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Finding the right 190E 2.3-16 took me six years--Mercedes sold only 1953 of them in the United States, and low-mileage, unmodified examples are practically nonexistent. I bought mine sight unseen while I was on vacation. It was all original, down to the ding-free, 38,000-mile factory paint, but it had been in a little bit of trouble: it turned up at a police auction in Pittsburgh, where it had been confiscated in a narcotics raid and then used by the police in prostitution stings.
I never found out why, but there was ketchup all over the interior, the paint was so dirty that it looked like charcoal, and the car needed a bit of mechanical TLC. But I bought it anyway. It took about a hundred hours of work to get my Benz back to its original splendor, but every time I drive it on a back road, I'm even more certain that it was worth it.
Prostitutes, cops, and ketchup? What an appropriately sordid history for a car that started the long-running German horsepower race--perhaps the biggest automotive barroom brawl of them all.
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