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welcome to the episode of jay leno's00:00:22
garage you know there are some cars that00:00:24
are so special so unusual you think well00:00:27
there's no chance00:00:29
we'll ever get that car here at the00:00:31
garage well unfortunately we live in00:00:33
hollywood where dreams come true and00:00:35
this is a dream come true for me this is00:00:37
i think one of the greatest mercedes00:00:39
benz's of all time this is the 197000:00:42
c-111 c2 i believe is a catchy name uh00:00:46
but this i think would have been the00:00:48
rightful successor to the classic gold00:00:51
wing from the 1950s this car comes to us00:00:55
from the mercedes classic center right00:00:57
here in southern california and you know00:00:59
if you've got an old mercedes-benz00:01:01
they've got every single factory part00:01:03
available if they don't have it they can00:01:05
get it and that's why it's a kind of fun00:01:08
place to go down to visit every now and00:01:10
then because they always have something00:01:11
unusual something's always being00:01:13
restored or coming through the factory00:01:15
but let's learn more about this star00:01:17
constantine come on in constantine00:01:18
you're the the marketing guy down there00:01:21
at the classic center yes sir okay nice00:01:22
to meet you thank you you know this is a00:01:24
car when i was a kid00:01:26
it just knocked my socks off because i00:01:28
had always dreamed about the gull wing00:01:30
and i was i wanted to be looking like00:01:32
that again then when i was in my late teens00:01:34
suddenly this started appearing tell us00:01:36
about it00:01:37
yeah i mean this car was a pure00:01:39
sensation when it came out first at the00:01:41
frankfurt auto show in september of 69.00:01:45
this is actually the second generation00:01:46
that was later introduced in geneva in00:01:49
197000:01:50
slight cosmetic changes that were made00:01:53
in between the two and also they moved00:01:54
uh in between the first and second00:01:56
generation from the three rotor wankel00:01:58
to the four rotor bank landing which was00:02:00
the main focus point for this00:02:02
hot bed or test bed of innovation00:02:04
because back in the late 60s early 70s00:02:07
the wankel which was the only new engine00:02:09
of the 20th century really everybody had00:02:12
gotten wankel fee was invented by felix00:02:14
wankel of course and then00:02:16
general motors did something with it00:02:17
mercedes-benz hopped on board the00:02:20
japanese00:02:21
they really took it to heart with mazda00:02:23
the rx-7 and the cars the cosmo that was00:02:26
going to be the engine of the future but00:02:28
unfortunately the wankel did not have00:02:31
the reliability of00:02:32
a normal internal combustion engine with00:02:36
seal wear and fuel consumption was not00:02:38
great i think00:02:40
the fuel crisis in the 70s kind of00:02:41
knocked them out of the park but this00:02:43
truly was a dream car and because the00:02:46
wankel was not00:02:49
as reliable it should be that's always00:02:51
been a mercedes-benz trade you've got to00:02:52
have the reliability exactly you've got00:02:54
to be able to run as fast and as00:02:56
reliable as possible so that's when they00:02:58
switched to a v8 but it went through00:03:00
what a two rotor and then a three rotor00:03:02
a three rotor and then a four roller00:03:04
three rod and then the four rod okay we00:03:06
got a picture of the four rotor engine00:03:07
oh yeah00:03:09
and then they actually put a v800:03:12
basic 3.5 liter at that time in two of00:03:15
the cars just for testing purposes00:03:17
because aside from the engine they also00:03:19
wanted to test material so you had a00:03:20
glass fiber00:03:22
fiberglass body on this car00:03:24
just to really test the limits of that00:03:25
material and in terms of rigidity they00:03:28
did extensive internal testing with00:03:30
these cars a lot of suspension testing00:03:32
or something what was introduced with00:03:34
our r107 generation sl at the time to00:03:36
really see what are the limits of those00:03:37
systems um00:03:39
and on the rear axle they kind of00:03:41
adapted to something that would later00:03:42
become the multi-link rear suspension00:03:44
that we introduced i believe in the00:03:46
early 80s and i remember i was at the00:03:48
classic center in germany and i went to00:03:51
this sort of non-descript warehouse and00:03:52
we've got to show you something and they00:03:54
opened the drawer and there were a bunch00:03:56
of these stacked00:03:57
one on top of the other if you had model00:03:59
cars that's how you would set them up00:04:02
it was like oh my god i mean they had00:04:04
the road the wankel ones there and the i00:04:06
mean how many of these did they build00:04:09
um out of the first generation the00:04:10
orange ones that everybody knows they00:04:12
built 13 cars in between the two00:04:14
generations the very first one was a00:04:15
prototype where basically they rolled00:04:17
the chassis out they already wanted to00:04:18
do their initial testing and before they00:04:20
were able to manufacture the first00:04:22
fiberglass body they slapped a kind of00:04:24
crude looking00:04:26
aluminum body on it but it was 13 of the00:04:28
first and second generation and then two00:04:30
more later in the 70s uh the did the uh00:04:33
got the diesel engine and did the record00:04:35
runs in nardo and of uh one of the00:04:37
fourth generation uh where they tested00:04:39
another v8 in the late 70s yeah it was00:04:42
an interesting time because mercedes-benz every time i saw this car00:04:45
it had a different engine yeah i00:04:46
remember they had the turbo diesel00:04:50
and it went something like 200 miles an00:04:51
hour but got some00:04:53
pretty crazy uh mileage like 20 miles00:04:55
per gallon or something yeah something00:04:56
like that00:04:57
i know it doesn't sound like much but00:04:59
back in that day yeah even today a00:05:01
bugatti veyron will empty its gas tank00:05:04
in 12 minutes00:05:05
if it flat out something like that so00:05:08
you're getting what one two miles per00:05:10
gallon so that was pretty amazing this00:05:12
is this fiberglass is this one this one00:05:13
is five glass okay that's a fiberglass00:05:15
one one of my favorite designers at00:05:17
mercedes-benz was a man named bruno00:05:20
sacco am i saying his name correctly yes00:05:22
bruno sacco was in in charge of overall00:05:24
mercedes-benz passenger car design at00:05:25
that time i always liked the stacked00:05:27
headlights one on top of the other like00:05:28
the 6.3 to me that always made a00:05:30
mercedes-benz look00:05:32
like an imposing automobile so this is00:05:35
totally out of his wheelhouse isn't it00:05:37
this is this is completely different i00:05:39
would not recognize i don't see any of00:05:40
his signatures on this car now it really00:05:43
stood out not only for the automotive00:05:44
industry at the time but especially for00:05:46
mercedes-benz and moore at the time00:05:48
conservatively oriented00:05:50
car manufacturer if you look at the00:05:52
other designs that we had at the time00:05:54
this would have really put us on the map00:05:55
in terms of super sports cars of the 70s00:05:57
which was the point of the whole bunkel00:05:59
experiment at the time as well it's hard00:06:01
to imagine but it really was a really00:06:04
conservative company i mean when the 6.300:06:07
which was the big engine the small sedan00:06:09
that was sort of built in secret yeah00:06:12
you know and they you know a bunch of00:06:14
the guys put it together they kept00:06:15
driving it past the boss's window what00:06:17
is this yeah and he came out and so you00:06:19
know it's interesting because it was00:06:21
considered kind of a crazy idea for00:06:23
conservative company to put a big fast00:06:25
engine in a sedan and of course it00:06:26
became a legendary car so to come out00:06:28
with something like this which is00:06:30
totally00:06:31
off the wall was just amazing why did00:06:34
this not make production in some form do00:06:36
you think well at first in the really00:06:37
hot phase of experimenting with the car00:06:39
in 69 and 70 they still had as you00:06:41
mentioned the the issues of really00:06:42
coming up with the solution of having a00:06:44
bronco engine and still provide the00:06:46
durability and reliability that you're00:06:47
used to with mercedes-benz later on00:06:50
around 72-73 we believe they sort of00:06:52
figured that problem out but of course00:06:54
by that time you had very stringent00:06:55
emissions regulations and by 73 the oil00:06:58
crisis hit and the bank which was not00:07:00
the greatest engine in terms of fuel00:07:01
consumption was kind of dropped off the00:07:03
map for mercedes-benz and you can see00:07:05
all the classic mercedes touches the big00:07:07
safety steering wheel yeah all the00:07:09
things that you know that mercedes-benz00:07:11
is is known for i i mean this is pretty00:07:14
radical too the way this uh00:07:17
yeah that entire section was actually00:07:18
closed off with the first body style and00:07:20
then later on opened up to also increase00:07:22
a little bit of the visibility00:07:24
do you know the coefficient of drag for00:07:26
me to put you on the spot00:07:28
and this one is00:07:29
0.325.325 which is00:07:32
quite good isn't it it's pretty good00:07:33
especially for that time it's00:07:35
remarkable it's pretty good yes00:07:37
and what did it have for brakes00:07:38
obviously four-wheel discs discs yes00:07:40
ventilated disc brakes all around00:07:43
and they actually did some testing on00:07:44
the track and hockenheim and nurburgring00:07:46
with wide racing tires dunlop's at the00:07:48
time to just really see how that whole00:07:50
system works both as a road00:07:52
configuration and a race car although00:07:53
they always reiterated and emphasized00:07:56
this is never going to be a race car00:07:57
we're not going to go back00:07:58
to racing so the idea was to build a00:08:00
road car yes and was the gull wing door00:08:04
always part of it00:08:05
from the get-go it was part of the00:08:07
design of that car00:08:08
and00:08:09
it definitely would have been a00:08:10
spiritual successor to the 300sl in00:08:12
terms of really having a sports car a00:08:14
road car with racing jeans yeah can we00:08:17
open the rear yes absolutely00:08:32
what we have here five-speed transaxle00:08:34
yeah we had a zf five-speed transmission00:08:37
which was available at the time for00:08:39
example on a 280 sl you would have00:08:41
gotten it in the late 60s and the00:08:42
transmission wasn't really part of of00:08:44
what they wanted to test so they just uh00:08:46
went with what was available at the time00:08:48
i mean look how clean this engine00:08:49
compared to all the equipment stuff you00:08:51
have with cars now look how the exhaust00:08:53
comes down here i see it goes through00:08:54
the muffler here00:08:56
and that's basically the original00:08:58
configuration that they did in the early00:09:00
70s when they swapped the vancl out for00:09:01
v8 for just the testing purposes they00:09:04
just added now the part of the00:09:05
restoration that was done in germany00:09:06
last year uh fire suppression systems00:09:09
the fire suppressions you got into that00:09:10
yeah and then you see some green wires00:09:12
over there that was for uh temperature00:09:14
testing just to make sure um00:09:17
and uh00:09:18
radiator and everything is in the front00:09:20
yeah the standard production 3.5 the00:09:22
same that was in the sedan and what00:09:24
basically okay00:09:25
and what is this car weight do you know00:09:27
i think it's around00:09:29
2700 pounds wow that's pretty light okay00:09:32
of course being fiberglass sure00:09:38
let's take a look at the interior of the00:09:39
car00:09:41
yeah it's very00:09:42
make do in a way as you see the00:09:45
vertical arrangement of the center00:09:47
console there with the radio is just you00:09:49
know try to work with the space you got00:09:51
that all seemed very sexy when i was a00:09:53
kid have the radio going this way00:09:54
corvette had it exactly i think a few00:09:56
other people had it as well and of00:09:58
course if you're new mercedes-benz and00:10:00
you know 300 sl you are familiar with00:10:02
this that you had to sort of climb over00:10:04
to get into the car but that just made00:10:06
it sort of more fun yeah and obviously00:10:08
strictly a two-seater car00:10:11
um00:10:12
did it have air conditioning00:10:14
uh yes okay so it's pretty balanced00:10:18
but there was thought of producing it00:10:20
there was thought of really making sure00:10:22
if we want to produce it we can so there00:10:24
was a lot of thought that also went into00:10:26
that version one to version two they00:10:28
lowered the um the window line so you00:10:30
had increased visibility so there was00:10:32
really the thought of okay we don't want00:10:33
to just00:10:34
test technology and materials on this00:10:36
car we want to see can we make this00:10:38
feasible as a production car probably a00:10:39
limited run or a small series production00:10:42
but i mean it was such a sensation when00:10:43
it came out weren't there people lining00:10:45
up with checkbooks yes yes please how00:10:46
much i don't care00:10:48
exactly we got blank checks from00:10:49
customers all over the world that saw00:10:50
the car especially the second generation00:10:52
in geneva and just said fill in the00:10:54
number i need this car and we still have00:10:56
a few of those in the archives in00:10:57
germany actually so why did they not00:11:00
build it what was the reason why they00:11:01
didn't go with that body style i think00:11:03
at some point it was also the testing00:11:05
okay what can we do we have a very very00:11:07
efficient draco efficient on this car um00:11:10
but in terms of the materials i think at00:11:12
the end they've decided that this car00:11:15
was not up to what you expect when you00:11:17
have a mercedes-benz of the field like00:11:18
you usually expect aluminum steel body00:11:21
work so even aside from the bunker issue00:11:24
at some point it was just shelved as a00:11:26
project was there any talk of building00:11:27
this out of aluminum not that we know of00:11:29
probably there were internal um00:11:31
considerations to do that but not that00:11:33
we can follow through documentation is00:11:35
there any trunk space in the front or is00:11:37
it all radiation uh just a little bit00:11:38
you got a spare tire in there is very00:11:40
limited in this it's just a toothbrush00:11:42
really yeah pretty much okay so not much00:11:44
has changed supercars are always going00:11:45
to be supercars can we uh take it for a00:11:47
spin absolutely let's do it00:11:57
well you got a panoramic view of00:11:58
everything i know they really worked on00:12:00
the visibility here yeah00:12:03
you know that's my biggest complaint00:12:04
with modern cars the a-pillars i know00:12:07
it's safer because the rollover but the00:12:08
a-pillars are so wide i'm always going00:12:11
i'm always looking on either side of the00:12:12
a-pillar00:12:15
yeah this is one of those cars that just00:12:18
sticks in your mind when you were a kid00:12:20
you know i remember seeing it on the00:12:21
cover of rodent track and seeing it in00:12:24
all the articles and it was uh00:12:27
pretty cool just going through all the00:12:29
various00:12:30
variations diesels wankels00:12:33
and they couldn't figure out where they00:12:34
what they wanted they really tried00:12:36
everything yeah yeah even mercedes00:12:39
concept cars00:12:41
we're full cars the radio works to00:12:43
engage it a lot of times you drive00:12:44
concept cars while the doors don't open00:12:46
or you know nothing works it's just00:12:48
don't touch their stones outside how did00:12:50
the air conditioner work yeah00:12:53
it's fascinating to see people's faces00:12:55
when you're driving because they have no00:12:56
idea what they're looking at what what00:12:58
is that and you can always tell the00:13:00
moment when they see the star and they00:13:02
just think wait a minute what is going00:13:03
on here one thing i was like about00:13:05
mercedes-benz is the gauges never move00:13:08
water temperature goes to 180 it stays00:13:10
it stays there yeah it doesn't creep up00:13:11
to 230 and then you step on the gas it00:13:13
goes down to 160. but it boom it's right00:13:16
there00:13:17
i was that because i'm heating the oil00:13:19
now00:13:20
no00:13:27
i'm just getting a kick out of that00:13:28
riding shotgun in this car00:13:30
yeah00:13:32
riding shotgun is that a that's the00:13:34
american expression they never said that00:13:36
in germany00:13:37
no no no why'd you ride with the shotgun00:13:40
i do not understand yeah what are you00:13:42
talking about00:13:46
i know you guys had this at pebble beach00:13:48
but you could drive it to pebble beach00:13:50
you could you really could it's like you00:13:53
said the most important thing here in00:13:54
southern california the ac is blowing so00:13:56
yeah got that covered but it's00:13:59
it's easy you know in most cars where00:14:01
the windows don't open i feel really00:14:02
claustrophobic because the window's00:14:04
right here whereas this is it's pretty00:14:06
cool i don't have a problem at all00:14:09
you don't have any arm contact with the00:14:11
door there's still enough00:14:13
space for00:14:14
you it's long-legged isn't it boy i'm in00:14:17
second gear second gear feels like third00:14:20
gear most cars00:14:26
it's a nice little lean to it00:14:28
soft suspension00:14:31
i mean they really wanted to make it00:14:32
yeah a sports car but something that you00:14:34
can take on the road and you can take it00:14:36
from stuttgart down to italy or00:14:37
something right00:14:39
enjoy yourself it suddenly reminds me a00:14:41
little bit of the what was that the m100:14:45
the bmw built member for a while there00:14:47
yeah yeah but this i think is uh00:14:50
obviously faster that was only a six00:14:51
cylinder00:14:58
did any of these ever get into private00:15:00
hands no not a single one wow it's one00:15:02
of those cars where you say well if you00:15:04
break it you buy it it sends the wrong00:15:06
message yeah yeah00:15:09
and then i would try to break it exactly00:15:11
oh it broke now i have to buy it00:15:16
i mean you could build this car today it00:15:18
really is a timeless design00:15:21
like the mclaren f1 it really is you00:15:23
can't even tell what year it is00:15:26
it turned quite a lot of heads at pebble00:15:28
beach00:15:30
and it's the only one that we have in00:15:31
our collection that's running and00:15:33
driving yeah the other ones with the old00:15:35
bunkel engines in them some of them you00:15:37
could neurotically get running again but00:15:39
at this point it's more consideration of00:15:41
yeah conserving those engines right00:15:43
right00:15:44
and really the idea here was yeah we'll00:15:46
put the v8 back in it the way it was00:15:48
used at some point in the early 70s00:15:51
but it's more about you know making the00:15:52
statement and get this car out on the00:15:54
road because it's it was almost every00:15:56
every kid's dream to00:15:58
see this00:15:59
drive by and00:16:01
luckily enough we got a chance to get it00:16:03
it's no noisier than a production sl00:16:06
no00:16:07
for a prototype car it's pretty refined00:16:09
i mean you mean about00:16:11
production things little tiny things but00:16:13
certainly nothing but intrusive00:16:16
i'm surprised they even considered a00:16:17
gold wing door as late as the 70s00:16:20
the safety stuff00:16:24
like on the good touch00:16:26
it came with a little hammer so if you00:16:28
rolled it up you could smash the window00:16:30
and crawl out that sounds very italian00:16:33
yeah here's the hammer you but i get the00:16:34
window you get00:16:38
and it's current configuration you get00:16:39
about 205 horsepower is what they got00:16:41
out of the dyno oh okay00:16:44
yeah it's about 205 i mean it doesn't00:16:46
feel00:16:47
overpowered but yeah got enough juice00:16:49
plus you have to remember the car is00:16:51
40 something years old yeah you know00:16:55
back in the day00:16:57
the most powerful car ferrari had in the00:16:59
70s had 220 horsepower yeah i mean the00:17:02
horsepower is just gone so crazy00:17:05
in the last 10 15 years oh my god you00:17:07
know now you need 600 just to be in the00:17:10
club yeah i mean that just gets you in00:17:11
the door00:17:12
you know you got the mclaren 903 la00:17:15
ferrari you know uh bugatti00:17:19
918 porsche i mean it's it's crazy how00:17:22
nutty it's gotten there really you can00:17:24
tell they spent a lot of time on the00:17:26
test track uh00:17:28
in stuttgart and00:17:29
on the track in hockenheim and00:17:31
nurburgring00:17:33
the first public road test that it was00:17:34
actually with rudolf hulenhaut and uh00:17:37
hans kneebolt was the project manager00:17:39
must have been quite old at that point00:17:41
wasn't he yeah i'm not sure but i mean00:17:42
he's been around since what the early00:17:44
mid 30s for mercedes-benz racing yeah i00:17:47
mean00:17:48
i remember he had the greatest road00:17:49
going mercedes of all time the one out00:17:52
coupe yeah00:17:53
oh my god oh my god00:17:56
he was like the bill mitchell of germany00:17:58
he pretty much build his you know dream00:18:00
cars and drive him on the street yeah00:18:03
and i can't imagine in post-war germany00:18:05
when everybody was kind of broke and00:18:07
you know hustling just to get enough to00:18:09
eat this00:18:10
magnificent car goes down the road i00:18:12
can't imagine being a kid and seeing00:18:14
what that must have been like yeah00:18:18
it's amazing you feel very safe in this00:18:20
it feels very modern you know it does00:18:22
feel very modern you know it doesn't00:18:23
feel like a00:18:25
70s car00:18:27
but when you realize it00:18:30
this car is almost exactly in the middle00:18:33
of00:18:34
from the invention of the car00:18:36
to this car00:18:38
to this car to now yeah it's like a00:18:40
halfway point it just feels like a00:18:42
halfway point i remember when i was00:18:44
driving in germany once and i pulled00:18:45
into this old village you know one of00:18:48
the every tourist trap built the 1300s00:18:51
there was a church over there00:18:53
there was a church way over there and at00:18:56
three o'clock00:18:58
they both chime at exactly at the same00:19:00
time then i go to italy and their hands00:19:03
are falling off the clock00:19:04
and they're not even working you know it00:19:07
just made me laugh but just to pull into00:19:09
a 13th century village00:19:11
it just it just made me laugh00:19:14
it's crazy yeah but it's it's over00:19:15
hundreds of years just a cultivated00:19:18
uh00:19:19
yeah very precision oriented00:19:22
culture but see an american get away00:19:25
with a lot of stuff you can't get away00:19:26
with in germany that's true00:19:29
i mean germany you can't really modify00:19:31
your car much at all can you00:19:33
oh there's a very strict regulation i00:19:35
mean here you got your smog basically00:19:37
and that's it that's what you got to do00:19:38
depending on how old your car is but in00:19:39
germany they do safety inspections and00:19:41
if there's anything really modified from00:19:43
manufacturer specs00:19:44
uh it can can get very tricky oh yeah00:19:47
yeah00:19:49
so people are always amazed when they00:19:50
come visit me here and you got cars00:19:51
running around and you know headlights00:19:53
falling out and it's like yeah no big00:19:55
deal you can't even really have dents in00:19:57
your car can you00:19:58
yeah nine huh nine no no you gotta get a00:20:02
six yeah00:20:04
but then again you can drive00:20:06
150 miles an hour00:20:08
yeah00:20:10
but then again you got it more civilized00:20:12
i think when you when you're on the00:20:14
autobahn where you're only allowed if00:20:15
you're faster than somebody you got to00:20:16
pass them to their left right like in00:20:18
california where you really yeah people00:20:20
just00:20:21
go wherever they're going the wrong00:20:22
direction in your lane you know i mean00:20:24
here it's like it's like crazy people00:20:28
there was a mercedes leather that was00:20:30
especially00:20:32
thick and had a great smell to it00:20:35
and it just kind of got replaced with00:20:37
just the more modern leather it doesn't00:20:39
yeah it doesn't breathe you don't have00:20:41
to give it hide food or anything it just00:20:43
lasts forever but i like you you know i00:20:44
used to love you know massaging the uh00:20:48
the high food into the leather to soften00:20:50
it up so it'd be like a glove00:20:52
yeah it was part of the experience of a00:20:54
car in a way00:20:56
it's very hard when you restore these00:20:57
cars now and you want the period correct00:20:59
leather you really got to go out of your00:21:00
way to find it because anything you get00:21:02
now is for automotive is almost aviation00:21:04
grade you know fire resistant and00:21:06
everything00:21:07
and like i said you don't have to do00:21:08
anything it'll last forever or retain00:21:10
that freshness00:21:11
but on the other hand if you restore it00:21:13
a couple years you want that patina you00:21:14
want this kind of00:21:16
feel to it00:21:22
looks like germany now00:21:24
yeah00:21:25
but yeah mercedes tried to fight it the00:21:27
cup holder for a long time oh yeah00:21:29
losing battle and then when he did come00:21:31
up with a cup holder it was the most00:21:33
complex you press it it turns it goes00:21:35
left right and then it comes up and00:21:37
comes around this way and then it grabs00:21:39
i mean it was the most00:21:41
engineered cup holder00:21:54
let's try the headlights00:22:01
it's kind of cool yeah00:22:07
where's the opening right here00:22:14
what a piece of history this is now you00:22:16
might notice we're taking it kind of00:22:17
easy because these tires are a little00:22:19
old aren't they yeah nothing they're a00:22:20
little hard i can feel it's starting to00:22:23
slide a little bit so00:22:25
but uh we're up here in the hills i mean00:22:27
it drives like a modern car you could00:22:29
build this car today they should build00:22:30
this car today00:22:32
we'll take it back to starting to get00:22:33
more guys with those checkbooks to show00:22:35
up come on we'll take it up on the00:22:37
freeway and uh then we'll head back to00:22:39
the shop00:22:42
i love closing this door00:23:12
wow00:23:13
what a thrill that is i want to thank00:23:15
constantine in the mercedes-benz classic00:23:17
center mercedes-benz in germany you know00:23:20
it's a huge deal to get a car like this00:23:22
a priceless car like this on the road00:23:24
there's insurance and whatnot and the00:23:25
fact that you guys go to all the trouble00:23:27
to bring it here we really appreciate it00:23:29
my pleasure and if you've got an old00:23:30
mercedes no matter what part you need00:23:32
this little thing here you need that00:23:34
switch they got it it's classic center00:23:36
that's the cool thing about it so i00:23:38
can't thank you guys enough for making00:23:39
this uh dream come true it took me 4000:23:42
something years by finally sitting i00:23:43
finally got this i said i got to drive00:23:45
it see you guys next week00:24:00
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