There was a old lady around there that was the neighbor of a friend I went to church with. I used to see her driving a 250SEL. I think it was a 250SEL or 250SE. It was the body like the 81-85 300SDs, but it had short/small bumpers. It sounded like an inline 6-cylinder. I remember walking by the car one day (it was often in the parking lot at the supermarket) and I noticed it was a manual shift car. I thought that was very strange- then I realized it must be a Euro model. So obviously some with that body style did have manual shift- just not the 300SD.