Washed it today and took some pics. One pic of the dash. I have two very small cracks, about one inch long, starting at the temp sensor - otherwise the dash is OK. Have used Armorall on it all these years. Lot of folks diss Armorall but it has worked pretty well for me. Original owner.

Beautiful car. The W126 is a really nice design, and I've always admired that exterior color.

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Christopher
'06 Mercedes E350 station wagon (silver/black)
'85 Mercedes 300D (black pearl/palomino)
'85 Mercedes 300SD (smoke silver/burgundy)
'79 Cadillac Sedan DeVille

'05 Toyota Camry (because always running is nice)

'85 Mercedes 300D sold back to orig. owner 8-1-06
'84 Volvo 264GL Diesel, owned 2000-2013

Agree. Told wife I would give it up when it stopped running; that was fifteen years or so ago. She is still waiting. Just amazing; it starts in about one second - every time. My son bought a 2014 E350 and it has a lot of buttons and whistles but I question whether it will still be running thirty five years later.

Armor All is fine. Just don't stop using it.

Sixto
83 300SD

Midnight Blue?

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1981 240D Four on the floor, Orient Red over Parchment, bought with 154,000 but it's a daily driver and up to 180,000 miles, mostly original paint and all original interior.

Wow Tyler you got a nice SD there. How many miles on it? Let me know when you want to get rid of it.

Nice. Really good color combo

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1983 300 Turbo-"Nora"
1983 240D Auto "Lucia"-slowest on earth-1st love
1985 300 Turbo-Blue Goose-slowly plucking parts

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What a beauty! Love the color, too

Very nice car, I used to have a midnight blue 300SD but it had a blue vinyl interior (yuck). Is that the auto climate control sensor I see on the top of the dash? What build month is your car? My '81 300SD is a 7/81 build and has the sensor up by the dome light.

Build date is 1/81. Yes climate temp sensor is in the dash. Guess they moved it pretty fast. It is dark blue; not sure the name of the color.