Originally Posted by Squiggle Dog

My interest starts to drop after the W123 body style, though they did make plenty of W123 wagons.

My plan was to stick to my 300SD but my dream car is a fintail wagon and I have been wanting one for years. I told myself that if I ever found one I could afford that I would buy it no matter what the condition.

I think the fact that I own my two dream cars is pretty amazing. There aren't any other cars in the world that I would want more than my two cars, except maybe for identical ones in better condition. I don't plan on selling either of my cars and intend to keep them for life.

If I have to transplant the wagon parts onto a less rusty sedan, so be it. I've done lots of things other people thought were impossible and it has been done before, both installing a turbo diesel engine into a W110/W111 (I've done it before in a 1967 230S) and transplanting the wagon-specific sheet metal onto a sedan (Bob Gunthorp did this from a 1967 230S wagon onto a 1961 220SE sedan).

My 200D is practically rust-free other than the taillight panel (which I would be cutting out), some firewall rust-through, and rusty rockers and floors, of which I already have a set of replacement rocker panels. So I might transplant the wagon sheet metal onto the 200D. Then again, I could make it into a W111 wagon if I found a W111 sedan...

Other than getting the proper welding equipment, knowledge, and practice, it's all time, and for the measly income I have, I come out ahead by doing things myself rather than paying someone else to do things.