But she was never able to drive the car because of a roadblock with the DMV. So, she put the pedal to the metal and called 7 On Your Side.
When Yolanda Williams' aunt Gloria died in 2015, she left everything she owned to Williams.
She was the last of Williams' aunts alive, her mother's youngest sister.
"She was like a second mom. Especially when I lost my mom, she meant the world to me," Williams said.
Part of the estate was a 1995 Mercedes-Benz E320.
"She basically used the Mercedes to go back and forth to church, and she just wanted me to have this car," Williams said.
But that final wish was denied for a decade. The car was never driven because the title transfer kept running into roadblocks.
"Each time I went to the DMV in New York and New Jersey, they said there was a lien," Williams said.
Since 2016, Williams says she made more than a dozen trips from her home in Queens to several DMV offices, carrying proof that the Mercedes was paid off, including a notarized lien release termination statement.
"They finally told me to go to Albany," she said.
When that still didn't resolve the issue, she turned to Mercedes-Benz to try to grease the wheels.
"I contacted Mercedes-Benz corporate in New York. I went there in person. They gave me a letter saying I had no lien. I went to Mercedes-Benz in Texas, they said no lien on the car," Williams said.
That letter, along with her aunt's will and death certificate, power of attorney, and the original, tattered title, still didn't move the speedometer.
"Everything you need is right here. I don't understand why it's not going through," Nina Pineda said.
The vintage Mercedes, complete with its ashtray and single wiper blade, sat idle for years.
"I felt helpless," Williams said.
After five or six years of frustration, she finally reached out to 7 On Your Side.
"It was really a fear that I would end up at a hopeless dead end and that no one would help me," she said.
But it wasn't too late. 7 On Your Side immediately contacted our sources at the state DMV in Albany and shared Williams' documentation.
"I got a phone call from Albany. They said it will be in the mail," Williams said.
The Mercedes was finally cleared, granting her aunt's dying wish.
"She would be so ecstatic. And she would say, 'I told you to take care of your business,'" Williams said.
After 10 years of trying, it took just two weeks with help from 7 On Your Side.
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