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Look!! 1981 W123 Eurodiesel, manual 200D, 60 hp the basic model
And it has a trailer hitch!!! Imagine that. Just 60 hp, the trailer would have to be a pretty small one.
This one has one of those rare chrome horse shoes on the grille that you see from time to time on the Mercedes. For good luck? I wonder what they mean and who sells them. I even saw a picture of one on a WWII german Luftwaffe truck once... A beautiful example of maybe the most basic W123 diesels ever sold. What a car for a W123 diesel diehard to own this one is. ![]() This one is just old enough to easily escape the procrustean bed of traps for the unwary trying to bring in a gray market car. 25 years old, you are home free, pretty much - no EPA/DOT problems. Ship it, clear customs, and drive. Wunderbar!!!! A fun site to browse, they have the best Mercedes of any dealer I ever saw. http://www.mirbach.de/main.asp?main=auto_detail&ID=1498&subnav=1 They have some amazing stock. Just imagine Hitler cruising the bombed out rubble of Berlin in one of these in 1945. Only 88 of them built, from the last years of the Nazi empire, in 1943. A real war time Mercedes car, some of these were armoured and had bullet proof tires, glass and bodies. What a sinister looking thing. Only top Nazis rode in them. Maybe one or two of them were in the Reichschancellery garage when Berlin fell in May 1945. If so, they were surely sent to Russia as war booty. This survivor must have gone to a non neutral, non belligerent country like Portugal, Spain, Sweden or Switzerland to have survived like this. I wonder which country it was http://www.mirbach.de/main.asp?main=auto_detail&ID=2315&nav=0&subnav=1&sortierung=firstclass Looking at the Mercedes cars for sale on his website and reading the poetic descriptions in English is like going to a museum. The Germans really appreciate and love fine cars
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