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!

Too far. After getting stuck in traffic, I spent around 6 hours on the road for a flywheel & adapter plate...that's now in storage

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$60 OM617 Blank Exhaust Flanges
$110 OM606 Blank Exhaust Flanges
No merc at the moment

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!

My Steve Martin adventure was from buying a car off Ebay in West Palm Beach, FL. Found a cheap plane ticket from Atlanta. Got up in the morning and drove from TN to Atl and left the car with the daughter who was in school at GT. Walked over to the Marta station (they were still partying in the streets at 5:00 am) and caught the train to the airport. Seller met me at the WPB airport. Test drove the car and confirmed it was as advertised. Signed papers and traded cash. Drove north and was home right at dark time. Planes, trains, and automobiles.

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You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime you just might find you get what you need.

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

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

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1995 E420 Schwarz
1995 E300 Weiss
#1987 300D Sturmmachine
#1991 300D Nearly Perfect
#1994 E320 Cabriolet
#1995 E320 Touring
#1985 300D Sedan
OBK #42

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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