what's up everybody hang on I'm driving so I just landed in Albany into New York which if I turn a light on here there we go I just landed in Albany New York and man it is beautiful up here and I'm headed to East Dorset Vermont to look at a 1971 Mercedes 300 SEL 6.3 wow that's a mouthful but yeah I got a lead from a friend of mine a lot of you guys probably probably know about in Florida the air and has a great YouTube channel of how to restore and take care of old Mercedes and channels much more than that but anyway the man told me about a car up here and there's an 87 year old gentleman that owns it and he's had it for a better for a long time I think since 1980 and it's supposed to be in really good condition now this guy had a stroke a couple of years ago and the cars been on the box in the garage you know wooden blocks so the air suspension doesn't settle down on the airbags because these are air suspension cars and and yeah he hasn't driven the car in two years cuz he had a stroke and now he's lost a lot of mobility and anyway the car supposed to be in great condition all original interior and just saw you know like one picture of it because he had his wife go down there and take a picture she's also an older lady and you know it wasn't like hey come look at this car here's 50 pictures of all the details so it's a little unknown right now but hey I'm driving into East Dorset and I'm gonna stay a couple miles from them tonight and then go look at the core tomorrow and you know by the time I've done all this I'll have a nice YouTube video merged together showing the whole experience I'm in the middle of nowhere in Vermont and this is the Olympia Lodge I the place I was going to stay at is shut down because of kovat and they referred me to this place it almost feels like I'm near a ski resort or something anyway see what this place is all about see the mountains off there in the distance here we are this is the guy's house he's like at the very end of this the road in this town the roads turned to gravel and he lives up on the hill looks like a really killer place it's beautiful up here all right I think this might be them up there's the car right there and there's Jesse he's on a walker it's very old but there's the car I'm gonna stop recording and talk to them alright I'm in the six-point-three checking the gauges definitely good oil pressure good temperature rpms working they just let me take it out because there rpm gauge works [Music] transmission shifted in a second [Music] the mileage says 68 Alison that looks like yeah I'm gonna get it out here on the there we go there's third there's fourth [Music] so you got a sunroof up here I'm not try to get up a little speed here see how it does we're gonna see if this thing can do a Burnout see how strong this engine is just put them on the highway here and I'm just gonna stop and get on it a little bit here we go [Music] yeah the engine is strong feels really good shifted shins mission is shifting correctly and there was a burnout in a 6.3 video this is much easier doesn't appear there's any rust here I've hit this with a C engine compartment missing a hose clamp there looks like it's a little wet this is see if I can get down in here okay I don't know if you can see this let me see well I can be able to see with this trying to get a light down here that's just not gonna happen but it's a little wet down there on top of the bell housing for sure I can see oil back there for sure oh no somebody put this contraption on the battery box where's that nice little crack you can see that here's the rust area so it's really hard for me to see with how the Sun is out here I think that's clear there there's a rust area something's going on right there I didn't check out this area with a pic no banging it with a pic there's no I see clean metal underneath this like there's a little bit of undercoating or something's like this rubbery stuff right here there's clean metal underneath there up in here that's just a little surface rust I don't see anything crazy ya little surface rust there are a few dents in the sheet metal I only know that you get this will show up in the camera but there's just some little marks here some little dents right along here wood seems to be in good condition looks like that was a place - that's in good condition interior that's an original interior it's like a grayish leather color you can see that there's where you know on the original a bunch of dirt there and one more the shoes I've been kicking getting in and out of the car here yeah look like the light up there works Sun roof is sagging a little bit looks like there's some water marks all the way around it headliners got a little tear back there and smells like carpet cleaner in here AC doesn't work let's go ahead and fire this thing up here the fuel pump dawn fires right up idols like eight nine hundred I did pull this air suspension valve out and the car does not raise would could you know this is the synthetics aesthetics but that could be you know refinished the lacquers cracking looks like he already had this one obvious that Saul ready been refinished or replaced some weird box right there I don't know what the hell that is adjustment you got two adjustment holes in it some wire hanging down here looks like they put some speakers in the kick panels that didn't really fit coming out aftermarket cruise control here let me show the sunroof so opens I've opened it about five times at this point lacquer is showing some cracking which is expected the rails and the sunroof see the Sun is hard for me to see if you can see this okay I don't know if you can see what I'm seeing so there's just a bunch of dunk down in here now it's it's just surfaced rust mixed with like grease but it is not it is not rusted through yeah that could be wire brushed and I think it's okay up here but it's clearly there you go there's you can see it's surface rust but that's not rusted through it's like all those flakes are sort of surface rust have mixed in with the sunroof track grease and just a junkie dirty mess but the sunroof does work fine this is interesting behind the glass there's Leafs down in there so this glass has been out and it must have like been sitting outside but the glass out I don't know and you can see there's all kinds of signs of water damage along this back package tray not sure why water would ever be right there obviously this gasket has been replaced so I'm guessing it was leaking and then the gasket was replaced at some point but that's why it was a place because of the water damage let's get it back carpets are in great shape and I was just looking underneath them you know that's the original it's got the original like Atari coating on here and you know that's all original got a little wear mark in the seat not a big deal I'm gonna stop this video and let's go look under the car let's try to record under the car looks like new tie rods those boots are new know if you can see this but there is safety wire holding the air suspension air suspension linkages you can see the bag up there these are old and dry rotted and cracked absolutely filthy under here you can see things been greased though you can see grease on all the zerk fittings yep see right there that's fresh grease on the zerk fitting so somebody has been greasing the suspension which is good see new stainless-steel exhaust I don't know if you can see okay so you can see out there's some boundary coating and scraped off there's clean metal under here I don't think there's any rust issues on this car yeah it the the underside floor pans maybe a little dent back here where it was laying up on something but no serious rust issues like you know around here this is just you know mud I guess when that that's might have been where I just took it out and test drove it no water in there smells like I still got some alcohol in here he said he filled it up last winter all right I don't see any crazy leaky nah from the brake booster maybe a rat built a little nest right there looks like something like that was going on there let's go look under the front here again this is surface rust no serious rust issues here original radiator it's not all banged up and abused and leaking get low surface rust over here again the conditions at the book all the bushings need to be replaced dry rotted air bags again you can see the grease on the zerk fitting someone's greased it yeah those subframe bushings those are old they've been in there a long time this appears to be you know just an unrestored coil with the exception of the stainless steel exhaust unrestored yet maintained and still working your suspension didn't lift up ah this this condenser looks in great shape none of the fin it's not all bat banged up pins are all broken and broken fins radiator looks like some new hoses upper radiator hose on here original wiring it's not all frayed there's some garbage going on here with the battery I don't know what this contraption is here and so the rubber is kind of dry rotted around here you know this cars definitely driven let's go look at the trunk let me show this looks like with the hood down chrome looks really great some that it looks like someone waxed it at some point that you know half-ass waxed it and left wax on the car seem to wipe it off ah clear coat is peeling on the paint here this window gasket was replaced a while ago but that's not dry rotted yeah that's a good say that gasket was replaced you know 20 years ago 15 years ago yeah maybe longer than that let's go look at the trunk here you can see the original felts are still in here see a little frame there but usually that's a good way to tell the condition to the car it wasn't you know left outside all the time you can see back here again there's this water damage back here let's look in the trunk here so here's where the repair was done right there so I'm gonna show you there's a rust repair let's see okay so see this little something going on there I don't know what that is it's really hard to see because the way the sunlight is I can't see my own what I'm videoing but uh so this is all mud and dirt it might have been a metal repair yeah you know original fuel lines up on the other side so the repair was done here it's actually right there something was going on right here it looks like a solid repair though I've looked under these mats it's the original light guitar you know the original tour coatings there nothing crazy going on here here no crazy okay all right I'm just trying to get some more video of random stuff those are the original or say these floor mats where the original sound deadener under there looking like glovebox here looks like it's got the original Mercedes manuals in there yeah smells like carpet cleaner in here yeah smells like carpet cleaner again I know all this is aesthetic stuff but you know I did some under the car videos for you guys door shut good there's all the rubber overs in good condition that's been replaced yeah the seals have been replaced this was the place that say in the 80s that's I don't know why it would replace in the eighties that could be the original rubber all the woods here these felts on good condition door strikers in good condition oh the door locks work the vacuum system works I'm gonna unlock it here and they actually I'm gonna lock it so it's probably out of vacuum now because I just used it up but they did lock and unlock it looks like down so didn't have enough to do it twice but it worked when I did it once probably came there I don't know if I did the - - and there's the mileage 40 years of receipts here and and you said you were gonna drive it to Florida and this was the most recent service seen and what's the date on there there we go 2016 is the most recent service oh that's why I saw the fresh grease on all your grease fittings so cuz they lubricated the chassis and you haven't driven it since yes still there so it's basically serviced and then stored in October of 2016 I see yeah look at all this stuff wow it's so cold going through the history of cars like this and the cars in the garage are amazing oh there's three pages of stuff here Wow so this was Wow so all the yellow ones are like from the 80s it looks like yeah and then let's see if we can slowly go through all this okay I see this is a duplicate invoice is what this is page 2 of 3 page 303 they had three thousand four hundred dollars worth of service at jf Allen company so none of the stuff there we go and all these so here's like some original of the levers that change that defrost because they break yeah and these are they don't make them anymore do they yeah oh those are the those are the plugs for them I think once yeah I know is we're not sure what it is it said something oh this looks like those looks like wiper would chill wiper or something maybe within the car so I assume did I oh it's the points hmm cuz you said it used to have the ignition was electronic and then you switched it back to points so hairs I don't know I don't know it's okay so tons of receipts I saw the receipt we were looking at that receipt for the transmission here a minute ago oh I think this was it there's so much so much stuff like this this car was it looks like you did tons of maintenance in the 80s and then didn't use it too much after the 80s this is my reason one and I was going to take the call Terry all six point three I have another speedometer another speedometer sorry Jesse this is uh here we go this is that this is that transmission no sorry so the guy you bought the car from had a new engine at 36,000 miles by Mercedes yeah so as a factory service replacement so that engine okay cuz the spell butter in there I think says 69 thousand okay so it has about a hundred thousand miles on so that engine that's called on the car but the engine has 69 thousand yeah okay so that's a relatively low mile for one of these cars yeah here's that transmission the transmission was repaired because in 1986 because it wouldn't go into a reverse and it looks like it was sixteen sixteen eighty $1,680 all kinds of gaskets and then right there were pair transmission okayed 1981 you drove it backwards in Reverse all over backwards and the cop stopped you let's see what's down here gosh there's more there's a whole other set here oh these are 1997 star motors okay star motors got at 97 spark plugs air intake booth okay this is slowly up to now this is 1999 compressor conversion sand in 508 compressional conversion kit okay receiver drier okay timing chain the timing chain was replaced in 1995 you did it with a friend of yours change day I understand I've done that and this says California Santa Rancho Bernardo Road San Diego it says timing chain oh this might be where you ordered it from an invoice you ordered it from California yeah because you probably changed that timing chain here yeah okay and this is that adjusted valves how often were the shop rate timing chain here here's here's that timing chain replacement distributor removed cams and reinstall correct distributor that's when you change that distributor back to points yeah okay that was a ninety nine I'm going to stop this video and start enough this is the second documentation video here this is again ninety nine change all seals and real Oubre kate injection pump Co the injection pump was worked on here yeah valves and injectors injection pump seals injection pump gasket so basically twenty years ago it sounds like the injection nozzles eight so you had new injectors and the injection pump was resealed twenty years ago so I was I was 21 years old when this was done and I'm 41 now yeah let's see this is again this is 96 this is star motors again star motors twelve million - oh this is part shipping from star motors they didn't do any work looks like you bought parts from them and they shipped it here yeah all right now they say 1970 here is it a 70 or 71 remove axle reinstall new bushing also replaced effective flex disk flex disk was destroyed but the okay they might have just accidentally put 70 relay check complete so this is Endicott New York that's not worth 5,000 now the new looks like you placed your rotors and in ninety nine but again you haven't driven it much since 2000 looks like the short body fuel pump two hundred and fifty dollars conversion from early style fuel pump so fuel pump was done in 99 oil pressure line oil gauge left cylinder head this is some hoses here window lifter right side late style so the window mechanism what is this Jessie here's everything I have on your car we have recently upgraded our accounting system okay so these somebody sent you these John Lupo GM operations and finance this might not have been oh this is from store motors okay let's see what we're looking at here store motors distributor and drive housing part returned not used here some labor install valves and adjust correct timing chain remove cams and reinstall correct distributor maybe these are these appear to be maybe duplicate yeah yeah these are duplicate invoices that he pulled for you you know what yeah yeah yeah these appear flex disc that's interesting uh disc the original quote was from Center flange mount he was ladies yeah start I've heard that about those guys they're a little shady relay I noticed under the dash there's a strange little box under the under the and the passenger dash has two adjustment holes in there okay some countries control adjustment and that's where the box was mounted okay you know I didn't test or try any of that I didn't want to risk anything radiator cap electric fuel pump air bellow rear so looks like the air below this is 89 and those those air bellows look like they're probably from 89 90 yeah yeah well that and of course a lot of money yeah yes there's 96 store motor so store Motors was doing the work for a little while the 600 are they there's tons of receipts those are all and what is what is this guy here there's a whole nother booklet here yeah there's all this stuff Wow just I'm not even gonna go through the it's just tons of you know there's just instructions for replacing air bellows that parts looks like this is just some history on the car interesting yes later okay see what this is a new speedometer was installed in Albertans 71 6.3 yeah old speedos 36,000 miles new speedo zero miles so that's showing where the engine was changed okay and this is from Mercedes okay in 1980 that's when they changed the engine what is this here oh it looks like engine number chassis number original bill of sale know all men by these present okay here's the original bill of sale yeah $13,500 fine you did walk around not really feeling this car at 45 k 45k I would expect a little cleaner undercarriage and interior and that's 45 kg I don't I don't see a 45 k car here and I don't feel a 45 k car here I feel a 30 K car but it is beautiful and it definitely did a nice burn on out there on the road but yeah I think the market for these his kind of 35 to 38 I've seen some really nice-looking cars go for sale on bring a trailer now granted I don't think those had the original interiors where this one did but you know looking under the car everything needs to be overhauled lines you know gaskets bushings hoses probably needs you know wheel bearings probably go through the brake system you know that's lots of time lots of money I'd say you know and then some of the water damage on the interior parts I don't know it's it's not a 45k car yet but 45k should be extremely clean but anyway it was very fun to drive it and and learn and get the opportunity to drive one of these this is a super rare mercedes 6.3 1971
