After being MB-less for 18 months, a forum member threw in the towel when his '83 SD lost its tranny. It's ice blue silver over gray leather in great condition - the leather, the paint less so - with functioning R-12 AC(!) so it followed me home. Actually, it followed our Suburban home on a dolly, the 'burb 6.5 turning all of 1200 rpm the 12 miles home. Seeing as we pushed it onto the dolly with the tranny in P and the PO says it failed with a bang suggests the tranny is toast. Dang, I should have towed it at speed, then Time to go 722.303 shopping...

Sixto
83 300SD, Jr. 249K miles