I named mine Pamela, after Pamela Anderson. It looks great from twenty feet away, but once you get really close you can see the wrinkles, cracks, and sun damage. On the good side, much like Ms. Anderson once it has been warmed up properly it performs like a champ

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Rich B

1983 300D Turbo
205k

Excuses are crutches for the weak

Alex, because that's the name of the guy I was supposed to sell it to 24k miles ago.
Butterball because someone told me it looked like a stick of butter.

Eva, because when I was driving it home my step dad proceeded to call it a nazi car(jokingly)

I haven't named my 82 300D yet. I'm still trying to come up with something unique and appropriate. I do have a 1966 Triumph TR4a IRS that I have had since 1977. It's called: F'ugly ... I'm not going to explain...

No names: I call them "the diesel", "the convertible", "the AMG sedan", "the suburban".

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- Brian


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

Names in my signature...

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Current cars:
2000 ML55 AMG, 174k miles
2003 C240 T-Modell, 202k miles
1995 S320, 207k Miles

So far this is the first car I haven't named. Nothing I've thought of so far seems to fit, so I call it "the wagon". My son calls it "the red car" and he calls our Acura "the black car".

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Chad
2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL
OBK#44
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys

Otto, as its an auto.

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-Zack K.

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1983 300d Turbo (Daily Drive) -- 243,000 miles
1979 280ce AMG (Beginning extreme restoration) -- 141,410 miles
1979 Yamaha Chappy LB50 (Awating new points) -- 1411.6 miles

1981 300d Euro 4 speed -- 188,421 km -- SOLD
1979 300d Euro 4 speed (Sold to Brother) -- 257,000 miles

A Collection of w123 AMG Cars and Parts

I believe I read that you call your car Otto before, but I thought it was a diesel vs. otto cycle joke.

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Chad
2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL
OBK#44
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys

I don't name vehicles.

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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

I do not normally name vehicles, normally.....

But I got this car right after a friend of mine bought an 86 560 SEL. He did name his car, called it pompeii since the PO was a smoker and ash was everywhere. I told him he should have called it Vesuvius. Well when I go my car the name stuck since we all know Vesuvius buried Pompeii.

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86 300 SDL - Vesuvius

96 SL 500

Assumption is the mother of all screw ups.

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing - Edmund Burke

The 300SD is "Mine"
The 300D is "Hers"

Why? because I'm lazy.....but every now and then I call mine Betsy....for reasons I no longer understand.

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1998 W202 C230 - The money pit of late.
1984 W126 300SD (356,800 miles) Gone to the wrenchapart
1984 W123 300D Gone to the wrenchapart
1972 W108 280SE 3.5 (sold but not forgotten)
1986 Buick Grand National 3.8l Turbo (86k miles)
1966 Glassic Model 'A' Replica http://www.glassicannex.org

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yup
240D is "my car"
300TD is "her car"

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Current Mercedes
1979 maple yellow 240D 4-speed

Gone and fondly remembered:
1980 orient red 240D 4-speed

Gone and NOT fondly remembered:
1982 Chna Blue 300TD

Other car in the stable:
2013 VW Jetta Sportwagen TDI / 6-speed MT

300SD: My beater car, the pick n pull car, grey car, sonderklasse diesel, the 126, sd, the s class tank

300D: the nice car, the mint car, the good car, the blue car, the 123, the d, d, tank

also I tend to think of the 300d as a female and the 300sd as a male.

123 seems more feminine to me (has better lines)

whereas the 126 is more square and with the mean looking headlights

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1981 300SD 512k OM603

We call ours "Tank," hence my screen name here. We have named all of our cars. Our previous car was a 2000 Ford Escort XZ2 which we named "Speck" because it was small (just like PeeWee Herman's little dog in PeeWee's Big Adventure) and could be parked just about anywhere (on the downside it was always hard to find in the parking lots because it hid behind all of the giant SUVs).

We hadn't initially planned to call the '95 E300D "Tank," it was just what we were calling it until we could think of something better (because in comparison to our previous car it was a tank); however, after about 2 weeks, "Tank" had stuck.

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'95 E300D ("Tank") - 231,000 miles
'79 240D ("Biscuit") - 197,250 miles (Sold)
'83 240D ("Ding-Ding") - 217,000 miles (Death by deer)
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"Back off, man. I’m a scientist” ~ Peter Venkman