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KAdams4458 · #16 01-30-2009, 07:34 PM

I looked at an '80 CD when I was shopping for a diesel W123, and it was a sad, sad sack of a car. First, I show up and the motor is warm already. Next, the guy starts it by spraying ether in to it... A LOT OF ETHER! Fire actually blows back out of the intake when it finally starts! No reverse, no first, the two-three shift was like a flare in slow motion, and I dared not get it up to high enough speeds to shift in to fourth, because I'm certain it would have split the car in to pieces - It was like the hitting anything above warp two in the old Star Trek series - Crap began to rattle off of the car!

I thought that driving down the road for half a mile was scary due to the 180 degrees of play in the steering wheel, but driving back the way I came was even more frightening, because the horrid smoke trail that the car left behind had not dissipated by the time I returned! I began to imagine that the smoke cloud would settle over some third world nation on the other side of the world and destroy their crops. LOL!

After all of that, I figured, okay, it's a CD... Even if the drivetrain is utter crap, maybe the body is worth the price the guy was asking... Nope. The floors were made from - honest to God - street signs! The entire bottom of both doors was rusted wide open as well.

The truly amazing part about the car was that it actually ran and moved, and to be honest, didn't look bad from twenty feet away. The car was well beyond being worth anything more than a few parts, and only because it was a coupe!

Now, as for nasty trashed... Well, that CD and several other rusted out W123's I looked at lowered my standards by so much that I actually liked, and purchased my '77 300D. Yeah, the 300D had mold growing everywhere inside of it, but darn it, the body is pretty solid... Actually amazingly solid for an early W123!

So, here's my, ahem, nasty contribution. My very own car back when I first bought it. Go ahead... call it a rolling parts car. It essentially was, after all.

Bent and battered, but free of serious rust.

Who needs inferior pool noodles that can degrade and break down when the power of masonry is available?

See the grey stuff on the passenger floor mat? That was mildew. Eww!

diesel123dan · #17 01-30-2009, 07:42 PM

I'll have to take picks next time I go to the junkyard. Theres some bad ones.

Oracle12345 · #18 01-30-2009, 09:19 PM

The 77 I got had like 3 mouse nests and didnt smell the best but the car had a really solid body and a decent drivetrain so I picked it up for$500 and I havent had to put much money in it to make a it a good car.

cphilip · #19 01-30-2009, 09:37 PM

What do I win?

Oracle12345 · #20 01-30-2009, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by cphilip

What do I win?

think you win...

what happened?

cphilip · #21 01-30-2009, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Oracle12345

think you win...

what happened?

She committed Suicide by fire and I do miss her.

compu_85 · #22 01-30-2009, 10:50 PM

That picture still make me sad, I can only image your position...

cphilip · #23 01-30-2009, 10:56 PM

Well.. the insurance company made it a bit easier to swallow but... its the passion to begin again that just has not come back to me yet.

JimmyL · #24 01-30-2009, 11:13 PM

Well, I guess somebody had to follow Philip.

Here was poor old Scar from the front

Not so bad eh?
Well.......

I actually drove him a few miles up and down the road. No shocks. He was bouncy.....

And here was the engine that now lives in China:

Look better now?

cphilip · #25 01-30-2009, 11:24 PM

Sure that won't buff out Jimmy?

tami · #26 01-31-2009, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by winmutt

No one has beaten the lemons car yet. Comeone ppl where are those rat nests?

I do believe you're in the Pass working on one today??

Squiggle Dog · #27 03-04-2009, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by progun

Let's see some after pics of that Squiggle! What is this ALDA tubing of which you speak?

This is the car now. It's a great daily driver that drives like a new car.

charmalu · #28 03-04-2009, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmyL

Well, I guess somebody had to follow Philip.

Here was poor old Scar from the front

Not so bad eh?
Well.......

I actually drove him a few miles up and down the road. No shocks. He was bouncy.....

And here was the engine that now lives in China:

Look better now?

Jimmy, you know you are going to have to get the propper oil cap for the valve cover. that cock eyed gas cap doesn`t cut it

.

Nice clean engine

.

Charlie

pawoSD · #29 03-05-2009, 01:13 AM

I should have taken a pic of the 300CD I looked at last fall. It was VERY rusty and beaten.....it was a 1980 with a turbo motor transplant....the motor ran amazingly well, would have been a good donor car...they only wanted $1100....but I was looking for a nice car for my wife....so it was off the table.

Hopefully it ended up in good hands....

The guy selling it said there was an interesting man in the hills near him that has like 40 W123's......all stowed away....his wife left him because of his addiction to them!

So there might be 40+ very nice W123's stashed less than 15 miles from here.....the guy supposedly sells one every now and then...but will always "meet you" to make the deal, so no one can find where he keeps them all.

Chad300tdt · #30 03-05-2009, 08:13 AM

http://www.pieterhugo.com/nigeria/index.html