£12 SL500

ronanphilip

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?

Cookie_Monster

Story from 2 weeks time:

"Cook crashes sports car"

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"

Big Nasty

Nice story!

Voodoomelon

Nice!

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

colm_mcm

Hope he can afford to run it.

Lucky guy.

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

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:

bonzos

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

Guy:Incognito

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

x in the city

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

Henry Ford III

colm_mcm wrote: »

Hope he can afford to run it.

Lucky guy.

It's an 08. Low tax? ;)

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.

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!