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After months of searching through every used car site and paper listing, I finally found my car.  I’ve looked at several diesel cars but most of them were crap.  Tonight Heidi and I drove down to Eagle Lake (near Mankato) to drive a few already converted diesel cars.  The seller had 3 cars for sales, all greasecars.  He has converted 14 cars now.  He’s good, no, damn good at it–and a great guy.

We first drove an 85 Mecedes-Benz 300SD.  This was the car I thought I’d be buying tonight.  It’s sweet looking, drove great.  But it’s a boat.  I’m a sucker for an older Benz….so it was hard to say no to this one.

Just for fun(we thought), we took the 85 BMW 524td out for a spin.  WOW.  This tiny car has a 6 cylinder turbo diesel engine which just purrs.  We were flying down a country road at 40-50mph, with little effort it jumped to 80mph.  I felt like 16 again (how can you put a price on that?).  Before we got back in the driveway I knew it was perfect.

This seller gets his veggie oil from restaurants in the Mankato area.  Culvers alone gives him 200 gallons each month.  He filters it in his shed, sells it for ~1.25$/gallon or 1/2 of diesel price.  I couldn’t even count the number of jugs in his shed.  Unbelievable guy, crazy smart with car engines.

So Saturday morning we’ll pick up the car, do the paperwork and I’ll finally have my greasecar.  We’ve already named it ‘Brint’ since we are big fans of Zoolander.  Our other car is Meekus, other Zoolander roommate.  I’ll have a new toy to place with this weekend.  Soon I’ll be heading to fast food & chinese restaurants once again, this time for fuel, not a double chin.

[tags]wvo, bmw, grease car, zoolander, diesel[/tags]