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£12 SL500

  • 05-08-2011 6:29pm
    #1
    ronanphilip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭


    www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/12-quid-sl-2011-08-05
    NFL coach sells Benz for £12

    Pittsburgh Steelers trainer flogs his SL500 to cafeteria worker on his last day.

    Humanity. This will restore your faith in it: during his last day as a coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ray Horton surprised a petrolheaded cook at the team's cafeteria by selling him his '99 Mercedes SL500 for £12.

    According to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the cook, Maurice 'Mo' Matthews had always admired the car, and when Horton was saying his goodbyes he asked him: OHow much money have you got in your pocket?' Matthews said: "I got $20." Horton took the money and said: "Sold for $20" before handing him the keys.

    Matthews then drove Horton to the airport so he could sign the 64,000-mile SL's title (equivalent to a V5C in Blighty).

    Matthews told the PPG: "I'm still in shock. I don't think it has hit me yet. I still pinch myself. I look out the window when I bring it to work and I just go, 'Man, that's mine.'"

    Warms the cockles, doesn't it?


Comments

  • #2
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Story from 2 weeks time:

    "Cook crashes sports car"

    :D


  • #3
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Story from two months time_"Evil sports mogul bankrupts hard working, low paid Cook- 'I can't believe I have become homeless just because of a fuel bill and some tyres ' protests Chef Mo"


  • #4
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Nice story! :)


  • #5
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,660 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Nice!

    Almost as cheap as Ireland, I swapped a '99 CL600 bi-turbo last week for a pack of Monster Munch.


  • #6
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,477 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Hope he can afford to run it.

    Lucky guy.


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  • #7
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Hope he can afford to run it.

    Lucky guy.

    for a motor like that it would be worth quitting drinkin, smoking and eating to run it


  • #8
    route66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭route66


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Nice!

    Almost as cheap as Ireland, I swapped a '99 CL600 bi-turbo last week for a pack of Monster Munch.

    Was that a full pack? :eek:


  • #9
    bonzos
    Registered Users Posts: 806 ✭✭✭bonzos


    Im sure you could pick up a nice SL320 for €5k at the moment...nice motor


  • #10
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    He's an idiot. I'd have given him $25 for it. He just lost out on 5 big ones.


  • #11
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    cost you 100e or more to fill that bitch up but for 12 quid he cant complain.


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  • #12
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,757 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Hope he can afford to run it.

    Lucky guy.

    It's an 08. Low tax? ;);)


  • #13
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    It's an 08. Low tax? ;);)
    says '99 in the op. I know luxo bangernomics is huge, but I'd say horton just palmed it off on the cook to save on the massive quote he just got for a new cat and service.:D If you offered me a 99 merc with a 5+ L engine for €20, I think I'd say thanks, but no thanks. I already have a wife, and I can only afford one expensive indulgence.


  • #14
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Solnskaya wrote: »
    says '99 in the op. I know luxo bangernomics is huge, but I'd say horton just palmed it off on the cook to save on the massive quote he just got for a new cat and service.:D If you offered me a 99 merc with a 5+ L engine for €20, I think I'd say thanks, but no thanks. I already have a wife, and I can only afford one expensive indulgence.

    Whatever! :p


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