This would probally make a great work truck!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4506874030&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT

I wonder what all that writting means. The truck looks like some type of old fire truck or an ambulance.

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Audi TT

Reminds me somewhat of my '65 Ford Econoline van we (wife & I) had in the early years. Those were the days.

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'10 Chrysler T&C Stow-N-Go White. Grandpa's ride.

'13 Chrysler 200 Touring Candy Red. Grandma's ride.

Age and cunning will always over come youth and vigor.

Isn't there some type of registration requirement?
I am really considering it for work, looking for specs now, if it has a 240 engine, it would be real slow, but maybe doable?

check this out

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=35978&item=2286511426&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

It's a manual so it'll be alot faster than your typical auto 240d

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The higher numbers on the speedo are just there for show, I would imagine. I admit it's deffinately a cool truck. Garanteed to get lots of looks.

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1959 Gravely LI, 1963 Gravely L8, 1973 Gravely C12
1982 380SL
1978 450 SEL 6.9 euro restoration at 63% and climbing
1987 300 D
2005 CDI European Delivery
2006 CDI Handed down to daughter
2007 GL CDI. Wifes

I did a search on dogpile.com, and the dealer came up and said it was offered at $13,000.00, little rich for me, I truly would do it for a work truck, think it would be cool, unique, and engine easy to work on! Says he just put a new crate engine in it, but does not show pics .

I think the speedo numbers are in kilometers per hour...

Very van, though...

If I had the money, I'd cram a turbo 617 in it, keep the manny tranny, and paint it petrol green. That would look pretty good.

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Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

Yes, this truck is an old fire truck.

Feuerwehr= fire department.
Notruf 112= emergency call 112> Like 911 here

Louis.

PS: A few years ago the major US car manufacturers
haralded the extended cab multi door pick ups like
a new innovation.
As all can see, MB already had one in 1976.

Big ol' truck tiny little 240D engine.........yes that baby will have blistering acceleration.

Bet it would be a real joy to get parts for here in the USA

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1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

There is so little difference in acceleration times and top speed with auto & 4 speed as to be not worth anything except at the track, only real difference is fuel eccomony. The same holds true in the VW TDI's diesels, only real difference in auto & 5spd is fuel eccomonoy.

As for a registration it will require being US certification and I would imagine that's not cheap or easy. If that's been done that would be only way to buy.

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'10 Chrysler T&C Stow-N-Go White. Grandpa's ride.

'13 Chrysler 200 Touring Candy Red. Grandma's ride.

Age and cunning will always over come youth and vigor.

the ebay ad says 240d motor. his website says 220d motor.

i like the, well what is it, a travel trailer or a funeral hearse trailer? looks like it was made from a 40 ford or european variant.

I believe that the EPA and DOT rules both exempt vehicles older than 25 years from meeting US certification standards. I know of plenty of old English vehicles that have been imported and titled with no difficulty, providing they are 25 years or older.

Kevin

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'85 300SD

Older than 25 years, DOT doesn't care. Older than 21 years, EPA doesn't care. Then again, it may be more difficult to register in that we never got this vehicle, and it was never imported for use in the United States.

Getting a vehicle here is one thing, registering it for the road is another. All those Minis and Land Rovers were variants on a vehicle sold and/or legally imported to the US, even if the engine wasn't (like a diesel Land Cruiser).