I don't have pictures of the engine but I did look at it and it didn't look tto bad. I honestly don't know how it should look at this age and mileage. I will take more pictures and hopefully someone can help me post them up here

Depending on how it's been treated, it can look worlds different. There's an SD for sale on this forum with a bit over 100K miles on it, that looks 5X worse than the engine compartment of my SD with 305K miles on it. Not all people care for their cars as I do, so it's unfair to use only what I have put miles on to contrast with. Actually, my Brother's 240D with 375K miles looked very similar to my 300K+ MB engine compartment. It's just how and where a car is stored, and how it's treated.

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'06 E320 CDI
'17 Corvette Stingray Vert

Okay, I'm keeping my fingers crossed on this one. It has been sitting outside most of the years. I heard while the original owner still drove it, he kept it mostly In a she'd then after he died it'd been under a tree ever since

One of the nicest 300Ds ive ever owned looked exactly like that when I went to look at it. You might be amazed as to whats under that dirt. The dirt in some ways can protect it. Could be a diamond, could not, but for 200 bucks, we aren't talking a big risk here.

Mine was a 83 grey market 300D, bright red, black cloth seats, ect. Looked horrible, moss and crap hanging off of it everywhere, 4 flat tires. Cleaned up, looked fantastic, had no rust on it. Still kicking myself about selling that car.

Traded the guy a small dirtbike for it initially. He wanted the car out of his woods, I didn't need a childs dirtbike, a match made in heaven.

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posting pictures is fairly easy.
however getting pictures that will upload like I did above is less so.
first the pictures have to be small. even the average cell phone camera takes pics too large for our forum to upload. so you need to upload them to either your computer and resize them so they will fit, or to a photo hosting site like picassa or photobucket or flicker or similar, then use the IMG link to post them to the yellow square icon above the message text area of this forum.
in the condensed sticky thread I saved a youtube video about hosting pictures and linking them to forums like this one.

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"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 560SL convertible
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
2005 Dodge Sprinter 2500 158"WB
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!