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