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    Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?

    Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $105,000 Mercedes-Benz 600

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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    06/01/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    I wanted to give it to the 600 on style, but I was afraid the 6.9 would come find me and hurt me.
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    Image of PlayerX PlayerX
    06/01/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    There's a Grosse in my apartment building. What an awesome car. I kinda want the guy to honk the horn for me, but I'm too embarassed to ask when he's pulling in.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    06/01/09

    @PlayerX: Someone owns a 600 and lives in an apartment? Whoever they are, they've got their priorities straight!
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    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    600 all the way. Restoring it will clean you out at a rate Bernie Madoff can only dream about.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    Give me that 6.9 and I'll twist the shit out of it. The 600 needs a little work, but it will never give you the same feeling that the 6.9 will.


    Acceleration in that thing provides a feeling that eclipses the top-speed feeling, trust me.

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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    Mark of the beast, the Mercedes for Dictators.


    Too bad it isn't the LWB.

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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    The 600 has ALREADY been turned into a parts car! Random parts have been removed, possibly without the thought of ever replacing said parts. I know that I often removed parts at the junkyard with crowbars, hammers, and saws. "Hey I need to get at this nut behind the dash, hand me a crowbar."
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    Image of Ralph Wiley Is Poised Ralph Wiley Is Poised
    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    The first time I've ever been tempted by a crappy 6.9.


    So cheap, I can simply dig into the mysteries of the M100 in preparation for my true love, the 6.3, then haul its carcass away when I tire of it.


    Beercheck, SAVE ME!


    Murilee, how many lap penalties if I show up with a $1000 6.9?

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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    05/31/09

    @LucidRalphWiley: I'm guessing that any 6.9 that you could get running for $1,000 would be a big enough basket case that it would put you in fairly strong contention for IOE.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    A luxury car with 99.3% depreciation (adjusted for inflation)? What could possibly go wrong?


    Oh, right.



    I'll take the 600 for $3000+, Alex.

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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    Hydraulic windows. Hydraulic f*cking windows. What more do you really need to hear?


    Besides, I've seen 450SELs, never seen a Grosse.

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    Image of ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD
    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    I think I'd go for the mercedes.
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    Image of .357 .357
    05/31/09

    @darkstar: Same here.
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    Image of ciscokidinsf ciscokidinsf
    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    Dude, doesn't anyone remember Jeremy Clarkson's 'maintenance' bill for his Mercedes LWB 600? I think it was like 25,000 pounds. To restore this one you WILL spend more than what the car's price was when new. This is truly hellish in a time WaMu is no longer around to approve your HELOC for $200K to fix your car. Go Merc 600!
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    05/31/09

    @ciscokidinsf: What's really funny is that after WaMu got bought out they sent me a pre-approved home loan thing.


    I'm 23.


    A student.


    And have never held an "on the books" job for more than a month.


    It's like, didn't you guys learn anything from this?


    /tangent

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    Image of Powerlurker Powerlurker
    05/31/09

    @something_unique_and_descripti...:


    The good people at Chase think it's a good idea to give this grad student living off a departmental stipend access to almost $15,000 in unsecured credit.

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    06/01/09

    @Powerlurker:

    @something_unique_and_descripti...:

    I'm in a similar situation. I used to get Capital One credit card apps like every month. Either they went out of business or they got the message when I sent back one app with rude words on it.


    Now what would happen if all of us financially unsound people just spent all that credit and didn't pay it back? Oh yeah, that already happened. Nevermind.


    One of my current roommates is an international student from Belgium who I think is seriously considering racking up $15,000 in credit card bills before going back home in August. I think there *might* be some consequences to this line of thinking.

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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    SWB Limo? Much like "jumbo shrimp," "military intelligence," or "compassionate conservative" this is a contradiction of terms. Based on this convention one could call pretty much any standard car a Limo- albeit a short wheel base version. How do you like my Toyota Corolla Limo? Limo? Isn't that just a regular, everyday corolla? No, dude, it's the SWB Limo version. Now get it and we'll crash the red carpet for that new Paulie Shore movie.


    I'd like to think that the seller isn't trying to pump up the desirability of this car with a fancy name, but looking at the beast indicates that might just be the case. That, and the missing hydraulics taint this with the mark of the beast- 666, PCH.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/31/09

    @Graverobber: In that case, I'll make my SWB limo into a proper limo.


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    Image of .357 .357
    05/31/09

    @Graverobber: It's a sports limo.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    For hellishness, the 666--I mean 600--wins. It looks worse than most stripped junkyard wrecks. Is that bird doo on it, or random paint? Did someone sand a couple of drywall sheets inside it?

    Nah, all the good stuff is gone. It's just a crusty shell. Make it some freakish custom or extremely ratty rat rod. Anything else is madness.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    600, hands down, as I explained yesterday. I want a "Big".


    I also want to install its horn in my Prius.

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    Image of .357 .357
    05/31/09

    In reply to Project Car Hell, Bruiser Benz Edition: 600 SWB or 450SEL 6.9?
    I'm going to have to go with the 600. Real dictator style.
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