Yeah, it has the Turbo Diesel nameplate on the psgr side of the rear hatch, not too hard to add it though. However don't think that was done. Just seems strange that it has an instrument cluster without a tach. Agree that it could have been swapped out. Need to look under the hood for evidence of the tach!! Anyone out there have an 81 300TD? I am also thinking that the cruise hardware was probably removed, and not delivered without it. Of course it is possible to include the control stalk and not the rest. They did it with the coax cable on my '83. The odometer mileage is something over 200k and although the interior is not trashed it shows some wear. The brown or red-brown MB-Tex is probably correct for the year and not a redo. Will need to check the vin when I look at it next.

Jimmy, I think that Kerry was implying that it might be an 80 NA with a Turbo dropped in and then the PO or a previous PO called it an 81. That's why I want to verify VIN.

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1961 190Db retired
1968 220D/8 325,000
1983 300D 164,150