Hope it does well!!


https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1983-mercedes-benz-300td-turbo-8/

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Fairport, NY
1973 Unimog 416 Doka
1980 Unimog 416 Doka
1981 Unimog 416 Doka
1984 Euro 280CE w/diesel conversion
1985 300TD Estate wagon
(I really need to stop buying these things!)
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Good presentation. Hope it does well for you. Buying any 123 type without a serious prior inspection seems common on that particular site. Probably people that have never owned a 123d before in a lot of cases. Actually any older car should undergo one.


There are six days to go. We could speculate on what we think it might bring. I would not even attempt to guess at it. It may be a good time though with so much money being pulled out of the stock market. It is suspected that some of it flows into older cars. In past times when this happens.

Beautiful car!

Unimogs!!

The idle is set so high on the wagon that it is slow to return to idle, which is not good. I would adjust that. Proper idle is about 650-700rpm for the 617.

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'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

I've been looking forward to seeing this listed just so I could drool over photos of it. The restoration turned out great. Good luck with the auction.

Nice car

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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.

Agreed, definitely not returning to ogle correctly and is set way to high

Clearly a lot of work was done. I think it will get picked apart for inconsequential stuff that will keep it out of the 20k club though.

I couldn't figure out why the rear carpet is the wrong shade of blue?

It will probably need dash pods, a steering box, and some suspension bushings and half shafts soon.

Seems like you could have done better by sorting out the few cosmetic things like sourcing a used matching seat cover and fixing the headliner, putting a 3rd seat in, etc. People are so picky about that stuff.

And I think even 12k is sort of high without a rebuilt transmission. So I hope you unload it if that bid is real.

GLWTS

ouch, what a letdown. I expected more after the last few record-breakers on there.

you have this on your wed site for half what you sold to me. why

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I examined quite a few listings out of curiosity. On bring a trailer. Seemed to be a lot of car dealers and flippers. Not all of course. Yet a much higher percentage than one should expect.

At the same time extreme caution is advised. There will be a lot of buyers getting far less than what they thought. On this site. I for example found a car that I might have been interested in.

All of a sudden the bidding took a quantum leap. No additional bidding took place before that other than an opening bid. Now the car is delisted. Perhaps the vendor took the higher bid if it was not a shill one. Or after he upped the bid there appeared to be no further interest. So he pulled the listing. Who knows?

What do people expect in this current used car market? Prices have fallen way down except for some car dealers that probably correctly think. There are still people unaware of this. Certainly I will pay a premium above the current true much lower current market prices for a vehicle. The premium has to be based on realities at the same time. Plus the car has to be critically examined first.

Many fairly decent cars used cars are sitting in dealer inventories for well over 100 days here. Eventually being dumped for little at the car auctions. Even prices there seen to be falling as supply exceeds demand except for one or two brands.

There was a rumor that some if not many new car dealers may be closing down some time back. Unless something changes quickly I expect this could happen. The new depreciation rates on cars has become a real issue on leasing them. Plus financial firms that hold the paper on the ones that are sold. Must be getting some concerns.

This thing was just the wrong color blue more than anything. That is not the factory china.

Any particular reason you felt the need to necromance a 10 month old thread?

The bidding ended!

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Looks pretty nice. Up to 14K already.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I’ve never understood why people get so pissed off about resurrecting a thread. If you want to make a relevant comment, no matter how old, I say do it. If no one cares, it’ll die again...

Because it's a reply to an auction that has long closed, adding nothing to the topic but continuing a conversation that has long since past clogging up more recent topics.

It doesn't piss me off but that's why others get annoyed.

I'll necromance a thread to a problem I'm having with a relevant thread bump if i have a question or point to make for others searching.

I'm genuinely curious as to the process that lead to finding this thread and bumping it.

So atypicalguy, how did you find this and why did you bump the thread?

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