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Hi Vince,
Welcome to back!
My opinion is that Diesel engines in the vintage cars are under-powered for daily driving in the modern age. My father owned a 240D that pulled into traffic or onto a highway at a crawl that would be dangerous today. I believe his model year was a 1976 that he drove in the 1980s. I owned a 1987 300SDL that has the 6 cylinder turbo diesel engine
I prefer the gasoline powered W114/115 over a diesel. The mechanical differences between diesel or gas would not concern me as much as driving performance. This is my opinion which would probably not help me find a penny someone dropped on the ground.
There are a lot of nice W114/115s for sale in SoCal. Recently a member was selling his super cheap because it needed a motor. The car was beautiful. You can see it if you search "motor swap" or something like that from about a month ago. His car was a 220 gas engine 4 cylinder that would be inexpensive to buy, get running and use for daily driver.
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