Flyair,
Thank you for your greetings. I have not asked the previous owner too much of the car's history and here is the reason why. When I did ask him how he got the car he said that the car had originally belonged to his son, and that his son had passed away along time ago. He seemed like he did not want to talk about the subject, so I did not press him. He did tell me that when his son passed the car was in a mechanic's shop and that he had to pay the mechanic's bill when he was settling his estate. After he paid the mechanic he decided to keep the car, this was in 1993. He told me that he had kept the car running until the mid 2000's when his health became too bad to "tinker" with it. He said that he backed it into the barn, took the battery out and there it sat until I knocked on his door last night.
I saw the car a few months ago, when I was going shooting at a friend's property much further down the same road. The day I saw it, I stopped and knocked on the owner's door and no one answered. Last night around 6:30, had a thought that I should follow up on the car. I knew it was an early Mercedes SL but I had no idea beyond that. I followed up on my instincts, and stopped by on my way home from work. I knocked on the door and he answered I introduced myself and gave him my business card, which has nothing to do with old cars, and asked him if he had any interest in selling the car and he looked at his wife and said, "yes" and then asked him how much he wanted for the car and he told me "2,500." So, not having ever been withing 500 feet of the car I asked him if I could go back to the barn and look at it, he said, "sure." So, in the cold and rain we had here last night I went back and looked at the car using my cell phone as a flash light.
After I looked at the car, thinking this was a good deal I called him on the number he had given me at the door earlier and told him I would take it. I offered to give him a deposit, but he said to just pay him tomorrow. I came back this morning at 9:30 after I went to the bank and exchanged the money for the title, and arranged to come back Sunday to get the car. This morning I found out about the car's history with his son. If I get anymore information as to the history was well as any more pictures I will post them on here.
Thanks to everyone for the kind words of encouragement.
