THIRD QTR
2010
MBCA | Carolinas Section
We Saw This Car Person! To
in
find out
what it is,
Ladies
and Gentlemen, please join us as we step back in time to the year 1989...
Look Inside!
THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE MERCEDES BENZ CLUB OF AMERICA, CAROLINAS SECTION
Better Than a Hot Tub Time Machine...
DON’S FOUND A EASIER WAY TO RELIVE THE 1980s
By Don Suttles
It’s Saturday afternoon... 98 degree weather outside, 72 degree inside... I’m sitting on the sofa scanning my laptop for any program I can find which I haven’t already read meticulously. Oh well, let’s check out e-Bay to see what’s offered in the 1989 Mercedes Benz 560SL Model. WAIT, I still have the 1989 560 SL I bought off e-Bay last
January. Boy, did I get a raw deal that time! I remember how great the pictures looked and the multiple paragraph description describing the many accolades of the car and NO BIDS and NO MINIMUM. “If I bid now, I may get this gem because the auction ends within the hour.” I BID AND WON (as it turned out, I bid and LOST). Several days later, the car
showed up looking like a Mercedes Benz salvage reject. I think the proverbial junkyard dog used the wheels as his preference over a shiny fire hydrant. OK, so I’ll let bygones be bygones and get on with my original plan to see what is now available and at what price. I logged in, entered make and model into the search block and pressed GO. Continued on page 2