Originally Posted by babymog

I think he's talking about the '87 300D sedan only, total run of 124 diesels is significantly higher (although arguably the '90-up is a 250D and then an E300D).



The numbers on the '87 300TD are much lower, the most commonly cited number is around 1,450, not built for Europe in a 3L turbo, so that's total, and we know that there were around 330 dealers in the US alone in 1987 (probably about 20% in CA), which means around 300 of them started life as a white wagon (usually with blue MB-tex) with blue SERVICE stripes, white was also somewhat popular in the sun-belt. Remove those that had accidents or went into disrepair and were scrapped, or just nasty rust-belt cars and you have a pretty low number of non-white '87 300TDs worldwide. Now narrow that to the small percentage that were high-spec, leather, heated seats, both fairly uncommon, 3rd-seat and cargo-cover/pet-net, orthopedic seats, ... I'd say that if you have a black, red, blue car with heated-orthopedic-leather seats, 3rd-seat and cargo-cover/pet-net, you're the only one. Black seems to be the least common interior, red or cream-beige second, palomino 'tex is by far the most common '87 300D/300TD interior second would be blue (in white wagon, a few white wagons had gray).