That car is about as pristine as is humanly possible. I let all the pictures load, and I'm on dial-up!
But, please tell me something. What on God's green planet earth makes some men think that a gold nugget bracelet is a good look?

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

I detect a hint of jealousy among members of the shopforum when it comes to the cars this guy has....

Everyone knows these low mileage, perfect condition (well, at least cosmetically) classic MB's are hidden in mythical barn in northern california. They were stockpiled there in the mid to late '80s.

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'90 300SE 298k
-300K and it gets put into retirement.
'80 300D 255k Purchased new by family in 1980.

Had a:
1973 220 (gas)
1980 300SD
1992 400E

"Mass-holes". People who reside near the Boston area. They tend to think their existance is more significant than God.

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1987 300SDL (324000)

1986 Porsche 951 (944 Turbo) (166000)

1978 Porsche 924 (99000)

1996 Nissan Pathfinder R50 (201000)

Three items come to mind. My understanding is some vendors make you file feedback prior to your taking the car away. Plus we know some vendors can somehow erase bad feedback as well. Also there are people that stockpile cars and they are eventually sold on the market years later. The most important factor with this car or any like it is that if you take the vin # to any mercedes dealer and he will pull up the service records you should have a valid indication of how many miles were accumulated during warranty period at least. With a little luck will also show work and milage after warranty done at any dealer nationwide. Hope some person that works at a mercedes dealer could verify this as belive i read it somewhere. Perhaps I am wrong though. If I am right it would be a most important tool for checking some cars out that seem to have substandard milage. No sense taking this route for the average high milage example. You would just be a pain to the dealer in my opinion.

My take on this is this guy could find a few hidden gems...but this guy seems to find an inordinate ammount.....maybe he is for real and maybe he has just the right sort of network of people to locate these....but on the other hand...

A old saying always comes to mind in these cases.....if its too good to be true....it usually is.

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Proud owner of ....
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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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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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

In my opinion all his cars are legitimate. Someone here stated that a few buyers may not take their cars to a mechanic for an inspection within the 90 days of end of the auction. Well, even if I were to accept that, the fact that those who take their cars for inspection end up ALL leaving him with positive feedback goes on to show that his cars are the real deal.

There's a forum member here who lives just 20 minutes from the man. I've told him many times to go and visit the man and to find out how he gets the cars. Also, even if the man doesn't give full details (his trade secret, I understand), I told the forum member he should express skeptism about the huge number of such cars he sells. Unfortunately that forum member hasn't had the time for that. But one day he will and we will all get to hear what he has to say.

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1999 Mercedes-Benz S600, 103K miles - garage queen
1988 Mercedes-Benz 560SEL, 89K miles - daily driver
2007 Hyundai Sonata Limited, 31K - daily driver

Interesting.....very interesting....

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/car/225298301.html

Ad Listing Says:

Mercedes 300D Turbo Diesel *LIKE NEW* Low miles - $15000

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1974 240D 3.0L 4(M) - 250K -OM617.910 + 300D FW + Rajay turbo power!
1977 6.9 3(A) - 84k

"Single tank vegetable oil system installed."
Knock about $9000 off the price.

wait a min my family has been in newburyport mass since 1650 A regular lil mayberry town grampy delivered milk in a stand up milk truck with ice in the back I delivered papers on my schwinn whats wrong with eastern mass???????????

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commercial fisherman diesel in my blood in my boats trucks and Dear old Dad has had me drivin them since i got my first license in 1968
1986 300 SDL 427654
1999 Chevy Crew Cab Dually 225423
1986 300 SDL 287000 Dad's
1987 190 Turbo 158000 Mom's (my inheritance)

Why do people lube up every damn thing including the engine compartment with glossy Armor All; it doesn't look clean, it looks like s**t.

what armor all? I see only a clean engine with new hoses... the dash even looks clean. I have seen armor all treatments, and that don't look AA'd...
John

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

the areas i look for are the color of the odometer numbers, where the 282 looks a little whiter than the last 82. i also look at the brake pedal for worn rubber. if it only has 28k on it, then it should look almost mint and have no rubber rubbed away. that car seems to have the corner worn off, which makes me think it had way more miles on it.

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Grey '91 350SDL 214k Dad's car
Beige '81 240D 4 Speed 254k SOLD
Blue '82 300D 225k SOLD
White '95 E300D 46k SOLD
Blue '87 190D 2.5 Turbo 315k SOLD
Brown '80 240D 4 Speed 716k SOLD
Beige '80 300D N/A 119k SOLD
Blue '85 300D Model 186k T-Boned

New hoses are not shiny, neither is the metal air filter cover

The seller of the $15,000 vehicle in question IS the person who started this thread......

I find it hypocritical to state "Just curious what you all think about these ridiculously priced MB diesel" and then post cars at 3x market rates....

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1974 240D 3.0L 4(M) - 250K -OM617.910 + 300D FW + Rajay turbo power!
1977 6.9 3(A) - 84k

I didn't understand the segue from 2005 until today. Thanks for clearing that up. Hypocrisy is never pretty.

Kevin

1979 240D manual
1984 190D manual