MERCEDES MOTORING

15 or so years later, in the fall of 2003, I walked away from the corporate world after walking by a "For Sale" sign in Huntington Beach. It was a faded maple yellow 300SD for $700… Mercedes Motoring was born. I spent weeks bringing that car back to life--almost losing my mind one afternoon when the passenger seat refused to come out. Even though there was a challenging and humbling learning curve, I loved it. That car didn't just teach me about Mercedes-Benz, it taught me to embrace a passion I had been toying with for years--my obsession with cars. My mother still sighs about my nine years of college to restore cars... I grew up in Nevada next door to a Mercedes-Benz mechanic named Sheldon. Sometimes I'd sit on my BMX bike and watch him work. There'd be Sheldon buried halfway in an engine compartment going on-and-on about the immortality of the Mercedes-Benz diesel. Occasionally he'd pop up to see if I was still listening, and then plunge right back in... Today I own an entire shop..