Bought Milo, my 92 300D and my first MB, back in 2003, with 137,000 miles on it for $5900. Nothing wrong with it....lady who owned it simply wanted to get an Acura MDX.

Knew absolutely nothing....I remember complaining to Firestone that they forgot to change my oil because if was still black! And I remember thinking that, now that I owned a Mercedes, I wouldn't have to worry about car repairs as much!! haha (It replaced a Honda Accord.)

Had thought I would keep it forever....and invested in it accordingly. But things change....and, my wife's current 3 MB limit being a reasonable cap, I had to sell Milo to make room for Winston.

My only consolation is it is staying within the extended family....will be my best friend's son's daily driver. Just graduated college, got married, begins a teaching job in the fall....will drive Milo for his 45 minute commute.

I'm sure I'm not the only one around here who ended up selling his sentimentally-attached-to first Benz. It was my daily driver, then my daughter's, the mine again, the my son's. For 120,000 miles it served our family well.

Milo spent it's first eleven years in Bucks County, PA, then moved to TX with me, then to RI....now it heads back to Bucks County!

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14 E250 Bluetec 4Matic "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 154k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 172k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver on Tan, 142k mi, wastegate conversion, ALDA delete

19 Honda CR-V EX 61k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

... Sure. My first MB was the infamous 9 second 82 SD I had to give it away to a good friend who helped me clear my yard for the city... I see it often, and I'm the only wrench it ever sees.

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"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 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Imagine how I feel now that I am offering my 240D up for sale that I've owned since Day 1 and put every one of it's 350K miles on it (my wife helped a little). You can really bond with a car after 30-some years and doing nearly all of the work on it. You kind of get to know it pretty well.

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Len
'59 220S Cabriolet-SOLD and living happily in Malta
'83 240D 351,500 miles original owner-SOLD
'88 560SL 41,000 miles - totaled and parted out
https://sites.google.com/site/mercedesstuff/home
'99 E300 turbo 227,500 miles
'03 SLK320 40,000 miles - gave to my daughter
'14 Smart electric coupe 28,500 miles
'14 Smart electric cabriolet 28,500 miles
'15 Smart electric coupe 28,000 miles

Are you selling it after all?

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"Senior Luna, your sense of humor is still loco... but we love it, anyway." -rickymay ____ "Your sense of humor is still loco... " -MBeige ____ "Señor Luna, your sense of humor is quite järjetön" -Delibes

1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

Well, I'll put it this way. I have it listed for sale along with my ponton. It just makes no sense to me to have four cars with two drivers who hardly drive anymore. But I really don't want to sell any of them, but I need to be a little bit practical.

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Len
'59 220S Cabriolet-SOLD and living happily in Malta
'83 240D 351,500 miles original owner-SOLD
'88 560SL 41,000 miles - totaled and parted out
https://sites.google.com/site/mercedesstuff/home
'99 E300 turbo 227,500 miles
'03 SLK320 40,000 miles - gave to my daughter
'14 Smart electric coupe 28,500 miles
'14 Smart electric cabriolet 28,500 miles
'15 Smart electric coupe 28,000 miles

Wow....now THAT would be difficult.

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14 E250 Bluetec 4Matic "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 154k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 172k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver on Tan, 142k mi, wastegate conversion, ALDA delete

19 Honda CR-V EX 61k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

I hear ya, but the money saved by moving an old car out is preferable to the drain of insurance, annual license tags, battery costs, maintenance, more parts breaking, etc. After I sold my C3 Corvette, 35 years ago, I have mostly had just one car. It's way, way cheaper......and that's always been the deciding factor.

That's me too nowadays, Len. I put only 2,700 miles in one year on the used 06 E320 CDI I bought in SanAntonio last year. 400 of those miles were driving it back home after buying it!

For the last five years or so it is not unusual for me to fill up the 240D once a year. Many years it's been driven 500 miles or less. The ponton isn't far behind.

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Len
'59 220S Cabriolet-SOLD and living happily in Malta
'83 240D 351,500 miles original owner-SOLD
'88 560SL 41,000 miles - totaled and parted out
https://sites.google.com/site/mercedesstuff/home
'99 E300 turbo 227,500 miles
'03 SLK320 40,000 miles - gave to my daughter
'14 Smart electric coupe 28,500 miles
'14 Smart electric cabriolet 28,500 miles
'15 Smart electric coupe 28,000 miles

My first car is currently sitting in a Volvo P1800 specialist's yard. It has had extensive rust repair, bodywork and paint. Still miss that car dearly, but who knows... maybe one day I'll purchase it back.

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[GONE] - 1995 Mercedes E300 Diesel - 130k miles - Smoke Silver (702) over Mushroom leather (265) - Bladder blasting, coast-to-coast work machine.