Welcome to Hu's Garage! The dumbest Automotive channel in all of YouTube and I'm prefacing this video by saying not that you would don't feel bad for me at all, but I have made some very bad decisions and I do have to sell my dream car which I never thought that I would ever sell and that's my Mercedes SLS AMG So everything sort of hit me all at once here when it comes to Hoo Garage 3.0 construction uh Renovations on the house along with taxes and it looks like I've made sort of a bad investment we'll see on that one to where I am cash poor but still car rich and I could go one of two ways: I could get another car loan and put myself even deeper into debt or I could sell one off. But it's really hard because my current collection is basically a greatest hits album of all the cars that I love. So the BMW Z8 beautiful retro styled analog six-speed manual my gated manual Ferrari 599 conversion. Love that car! the SL R and the SLS are two cars that I love this one with its going doors.

just such an iconic amazing machine. but the SLR behind it scratches the same itch and that's what I've come to the conclusion of the SLS and the SLR. They do the same things and the SLR is the one that I favor. Now it feels more special to drive.

It's a lot more fun and special and rare of a car so I tend to take it out more and enjoy it. The SLS is much more usable, much more of a cross country road trip card. I' feel comfortable doing that. Uh, but I don't use it for that.

So it really has sat a lot in the last year since I've gotten the SLR I took the SLR to Monteray car week instead of the SLS so I can't believe it. but it just sort of makes sense to sell. and also because it has appreciated a lot in the four years that I've owned it. So I actually feel kind of smart even though if I had put that money in the stock market when I bought this thing at the lows of 2020, I'd have a lot more money in the bank.

But I do have a lot of great memories with this car, including it being a car trek car. so this is very Bittersweet so we'll go over that in today's video my long-term impressions of owning an SLS AMG and we'll check on what this thing is, paying for all the progress around the farm. So let's hit the road and say goodbye to the SLS. But before we continue on this train wreck of an update I'd like to thank Policy Genius for sponsoring this video.

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So save time and money and provide your family with a financial safety net. Using Policy Genius, head to Policy Genius.com or click the link in the description below to get your free life insurance quotes and see how much you can save Growing up and still is. The ultimate dream car for me. the Mercedes 300 SL goaling and when I was a kid, they would sell for $250 $300,000 and I thought one day if I worked really hard I'd be able to buy one of those.

Well, that's not happening nowadays. A Go is a multi-million dollar Prospect worth more than everything that I own and uh, I'll I'll never be able to justify buying one this. when it came out right around when I was graduating college, it seemed like the next best or the better thing I was in love with these things the moment I saw them. The first car designed by AMG engineered from the ground up and it had this amazing 6.2 L V8 563 horsepower dual clutch transmission and The Styling dropped dead Gorgeous! Not to mention the doors.

So when I found this one four years ago, it was just perfect. Desino Mystic white in the exterior, beautiful color. the desino natural interior 30,000 mil on it so just enough to where I could drive it but not too high to where it would detract from the resale and just love this car. I've taken this thing many places but the Highlight has to be the car trek experience with the SLS AMG Got to track this thing on the track along with the first car I bought with my own money a Mercedes 300 TD te an old diesel which is what started my Mercedes experience outside of my grandmother's car that she gave me when I was 16.

I wanted to buy the diesel to keep the SL nice and learn how to work on cars and learn how to wheel and deal from that car basically and Mercedes diesels. but this thing was a rocket ship on the track. It was a blast to drive for the Thousand or so miles of the track itself and it is just the perfect sports car. I Feel like it's just so elegant and beautiful.

Something you do want to hop in and drive just on a daily basis, but also something you go track. You can turn all the knobs up and have a very potent track weapon. This platform continued on with the AMG GT but that car just isn't as special. Not only does it not have the doors, but it has a different engine that doesn't sound quite as good.

Still really good, but it just doesn't feel as special as the SLS. Now like I said, this doesn't feel as special as the SLR McLaren which is why I favor that car over the SLS but in an Ideal World world, I would still keep both and this is an ideal world where I could take this car and get a loan against it and pay all of my bills. but I've already done that with the Kage and the conversion van and uh yeah, things are just piling up. So I'm trying to be disciplined right now, but it is very, very hard once again.

Not that you are don't feel bad for me, but the last year with all my personal issues has been a major major hit to my finances. and buying this farm and making my dream garage is a very expensive thing to do as well. so it is for good reasons. Overall positive in the long run and this gives me the ability to be able to pounce on the next count of a lifetime deal or something else if it pops up.

I need to do the right thing. We can do this well. As you can see, this isn't me selling an SLS AMG Uh, Two things happened: One, uh, because of winter and Market changes. They couldn't offer me as much money as they could during the summer.

Not that big of a difference, but still enough to give me a moment to think. And that moment to think was enough for me to just turn around and drive this thing back home because I Love this car. I Really need to sell it or do something to get some money to come in? Uh, but I don't need it quite just yet. So I'll have a slight stay of execution here and think of something to do I Tried on only fans once and that didn't go so well.

So I guess we'll see what happens. But uh, next, let's go back to the farm to see where all my money is going. Well I Waited as long as I could to give an update on Hu's Garage 3.0 several days because they assured me they were going to start this week and they have it. Uh, progress continues on the house.

Edition The great room. You can see it really starting to come together over here. Electricians coming in very soon. Uh, but when it comes to Hub's Garage 3.0 not much has happened.

They did deliver the equipment to start putting it together. Uh, but so far nobody has showed up to get started on actually doing the job and I'm not sure why it's been warm enough these last several days to actually start up. We've had a lot of weather lately unfortunately, which would have slowed them down, but still, this is about the third time where I've been told they're going to be out here and they don't show up, which is very typical in construction unfortunately. So the good news in all this is it does slow things down to where, uh, paying the bills makes things a little bit easier with me not selling the SLS Uh, but since I've already paid for the bulk of it, the concrete and the building, the construction, there's all the geese.

It is beautiful out here. We'll go inside here and finish things off because the geese are being a little bit loud in my only garage so it didn't cost very much for the erection for the building. Parts The cheapest part of the building. and obviously the most important part because I don't have a place to put my cars other than the hanger.

Uh, so yeah, he looks. What do you think of all this? So obviously I was hoping to show you some of the building going up in this video. That didn't happen. but there's also some progress at the car.

Wizards And apparently he's found something very, very weird with the 46 Chrysler something he's a little bit scared of. What do you think of that elix? so we'll head to the car. Wizards Wizard? Well, Old Faithful there. Honda cord this which won't die will they? No, you just come in like you own the place, huh? Oh sorry.

Came in like the Kool-Aid Man, yeah, so sorry. Well, you told me that there was some interesting stuff that you found on the 46 Chrysler among other things. So I definitely wanted you to figure out the heater because the heater hoses were disconnected. uh, to the firewall and you told me that The strangest heater you've ever seen.

So yeah, it's quite a Hot Topic Actually, okay, so we're looking for heater hoses. Like you said, we can see where on this vehicle where heater hoses would go in. Like right here, there's a little something. a cap.

Oh I See, yeah. and there's one way back there by that back spark plug. Okay, this car never came with a heater core. even when it was new.

it must have been in Florida Or somewhere where there's no heater needed or heat would have been an option in 1946. That's hard to believe. Okay, huh? Someone had this installed later on. It's not even a heater that uses coolant, right? So it was that.

Motorola So I see the button that was on the dash. the weird: Motorola Automatic climate control right here where it was off and 50 60, 70, 80. So that was that was this thing. huh? Yeah, so these look like heater core hookups, right? They're not.

They're air intake or exhaust or something. This actually is powered by gasoline. Wait, so it takes the fuel from the gas tank like it has its own fuel line. Yeah, there's a fuel pump here.

What? And fuel would come in through here. There's some more of the fuel line and you would select a temperature and it would light and so there is a spark and an open flame going on with this heater system from who know. Really? a Motorola gas fired heater? I'm sure it works very well when it works, but that sounds terrifying. It sounds dangerous.

We did put power to it and the fan comes on. but do you really want to trust a 40 50 However, 60 80y old gas fired heater? Yeah, that's really cool though. So I see you have everything off along with some other old stuff here. So my water pump you showed earlier being all shaky and this what's this? That was the actual side cover, gaskets, the valve cover.

these are New Old Stock from 1947. Wow, You can see on the front this I think it's like 9:47 is the date mopar parts and accessories. That's what I think on the part that is so cool so that's something old. Yep, is there something new? A heater solution? Yes Right here.

Well okay. this looks the part. It looks kind of art deco. It would fit inside of here and not look out of place underneath the dash.

Yes. but you can see this uses heater core actual coolant pipes here. a traditional like a modern heater. Okay and we would Plum these into the plugged ports I just showed you okay and you'd have heat again.

The only thing is this is a still a 6volt system. So is this a 12vt fan? Yeah. so I'm going to pull this fan out and actually put some 6volt fans the square shaped like computer fans. Okay I can put one a big one right here.

It'll do the same job and run off of six volts not 12. All right and can you do like a resistor or some kind of Knob where I have any speed or is it just going to be on or off? I can do a resistor Elegant and subtle I guess underneath the dash. Yeah! so there's the holes for the heater core right there so it's perfect. It's for the passenger so April will be comfortable I think the compartment's not Giant in here I Actually think it would heat the whole compartment? fine? Yeah, well, that'll work I mean it's the exact same as what they had in 46 without gasoline going in between your legs and lighting a flame.

Yeah, not only do you worry about getting burn alive, but then there's carbon monoxide issue as well. That's uh, that's very interesting. I Guess we can go from the 40s to the modern era because I'm having climate control issues with the CL65 I left it with you and we did a mechanical inspection. like found the collapsed mounts and some things.

but you needed to dive into the blower motor and stuff why it wasn't kicking on on this. V12 600 horsepower Beast So that's probably a lot more electronic right? we found actually Grime checked it over. the actual blower motor itself is dying. That's why it was doing that.

Okay, we were doing some checks, you know it had that Collision error like messages on the yes uh well the battery is 10 years old. that was it was giving errors. We put a new battery end. We found out there's a sensor actually back here underneath the bumper.

There's four sensors. Really? There's one right around in here. that's bad. Okay, and it throws the whole system out of W see.

and I figured because it had been in a frontend collision, it wasn't working because of that and it wasn't fixed properly. So it was fixed properly. It's just the back that's never been hit. Okay, all right.

while he was in there, we found the motor mount some transmission mount are like fully collapsed. It's overdue on some services on the oil and the brake pads and rotors at some point are going to need to be done. And they're so expensive. so you have an estimate for me.

Yes, let's go take a look at it. Okay, well and this one's still waiting for a radiator to get fixed. but the Callaway it's on the ground, huh? It's actually done. Oh, so all the LT1 stuff the Opti spark things in the water pump.

Yep, we just need some nice roads huh to get it out of here? That's right. Okay, so there is a bill? probably? Yes. and you're not going to run from this one. It's actually not too bad this in here.

y your brakes are going to be over three grand. They're $700 per rotor. Yeah, I could have knew that with AMG brakes. but they're at 4 mm.

I mean I Can wait probably 6 months or so, especially if I'm a daily driving it or whatever. Okay, yeah. brake fluid service Trans Service overdue blower motors 500 bucks and then the engine mounts $1,100 and the transmission mount together. okay.

serpentin belts Yeah yeah, Okie do well so everything probably but the brakes for now. but right? Shoot, and I need to get some different wheels for it. but I'm looking at five or six grand here if we were to do everything easily. Yeah.

Anyway, okay and the Camaro bill is not this big, right? No, cuz this video started out with me needing to sell my SLS AMG and then I couldn't bring myself to do it because the bills are piling up. Not wizard bills but home bills and new garage bills and taxes and everything else. But uh yeah, I guess I need to remember my Wizard Tax as well. All right, All right, you ready to get, throw it on you.

Okay, there you go. That's a lot for a Camaro but still Again, compared to the 78,000 ones you've been giving me lately, this is a little better, but there was a lot of work it was actually yeah. Optis Spark distributor the new one $278 I mean everything still reasonable Parts wise on this car. Yeah for everything he did.

Not bad, No, not bad. Okay, well I'll pay up but I don't want to drive it on this crap out here so if you don't mind storing it for a bit I'd appreciate it. That's fine. no problem.

Thanks Wizzy!.