1992 Mercedes-Benz 500E Project Car

1992 Mercedes-Benz 500-Series 500e Additional Info:

Note: I am relisting this due to the high bidder not paying deposit or contacting me. Please do not bid on the car if you don't intend to buy it.

I am selling a 1992 Mercedes 500e project car. I've had this for about ten years and the wife says I have too many projects so it has to go. Here is the history on the car as I know it. Mileage is 315K. At some point the timing chain or tensioner went bad and the timing chain became derailed rendering the engine inoperable. Vehicle was brought to a dealership in Chicago and was parked for awhile and I ended up buying it. The car was then placed in my garage and has sat ever since. Bodywise everything is there. There is a dent on the right front door that can be seen in the pictures. Original paint, no sign of any collision damage. Interiorcan use a good cleaningbut the seats and other 500E specific bits are in good shape.

Also when I first picked up the car I ended up buying atakeout motor from Turner Motorsports that they had gotten for a project. This motor was from a different 500E that was wrecked and has < 20K on it. I remember doing a carfax on the engine and I believe that the actual mileage was 16,000 and change. Car was hit in the back so no damage to the motor. I also bought the transmission and rear axle differential as well so I have basically all new running gear for the car. This is INCLUDED in the auction. So you are bidding on the carplus a complete set of running gear to get it operational again. I have additional pictures so please email me and I can send you additional information.

On Sep-25-16 at 19:38:44 PDT, seller added the following information:

I've gotten a lot of questions about the body on the car so I added some pictures from underneath. Body is pretty clean on the underside. I did notice some door dings on the left side that don't show in the pictures and there is a dent on the small panel which is right underneath the trunk. Headliner is saggingin the back. As noted in the ad, car has 300K on it and is not perfect. It is NOT driveable and it will need to be towed to its new home. As statedin the ad I boughtthe carin its current state and never had it running. Dash lights come on and the starter engages. As far as pickup, the vehicle is at our farm on the west side of Michigan and I can meet there on the weekends only as I work M-F.