In 1966 with Reta and 4 kids and I traveled from Milwaukee to Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec city to the bay of Funday,(isn't that in PEI, Tom) down Maine to Mass, up to New Hampshire and Vermont, back to Boston and back to Milwaukee. 4500 miles in three weeks on my '66 Chebby Suburban with 283 V8 and 3 speed w/OD and a small trailer trailer. Never ever thought about the price of gas. In 68 we did Yellowstone to Milwaukee, right at 1000 miles nonstop in a new Caprice Coupe with a 396, finishing up a trip to Edmonton with family and I think we kind of ran out of vacation time. Doing truck trades for Mack in 2002 my longest ride was from Spokane to someplace near Homestead, but I can't remember the town where the Mack Stealer is located. Bobtailing a new Mack tractor and pulling my little Ford Ranger it was a real nice ride in the winter, took the better part of 6 days and over 3000 miles. Sure was a good thing most of those Macks had air ride. With my 85 W123, a round trip Indianapolis to Manassas, VA this winter has been it. I was wanting to go west with it this summer, but Reta's health and the price of fuel is keeping us home. And that is difficult when you have a great grand daughter who celebrated her 4th birthday just before the 4th of July in Denver.

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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!

Border of Alabama to Buffalo New York and back. 12 hours each way. About 750 miles each way.

Drove 12 hours straight going up. Broke the return trip up in to 7 hours and 5 hours.

-Jim

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1995 S350D, Green with black leather interior.
Bought January 2008 w/ 233,xxx miles.
I did 22,000 miles during the first year of ownership.

I drove from Canton Texas to Satellite Beach Florida in 24 hours non stop, except for food and fuel.
I was leaving Texas while hurricane Charlie was tearing up Florida. I got to Florida the morning after the storm. Wait a sight.
And I had my dog Charlie with me. Go figure.

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1976 240D
1976 240D parts car
1970 220D daily driver

I think it was around 1400 miles in my dad's '70 Chevy wagon. I drove it in around 42 hours including some sleep / napping in rest areas. This was the tail end of a 6 week trip of helping a friend move from Buffalo to Ft. Worth. Then we hit the Grand Canyon, Vegas, San Jose and back to Ft. Worth. I think we drove around 6 - 7000 miles that trip. Would love to have the time and $ to do that again.

The only problem was the battery died on the way back from San Jose to Ft. Worth. We were pretty lucky. We stopped in nowhere NV to pee on a cactus at dusk. Got back in the car, it started fine and drove another 2 hours. When we stopped for gas the battery was stone / cold / dead. Would not put the electric back window down on the station wagon dead. Of course the jumper cables were in the storage compartment with the spare. We refueled, fired it up and never shut it off until we hit Ft. Worth.

On my recent spring break trip to Texas I traveled 2,000 miles in the 300d over a 6 day period. Wichita to Austin, Austin to San Antonio, San Antonio to Corpus Christi, then Corpus Christi all the way home.

Other than my nearly catastrophic oil cooler line incident during the first 5 miles of my trip, no other issues.

I would not hesitate to drive it anywhere. Basic tools, fuel filters, zip ties and duct tape is all I would bring. Perhaps a few belts as well if they haven't been changed in a while.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

A week after I bought the CDI drove from Starkville, MS to Phoenix, AZ. Detoured to the Grand Canyon, etc so the total round trip was a little over 4k miles. I did the same trip about 3 years ago in my 79 300SD.

The longest at one sitting was from Starkville, MS to Santa Rosa, NM in the CDI. Was about 15 hours of driving and nearly 1200 miles. Think I stopped a total of three times. I don't think I would ever drive longer than that in one day... was very tired when I pulled off for the night.

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'05 E320 CDI - 240k
'87 300TD - 318k

I'm in the Hartford area so its 530 or so miles to the Fort Kent area. I'll be doing the trip two times each way so it will be a total of 2120 +/- miles. My freind says that its a ten hour drive but I think he makes lots of stop. I'm actually used to long drives so i'll be makeing one stop in Bangor plus a fillup once I get there.



With that being said, I think that I'd rather do this trip them drive from Stamford to Hartford on say late on a Friday afternoon......

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1982 300GD Carmine Red (DB3535) Cabriolet Parting Out
1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

I did 510 miles across CA once. That was in my first car. Car ran fine (high mileage too) and got good fuel mileage. I noticed that it idled much better when I arrived home after 1000 highway miles. Your car will love you!

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1981 300SD 512k OM603

I used to regularly drive between Tulsa, OK and Eastern North Carolina. That was long enough for me.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I did a number of long trips in my W126 TD.

I determined that I should carry an extra set of belts, an alternator and the tools to change these parts.

If I were driving a 40 hour trip, I would break it up into 3 days and 2 nights of sleep at a minimum. Car camping at a KOA w/a tent and sleeping bag works for me. No chance that I would drive 20 hours straight, it's just not safe.

Thats easy!
From Vancouver BC to Montreal Quebec round trip in one week! Its 6365km one way...You do the math!
Crazy Cannucks Eh!
Cheers
Dan

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If at first you don't succeed,
Skydiving is not for you.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS NO
MATCH FOR NATURAL STUPIDITY.

If anything can go wrong,fix it!
The hell with Murphy!!
I never think of the future.It comes soon enough.

In 1994, in a 1984 Ford Bronco, West Los Angeles to Houston (one mile down Bundy, turn left, drive 1600 miles, turn right, one mile down Blalock), 24 hours in one shot, by myself, no sleep stops. Bad, bad idea - I'll never do it again. Road hypnotizing is real.

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- Brian


1989 500SEL Euro
1966 250SE Cabriolet
1958 BMW Isetta 600

October 2007 - Lincoln Park, New Jersey to Dallas then on to Mansfield, Texas. Left Jersey at 7am Thursday morning. A/C compressor seized around 1pm in West Virginia. Drove til 2pm. Parked in a rest stop as to not kill the dog from heat stroke. Resumed the trip at 5:30pm. Arrived in Dallas to check in with my new boss at 12:15pm Friday then on to my friend's place in Mansfield. Even when stopping for fuel and to walk the dog in those 31 hours, I never shut the car down except the 3 1/2 hrs in the rest stop. I lost 1/2 a quart of oil but not due to burning. The oil cap seal was bad.

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Sharing my partner's 2012 Forte 5dr SX til I find my next 123 or 126..
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Do I miss being a service advisor ???

Well, if we're gonna get out of the Mercedes lane...

Santa Clara [CA] to Table Rock Lake State Park [SC] and back over a couple of weeks on my 1973 BMW R75/5 [1974] -- 6714 miles

Santa Clara to Los Angeles, the "California 1000," back to Santa Clara also on the R75/5 [1974] -- 1888 miles in 58 hours

Santa Clara to Missouri with girlfriend, two-up on the R75/5; girlfriend flew back, I continued up to Wisconsin and then back across the top of the nation to CA. [1975] -- about 4000 miles

"I was younger then."

Jeremy

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970

Longest Trip was Baltimore to Demopolis Al. right around 1200 miles non-stop back in 2000 when I first bought my Passat. Other trips, back and forth from Western Mass to Milwaukee a couple of times non stop, each about 18 hours of driving, sometimes solo. I have driven to Charlotte NC from Baltimore non stop I was delivering my buddies 1999 740il. Made it 510 miles and got 25 MPG. Other memorable trips, from York, Pa to Athens, OH to pickup a John Deere Garden Tractor with my Passat pulling a trailer both ways, same day, about 800 miles round trip. Longest trip in my E300 was Oct of 06. 1 week vacation 1200 miles.

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Dennis
2006 E320 CDI Black/Black Leather. Nav, HTD Seats HK stereo 32000 miles.
2000 VW Passat 1.8t 300,000 miles as of Dec 09, 2009 original owner
1997 E300d Silver 300,000 miles As of Jan 05, 2010
3rd owner SOLD