Ebay item number 130082072855 - interesting car. Most interesting to me is the interior and how it is done. I've never seen a center console like that on a W123 - it has the radio and such above the fresh air vents, which are exactly like my W115, but then it has the manual heating controls like a standard W123 240D, only arranged differently. I wonder if that was a standard design for the "lang" versions or if someone customized it?

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1976 240D "Katja"

I want it. Better hope the executive in the back is not in a rush!

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1979 240D- 316K miles - VGT Turbo, Intercooler, Stick Shift, Many Other Mods - Daily Driver

1982 300SD - 232K miles - Wife's Daily Driver

1986 560SL - Wife's red speed machine

It does have back seat room for a King, but it sure is butt faced ugly. All that car and then a 240D to pull it around.

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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C.S. Lewis



1983 Mercedes W123 240D 4 Speed 285,000 on the road with a 617 turbo, beautiful butter yellow, license plate # 83 240D INDIANA

2003 Jaguar Type X, AWD. beautiful, good mileage,
Mom's car, but I won't let her drive it!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130082072855&ru=http://motors.search.ebay.com:80/130082072855_W0QQfromZR40QQfviZ1

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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 like...in a weird way!

This limo tends to make the rounds on MB diesel forums every now and then. Anyone remember the outcry when it appeared on CL as an ad for a car you could destroy for a specified amount of money?

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

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

I remember this one from awhile back...butt-ugly and quick as a snail.
I would at least put a proper grill on, some Euro bumpers, and then we "could talk."

Now, wouldn't it be interesting to see a Norwegian über-606 and a 5spd in this baby?

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99 E300 TD -- sold
01 540i 6 spd

This ain't no limo it is a taxi! and probably Lebanese at that!

The concept of Limousine was lower key in the 80's than now. But i would not qualify it as ugly. It is what it is. The DOT bumpers are not originals. And with a 616 that must be in 1981 one of the last ones of its kind. All limos after that are 617 turbos unless made for Lebanon.

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Aquilae non capunt muscas! (Eagles don't hunt flies!)


1979 300SD Black/Black MBtex239000mi
1983 300TD euro-NA. White/Olive Cloth-MBtex 201000mi. Fleet car of the USA embassy in Morocco
1983 240D Labrador Blue/Blue MBtex 161000mi

VIN WDB12312510214697
Model 240 D
Chassis 12312510214697
Engine 616912 10 181469
Transmission 00 858632
Order 0 9 233 02178
Approx. year 1979
Lights BOSCH
Cab 00091
Dealer Bremen branch (233)
Interior leather "Twin" gravel+pebble beige (135)
Paint
568 signal red (T) (с 01.01.1963 по 31.12.1993)
Options
450 International taxi (с 01.09.1972)
502 outside rear view mirror, on the right (с 01.01.1963 по 31.03.1983)
550 trailer coupling (с 01.03.1965)
570 folding armrest front w202/210 stowage box front with armrest (с 01.04.1970)
front folding armrest w202 - housing at front with armrest
585 Behr air conditioner and electric window lifters (front doors) (с 01.04.1970)
591 heat-insulating glass, all-around, heated rear window pane, (single-sheet safety glass), Germany
green heat-insulating glass all round, heated rear window, single pane safety glass - Germany (с 01.01.1972)

Yes I remember that one, it was on the Bay Area craigslist for quite some time about a year and a half ago or so... It has the taxicab dashboard, horrid paint job, and color coded bundts. Thats has to be the same one. It would still be a fun car to own and fix up!

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1995 E420
1992 BMW 525i
1984 300D Turbo sold
1993 Volvo 244 sold
1995 Volvo 944T R.I.P!


"The details are not details. They make the product."
-Charles Eames

www.cbs.nu

Poster says "Car was originally red..." Could this be it's brother?



240D LWB Factory original.

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