Absolutely 👍
Classic Cars
Nice lot of cars with prices
I like the yellow Mach1
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Good things come to those who bait.
I'm watching this, strictly because of the car:
A 195X Mercedes-Benz 190 SL.
Little sibling to a 300SL Gullwing.
I grew up in one of these cars. I can remember every detail, like the truss rod on the windshield and the rearview mirror on the dashboard, and the ignition switch that said Fahrt which means Drive in German.
And the jack pockets with the tin cover in the body and the single green light between the VDO speedo and the VDO tach for the directionals, because the Germans assumed you knew which way you flipped the lever, to the clock in the glovebox door with the broken mainspring that I would try to wind eternally to get it to work.....
My father took one of these from Bohemia to Amityville in fifteen minutes, doing 120 MPH on the Sagtikos ramp. With a cop in the right seat, naturally.
And when he turned into that ramp his passenger was flailing for something to hang on to, but when the car hooked, he just sat back and folded his arms. Complete confidence. Racecar heritage.
I would love to find a relatively intact one to restore myself. But if I was going to drop six figures on a collector car... this would be the one. This is my grail.
Once I got lined up for the Bridgeport ferry, and what did I pull up on with the mighty TDI?

Dayum...
And it's actually a good romance/runaway bride flick. Plus it's almost entirely set in a 190 SL.
My best friend did! It was baby blue, with Cragars and a cherry bomb muffler. It was as cool as as you could make a baby blue Pinto 🤣
while it was a death trap - it was VERY reliable - nothing could stop it - I lost the oil cap & drove around for 2 years with a rag plugging it up - got it up to over 100,000 miles without a tune up or seeing a mechanic - no oil changes - eventually handed it over to my brother who proceeded to total it 6 months later
.............even if you're old and gray."
"Well, it's alright.
............you still got something to say."
OK
Admit it
Who drove a Pinto growing up?
8-)
No Pinto, but I did have to drive my grandparent's K car for a couple of weeks once. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. It didn't help that my grandparents were as cheap as cat $#it and wouldn't even spring for FM.
I'll have to see if I still have the news clipping about a group that created a racing class for Pintos. They had gotten fed up with the cost of running more exotic cars when all they wanted to do was have some fun on the track. Pintos were the basis of the Mustang II so there were performance parts available for it and even though they took some ribbing it made racing more affordable and just as fun for them.
Let's also not forget that the Pinto engine was the basis for the Mustang SVO and Thunderbird Turbo Coupe.
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