I'm the same age as Norm and Tyler put together.........If Norm was born in the second half of the model year.

And regarding texting.....I got an email on Friday from our "phone plan administrator" advising me that I had exceeded my plan texting minutes the past 3 months. Last month, I was almost double my plan.

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Links:
Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
Cluster Needles Paint
New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

Colin bought the car knowing he would have to deal with the climate control issues. I don't think he's doing it himself, either.

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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!!!

I drove the squash!

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1981 300SD 512k OM603

Did you make it up to 110 like you did when you drove Zippy?

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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!!!

He didn't get it up to that speed, but there weren't many of the 67 horse power that he left on the table......

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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

I bought the car knowing of every issue Norm had that Tyler could disclose, and know that there will potentially be issues in the future. But as you know, I still bought the car! He's been awesome, I love driving Norm! And he really hasn't "broken down", but rather slightly come apart, haha. I didn't spend any money or much time fixing him, no harm no foul.

No, I'm not installing that servo myself. I'm having it done by my trusty mechanic, he knows what he is doing. Too much of a headache for me. Plus it's been nice here, so I just roll the window down.

Yea, I was surprised you bought it after he told you about the cracked head. Oh well, only an issue during the summer......

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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

Oh, please Jimmy. I went to my old high school shop class and the students welded it right up. Its good as new.

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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!!!

Plus I hit it with some epoxy AND JB weld. Should be good to for another million miles now!

See, I was honest with Colin about the patched head. I'm sure you failed to disclose your primary motivation for selling...

You took a black light to the interior...

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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!!!

That caused an outright belly laugh!!!! I bow to the master......

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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

You guys are cracking me up........

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Links:
Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
Cluster Needles Paint
New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

Congrats on the sell, and Congrats to the new owner ----

So a question to the 'wise men' of this forum: How does one go about selling a W123 these days? I listed mine in the classified section, and yes I admit-I priced it way high....but as we all know, you can always come down, but you can never go up!

I'm wanting and needing to sell mine - so...what's the secret to actually making this happen?

Looking for advice---

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71Inka02

62 W121 190DB - Original CA/AZ Car - Excellent Example
99 E300 Turbo Diesel - 362,000...Awesome Daily Driver
01 E320 Wagon - 297,xxx (wife's work car)
01 E320 Wagon - 131,000
02 Land Rover Disco SE- 110,000
87 BMW 325is (E30) Full Restore - Son's
06 Mini Cooper 'S' - Son's
87 Toyota FJ60 Land Cruiser - Showroom Condition - 152,000

84 300D - 142,xxx :cool - "Sold"
83 300D-"Sold" - 211,456
85 300SD-"Sold" - 213,789

I just checked out your ad and it's a very nice car and appears to be worth your asking price. The problem is that on this forum, everyone is used to getting better deals. For instance, I paid $3500 for my CD and I'm one of the higher paying w123 owners. As nice as your car is, it would be great to see another forum member buy it and take care of it, but you'll probably get the best sale price for it by touting its WVO capabilities on Ebay and CL.

I would say that you'll have a far better chance of selling here if you go crazy with quality pictures showing all the areas we'd look at in an "in-person" inspection. Some guys have even put up videos on Youtube that show the vehicle cold starting and idling.

Well anyway, good luck, it's a beautiful car.

The ad:
83 300D - For Sale...

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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

Squash is running fantastic and would like to think Jimmy for everything. clocked almost 350 miles w/o a problem. the manual transmission is a blast to drive with more get up'n go than my old 1977 300d did. i've got a few simple modifications to do and will post pictures soon.