You Need This: The Internet’s Favorite Mercedes Unicorn Is Up for Sale

Ed
By Ed Higginbotham
Mar 8, 2018 | Mercedes-Benz

After being handed a $57,000 estimate to replace the engine in his Mercedes-Benz R63 AMG, forum member Mazdeuce dove headlong into the automotive wizardry of this unicorn and emerged victorious after more than 100 forum pages full of blood, sweat and joy.

Today Mazdeuce is listing the Mercedes for sale to make room for the next project. The asking price? $35,000. Seems reasonable for piece of GRM internet history.

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Comments
mazdeuce - Seth
mazdeuce - Seth Mod Squad
3/8/18 3:01 p.m.

Thanks for throwing this up there Ed. I hope a GRMer buys it and it stays in the community.

captdownshift
captdownshift GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
3/8/18 6:34 p.m.

I'll have to share this with Kartboy, it may end up in the hands of Pat from Weezer.

te72
te72 New Reader
3/8/18 10:11 p.m.

This reminds me... I need to get back into that thread, much enjoyment was had in reading it. =)

Feedyurhed
Feedyurhed SuperDork
3/9/18 1:16 p.m.

Yes I loved that thread also. Still shocking.........$57K!! Good luck with selling it though.

te72
te72 New Reader
3/9/18 8:22 p.m.

Thinking on it a bit, I'm probably fortunate that I have almost no need for a vehicle like this. Combine that with a lack of substantially expendable funds, and I'm gonna have to pass. The part of me that loves sleepers, combined with loving the idea of seeing the Grosh in person? That part of me would really love this thing...

 

Good luck with the sale Seth, and thanks for sharing the adventures!

mazdeuce - Seth
mazdeuce - Seth Mod Squad
3/9/18 9:36 p.m.

In reply to te72 :

I'm glad you enjoyed reading along, it's been one hell of an adventure. 

I just got off the phone with my wife and apparently a guy was just flipping through autotrader and saw the ad and decided to call. He had no idea what it was and was asking how it was different than an R350. I think my wife talked him out of it. 

Patrick
Patrick GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
3/9/18 9:55 p.m.

People use autotrader?

mazdeuce - Seth
mazdeuce - Seth Mod Squad
3/9/18 10:30 p.m.

In reply to Patrick :

It's less scammy when trying to sell cars for more than Challenge money. Ain't nobody got time to talk to crack heads about possible trades for their uncles bass boat.

759NRNG
759NRNG SuperDork
3/10/18 7:42 a.m.

My last three vehicles were ATrader scores .....pretty painless

Knurled.
Knurled. GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
3/10/18 12:08 p.m.

In reply to Patrick :

I scanned it for a few years looking over different models and options and such before making my purchase last fall.

 

It was nicer with the old format where there was a spec sheet tab listing things like vehicle weight, power, wheelbase, tow rating, etc.

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