I must begin by saying that the wife is pissed! I got the whole "white trash" lecture dealing with multiple cars out front. Ugh........
Now, the good news:
I just purchased a nice little 1980 240D, clothed in a fairly faded China Blue. Good news is as follows:
Manual tranny, decent matching Michelin tires, OK interior, not even a whisper of rust, anywhere! 136K miles. Purchased from the daughter of the original owner.
Pictures from the CL ad:







How odd that my wagon, the Squash, and this 240 all have trailer hitches...
This was purchased through the European Delivery program.




Car came over on the "Toyota Maru" in June of 1980 to a port in Houston. Car was driven around some in Europe by the purchasers, then shipped across the pond.
Car lived in San Antonio Texas until 2001, when he gave/sold it to his daughter in the DFW area. Oddly enough, they went to church where my sainted mother goes, so she has been parked in the same parking lot as my future 240D was. Next to each other ever? Hmmmm.....
Now the bad news, and it is fairly significant:
Engine is locked up! Well, you can't have everything, but I do have this sitting out in the garage:



The people were moving out of their house today, so car needed to be GONE. Right place, right time.
I will go back over there tomorrow and call AAA and have it towed home. I forgot to take my camera today. Whoops.
After we agreed to terms and I gave them the $$, they came out with the title, all the original shipping/purchasing info, and a 617.91x engine manual, Maintenance Manual, and super thick one volume Chassis Manual for 1977 and on W123's. (copyright 1979, so info through '79 model years)



Oh, and did I mention what was hanging on the bottom of the trunk lid.........

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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

VIN WDB12312310182872
Model 240 D
Chassis 12312310182872
Engine 616912 10 151869
Transmission 00 776343
Order 0 0 707 05608
Approx. year 1980
Lights BOSCH
Cab 15167
Dealer United States - tourists (707)
Interior leather "Twin" gravel+pebble beige (135)
Paint
934 china blue (T) (с 01.01.1979 по 31.12.1981)
35 Unknown code
Options
422 mercedes-benz power steering (с 01.01.1963 по 29.02.1986)
440 tempomat (cruise control) (с 01.09.1975)
467 central locking system and instruments with english lettering (с 01.04.1970 по 31.10.1993)
491 USA version (с 01.01.1963)
533 interference suppression without radio set (с 01.01.1967 по 29.02.1984)
542 lockable glove compartment (с 01.02.1963 по 29.02.1986)
580 Behr air conditioner (с 01.04.1970 по 31.10.1982)
593 heat-insulating glass, all-around, heated rear window pane (single-sheet safety glass), band filter
green heat-insulating glass all round, heated rear window, single pane safety glass - tinted strip (с 01.01.1972)
663 60 liters of fuel (с 01.07.1978 по 30.06.1993)
820

Bare bones car kinda. NO sunroof. manual windows, non-power antenna on front right 1/4 panel. Does have cruise.
I've never seen #663 above: 60 liters of fuel

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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

Wow - lucky man ('cept that part about your wife)!

I'll be interested to read your posts regarding bringing this one up to speed - you're a great writer.

Somehow we need to get the wives infected with this diesel bug.... mine's driving a TDI but could care less

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83 300d - 390k

Good show, you really scored, even got the manuals. I'm not even going too ask you what you payed, a nice car is worth it. You should probably be looking for a place in the country with lots of out buildings for cars and parts, or seek theropy, I feel your pain, I bought another 240D last Sunday

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1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

That's a nice car. A manual 240D is such a sweet car. Mine had the same options except no cruise. I bought mine from the son of the original owner as well. European delivery also (captain in the army had to buy from the canadian px because of rules about buying foreign cars for american soldiers overseas).

Kevin
1979 240D manual
1984 190D manual

I'm desperately looking for a trailer hitch for my 240 so if you're possibly looking at parting with yours I'd gladly pay you for it

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-Dan
1983 240D AT, 163K running on VO, "The Patience Tester"

Nice car. What was the original sticker price?

Scott

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Scott
1982 Mercedes 240D, 4 speed, 275,000
1988 Porsche 944 Turbo S (70,000)
1987 Porsche 911 Coupe 109,000 (sold)
1998 Mercedes E300 TurboDiesel 147,000 (sold)
1985 Mercedes 300D 227,000 (totaled by inattentive driver with no insurance!)
1997 Mercedes E300 Diesel 236,000 (sold)
1995 Ducati 900SS (sold)
1987 VW Jetta GLI 157,000 (sold)
1986 Camaro 125,000 (sold - P.O.S.)
1977 Corvette L82 125,000 (sold)
1965 Pontiac GTO 15,000 restored (sold)

No decision yet, but if I decide to remove it I will let you know for sure.



A whopping $16,635.00, plus what looks like about $700 bucks for the import process.

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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

Nice ride, you scored with all the manuals and even all those dealer books, very rare package indeed!
Guess this means I no longer need to seek out a vol.1 body book for you now,lol.

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Chris
64 190D R.I.P.
80 240D W/617 engine -for sale
82 240D -for sale

If i'm not mistaken It does seem to be missing the european delivery badge on the grill..

Nice We love CL

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I'm not a doctor, but I'll have a look.

'85 300SD 245k
'87 300SDL 251k
'90 300SEL 326k

Six others from BMW, GM, and Ford.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty.[/IMG]

Nope, would still love to find a vol. 1. This one is cool, but stops with the '79 models. Lots of stuff the same, though. If I found a volume 1 I would probably part with this one. Mine are 80, 80 and 85...

Dang it! Didn't even think about the Euro delivery badge. But I did get something in the trunk that is not shaped like a badge.....

Yep, we loves us some Craigslist!!

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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

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Sonny


86 190D N/A 2.5L Auto 265k "Ruby" -Sold-
79 300D 242k "Condi" my first -sold- RIP
2013 chevy sonic hatchback - had to for work

Bu7 the wife some flowers. She will forget your present transgression and wonder what else you really did. Should work.
I got away with telling my wife I was just buying some car parts a week ago. Just forgot to mention they were all assembled. Maybe I should buy a 200 acre farm or so to be really safe. It's like the lotto though. You just cannot win.

nice fan btw w123 FTW