"...after driving it 1500 miles..." I want to hear the cop's story with this car.

That car looks amazing. They really nailed it with this one.

Ed: “Shoot, I’m high bidder on this Hammer?! I gotta find people to outbid me - I know, I’ll do a video on the car and how rare and valuable it is!”

Hey @Ed Bolian! I had the pleasure talking with some of the last US AMG guys 30 years ago. I think one guys name was Barry. He was quite the character and salesman. He bought out all the remaining Chicago parts I believe. They were basically closing out NOS parts. I was looking to source a few parts for my genuine Euro 82 Mercedes 500SE AMG. I am the second owner of the car bought in 1993. The original owner actually lived in Kansas City. The owner spent $40k for the new car and $30k on the AMG modifications. It’s a very rare euro spec 500SE in black/cream beige. This is the short wheel base top engine sedan which you never see. Most all 500 sedans are long wheelbase SEL’s. Bill Koch had a charcoal US Spec 500SEL sedan. Probably the only two real AMG’s in Kansas right here in Wichita! One guy a Billionaire and the other a broke salvage guy! Mine was built with full exhaust including the AMG headers, limited slip 3.06 diff, early deep chin ground effects with fender over riders, and 16x8/16x9 AMG wheels. Have never been able to determine if it has AMG cams or not. It’s fast! It was fun talking to the guys as they had basically come to the end when Mercedes took over. I was looking for a rear muffler as mine was getting bad. They didn’t have one unfortunately. One amazing thing I did buy from them was the complete AMG brochure and parts catalog. It’s amazing and shows everything available and all styles of cars built including the Hammer you are talking about. I still have the car and everything. Funny story is someone clipped my front spoiler and damaged the corner many years ago. I looked for 10 years for the correct replacement. The only thing I found was the more blunt later style. One day I was doing my weekly eBay search for my spoiler, two popped from the same seller. Same part number and all! Understand, this was a euro only, early 1st gen aggressive design deep lip sedan only spoiler with fender extensions . Basically a Unicorn. I bought both for like $300 shipped!!! I would have paid 10 times that. I still have both on the shelf! Going to install when I get the car repainted as it’s showing it’s age now. Oh yea, I paid $10k for the car in 1993. Had to get a loan and struggled every month to make the payments. Lol. Time to get it back on the road!!!

LOL, I knew Blue Ridge MB would be involved in this one... Thats they guy who does all of my MB AMG work in GA. Guy is a master of AMG and owns the only Hammer Wagon in existence.

I will undoubtedly get outbid on this thing but the short thought of adding it and it's story to the garage is exciting!

Ed, I just want to say, as someone who is about your age. I'm glad you are so blessed to be able to tell these stories. Within the next 2 years i should be able to start on getting one of my dream cars. Thank you for giving me the drive to do so.

I'm here before Ed inevitably changes this title from something else than "The Cocaine Hammer".

I remember that car in our garage as a kid. My dad has been best friends with Rob Deer since childhood. Wow what a story I can’t wait to send this to him

“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”

As nonchalant as anyone could put it Ed: “I like everything about that”

I remember the " Hammer Rims " back in the days. It was either 15 inch 5 Stars or Hammers . I had some on my car back then . To stunt on cats you would get the trim of the rims color coded to the same color of your car. Oh , the good ole days !!!!!!!

I just picture the original owner blasting through the desert doing bumps of coke with the cops miles behind him with MC hammer's "Cant touch this" bumping lmao

Really need that tech to come in to tell the inside stories about these cars being built back in the 80's. Those 4 valve per cylinder heads were such a huge innovation for that time.

I saw cocaine and I clicked.

Ed tells the story of these cars exquisitely with his use of the English language.

Rob Deer with a Mullet ripping this Hammer 150 through the desert during spring training is absolute 1991 peak performance.

Now THAT is a proper Mercedes. Not many other models can top a Hammer, save for say an SLR Stirling Moss or a CLK GTR. You need that car, Ed!

That car when it came out was insane. In 1986 the German Mark crashed. At this time you got 3to1 on your money. Before the crash the Mark and Dollar where pretty much equal. We moved from Hamburg, Germany to Phoenix, Az in 1983 so we had only been in the states for about 3 years and my parents still had a good connections and friends there. My dad and I flew to Germany and his plan was to purchase a few brand new Benz’s and ship them back to the states. My dad ended up having the first ever MB 500SL in Arizona. He got the AMG 560 SEL which was my favorite car. The stance on it was so mean and that wide body was sick. The last car was a weird hybrid looking thing of a cross of a 190E and a 300E. I was only 9 years old at the time but I remember those cars. My dad did extremely well because a dollar bought you 3 German marks and if a car is 100,000 GM that’s only $33,000 US so you were getting them 2/3 off with the exchange rate.

Wow, that is a spectacular Hammer, I hope she ends up in your garage Ed! This car deserves to be a KZfaq sensation on your channel, i'm sure many of us live vicariously through you when it come to these cars.

I snorted this episode to get me started this morning

This one was a real roller coaster for us but we were so happy to see the car go to a great home. We never expected to find an even cooler Hammer a week later. The Hammer world is getting smaller very fast!

The Original AMG Hammers were modified E class cars @ AMG in Germany on a W124 chassis using the 4 or 6 cyl variant, not a C class but an E class chassis. AMG became an engine manufacturer in 1984 due to an innovation: Melcher developed a completely independent cylinder head with four valves per cylinder. In 1986, AMG implanted the 5.0-liter V8 in an E-class coupe, which received worldwide fame under the nickname “The Hammer”. The 6.0 came later with the new double overhead cam design cylinder head based upon the 5.6 ci alloy V8 already being used. To this day, this is a primary icon of the AMG myth in the United States. In the late 1980s, Daimler-Benz and AMG started to work together; first as official racing partners. The highlight of this period is the success story of the 190. The racecar, which was entered into the race by AMG with the support of the manufacturer, won a total of 50 DTM victories between 1988 and 1993. The cars are incredibly rare, with only 29 ever being made and only one being an estate. As a result, this gem is highly collectible.

It's amazing how rare some of these cars are. The capital H Hammer was a real beast, and I'd love to see what you would do with it Ed. It definitely deserves to be driven. 🙌

I've never been a fan of MB's, but I really like the aesthetics of this car. I hope ye car gods shine upon thee and you win the auction, Ed! Looking forward to seeing it sitting in your garage in an upcoming video!

That's how artworks increase in value over the centuries.

Such an insane amazing car!!! I hope you bought it Ed!… If you didn’t I hope hoovie does! How crazy would it be to have the black hammer and the white countach… both are absolute icons

The craziest AMG I ever saw was owned by the owner of the company I worked for when I was 19. This was in 1988, the car was a 1987 SEC coupe modded by AMG. It had a 6.2L V12. It was nuts.

Just ya boy Ed casually raising the price of a car by $25, 000 to $50,000 of its normal value by making a video about it... You know, just the usual.... Lmao 😂😂😂

What is your favorite car from the 80s?

I remember sitting in the library for study-hall reading about the Hammer in the car rags. I still believe this is one of the most significant cars ever made.

You had me at Rob Deer. I sure hope he rolled up to Milwaukee County Stadium in that bad boy back in the day. Fantastic.

Dude I’m rooting for you to win that auction. Would be LEGENDARY

This just made me want to buy something stupid. That thing really is a beauty.

Always a pleasure to listen to Ed telling a story.....good luck with getting the car.

Great story Ed! There was a AMG Hammer that spanked my Porsche in the early 90's in Penticton, BC... and yes, I am sure a line or two were done on the dash, lol.

I remember reading about the Hammer in Road&Track magazine back in 1986. It was the sedan. The color was red. I thought it was so cool how AMG turned a luxury car into a hot rod. I was around 12 years old. I have been a fan of Mercedes Benz ever since that article.

The 300 CE is my favorite Mercedes, I remember going to dealerships on the weekend to look at them in Germany in the 80's. They don't make them like that anymore.

By the title of this, i thought it was a bio about hunter😀😜

Seller: This car has a very sketchy back story. Ed: I Like Everything About That!

I drive a minivan and never cared much about card. Until I was introduced to Ed. He makes cars seem exciting.

This is peak 80s. Not mullet bud light Van Halen 80s. Just cocaine, all cocaine.

The car is still so neat inside. Awesome!

Haven’t seen one of these online in a while. Always wanted to see one in person!

It's amazing that the AMG's dash looks like my '88 560sl.

That’s gotta be an awesome car to drive! I have a 1989 300 CE that I daily drive and I have a Ford 302 V8 swapped into it, it’s the most amazing car I’ve ever owned!

According to Wikipedia, the hammer was "very aggressive for the era". The last three words weren't needed.

The 89 hammer aged so well, til this day it still looks so attractive. The c126 wide body was even more rare and the manuals even more rare!

Thanks-- Great story and stats that don’t go crazy over the top. Novice to medium level car knowledge but I once had a car in the 90’s that was low on the totem pole at that time but still nice image to own a Benz

"Well, I like everything about that“ - pure gold...

According to an article online at Road and Track magazine a nice low mileage example imported from Japan sold in 2016 in the $75,000 range which would probably workout to around $100,000 after inflation and corrected for the current state of the car market.

I hope the auction is over before you put this video up. 😂😂😂

All the best on your latest acquisition...the w124 amg hammer is just an amazing beast

I used to camp out at Symbolic in La Jolla, Ca. Also dated a gal who's parents sold a house down the street from the Ferrari dealership thats there now too. Very cool area if you want to drive down streets and pass the occasional exotic. I really enjoy these stories. I may be making my own stories as California becomes more Communist~ and wants to get rid of cars all together, but I know a man who has one of the last true classic car junkyards out there on the west coast. We have gone all over the U.S. to take delivery and save some of these old icons. It'll be interesting to see what the future holds but I thought my adventures in the Navy was out there! This is by far the most every emotion one can think of, doing road trips in your own POV to help a buddy go get old cars and travelling on historic roads with these old rides as people flock over when you're fueling up or what not, telling them about the cars they may not know about like here! Love this channel. Great stories.

Ed, you had me at cocaine hammer.

🟦..... Also take note of the (definitely aftermarket) stereo head-unit and the fact that both front doors have Mid-Woofers AND Tweeters!.... This makes me wonder what it's got on the rear-deck!!.....

Rob Deer… dude was a legend!

Best intro of 2022. Classic Ed. Ed would've bought a Yugo if it were called "The Cocaine Hammer", just for the story,

Honestly, the hunt and the stories would, at least to me personally, be more worth than the cars. As cool as the older cars are, from a practical point of view, they are not worth more than 50 - 60 grand, because, let's be honest, that is how much money the same "much" of modern car will cost you. They are not really that good for driving from todays perspective at all. Don't get me wrong, I love those beasts, but the collector world is nuts, regardless of what you are into. I used to be a "spotter" for a friend, who ran a rare gun shop (anything from really old muzzle-loaders to rare modern firearms). I used to be the guy for the more modern stuff (WWI-today) as I speak several languages and was hence able to approach collectors and dealers all over Europe. And I know very well how much we could make on an interesting piece if the collector just "needed it". The search was always the best part, felt like Indiana Jones 😀

the rims make that car nice lets be real thats the meaning hammer rims

Always wanted one of those... untouchable obviously.. but also love the the 2.5 16v and 500E

This sounds right up your alley Ed cool fast car with a great story

I lived next to Westmont, IL... would sometimes wander into the AMG dealership when I was bored. They had a Ford/Shelby Cobra replica on the showroom floor, but not much else about the place impressed me. Especially after seeing Reeves Callaway make a C4 Corvette go 254+mph...!😉

My first car was an ‘88 260 E. The hammer has always been a dream!

6 litre V8 hell yeah thats a Hammer

Unrelated, but back in the day my father bought an 86 BMW L7 that had been repoed from a drug dealer who had gone to prison. It had a really nice candy apple red paint, a full body kit, and the Hammer wheels. Car had full leather interior, dash, doors, headliner. Between the rear seats was a cooler that ran off the AC system. A really sweet looking car that was way ahead of its time. It got stolen, and was found 5 years later in some guys garage with only 5 more miles on the odometer. He bought the car for $20,000 and was paid $60,000 from the insurance company. I can remember driving it, one of the sweetest driving cars I have ever driven. Not super fast, but felt like an extension of your body connected to the road.

I'm not one for 80s AMG or European cars, but even I have to admit they knocked it out of the park with that one.

I could listen to Ed reading Dr. Seuss, with a glass of Pappy Van Winkle by a great fire in a raging snowstorm, that's how awesome his voice is.

Ed I hope and pray you win the auction for that fine automobile at a price you find agreeable.

I was in love with these things in the early 90's.

Man my first car was an 87, 300E, this is just nostalgia!

congratulations 🎊. That Hammer is really rare. Back in the 80's my uncle owned a Hammer 🔨. I remember when he drove me around in New York and took us to Virginia in it. That car was swift and heavy modified. He told me that it was specially made for him. Man I not sure what happened to that car. But I wish that I had kept it for him.

NOW WE'RE TALKING!!! Nice one, Ed!

A couple of these came through my dad's shop "Custom Wheel Refinishing " in North Hollywood back in the day. We knew about them.

Those rings in your sponsored Ad are actually pretty dope. Think I just found my wedding ring.

The car that I always wanted as a teen and kept me interested in AMG line of Mercedes.

There are also models that had the M117 long block paired to M119 cylinder heads.

I saw a older guy (over 70) driving a 300CE this afternoon and thought, wow haven't seen one of those in a while now! Was in pretty good shape too (the car lol)...

the intro is such a hold up moment lol i should start reading titles more

We all know the cocaine hammer title on this video isnt gonna make it to the weekend (Today is tuesday)

Ironically I remember seeing one of these in a couple while visiting atlanta as a kid in the early 90s I'm not sure if it was a hammer but same body and the color was like a electric blue i always invisioned me driving one

I CLICKED THE LINK IN THE SHORT ABOUT THIS AT THE PERFECT TIME SO IT LINED UP

I've been in love with these cars since the 80s when I was a kid. The reason being was because one the big time "street pharmacist" had one in my neighborhood lol

Ohhh man I LOVE Hammer Stories!! Goood luck Ed.

I LOVE THAT BUGATTI RING.

Ah the legendary AMG Hammer E Class Coupé

Good luck Ed, hope you get it, without the drugs I've had a few experiences with cops not being able to pull me over because of high speed, twice I've had the road in front of me blocked by police cars, I was a lead foot when I was younger, kinda still am but I'm more careful about it these days, Rj in Oz

My intro to hammers was the first RC car I remember having, a corded Hammer race car.

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

I had an 87 Lincoln MK VII and that was a great 80s car lol with low miles in perfect condition

The seat covers are great!

Such a cool car. The Hammer is such a fitting name for it. It looks mean as hell, it's still pretty fast even for today's cars and it has an amazing 80's cocaine fueled story. What's not to love about it??

I hope you get it Ed! At least it will be used as it should!

you are the best story teller of this car market... goo luck with getting the hammer...

This is the Mafia Sentinel from GTA III

I have an original 1986 Mercedes “pliers” 300E. I have owned it for twenty two years and have 133k on it. I have kept it in virtually new condition, replacing or restoring something on the car every year as necessary. As much as I love it, the first six figure offer takes the car.

I got a highly optioned 98 E320. Factory hid, headlight sprayer, rear electric window screen, 8 cd changer in the trunk, n rear seat flip downs. I've never seen another one like mine. 152k miles.

I'd have to think there were a plethora of exotic S. Florida 80's cars that had cocaine histories.

One of the coolest cars I’ve had the pleasure to ave worked on!!!

good way to talk without looking at camera :) is like an interview, it gives more power to the words u say