I hired a private car to drive me from my hotel in Manhattan to La Guardia, and it was a W140 S500, black with black leather, and it was in like new, pristine condition.

I asked the driver / owner how many miles he had on it, thinking it was new, and it had over 500,000 miles on it.

He explained that he had all of the maintenance and repairs performed at the dealer.

The biggest repair item had been the a/c repair due to having the dashboard removed.

Also the tranny had been rebuilt.

It was on the original engine.

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".