts.
- I'm in.
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