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Old 12-25-2007, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by alfa 75 View Post
Well, here's a 1983 240D with 330k miles. Rusty and hit on the passenger side...
That's not sad -- that car is ready to depart the automotive world. Now, that 914 being in the yard is a sad thing.

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Originally Posted by VWGuru&BenzFan View Post
I have yet to see a W123 wagon in a salvage yard.
In the last year, I've seen two in Atlanta-area yards. Both were almost completely stripped, and the only thing worth getting was a rear wiper motor assembly.

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Originally Posted by VWGuru&BenzFan View Post
W126 and W123 diesels aren't that common. From my experience, W126 gassers outnumber the diesels probably 4 to 1, if not by a wider margin.
There are always multiple MB diesels in the Atlanta yards I go to, the majority of them being W123s, and the ratio is the opposite of yours -- about four diesels to one gasser.

Sorry, but an MB being in a junkyard isn't automatically a sad thing. Not all can or should be saved, but I will agree that many are crushed before their useful parts can be retrieved.
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