WHEELER Dealers host Mike Brewer has found one car that was once the “ultimate in luxury” but is now left “clinging on for life”.
The car expert is currently in Newport Beach, California, and has come across a late-1960s Mercedes.
The motor is sitting in a parking lot outside a pasta restaurant in the southern part of Los Angeles when Mike comes across it with wife Michelle.
Despite having saved many cars throughout his career, he thinks the 1968 Mercedes W115 220 Saloon would require a “bucket of money and a lot of energy.”
He looks into the camera and said: “My job is to save cars, but I reckon this one is beyond my capability and probably beyond Elvis’s capability as well.
Mike then walks around the car and describes it as he goes.
“Underneath that dirt it’s like a greeny-blue.”
“The interior is shot, it’s got a thing on the steering wheel, it says ‘nearby resident’.
“I think somebody lives in here.”
Despite its current worn down and rusty appearance, Mike said back in the day the car would have been highly desired.
He said: “This would have been the ultimate in luxury when it was new back in the late 60s.
“And now look at it, sitting here in Newport Beach, dying, clinging on for life.”
Mike considers what it would take to restore the motor to its former glory, thinking it would only cost about £7,000 to £8,000 to buy.
But the car is too run down and old for Mike to take back to Elvis to repair.
He said: “That one is not coming back to the workshop with me. If I took that back to Elvis he would kill me.
“Although he does love a Merc, he wouldn’t love that Merc. I rescue cars for a living but I am not rescuing that one.”
Its a far cry from Mike dealing with “most expensive car ever bought in Wheeler Dealers’ history” on a recent episode.
Alongside co-star mechanic Marc Priestley, the pair headed off to Germany to pick up an iconic 1980’s car worth €70,000 (£60,141) in the show’s latest episode.
When they arrived at their destination, Brewer and Priestly found themselves face-to-face with a BMW E30 M3.
