I have a somewhat opposite problem. I have a 1980 300D that is in excellent condition. I bought it in 1997 from a good friend who bought it new. He was 90 years old. He had just put a factory new transmission in it. It had 140,000 miles then. It has 180,000 now. I have a diesel Isuzu that is my daily driver. I replaced the lower control arms, the rotors, the calipers, the tie rods, the flex discs, the evil servo, the ac compressor (last year) and much more. It runs and drives beautifully. (The evil servo appears to have gone bad again.)

Here is the problem. I have it here where I live in southern Mexico on a six month visa. Every six months I have to drive it down to the Guatemala border and renew the car visa. The current visa runs out in April. I am going to get rid of the car. If nothing transpires I will just drive it over the border to Guatemala and sell it to the first person who has money in his pocket for whatever I can get.

I am 72 years old. After a lifetime of messing around with old cars I have finally gotten sick and tired of them.

Richard

Where are you located? It would be a fun road trip for me to bring it back to TN. How difficult would it be crossing the border headed North?

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85SD 240K & stopped counting painted, putting bac together. 84SD 180,000. sold to a neighbor and member here but I forget his handle. The 84 is much improved from when I had it. 85TD beginning to repair to DD status. Lots of stuff to do.