[W126 Coupe] SEC on eBay & more

[Bruce Mendel]

Yeah, I know, my back-yard sales pitch is a little bit much. :) But it's accurate. 

I have personally owned over 20 W126 cars, including a 19K mile SEC, a 14K mile SEL factory stretch, a 39K mile SEC, and a 38K mile 380SEC all in the last 24 months. I know bullshit mileage when I see it, and this car is a very legit low mile car. No re-dyed leather, no worn pedal covers (or brand new pedal covers), no oxidation in places it should not be in 29K miles, bushings are not new, but not old, etc. The headliner is a dirt-magnet, like felt or something, but it may not be original, or it could have been pulled and then re-glued when it sagged like they all do, and gotten dirty in the process. I have an eight day old baby, so no time yet to go into the garage and scrub it down!

The car was registered for the road in Canada, and then brought into USA with papers and titled. So no paperwork needed any longer, as it has clean USA title and can be sold and registered anywhere. That being said, it is unrestricted, catalytic-converter wise, so I will either put those on, or credit for them to new buyer.

Bruce
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Iain Gunn 
  To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists 
  Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:16 PM
  Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] SEC on eBay & more


  From what I've studied is that the  w126 cars that were made from 1986-1991 were considered North American cars and there is no difference between a Canadian car and a US car.I have also seen both US and Canadian documentation that allows for relatively easy movement of these cars between the US and Canada. I know that I can bring any w126 into Canada from the states without a huge problem. I found this info on the web a couple of years ago. I can also bring a Mercedes into Canada from anywhere in the world so long as it passes applicable emissions and safety requirements. This is NOT so easy in the US I understand.
                                                                                  Iain, Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Mister McGoo 
    To: mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com 
    Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:28 PM
    Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] SEC on eBay & more


    I just felt a bit uneasy about this car after looking the listing over.  Maybe it is the back-yard car-salesman superlative pitch that I seem to have heard before.  Maybe it is the few little hints that this car, for 47,000Km, has had a very rough life.  Maybe it is because the driver appears to have been a big heavy guy.  The tiny glimpse was not enough to really tell, but the headliner seems to have some serious problems, not just needing cleaning and fixing the broken sunroof.  (Everything else seems to have been cleaned OK.  Why not the headliner?)

    This leads me to a question/comment.

    Again, one cannot really see for sure but the plates on the car appear to be Ontario.  I certainly may be wrong about Ontario plates, and that's not the point.  However, this leads to a general question.

    A 1989 European import is legal in Canada as-is, and duty-free (15+ year old rule)  But it has been my understanding that the same car would need (or risk needing) EPA and safety standards compliance in the US before obtaining registration.  A Canadian Import with Canadian Standards certification (sticker on the door post, correct imported VIN) is OK, subject to some duty, because the Canadian standards are deemed to be equal or higher.  (Crash testing, emmisions etc.)   The fact that a car is imported from Europe to Canada and then to US does not relieve this addition obligation on a US buyer, does it?

    And to retrofit compliance to US standards can be expensive, impractical, and in some cases, impossible.  Am I right?

    -Bellamy


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      From:  Dan Landiss <dan at landiss.com>
      Reply-To:  Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists <mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com>
      To:  Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists <mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com>
      Subject:  Re: [W126 Coupe] SEC on eBay
      Date:  Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:12:11 -0600
      >Mister McGoo wrote:
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      >>Funny how when you look at some things on your computer you swear 
      >>you get a whiff of a bad smell?
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      >
      >Didn't the "real" AMGs have the AMG logo on the speedometer?
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