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looks like your the only one who has beat me. but has anyone beat my price?
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don't laugh guys, two months ago bought 1st one, 84 300DT . I'm only 69 and having a ball with it,ha,ha. Thanks to the Forum Bubbazook2 :
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I graduated from LSU in '68 and like most of my friends, got a "green suit, a gun and a foriegn vacation" from my uncle. Instead of the jungle tour, I got sent to a Nike Hercules battery in Landau Germany. It was great! We were paid well as officers, the Mark was 4 to 1 and the German people were wonderful so we lived very well. When I got to the battery I bought a 63 VW from the next guy to rotate out and started driving around.
The VW was very economical but it was so underpowered and such a deathtrap I decided in the interest of staying alive to get something faster and safer. I went down to the Mercedes dealer in Karlsruhe and bought a 63 300SE Coupe for $2500. It had been a $13,000 car 6 years earlier but was a white elephant on the German used car market because it cost so much to put a tag on it. It was the coolest car any of us had ever seen at the time! It had originally been an executive car for a paper company in Hamburg and although it had about 100K miles it had a new motor so it ran like a bat outta hell. Air suspension, Burl walnut, leather interior, sunroof and a stick shift. At 100 MPH it felt like you were doing 50! What a ride! I was 24 at the time. I shipped it back to the states when I came home in "71 and kept it for about a year. All told I drove the car about 60K miles and my only expenses were routine stuff. I sold it for $2600 to a guy who was going to fix it up. I might have kept the car except that I didnt have anywhere to work on it and parts were not very available at a reasonable price for it at the time. If it had been a 280SE coupe without the air suspension and a more common motor I might have been able to cope with it. The only flaw it had was that it had some rust from all of the salt they put on the roads over there and being from N'awlins I was not very alert to that. I had to let go of it. Unfortunately, the new owner was driving it around in a heavy rainstorm a couple of months later and got in some high water in an underpass and sucked some in the engine putting it in a hydraulic bind. The last time I saw it was in a junkyard a couple of years later where it was rusting away and sinking into the ground.
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I was 36 year old when I purchased my first Benz.
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Hmm, 1985 300SD, spring 2001
That would have made me a ripe old 52... Why'd I wait so long???? Best Regards, Jim Last edited by Jim H; 09-23-2004 at 09:11 PM. |
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15, i got a mint 300sd about 2 weeks ago, bad engine, in the middle of an engine swap, Cost me 300$!! beat that. The new engine was 400$ shipped.
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i was 19 (march 2004) when i bought my first and im sure it wont be my last
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Seth, 2 parts egg, 4 parts flour, 1 part salt and 6 parts 55 Cetane diesel fuel 1965 corvair monza convertable 1984 euro 300D 4 speed (NO LEATHER, ALL MANUAL)100,000 miles Thank god the ford is gone |
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the 240D was my first. bought it October 2003, almost had it for a year.
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Pontons- the Pontons were cool, but I had two that sponaneously burst into flame in the engine compartment. Still, anyone who owned one probably has some fond memories. When you hit the turn indicator the one on the top of the fender would cast a pulsing amber light into the car, and the highbeam indicator was blue- just the thing for two-laning it in the country with no streetlights.
The 180D had a listed top speed of 62 mph and that was no joke. It would do 60 all day, but 65 it would not do. They all rusted badly in the rocker panels in Seattle's climate. |
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Interesting subject, we bought the 450 when I was 10 (almost 6 years ago) and its been essentially my car as I was the only one to touch it. I put countless hours into her and torn apart nearly every system, except for the cruise. What a PITA those early vacuum controls were. Now I'm looking for a 300D to call my own. Technically first benz soon at 15, unofficially the 450 at age 10.
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39 in 2002; 85 300SD
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39. Not sure if the first one should have been a charity one, but I'm having some fun and frustrations trying to get it to run again. Got it a few months ago, and it's trying, but still not starting. Only after that can I check the trans, brakes, and all of that other stuff that you actually need to drive it.
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I was 17 in 2003 bought a 83' 300SD. At first look I thought it was some old Benz, but after owning it, I feel in love. Huge tank and nice ride.
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