Looking For A Longroof For LeMons? Buy This Benz

Jeff Glucker

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mercedes benz wagon
For just $700, this 1995 Mercedes-Benz E320 wagon could be your new ticket to LeMons greatness. Now, I don’t mean that you’re going to win any races but you certainly have plenty of room to come up with one hell of a theme… hell the car is already blank-slate white.
Additionally, you could probably sell off so many parts from this rig that not only would you duck under that $500 max racing price but you’d wind up ahead. That’s before you then factor back in the costs of getting it running right, adding a rollcage, and all of that other goodness that goes with turning a street car into the scorn of the EPA.
Regardless, someone should buy this and turn it into one of the following:

  • Some manner of Star Wars vessel.
  • An aircraft carrier that launches RC planes or drone-copters.
  • A wagon version of the Red Pig (seriously that would be the shit)
  • A Nürburgring support vehicle

Choose one of those and have a blast on the crap can racing circuit.
[Source: Craigslist]

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Jeff Glucker is the co-founder and Executive Editor of Hooniverse.com. He’s often seen getting passed as he hustles a 1991 Mitsubishi Montero up the 405 Freeway. IG: @HooniverseJeff

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  1. PaulE Avatar
    PaulE

    Or: Ship it back to the Midwest/Plains/northeast (the land of ice/snow/massive salt use on roadways), fix the minor cosmetic and mechanical issues (I’m guessing the usual reverse gear issue typical to that vintage of MB 724 series gearboxes) and have a rust-free W124 wagon.

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    1. Jeff Glucker Avatar
      Jeff Glucker

      300TE examples are plentiful around here…
      Perhaps I should start a wagon relocation program?

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      1. Sjalabais Avatar
        Sjalabais

        …but what would take back on your inevitable trailer of endless used car possibilities?
        In Norway, there are quite some car guys who buy newish SUVs in the Oslo and Stavanger regions (lots of stone rich people and, therefore, steep depreciation for more expensive, newer cars) and they drive them to the north. Above the polar circle, cars are expensive, but they don’t salt their roads. So these guys usually return with older used cars that hold their value well, like Toyota hybrids and Volvo wagons.

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  2. mdharrell Avatar
    mdharrell

    “An aircraft carrier that launches RC planes or drone-copters.”
    An actual launch would fly in the face of Rule 1.9: “No Drones or Other Aircraft: Sorry, the insurance people insist–no (intentionally) flying machines allowed onsite.”
    Aircraft carriers themselves, on the other hand, are fine.
    http://www.murileemartin.com/UG/LOR11/LOR11-UG-257.jpg

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  3. Sjalabais Avatar
    Sjalabais

    This is a wagon from a time before wagons were allowed to go fast (few exceptions). So my vote would go to a steam ship theme. Lots of room to mess up the aerodynamics here.

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  4. Rust-MyEnemy Avatar
    Rust-MyEnemy

    Rust-free W124
    My English mental circuits find it difficult to parse that alphanumeric sequence.

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    1. mdharrell Avatar
      mdharrell

      “The ferrous alloy components associated with this mid-sized platform have been oxidized at no additional cost or expense. As a bonus, it is not known to host any significant infestation of fungi of the order Pucciniales.”

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      1. Rust-MyEnemy Avatar
        Rust-MyEnemy

        Ah, that’s better, Doctor.

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  5. Maymar Avatar
    Maymar

    Apparently late W124s have biodegradable engine wiring harnesses that cost about a grand to replace (there was a relatively clean, low km 300E sedan on our craigslist equivalent a few months back that I was lusting after, afflicted with that issue) – someone should probably verify that this will at least start with a boost before taking the plunge.
    Of course, if LeMons isn’t goal, fuck the engine and build a slightly newer version of the Wombat.

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    1. PaulE Avatar
      PaulE

      Not just 124s but also 201 C-Classlesses had the biodegradable engine wire harnesses and maybe the 124’s successor (210s) and W140 S-Class. By now, it’s not likely you’ll run across one of them since having to replace one in those cars’ lives is a near certainty at one time or another. I parted a 201–my personal project car hell– at home a few years back and made a few bucks on the newer engine harness (and the rest of the fiddly bits that would ship easily when sold online), mitigating a full-blown project car disaster.

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      1. Maymar Avatar
        Maymar

        Fair enough, I just thought of it because as I said, I saw a car of a similar age with that issue recently. Did that affect all 201s? From my idle research, it seems the 124s were only affected from ’93 or so on (which is very nearly the point we got the 202).

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        1. PaulE Avatar
          PaulE

          Brain fart duly noted and previous post edited. It WAS a 202 and it was from hell. I’d still like to have a 201 at least once, just to say I’ve had one.

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          1. Maymar Avatar
            Maymar

            You and me both. Hell, I’d be happy just to try out a 201 soonish while they’re still around.

  6. Rover 1 Avatar
    Rover 1

    If this was nearer me it would be mine. I need a white one to match my sedans.

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    1. wunno sev Avatar
      wunno sev

      i really think the W124s and W201s are the best, most-correct car designs ever made. not a line out of place.

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