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Old 03-18-2004, 11:09 AM
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until rust do us part.1980 300sd

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Old 03-18-2004, 11:43 AM
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Until some idiot hits me in rush hour traffic. That's the real reason I own these beasts.
If that's the case for me I'd be looking for a turbo :-)

I'm curious as to how many miles I will rack up on my E300
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Old 03-18-2004, 12:23 PM
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Until some idiot hits me in rush hour traffic.

Until some idiot hits me in rush hour traffic.
If the body goes first, I'll pull the engine/trans and have a something to play with.
For as long as it will be technically and financially possible.
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Old 03-18-2004, 12:46 PM
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All of my three W123's have AT LEAST another

ten years of daily driving (100k) left in them before a major refit...barring accidents. These are the last great all-mechanical cars ever to be built, and were designed to be maintained, not used up and disposed of. Don't expect the looks of these cars to become any more dated than the cut of a Brooks Brothers suit from the same era, and still giving good service.

Still have a '49 Packard (owned since early '80s) and a '73 VW beetle convertible bought new...neither of these cars is of the "disposable" ilk, either.

I repeat the lesson from childhood learned from "Mike Mulligan and his (Maryanne) Steam Shovel": "...and Mike took such good care of Maryanne that she never grew old."
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Old 03-18-2004, 12:47 PM
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Until Death do us part, etc.:

I'm into the '60s already, so the '85 300TD is quite likely to outlast me, at least as my daily driver, short distance car. Old Smoky just turned 333,333 yesterday (I took a picture of the odo, but there's a lot of glare from the flash). The only thing that might change this scenario is if someone shows up with the world's cleanest BMW 524TD and offers to swap even up.
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Old 03-18-2004, 05:14 PM
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My 1981 300SD has been a Northern California car all its life so there is no rust on it and it has 137,000 miles. Iplan on keeping it until I can no longer find parts to keep it going.
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Old 03-18-2004, 05:42 PM
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A friend of mine drove a 1968 VW bug for 34 years. Probably had 500,000 + miles on it. He just kept rebuilding or replacing things untill it was totaled on a SoCal freeway.
Now he has an 85 300CD. Unless someone runs over it, not much telling how long he will keep it.
I'm looking forward to a nice long life for my 84 300D too.
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Old 03-18-2004, 05:56 PM
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Mine's a dream. Not perfect, but not far off. I'm fickle, but I'm afraid I'd have to sell the truck I've been loving for the last 4 years before I'd sell mein golden fraulein. They're SO easy to work on... I R&R'd the tranny in the driveway _by myself_. That rules. My long term expectation is also what made me bypass the ACC servo and add a valve. I've also added a second, heated fuel system so I can pour in veg oil in the debt of winter. Muahaha.

Yo, OPEC: YOU CAN'T TOUCH THIS! Muahaha.

Cheers! Long live our MBZD's!!!
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Old 03-18-2004, 06:13 PM
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I'm with Driad_98! I bought the '84 300D on Ebay for $800 to use as my test mule for WVO. That was 40,000 miles ago - just turned 409,000 and the darned thing just gets better and faster..might be that vegetarian diet.

So, the kid just got it as his first car and I get the "new" '83 300 SD. It's absolutely spotless in and out and only has 302,000 on it...It'll be a vegetarian in a few weeks too. Why pay OPEC when you can grow the fuel here...?
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Old 03-18-2004, 06:24 PM
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Yehaw!
There's a coop here in Berkeley that's about to start selling filtered WVO for $1 a gallon. What a relief. I HATE filtering the crap. Go man, go!

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Old 03-18-2004, 06:45 PM
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I always comment to my wife that I will never buy another car. I have wanted an SDL for the longest time and mine is now about 90 mechanically perfect. I am going to get the IP pulled to fix a leak behind it and get it calibrated while it's out. Then it will be ready for a paint job, although it still looks good.

I do not like buying cars and making payments. When the I pay off her 2000 Jeep Cherokke, she has been told that she'll run it into the ground. We are real good about maintenance and at 90,000 miles, it runs great.

Sorry about the Jeep info, but I'll never sell my SDL.
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Old 03-18-2004, 08:38 PM
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Just bought my first MBZ, an '84 300D with 250,000 miles on the clock. I plan on keeping it for at least another 250,000, or until I can get a high-quality german diesel car that gets 45+ mpg on biodiesel and costs under $25k. Hopefully, that'll be sooner than I think, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Old 03-18-2004, 08:53 PM
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1) until it rusts out and the cost of getting it repaired is too much
2) until it gets into an accident not worth repairing
3) until i get a better MB.. ehhehe
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Old 03-18-2004, 09:28 PM
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I'll keep mine until it's either too expensive to fix or it gets totalled. Hopefully that will be a looooong time from now. Long live the Mercedes Diesel!
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Old 03-18-2004, 09:29 PM
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I'll just keep mine until it ends up costing me too much to fix.

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