SOLD: 1988 300CE AMG 6.0L DOHC Hammer Coupé, 19kmi, MBM Auction (Albuquerque, NM)

[gsxr]

Take appropriate measures to contain your drool before viewing the pics.

VIN = WDBEA50D4JA657168

1988 Mercedes-Benz 6.0L AMG Hammer Coupe For Sale | The MB Market

Bid for your chance to own this 1988 Mercedes-Benz 6.0L AMG Hammer Coupe only on The MB Market. Finished in Black Pearl over Gray Leather, this C124 is an original Hammer conversion by AMG in period and power comes from a 6.0-liter DOHC 32-valve M117 V8.

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[gerryvz]

@jhodg5ck

 

[svhamelly]

No words...

 

[gsxr]

@jhodg5ck

His bid was $50 short, lol...

edit: for those who don't get the joke, the chassis is 124.050 and the bid was only $124,000.

 

[JAB12]

I want this. But can only handle one pre merger at a time. The sheepskins alone are worth the price of admission, let alone the obvious provenance..

 

[gsxr]

I want this. But can only handle one pre merger at a time. The sheepskins alone are worth the price of admission, let alone the obvious provenance..

Reserve is probably ±$0.25M. Just imagine the total cost after a trip to Blue Ridge Spa, post-purchase...

 

[JAB12]

Reserve is probably ±$0.25M. Just imagine the total cost after a trip to Blue Ridge Spa, post-purchase...

 

[AMG5PT4]

This should go for $500k

 

[skikrazey]

Awesome car!!! Somebody call/email Jay Leno!!!

 

[duuder]

i would sell my home for this

 

[TimL]

This should go for $500k

In a world where this G-Wagen is being bid at the $300k mark you might be right that this coupe is a $500k car…….Maybe I’m not keeping up with the times, but some of the prices that people are willing to pay for cars these days seem totally absurd to me. A new Porsche 991 with decent options costs $140k. If you can’t get half a G500 Cabrio with 50k miles on the clock for that money then something is just plain wrong

No Reserve: Euro 2006 Mercedes-Benz G500 Cabriolet

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[nocfn]

If I bid on this and get it, I would have to sell one or move out.

Did I see it right, the antenna grommet is 199 as well? If so, lower the reserve.

 

[Duh_Vinci]

NeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeD!!!!!!!

 

[nocfn]

that is not a good look out of Sgt. Elias

 

[Harv]

Hard to believe these guys are still chugging along considering their lackluster effort. No wonder it sold for $1,000.

The seller can account for recent services including XXX along with previous records showing XXX.

NO RESERVE: 1982 Mercedes-Benz 280SEL Euro-Spec For Sale | The MB Market

Bid for your chance to own this Euro 1982 Mercedes-Benz 280SEL with No Reserve only on The MB Market. Finished in Anthracite Grey Metallic (172) over a Grey Velour Fabric (938) interior, this German-ordered sedan is powered by an M110 Inline-6 and offered at no reserve showing 108k miles.

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[nocfn]

^^^^

OMG

 

[skikrazey]

That 280SEL will need at least the GVZ $5K rule x4 at the minimum!!! That is a parts car in IMHO.

 

[JAB12]

@TimL you meant new Porsche 992. I don't see the historical significance of a soft top G-wagen. Now this here coupe?, is a whole 'nother kettle of fish' altogether.

I'd give up my inbound GT3 for it and probably still fall short, and I'm enjoying life post Blue Ridge too much in the 6.0 to even consider selling during this lifetime. I'll leave that up to my son when he is of age. The other day I got asked by a young passerby if I had rebadged a 500? That gave me a good chuckle. Gave them the thumbs up, and whispered to myself, "if you only knew kiddo"....

 

[gsxr]

...I'm enjoying life post Blue Ridge too much in the 6.0 to even consider selling during this lifetime. I'll leave that up to my son when he is of age. (snip)

JAB, owning the sorted-out E60 would likely rain on your Hammer parade. I suspect you could be disappointed in the driving experience as delivered. And, I'm not sure how much it would improve after Blue Ridge got it up to snuff.

Which leaves you with the looks & provenance... and sans widebody, it would mostly be a C&C feature attraction. Even then, it wouldn't get many looks unless the hood was up. Given the likely expenditure, you need to pore over that CBA (cost/benefit analysis) and decide if the ROI is in this solar system.

Note that I've never been for a ride in a Hammer, but I do have seat time with RENNtech variants of the E60. This car is likely better suited to a museum collection somewhere? Just my $0.02.

 

[JAB12]

One can always count on @gsxr to bring us back down to earth. I've never driven a Hammer either, just love the way they look, the coupe even more, but love the wide flared later variant sooooo much more. I'm staying put so no need to send in the psychs to my house yet.

 

[mercepor]

the widebody design looks much better imho....

 

[hAMGurger]

Very cool car.
From my collection of info on pre-mergers (always open to corrections!), this car has the same VC/engine sequence number as this car;
350 60 28 is the number.

Unfortunately, I did not archive pics from its previous 2015 or 2013 ads.
Both are Westmont cars, but the latter appears to be a grey-market import (possible some years later?) and then given an appropriate engine number for the 88/90 year.

 

[036]

Jesus Christ, 320k and 4 days to go....most expensive 124 of all times? Currently?

 

[jhodg5ck]

His bid was $50 short, lol...

edit: for those who don't get the joke, the chassis is 124.050 and the bid was only $124,000.

yea, well..working off a mobile and just having a a bit of fun...;-)

 

[jhodg5ck]

Awesome car!!! Somebody call/email Jay Leno!!!

he already knew about it, IDT Hammers are his thing.

 

[jhodg5ck]

Jesus Christ, 320k and 4 days to go....most expensive 124 of all times? Currently?

Private sales have already been in excess of a few hundred above current bid so I Think there is some decided Room yet!

 

[JC220]

Jesus Christ, 320k and 4 days to go....most expensive 124 of all times? Currently?

I think of sooooooo many other cars I would buy for that amount of ££££££, sorry I love w124's but they ain't worth near that no matter how rare. That's just plain daft but that's just my opinion!

Or buy a C124 and crashed 63 and make a widebody resto mod for a fraction of the cost and have a 1 of 1 That's what I would do. Granted it's not got the 6L fairy dust.

 

[jhodg5ck]

I think of sooooooo many other cars I would buy for that amount of ££££££, sorry I love w124's but they ain't worth near that no matter how rare. That's just plain daft but that's just my opinion!

Or buy a C124 and crashed 63 and make a widebody resto mod for a fraction of the cost and have a 1 of 1 That's what I would do. Granted it's not got the 6L fairy dust.

Ever drive one?

 

[JC220]

Ever drive one?

As in a 6L w124? No I have not driven one to be fair

 

[gsxr]

As in a 6L w124? No I have not driven one to be fair

Only 6L M119 for me. Takes the fun level to "eleven".

I hear the M117 DOHC are a very different animal, but I've never driven or ridden in one. Saw one in person but that was as close as I got!

 

[dionphaneuf]

This 'Euro' 126 they sold a while back for a pretty penny features LHT lenses from its time in Japan and no one called it out!

Euro 1989 Mercedes-Benz 560SEC For Sale | The MB Market

Bid for your chance to own this 1989 Mercedes-Benz 560SEC Euro w/54k miles only on The MB Market. Finished in Midnight Blue (904) over Blue (262) leather, this Euro-spec C126 features a more powerful European powerplant, Euro bumpers/headlights and 17" AMG Aero 1 wheels.

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That hammer looks cool but no Euro lights
Overall MB Market has some nice cars but the site itself needs polish. I can't filter auction results by Chassis type, just engine/year combo - so an 89 560SEC is different than an 88 500SEC.

 

[gsxr]

Overall MB Market has some nice cars but the site itself needs polish. I can't filter auction results by Chassis type, just engine/year combo - so an 89 560SEC is different than an 88 500SEC.

MBM has a number of usability issues with their site and layout. No persistent login, for example. Emails where if you click/tap on the photo of the car, it just makes the photo bigger, it doesn't link to the auction. The auction pages load full size images... not thumbnails. Besides killing page load time, it also means for some listings you could be pulling in nearly 1GB of data (!!) each time you load the page, depending how your browser cache works.

There's lots more, enough for a whole thread on their website UI/UX. They seem to have launched the site sans usability testing and then rested on their laurels.

 

[skikrazey]

I agree with GSXR!!!! Drove a Brabus 6L in Philadelphia. Car needed serious work it was beat hard. Probably needed 40K worth of the GVZ rule!

Glad I had the opportunity to drive it. Even in its neglected state, it was stupid fast!!! The 6L totally transforms the car and takes it to the next level!

 

[jhodg5ck]

As in a 6L w124? No I have not driven one to be fair

With a myriad of cars that need to be driven, if there is a 124 with a 6L on hand I will choose it 9X out of 10. M119 6L are sweet, all the toque and power but still refined. Quad cam 117's do it to, but with an aggression that the 119 can't match as delivered by AMG (I'd Really like to try the stage IV Renntech with hot cams and solids, but not likely...) making them All the More exciting.

That said, I have my M156 and my 036 lined up to get a BMW 6 speed so your idea is Not a bad one by any means, in fact I think it'll be Spectacular..especially if we cam up the 156 to make it even nastier;-)

jono

 

[8899]

I would definitely like to do a comparo of a 6.0L M119 vs a M113k. I have a mildly tuned M113k that simply begs me to press the "go" pedal. Regardless, two engines that just love to hit the high revs!

 

[w124fanMI]

I've never seen a Hammer in person. But in 1991 Florida State came to play a mid-September game in Ann Arbor, and I saw a black-on-black 300e with the full AMG body kit and a Florida license plate driving down Main Street towards Stadium Blvd., the corner where University of Michigan's football stadium sits. (And opposite of my high school.) I was blown away then by the presence of that car.

 

[maw1124]

I would definitely like to do a comparo of a 6.0L M119 vs a M113k. I have a mildly tuned M113k that simply begs me to press the "go" pedal. Regardless, two engines that just love to hit the high revs!

No comparison there I don’t think, but I’d still like a 6.0L M119. Unless it has a LOT more than the M120, it can only hold a candle to the M113k to be blown out. And that’s before our mods. But I think there’s more character to that engine than power. I’d own and drive one in a heartbeat.

The real convo to be had with @jhodg5ck is about cams, ported and polished heads, headers and diffs on the M113k, IMO. That’s major surgery, but nothing like a 6.0L M119 or M117. That gurgle is something you can’t get with more boost from changing pulley size. Kleeman got into that stuff back in the day, but it was as pricey as you imagine.

maw

EDIT… I stand corrected… back in the day is today… AMG 55 Kompressor (M113K) Archives - Kleemann … the K3 kit looks tasty, especially since we already have cooling mods. And cams on a .036 with a manual is going to be nasty!

 

[kwontumspeed]

I've never seen a Hammer in person. But in 1991 Florida State came to play a mid-September game in Ann Arbor, and I saw a black-on-black 300e with the full AMG body kit and a Florida license plate driving down Main Street towards Stadium Blvd., the corner where University of Michigan's football stadium sits. (And opposite of my high school.) I was blown away then by the presence of that car.

That's an extremely visual memory for 1991. I certainly partied too hard to achieve that level of recollection. Or the 300E was that stunning.

 

[036]

 

[maw1124]

I've never seen a Hammer in person. But in 1991 Florida State came to play a mid-September game in Ann Arbor, and I saw a black-on-black 300e with the full AMG body kit and a Florida license plate driving down Main Street towards Stadium Blvd., the corner where University of Michigan's football stadium sits. (And opposite of my high school.) I was blown away then by the presence of that car.

I was at that game and remember that car. “The Amp Lee Game.” Rumor had it that was his AMG, such were the Bobby Bowden Seminoles back then. That was a wild weekend in Ann Arbor. A couple of Michigan Football players never recovered their careers from that game. And by the end of that year, Amp Lee was ineligible and never really picked his career back up. But growing up in Detroit close to many drug dealers, The Hammer is naturally what put AMG on my radar. So Ed’s video resonates with me. It was only after I bought the S55 that I came to know the history of the company properly.

maw

 

[jhodg5ck]

I would definitely like to do a comparo of a 6.0L M119 vs a M113k. I have a mildly tuned M113k that simply begs me to press the "go" pedal. Regardless, two engines that just love to hit the high revs!

I feel like the M156 and M119 are much better compo candidates. The M156 uses all the tricks that AMG learned in 30 years but @ their Root they are born from the same thought.

jono

 

[weide1]

Very cool car.
From my collection of info on pre-mergers (always open to corrections!), this car has the same VC/engine sequence number as this car;
350 60 28 is the number.

Unfortunately, I did not archive pics from its previous 2015 or 2013 ads.
Both are Westmont cars, but the latter appears to be a grey-market import (possible some years later?) and then given an appropriate engine number for the 88/90 year.

This one? Indeed equal numbers. Great memory.

Black Series 2 of 4 1984 Mercedes Benz 500SEC AMG 6.0 | German Cars For Sale Blog

Part 2 of my Black Series, this 1984 Benz is the rarest of all four of my selections. This car features the high output AMG…

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[maw1124]

I feel like the M156 and M119 are much better compo candidates. The M156 uses all the tricks that AMG learned in 30 years but @ their Root they are born from the same thought.

jono

That actually makes too much sense, with the M156 being the first full AMG developed engine. I need to go back and read the tech speak again.

maw

 

[gsxr]

This one? Indeed equal numbers.

Black Series 2 of 4 1984 Mercedes Benz 500SEC AMG 6.0 | German Cars For Sale Blog

Part 2 of my Black Series, this 1984 Benz is the rarest of all four of my selections. This car features the high output AMG…

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$25k! Wish I could go back and buy a few at that price, I could retire today!

 

[AMG5PT4]

$662k. My estimate of $500k was woefully short, but makes me quite happy….

 

[036]

Amazing...

 

[gsxr]

FIVE bidders over $550k.

Not sure I agree with lowphat's glowing review of the MBM platform though:

lowphat88(6)
And congrats to the MB Market. This auction result, and the likely results of the Black Series AMG GT and the SLS auctions are proof positive that this site's creators have achieved the goal of making this the premiere auction site for unobtanium Mercedes-Benz rarities.

 

[dionphaneuf]

Probably would have broken $1M had it been a 1995/886

 

[gsxr]

Probably would have broken $1M had it been a 1995/886

 

[195910]

Friends and fellow 036 owners, this has been a great day.

Greetings from the 1of1