I made profit parting out a 420SEL with a broken timing chain...

I don't intend to part with my 300SD... perhaps ever... but if I did, I do believe it would fetch more than the $1500 I paid last year. Gen-2 15" rims/flush lamps, astralsilber/black leather, AZ rust free car... seems like a $2k plus example... I turned down the offer to trade it for a 1989 300SE even up, and that SE was very nice.

My Pagoda fever dates back to 1987. Dad bought a '65 then, it was burgundy (original paint)/tan Tex, white steering wheel, slimline whitewalls. God, I loved that car (I was 11 at the time)... he thought about letting me use it in HS but sold it when I was 15.

I like to think I would have treated it with respect but somehow I think that driving that to high school would have been Ferris Bueller's Day Off... every day...

BTW he came out about even on the 230SL, too...