If you're heading toward each other, how do you know it's a diesel until it passes you?

Jim

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14 E250 BlueTEC black. 45k miles
95 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 66k miles
94 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 152k miles
85 300TD 4 spd man, euro bumpers and lights, 15" Pentas dark blue 274k miles

For some reason, there are several W 123 240D doors, all the same color, in the same county here in Michigan . We wave when we see each other.

Whenever I drive any Citroen, I get honks, waves and an occasional question at the stop light.

Wonder what the reaction will be when I finish the Afrika-Korps style W 136 ! I'll have to find a beige officer's cap and goggles to go with it!

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Strelnik
Invest in America: Buy a Congressman!

1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

Someone posted a video of John Lovitz in a PreWar MB, a while back. Verry funny. I hope you don't have that experience.
Tom

Until I bought the Mercedes, no one (that I didn't know personally) had waved at me since I had a Jeep Wrangler. Back then, anyone with a CJ/Wrangler would wave as they passed me. The other day I was in the Mercedes and a girl on the back of a motorcycle waved at me. I don't think there is another like mine around, so I don't think she mistook me for someone else. It's a decent looking car, but not anything that really stands out. Weird.

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'87 300D Anthracite

I tend to wave. .

and this weekend I ended to talking to two M-B owners. first guy was in a 1992 300E, I pulled in right next to him. And then he asked "what year is that one??" I told him 87 and his eyes got big. Even though he was in a gasser we told me he used to drive diesels. . knew all about the 3.0L only in 87. . used to have a 91 300D. . nice guy.

next guy was also in a gasser but this time a 1990 300S.. . .(the W126 with a straight 6)

REALLY nice car. E-codes, 17inch AMG mono-blocks. . .nice ride

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87' 300DT (Grey w/ red leather)
87' 300TDT (silver w/ palamino tex) SOLD

2012 VW JSW TDI (on tdiclub.com all the time "btcost")

'79 mercy
What color is that, because i really think your benz is sharp.

I waved at a guy in a W123 in spring lake MI today, he did not wave back.....because he was BRUSHING HIS TEETH while driving! Amazing.

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'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

Thank you, Its called English Red color code 504

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1985 300TD Turbo Euro-wagon
1979 280CE 225,200 miles
1985 300D Turbo 264,000 miles
1976 240D 190,000 miles
1979 300TD 220,000

GONE but not forgotten
1976 300D 195,300 miles
1983 300D Turbo 175,000 miles

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...e485-1-2-1.jpg

Of course . . . if it is the same color I flash my lights too . . . even if it is not a diesel!

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82 240D Manual 277K and still rolling!
02 Volvo S60 AWD For Sale

80 model owners and new R class will wave.But newer ones all stick their noses up.

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran

I've just relocated from Texas to North Carolina and I've been waved at a few times! I am not used to it -- even though everyone waves at everyone in Texas -- and am late getting my hand in the air. But I like it a lot, I'm glad people notice. I'm going to try to be first more often now...

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1980 300SD 220,xxx
somewhere, nc

It depends on what part of Texas you're in. In big cities like Dallas and Houston, a wave will get you a confusing look. If you're on a dirt road in Leon County, you'll get plenty of waves, regardless of what you're driving.

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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.

welcome to NC! (wave)

I wave to 126's and older although 123's and older drivers tend to be the one's who wave back. There are a couple 123's, with older owners, that I see often and wave every time. After about the fifth time of me waving, they now wave back.

Being a Jeep Wrangler owner (where you wave at every Willys/CJ/YJ/TJ you pass), having grown up in a boating family (where you waved at every boat you passed) and a Corvette family (where you wave at every one you passed) it just seemed like a logical progression. It's also somewhat interested that when passing other cars on the farm roads around here, everybody seems to wave at each other regardless of what your driving, even though no one waves while driving on the pavement unless they know each other.

My experience has been the vast majority of TJ drivers will return, or initiate, the wave but very few JK drivers do. There have been some interesting threads on some Jeep forums as to whether you should even wave to JK owners or not, whether or not they were "real" Jeeps. Of course, there was the same discussion when the TJ's rolled out since they had coil springs.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

*wave!*

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1980 300SD 220,xxx
somewhere, nc