What's your favorite car?

[camelotshadow]

I had a white w blue stripe 1970 Trams Am with the hi comp dor almot 20 years before I sold her.

I still have a 88 Volvo 740 GLE...they run forever & a beast MB
1983 Euro 500 Sec Mercedes...a coupe!!! in maganese brown...Problem is I have been sick & last few times she did not pass the smog so I have her stored..

Dad had a 56 Buick Special in matt brown & I hated to ride in it as a child.
We had a Covair too with a blown head gasket..LOL

My brother had a 67 GTO & a Pontiac I can't remember year...62 ish which had a special big engine.

Grew up watching my uncle fix his old Pontiac Bonneville...

I have worked on my cars but not lately..not much lately as I'm doing chemo now...

 

[s31463221]

56 Special

Christine,

I'm curious....you said your dad had a 56 Special and you hated to ride in it....was something wrong with the car that made it ride bad? I have a 54 Special that rides like it's floating on a cloud. Aside from no power steering, when you get moving, it's an absolute dream to drive, and a super smooth comfortable ride! A 56 Buick is actually on my bucket list of cars to own!!

 

[camelotshadow]

I guess it did no have power steering but it might have had good brakes. I can't remember how it rode. I'm not sure where my Dad got the car but it was about 12 years old at the time & I thought it was big & ugly. Also the paint was very faded & it was a ugly brown.
I hated Rolls Royces too so I guess I had bad taste as a child!!!!

It was a 56 Special...remember that! Built like a tank!

 

[vacerator]

Christine, Love your 560 SEC

I wish you well on your recovery! I am also 57. A friend our age passed away last week asleep in her recliner at home all alone.
Our son is out your way this week for the video game convention. A nephew lives in Burbank and works at Insomniac games.
He is living his dream. He left Champaign/Urbana Illinois to move there.

 

[camelotshadow]

Thanks...ITs a 500 SEC imported from Germany by a Dr who had it converted to somewhat US standards but it has I think different heads in the engine as its the european model not one made for US. It still has the euro bumpers & the triangle warning signal in the trunk & the fire extinguisher. The Dr donated it to charity
& a guy who sold cars a few miles away had it listed on ebay. I found the ad also in craigslist & contacted him directly & snatched out of ebay & the bidders hands.

Really snazzy great driving car but being sick I have not driven in a few years so its sitting unused poor thing.

560 SEC were I think from 86 on ^ this one is a 1983 gray market.

 

[real1shep]

Gray market Benzes are problematic to get some parts for....especially motor parts. Often you have to deal with someone in Germany. Canada is awash in gray market Benz cars. If they are 25 yrs or older however, you have to do nothing to comply with US emissions or crash related compliance issues.

The 500E and the E500 are very famous for being corporate type rocket ships. A good representative '92 500E can go from stop to 165mph in about 45 secs. If you want faster than that, get the Ford GT. But the insides of the 500E500's are gorgeous. With all the goodies, they often retailed well over $100,000 in 90's dollars.

The good ones left still bring between $25,000-$45,000.

Kevin

 

[camelotshadow]

Mine was built to do 160 mph for hours on the autobohn but not sure in how many sec it would get there from 0. Once I hit the cruise control by mistake & it too off like a rocket but luckliy the brake overroad it...

Engine parts...sure some of them would be special order.

My trusty MB mech retired. Not many of the new ones know the 80's cars.

Euroa are a pain with the CA smog emissions reg being so tight.

 

[real1shep]

I can tell you that it wouldn't be close in acceleration to the 500E500. They were purpose built AMG rockets with all kinds of speed goodies. They were the first corporate type cruisers to accelerate like that...they were in all the auto rags at that time. Yours is too heavy/bloated but well apportioned and like most of the Benz cars of the 80's/90's it was meant to cruise on the Autobahn. It wasn't made to cruise @160mph for hrs either....more like 140mph if you're being honest. There's top speed and top cruise speed...many mix the two up while bragging.

Kevin

 

[camelotshadow]

I've never been close to its top end & I just looked up some of the stock engines & 140 is probably right. I was going on what someone told me about the car & they are no longer with us but guess they were wrong or I remembered worng. 140 or 160 are off the charts as speed limits are more than half that.

AMG's would be nice to own. Right now I am on cancer drugs & can't even drive so a sports car is of no use to me.

I have a classic mercedes euro coupe just sitting which is not good but I am sick & it won;t pass smog & I have no money to fix it. Can't drive it anyway.

E500 was a well built car...too bad it looks just like a SEL.

 

[real1shep]

Sorry to hear about your health issues. I have two '92 300TE station wagons. Both I have had @140mph for short duration. A lot of it depends on what final drive ratio you have. The estates have a spirited rear end (numerically high) so that you have plenty of pep from the stoplights with loads. The 400E and 500E have numerically low rear ends for high speed cruising and V-8's.  The problem with the W124's is that they are basically small cars. I feel I have plenty of room in my estates, but when I get into a W124 coupe or sedan, I feel cramped. I'd much prefer a W126 of the same vintage, much like yours.


 


Your car is a wonderful combination of coupe styling, size and luxury appointments. There's one on eBay right now starting at about $5,000. eBays motors isn't really an accurate accounting of how these cars sell on the open market, but they do give you choices you don't often see in the real world.


 


Kevin

 

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To me they are many cars i love mainly the 1986 Mercury Lynx L my mother had loved that thing i detail it so many times also my grand ma pontiac 6000 LE that thing wasa couch on weels on day i hope to have a 1972 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ 455 my neigh-board had one but sold it fiberglass body modify a bit or a Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado . I once drove 2016 Chrysler 300 C platinum what a ride and how could i forget the devilles or town cars yes i love old boats almost bought a 77 monte carlo at one point