Nice letter.

I think I saw that police chase way back when on Cops.

If it's the chase I'm thinking of they had Mustang police cars and they were just bouncing off the Benz like they were nothing. I think the guy was drunk and eventually just pulled over.

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Ralph

1985 300D Turbo, CA model
248,650 miles and counting...

I wonder if that is the same 300SD they used to determine that a diesel car could run on vegetable oil? I thought it was funny, because they made the statement that ANY diesel could run by throwing veggie in the tank because this MB did it. But I would certainly hesitate doing that in anything other than an MB.

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87 300D - Running on Veggie oil; 260,000 plus miles; Original #14 head

yea same SD

Yeah its the same one. If you look carefully, its been just sitting outside their shop for a few episodes until they got the bright idea to trash it. I usually love this show but it makes me sick when they do stuff like that to perfectly nice things. Like last week when they destroyed a perfectly good model helicopter just to see what would happen. Sometimes they're really childish.

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Seth

1984 300D 225K
1985 300D Donor body
1985 300D Turbo 165K. Totaled. Donor Engine. It runs!!!
1980 300SD 311K My New Baby.
1979 BMW 633csi 62K+++? Dead odo

I was thinking the same thing...they did it to the wrong car

They should have switched the cars on both myths...they should have used the Olds they used on the bumpy road myth for the subwoofer myth, and vice versa for the Benz.

I also noted how Jamie kept talking about the diesel engine as being such a great thing

It already looked somewhat picked over before they totally trashed it. There were no headlights first of all, among other little things. It's a real parts car now...I bet the engine and tranny are still good.

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Dale

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1990 300D 2.5 Turbo -155k
2000 E430 - 103k
2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Ecodiesel 4x4 - 11k
2014 VW Passat TDI SE - 7k Bro's Diesel
2006 E320 CDI - 128k Pop's Benz

Pre-glow - A moment of silence in honor of Rudolph Diesel

What a fargen waste!

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1981 300D 147k
1998 VW Jetta Tdi 320k
2001 Dodge Ram 2500 141k
1979 300D 234k (sold)
1984 300D "Astor" 262k(sold)
Mercedes How-To and Repair Pictorials
I love the smell of diesel smoke in my hair

I've lost my respect for Adam and Jamie/The Mythbusters Show. Destroying a perfectly usable Mercedes diesel =

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

I really dislike mythbusters. They act very childish most of the time and don't convince me of much. And it really bothers me when they destroy perfectly good vehicles and equipment, like this Benz. Also, they had some trouble with a super neat old snowplow in one episode. So what do they do with it in the end? Sell it to someone like me who would love a rare old gutless wonder like that? No, they flipped it over and smashed it around. It had nothing do do with the myth (whether a snowplow could flip a small car just with wind off the blade).

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1985 300D, 237k.
1994 F-350, 6.9 diesel, 5 spd manual, Banks Turbo. 261k.
Sold: 1985 300CD- 267K

Unfortunately this will get some people in a lot of trouble. All diesel engines I know of (except really "controlled" ones like a Durawax) will start even in cold weather and run great if they have good compression. For 25K. Then its engine rebuild time. Then people say it can't be done without major engine problems, which isn't true if you use your head and don't try to make your injectors squirt margerine.

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1985 300D, 237k.
1994 F-350, 6.9 diesel, 5 spd manual, Banks Turbo. 261k.
Sold: 1985 300CD- 267K

Ahh its all in good fun. The car was probably really tired and they picked it up cheap. What great PR for our cars, and what a way to go!


I'm surprised the sunroof got blown off its tracks, now that takes some force! Notice it flexing in the low speed camra?


Now they can make fun of the hate mail they get from MB owners!

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

i agree... its way cooler for the car to be trashed in a "mythbust" than rusting away in a field somewhere... however that dash on the car did look to be in very good shape and the car should have been gutted for parts before this myth was attempted

Get real, they bought the car and its theirs to do whatever they want with. Its death was at least interesting. It would have been driven to death anyway by some hippy who couldnt give a rat's ass about maintenance anyway. It's a mass produced car too, not like its anything unique.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

I guess it stinks they did that but I think that the car was Adam's. I say that because on one episode they were playing with magnets (I think the one where they had to do the hollywood robberies) and they got Adam's keys and you could clearly see an old mercedes key. So I wouldn't be very suprised if it was his car and it just ran out of juice.

I'd have to agree I'd rather see the car killed this way than by someone who just runs it into the ground with no maintenece or general care. Sad I'm sure but go visit a California junkyard and look at all the perfectly good Mercedes that have been picked apart. Seems like 80% or more are fine and just need a little work. That depresses me much more than 1 car on TV.

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-Zack K.

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1983 300d Turbo (Daily Drive) -- 243,000 miles
1979 280ce AMG (Beginning extreme restoration) -- 141,410 miles
1979 Yamaha Chappy LB50 (Awating new points) -- 1411.6 miles

1981 300d Euro 4 speed -- 188,421 km -- SOLD
1979 300d Euro 4 speed (Sold to Brother) -- 257,000 miles

A Collection of w123 AMG Cars and Parts

Yeah, it's sad that another one bites the dust, blah, blah, blah. At the least it gets another 15 minutes of fame and spreads the image of how durable the Mercedes cars can be.

In my opinion- They own it, it's being used for something semi-scientific, and we get to hear the roar of an OM617 on national TV! And that's fine by me.

I noticed that myself. LOL

Only a MBZ junky would notice such things....

Cheers,

Bill