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Apr 21, 2024 23:49:26 GMT
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A friend of mine text me and asked if I’d bought the MZS3; he bought two from insurance auctions a few years ago and built one to flip. He had a bunch of extra parts left over that he wanted out of his garage. Woot! The exhaust will come in handy since it needs one and going to 3” won’t hurt anything.
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A buddy of mine called and said he was offered a first gen Speed3 for $1500 and wondered if I was interested. Not really, needs to be a pretty nice car for that money and they are all worn out by now. He agreed but had thought about me when it was offered. Much appreciated. Called back and said the guys wife told him to sell everything that wouldn’t fit in the garage, make it $800. Ok. Runs, drives, smokes and the engine is mounted on hopes and prayers. The motor mounts on all of these are horrible; I’ve found the electric focus RMM to be the best so I’ll order one of those. Otherwise it’s rusty and dirty but is all there and those oh so comfy mazdaspeed seats are in really good shape so the middle daughter will learn to drive in it.
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This could be a “caption this” competition
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Apr 11, 2024 19:11:21 GMT
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Apr 10, 2024 23:52:07 GMT
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Because I don’t Have enough to do my brother and I drove to Indianapolis to dig through a guys collection, he said he’s getting to old to mechanic so wanted to clear stuff out; he had a “nice” e320 wagon w210 which I’ve been looking for a good one for awhile as well as three 280c, some 190e, some r107 and a bunch of other old Mercedes. 3.5 hour drive and the pictures were from ten? Fifteen? Twenty years ago? It was bad, the w210 had a broken spring mount which is an easy job but also bondo in three doors and rust everywhere else. Dang it. The 93 190e in green which was my second interest had been sideswiped but of course none of his pics showed it. I left disappointed He asked for no pics so I…um…didnt take any pics…. This is the good side Since we then had an empty trailer we quick hit FB Marketplace and found an $800 w126 seven miles away. Sure, let’s look. Shiny and straight, turns over but doesn’t cough. Shiny was a spray over; the rust, mostly. It’s an older car and the Midwest is not great for rust so not surprised and probably could have got it cheaper but decided to just head home empty handed. Meandered through the country trying to keep with 2 lane roads only while watching for cars along barns but found nothing we had to look at; came across a car on fire and stopped and pulled the kids out. The mom and kids sat in the truck while my brother and I threw cups of water from the ditch on it. Scary for a few minutes. The guy was panicked so I called 911 then got back to fire fighting. Ended up that a connecting rod had let go coating the entire underside in oil which is what was on fire, spread to the insulation but we had it out before the fire department got there. I couldn’t quite believe it, car was toast though, wiring and insulation had all been on fire in the engine compartment. No pics while it was burning since my hands were full. Couple has two other cars luckily, they were on their way home from the hospital with their 3 DAY old baby. Sheesh. Scary. One of my nephews was out of school and said” it’s exciting going to look at cars with you”. Yeah, that’s not the plan.
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The kids were out of school for a solar eclipse today; we were in the “Path of Totality” (great heavy metal band name) so the middle girl helped me a little while I finished up some little projects. Antenna seal on the 300CE, oil and trans change on the 328i and actually dropping the trans on the Dakota. Clean it, mate it with the engine and stab it all back in is the plan.
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Pouring concrete for a patio so moved these off to the side; don’t see them together very often so I snapped a pic. Two thumbs up.
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Mar 30, 2024 15:11:41 GMT
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Mar 30, 2024 15:10:00 GMT
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Mar 27, 2024 13:58:17 GMT
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^^^ Really? Let me guess: USA? Gotta be Florida haha
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Mar 26, 2024 13:51:38 GMT
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I’ve had a good bit of time to finish up some “when I have time” projects. The AMGs I bought 7 years ago to put on my coupe but had such wicked curb rash that I kept putting off refinishing them. Disassembled, polished and reassembled And popped on the car And there was great rejoicing … yay… The Dakota engine came out due to a faulty expansion plug (freeze plug) So the engine bay got cleaned And the rack leaked everywhere so a rebuilt one was sourced Still need to reassemble that but maybe this weekend. Engine cleaned and being regasketed New chain installed as well. It had a LOT of slop as this truck has covered 226k miles. Unfortunately after I had sealed the intake I put one of the brackets back on for the return spring and the intake cracked. So I’m searching for another of those. I can do that with the engine back in but it would be easier with it out; hopefully find one soon.
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Mar 21, 2024 20:27:16 GMT
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That black Tudor trips my trigger.
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Mar 14, 2024 20:44:51 GMT
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This mid 70’s corona coupe showed up in my feed in the US. With a bonus N600 It is so rotten they shrink wrapped the tail end to move it from shop to shop. So rotten.
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Mar 12, 2024 16:04:42 GMT
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Finally found the red SEC this morning
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Mar 12, 2024 15:04:12 GMT
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Mar 12, 2024 11:07:49 GMT
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