I need to sell my dream car after making a HUGE financial mistake

Summary

The video features a car enthusiast discussing his difficult decision to sell his beloved Mercedes SLS AMG supercar to fund home renovations and taxes. He reflects fondly on memories with the SLS, like tracking it alongside his first car. Ultimately, he decides not to sell yet. At his garage, work has stalled on building his dream garage. His mechanic found a bizarre vintage gasoline-powered heater in another car, which will be replaced. Bills are piling up, but selling the emotional SLS proves difficult.

Takeaways

• 😢 The owner has to sell his dream Mercedes SLS AMG due to financial issues from taxes, home renovations, and investments
• 🚗 The SLS AMG was the owner's dream car since college - elegant, beautiful, and fast
• 🏠 Selling the SLS would help pay for house additions and the new garage construction
• 💔 Letting go of the SLS is extremely difficult despite favoring his other car, the SLR McLaren
• 😌 The owner eventually decides not to sell the SLS after failing to get a good enough offer
• 🌽 There has been little progress on the new garage construction so far
• 🔥 The Chrysler has a bizarre old gasoline-powered heater that seems unsafe
• 👨‍🔧 The mechanic diagnosed issues with the CL65 including bad sensors and worn parts
• 💸 The repair estimate for the CL65 is almost $6,000 including brakes and engine mounts
• 💲 The owner struggles with the ongoing cost of repairs and maintenance on his collection

Q & A

What car does Hu have to sell to help pay for expenses?

Hu has to sell his Mercedes SLS AMG supercar to help pay for home renovations, taxes, and other expenses.

Why does Hu favor his SLR McLaren over the SLS AMG?

Hu says the SLR McLaren feels more special to drive, is more fun and rare, and he tends to drive it more than the SLS AMG, even though the SLS is better for long road trips.

What special memory does Hu have with the SLS AMG?

Hu has a special memory driving the SLS AMG on the track during the Car Trek experience, along with the first car he bought himself - a Mercedes 300 TD diesel.

Why wasn't Hu able to sell the SLS AMG yet?

Hu wasn't able to sell the SLS AMG yet because due to winter and market changes, he wasn't offered as much money as expected, so he decided to keep it a bit longer.

What is the update on the construction of Hu's new garage?

There has been little progress on the construction of Hu's new garage 3.0, despite being told multiple times the builders would start. The materials have been delivered but no one has showed up to start work.

What weird heater system did the Car Wizard find on the 1946 Chrysler?

The Car Wizard found a strange old Motorola gasoline-powered heater system on the 1946 Chrysler that works by lighting a flame, which seems unsafe.

What repairs and service does the CL65 AMG need?

The CL65 AMG needs repairs for bad sensors, collapsed engine and transmission mounts, a new blower motor, and various overdue maintenance services.

What was repaired on the Callaway Corvette?

The Callaway Corvette had its LT1 OptiSpark issues, water pump, and other repairs done so it just needs some nice roads to drive it.

What is still wrong with the Camaro after repairs by Car Wizard?

Nothing is still wrong with the Camaro after the Car Wizard did repairs including the OptiSpark, distributor, and other parts. Hu just doesn't want to drive it on the bad roads.

How much are the repairs estimated to cost on the CL65 AMG?

The repairs and overdue maintenance on the CL65 AMG are estimated to cost around $5,000-$6,000, not counting the brakes which would be over $3,000 to replace.

Outlines

00:00

😄 Introducing the SLS AMG and decision to sell

The video introduces the Mercedes SLS AMG, the host's dream car. Due to financial constraints from home renovations, taxes, and other expenses, the host needs to sell the SLS AMG even though he loves it. He highlights his great memories with the car, including tracking it at Car Trek. Ultimately he decides to try selling it to raise funds.

05:01

🤔 Reflecting on 4 years of SLS AMG ownership

The host reflects on his 4 years of ownership of the SLS AMG. He compares it to the SLR McLaren, which he now favors for being more fun and special. He discusses the highlights of SLS ownership like its appearance, V8 engine, driving dynamics, and gullwing doors. Though hard to sell, it has appreciated in value during his ownership.

10:03

😨 Touring the bizarre vintage gasoline heater

The host visits the Car Wizard and learns about the strange vintage gasoline-powered heater in the 1946 Chrysler. It did not originally come with a heater, so this dangerous aftermarket solution was added. They agree it should be replaced with a proper coolant-based heater for safety.

15:03

💸 Paying for repairs and upgrades

The host gets estimates from the Car Wizard for repairs and service on the CL65 AMG and Callaway Corvette. Though expensive, they are not as bad as some recent bills. The host will pay and have the cars fixed, except for the AMG brakes which can wait.

Keywords

💡selling cars

A major theme in the video is the narrator considering selling some of his cars to pay for home renovations and other expenses. He talks about needing to sell his Mercedes SLS AMG supercar, which he loves but doesn't drive often anymore. However, when he tries to sell it, he struggles to part with it. This highlights the narrator's emotional attachment to his cars.

💡dream garage

The narrator refers to his goal of building his 'dream garage,' a large, customized garage to store his car collection. However, the high cost of constructing this garage is contributing to his financial struggles. The dream garage represents his passion for cars.

💡home renovation

The narrator mentions spending money to renovate and add on to his home. These expensive house projects are one reason he is considering selling some cars.

💡taxes

The narrator cites taxes as one of the financial pressures causing him to need to sell a car. Taxes on his assets and income are likely high given his cars and property.

💡investment

The narrator refers to making a 'bad investment,' which has contributed to his cash flow problem. This likely refers to a business or financial investment outside of his cars that did not pan out well.

💡Mercedes SLS AMG

This is a specific supercar model made by Mercedes-AMG that the narrator owns. He loves its appearance and performance but is considering selling it. It represents his taste for high-end sports cars.

💡depreciation

The narrator notes that his SLS AMG has appreciated in value over the 4 years he's owned it. Sports cars often depreciate quickly, but this one has gone up in value due to demand for this particular model.

💡car collection

The narrator refers to his 'car collection,' as he owns multiple expensive sports cars. He seems to have a passion for collecting and owning certain luxury and vintage models.

💡car maintenance

The high cost of maintaining his cars also strains the narrator's finances. He gets estimates for repairs and maintenance on his Mercedes CL65 and Camaro.

💡car enthusiast

The overall theme is this person's deep enthusiasm for cars, despite the high costs. His dream is to own certain models, maintain a collection, build a garage, and constantly work on cars.

Highlights

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 - my Mercedes SLS AMG

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

I 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

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 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

Progress continues on the house Edition the great room you can see it really starting to come together

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transcripts

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

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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