@th_boone Sounds like a nice car! I love them in silver and yeah, if you don’t know how to wrench in them you have to buy the nicest one you can or it gets expensive really fast. 

@Mallard87 I feel the same way with all the cool cars on the West Coast, especially with the super high fuel prices right now shipping is expensive. 

@cgrafff1 This is actually my 8th car in the fleet, so I'm sad it's going but happy I have less cars. 

What a battle. Congrats @lsnead39 I'm so excited for you! 

Probably need not remind everyone, but this is a no reserve auction. Highest bid takes it. 

@blakleyleonard Awwww thanks man. I really do try -- especially on my personal cars!

Just drove the car back from DC Motorwerks, fueled it up, and gave it a rinse. Did a systems check and a once over and she's good to go. The shop also gave it a test drive and a checkover and it has the green light. I have the car tucked away in a warehouse next to a few other W124s so it's right at home. I was talking to one of my old coworkers today who used to work at RBM Atlanta back in the day and he remembers the car and the owner who also had a S600 to pair with this S124. Just fun connecting the stories all together. 

With a new hours left, just want to point out a few things:

- One family owned since new
- New tires
- New head gasket and top end reseal
- New crankshaft seal
- All new fluids on every single system
- New brakes
- New Bilsteins
- Ceramic coating
- New lower control arms, tie rods, center drag link, and stabilizer bar 
- Seat mechanism repairs
- 2 keys and books 

Thank you to all my friends and new connections reaching out to me on this car. I have no idea who is going to end up with it with all the people I've been talking to -- some local, some far away --  so good luck and happy bidding. 

UPDATE: DC Motorwerks finished the front crankshaft seal yesterday. Going to Uber up there this morning to grab the car, wash it, give it a once over, fill it with fuel, and park it in the warehouse until it gets picked up by one of you guys. 

One of the reasons I like selling my cars on this platform is they always go to the right home. That's important to me since it's our job to keep these cars on the road since they don't make them anymore. We're all basically foster parents to these things.

@1234Corvair1 Has been sending me progress pictures of the 250SE I sold him a few weeks ago which I love. I wouldn't mind getting a picture here and there of adventures the winners takes with this car. 

Anyways, good luck on bidding here in the final hours. I'm here if you need me. 

With a bit more than a day left, I just want to check in on everyone and make sure I've answered all your questions. I got a lot of DMs, so if I didn't respond that means it got buried and that is not my intention. Please ask away. The car does include all of the receipts for all the parts I bought to match the long Stuttgart Steel invoice. I have a thick folder with everything I ordered. 

I'd be lying if I said I won't miss this car. The W124 is probably my favorite chassis Mercedes has ever built and they're a joy to work on. I'm headed out to do coil packs on my friend's 1994 E420 here in an hour and I'm excited to wrench on his. Working on these cars is the best way to appreciate their engineering and Mercedes was at their BEST with the W124. 

I might take out the 500E today... 

Quick update on the car. I noticed a few drops of oil off the front of the oil pan when I shot the undersides a few weeks ago. It looked like it was coming from the front crankshaft seal. Since it signed off on the car after the photoset, I drove the car up to DC Motorwerks for them to put eyes on the small oil leak I spotted since I wanted a second opinion. They confirmed it was just that and it's getting a new seal put in. Hoping it's buttoned up by the time the auction ends, but there's a chance it's completed a day or so after this car sells. I'll keep you all updated. 

But either way, the car is getting a new front crankshaft seal. Just wanted to be transparent and address an additional service the car is getting on my dime before the auction ends! 

@Mallard87 Thank you! It's fine in summer, but with any 124 you need recirc on and it blowing on full to keep comfortable. I remember it being like that in the late '90s with my parent's W124s in Atlanta. It's also why I kept the tint on it since that helps massively with heat reflection. 

@OlyOop You’re absolutely not bugging me — please keep asking questions! Cruise control works. It’s always one of the first things I test since I actually use it in my cars and they’re easy to get fixed. 

@OlyOop Hey! Sorry for not responding to the PM I was getting my butt kicked by my 190E today. I don’t think a bird would have done that damage and a deer would have done WAY more damage. I bet it was a rock on the highway or some other debris that pinged it. I don’t think water can actually really get in there it isn’t THAT bad. 

@LCFAB It makes me so happy people appreciate this car and all my work. It was a lot of effort to get it this nice. Thanks for the love so far everyone! 

@th_boone I'm such a M104 fan. With fresh mounts, at idle, the engine feels like it stalled and it's off. They they feel so good when the variable valve timing kicks in. 

@Stan_Lution Sorry for the delayed responses, was busy photographing a Hammer all day today and my hands were occupied with a camera. So let me sit down and answer these and all of the PMs I got:

 The stance is perfect on it. It looks so good in person. 

@YahOsm I did no attempt to repair the wood. Send yours out to Madera Concepts for refinishment -- that's the proper way to get it repaired or find a nice piece on eBay to replace it with. 

@SnookBraden A R129 and a S124 is kind of a perfect two car solution. Sporty roadster and the hauler, both with Sacco lines. Can't beat it. 

@quickmath No problem getting you paint meter readings. I'll grab some next time I'm near the vehicle -- give me a few days -- it's at the warehouse. The whole car had been repainted in the factory color per the copy, so that's why I didn't provide paint meter readings with this one since it isn't original paint. Passenger door check stop can be adjusted for it to shut properly, but the door sticks out 2mm and I'm a freak who stares as my body panel gaps when I walk up to my car coming out from the grocery store, so I set in a liiiiiitle bit so the door is 100% flush. The door bumper stop might be worn a litte (doesn't look worn), but maybe sourcing a new one would fix it. It's so minor but I'm trying to disclose everything I didn't get around fixing so people know what they're buying. Again, I'm HARSH on my cars since I aim for OEM perfection when dialing in my personal cars. That's why it took me a year to get this ready! 

@quickmath I don’t have much as far as history goes for the SLS, so I did flush the fluid and it operates as it should. I even had a heavy set of wheels in the back and the car sat perfectly level. When SLS fails it’s VERY obvious as the rear has zero give over bumps. The rear shocks are also dry with no leaks. SLS also isn’t as scary and people make it out to be. Parts are available, affordable, and the home wrencher can easily change out accumulators and service the system. It’s robust AND simple. I’m a fan.   

@Dtslost Good eye, I didn't even realize they were missing until you pointed it out since I was concentrating on other things. Looks like you can grab some on eBay if you really wanted them installed. 

@henryr I did all of the work on the Stuttgart Steel invoice and just billed it out as if I was working on a client’s car. @DC_Motorwerks helped me with the seat diag and the frame. 

@gsxr Always a pleasure seeing you in my auction. I don't know what they are since they look like they've been on there for a while and are just black, but it sits perfectly. And unfortunately no records from the previous owner which is why I went overboard on the services. The CarFax luckily has a lot of the service performed on the car before I came to own it. Thanks! 

Hey everyone, this is the auction of my personal S124 that I’m relinquishing from my fleet on a NO RESERVE auction! Funny story with this one: A year ago one of my friends uncovered this car from the family that owned it since new as they just really didn’t need it anymore. I did a pre-purchase inspection on it for him since he wanted to rescue the car and bring it back to its former glory (this is what he likes to do as a hobby and he’s GREAT at it). I discovered it had excellent bones but deferred maintenance as most 124s have at this point. I helped sell the car to him back in… oh, it was probably March of last year and he wanted me to do the reconditioning on it. I hit him with a quote to get it as nice as he likes his car (which is as nice as I want my own stuff), he got cold feet, so I bought it off him since we didn’t want it to go into the wrong hands. I spent the past year or so driving it and refreshing its systems one-by-one until it transformed into its current state. 

I put about two thousand miles on this car and really enjoyed it. It’s an EXCELLENT Atlanta car and is useful to haul stuff that doesn’t fit in a sedan. I recently added a 1994 E500 to the collection and also own a S211 E63 and a S210 E320, so this car became kind of redundant and I didn’t drive it as much as it deserved – it’s also too nice to stuff dirty wheels and old AMG parts into the back hatch. I don’t like to stash cars away to not be driven. These deserve owners that cherish and use them – it’s a Mercedes-Benz wagon after all. 

I did so much to the car. There’s little things I serviced that didn’t make it onto the service invoice that I probably forgot, like spending five hours cleaning the engine block with a toothbrush while I had the head off, replacing little vacuum elements I had new laying on the shelves, and correcting linkages, hose clamps, o-rings, stupid stuff like that. I service my cars to factory spec using factory books and tools and order as many parts as I can from the dealership. This was a well serviced car before I got it, but I’m a level above psycho with how I want my Sacco era cars to run.

The listing is extensive and thorough, but if I missed anything please feel free to ask for additional pictures or any questions you have on your mind. I saw on the Carfax (this thing has 100 service hits which is the most I’ve EVER seen) the head gasket was done by The Benz Shop years ago and I just put a new one in back in September. There was so much oil coming from the old rotting magnesium valve cover (which was replaced with a nice one) and dripping down the block that I’m actually not sure I needed to do it, but I dumb and wanted to do the head gasket job because I think it’s fun and wanted to inspect the internals myself. This… is how I spend my free time. 

Thanks for looking and I suggest serious bidders watch my video from beginning to end. I go over a ton of details in there, but the copy The MB Market did was very in-depth since I provided  a lot of information. Thanks and good luck bidding!