That's odd. Anyone know why?

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

Talk about clean and OVERPRICED!!!

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Current Garage
2008 Mercedes GL320 CDI 188k mi Repair/Work in progress
1994 S350 160k mi Garage Queen & prepping for repairs
2005 E320 CDI 203k mi Healthy & Daily Driver
1994 S350 357k mi Retried as parts car
1984 300TD 214k mi Blown OM617 Poss OM603 Swap??

Sold
1987 300SDL 200K+
1994 S320 181K mi
2008 E320 Bluetec 127k mi
1999 S420 130K mi
1980 240D 360k mi
15+ Others that has come, stay and gone

GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
1995 E320 SE 220k mi
1984 300SD 350k mi

because they had the 6 cylinder 280se(l)...which was also available with a 5 speed.

europe and nearly every other country BUT the US could have whatever they wanted with their MB purchase. you could have a sunroofless, hand crank windowed, manual heated, hub capped wheeled luxury s class for all they cared over there.

the diesel thing was for taxi w124 and w201. you dont want a w126 to be a taxi do ya?

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Allen Kroliczek
Oak Grove Autosport | Oak Grove Autosport
01 G500, 82 300TD, quite a few more.....

Those 3 units built in 1979 would not have had a OM603 though. The first W126s with OM603s weren't built until 1985.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

The Europeans finally got hip to the notion of diesel S-classes when the W140 diesel became available for their markets, and we haven't had a new diesel S-class sold on our shores ever since. Funny how diesel S-clases have gone from US only to Euro only models, I guess the Europeans want all of those S-class diesels all to themselves now huh?

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

Indeed, another Nitske typo... they probably had the 617A's anyway. And those 3 units are likely prototype or test models as well.

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I doubt they had NA's because the 116 SD had the 617 turbo.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

S definitely does not stand for turbocharged.

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1983 240D 3.0T 4-speed manual, now sold

1989 Subaru GL Wagon 5-speed Touring Edition

i guess i'm not the only one that noticed. lol.

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Allen Kroliczek
Oak Grove Autosport | Oak Grove Autosport
01 G500, 82 300TD, quite a few more.....

617A = 617 aspirated

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2005 Northeast GTG and 2005 Mid-Atlantic GTG and Summer '09 Central FL GTG on YouTube