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Originally Posted by javadog
I don't read him that way. It's just a car, not the most desirable automotive investment extant, so he's probably looking for some simple pointers to determine if he wants to buy that used car.
He's getting a lot of crap from people running that particular series of cars down, which isn't useful. They can vote with their wallets what they want to park in their garage. At some price, just about any car is worth owning. No idea if he'll buy this particular car but at least he's trying to check it out and make an informed decision.
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It might help some of the respondents here to imagine that, instead of asking about a 380SL he was asking about, say, a base '76 911. It looks to be in decent condition and he may be interested in buying it and, hey, what should I look for on a '76 Targa? Sure, you could say mid-years suck and you should get an SC or 3.2 or Turbo or coupe instead. But that would be considering *that* 911 instead of nothing at all, so saying you should buy Y instead is not germane to the situation. Productive answers would tell him about, say, rust areas and head studs and thermal reactors and whatever else. Now just replace "'76 Targa" with "380SL." The woman doesn't have a lot full of cars, or a 350SL or 450SL or 560SL. He's not shopping for the best R107 he can afford. She's got a 380SL, and he thinks he'd like it so hey what should I look for to see whether *this particular* 380SL is worth looking at?