Beautiful cars, all!
I have an 83 300D sedan, dark blue, iwith 245000 miles, never rebuilt, original trans., runs super great. Love it! Just bought 4 new Michelins today & expect to wear them bald before anything major breaks.
What is this monovalve thing that Roadracer refers to? My EC works poorly & I am looking for improvements.
By the way, the stock alloy wheels look better than anything aftermarket. Too bad about the black crap that the brakes deposit on them, though.

Here's an old picture of it. It just came out of a body shop then rot-less... That I guess explains the shiny wheel and tires. I agree that the wheels look good. They are just a pain to clean.

I would love to have a set of mint BBS RS though... in 8x16 or something like that. My dad's 280E had those and I loved the way the wheels looked even though I hated the car back then.



Now the car has a long scratch on the driver's side thanks to some drunk fool...

I don't know why I love these old cars so much. Just Mercedes though. I don't even like the newer ones soo much. (I'd rather have a BMW or something)

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You think the "bundt cake" rims are hard to keep clean, those BBS wheels don't look to be any easier to keep clean.

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1983 300SD 250,000 miles and still goin strong

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W126 1983 300SD 286,000 miles and ticking
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Recent work:
Replaced air cleaner mounting brackets and heat shields
Replaced alternator, fan and power steering belts
Replaced positive battery terminal
Replaced negative battery terminal and cord
New Duralast Battery

My car needs work.

Yeah, I know they are :p However I do love the classic BBS looks. The 8-hole wheels or the AMG Monoblocks would be very easy to clean. However, I do not really know how good they look on a W123.

My 87 300SDL just turned over 90k miles today.

My 86 has 325k and my oldest daughter just took it from Nebraska to Texas for two weeks.

Wonderful cars!

Yes I do. A 1980 450 SLC 19700 miles and a 1989 260 E with unknown mileage (broken odo) stopped at 87k about 2 years ago.

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1989 260E >105K
1980 450 SLC 22k

Nice thread, can't let it grow mold.
I drive a 1985 300SD, every day.

Notice that this is a vintage 2002 thread.

Wow! I remember this thread.

The 300D now has 272000 miles on it. The only thing replaced since the last post 2 years ago was a ball joint.

Just amazing! Even my girlfriends' Accord cannot claim that kind of reliability record.

Never in my life.

Newer is always better. People are fools to buy used. A car is just something to dispose of in a few years and move on. Might as well take advantage of the special leasing rates that even MB has been instigating.

.....And I'm a schizophrenic!

1980 300 TD I got a year ago - Repaired the odometer 3 months ago; now it reads 230,000. Last month my friend gave me a twin with slipping transmission (3 year-old rebuilt). I haven't done anything with it yet. Odometer is at 391,000.

Well I'm really happy to keep this thread going ,, '82 300D with 350k is wifes daily driver , 50 miles per day.
'88 300sel with 212k ,, oh , right , its not a diesel , still a beautiful car though
Actually ,, my favorite is my shop truck .. something just feels SO right when I'm tooling down the road in the '40 Chevy pickup ......... I get transported away into a different world

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1979 300SD W116...117,000 miles..........use it a lot in the summer, but it sits out the winter. Gets started and run for 30 minutes every week. But kept off the salt covered street.

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Take a look at this one.
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Can you e-mail pictures of the Chevy?

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