I drove 200 miles twice for 300 gals of wvo

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran, deutschland deutschland uber alles uber alles in der welt

A few years ago my wife and I drove from Long Beach, Ca to Albuquerque, New Mexico .... about 800 miles / one night hotel stay / 800 miles back for a $500 random assortment of ponton parts that 1/2 filled my Jeep Grand Cherokee. At the time even I questioned my sanity for taking such a crazy trip but over the past few years many of the parts I needed for restoration that were not available from MBZ or would cost more than $1,000 from the Classic Center I found in that pile I picked up in New Mexico .... so these days I think I'm a genius!

I drove round the whole bloody country to find transmission parts for my 722.118...

...but the country that I live in is probably smaller than all of the US states - so in American terms I didn't drive very far. Though in American terms the traffic was really really crap - in American terms the traffic here is always really really crap!

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I actually bought my 300D sight unseen off eBay. The price was right and it came with a 3" binder full of paperwork (the PO kept everything from maintenance records to the original shipping manifest). The seller was quick to send me any information or pictures I requested; a week or so later I flew down to Dallas, paid the man, and drove her home to DC.

Will

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'85 300D 'Sabine' 190,000 miles - my DD
'86 560SEL 'Grey Ghost' 110,000 miles SOLD
'87 BMW 635 CSi 'CFO' 130,000 miles SOLD

You ended up with a very nice one too.

400 miles round-trip from Alexandria to the Virginia-Beach Pick-N-Pull. But I'm visiting my weekend home there in Virginia Beach, just about every month anyway, so I don't know if it counts.

Happy Motoring, Mark

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Atl to Biloxi for Project Nightmare.... Put about $4k into that before I sold it for $1.

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