the action was so fast i wasn't sure which one it was! didn't it get a full on side impact in the movie too?

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198? 300D ???K - Future DD
1989 300TE 285K - traded in '12
1984 300SD 186K - Sold in 08
1978 300SD 330K - Died in 05

were those mbz or bimmers?

also what was that bond movie where he is driving a tank and rolling over cars? i don't remember if that was pierce brosnan.

The added in fake smoke when the car was doing its 270 degree spin..
But the burnout is real
They really throw that car around in that chase scene...the back end is all over the place.
Impressive nontheless..
there is one of those cars sitting over on the other side of town in a front yard..
wonder if they would take 10 bucks for it

I just saw "Meet the Fockers" today. In the first scene where they pull up to the Fockers driveway in the bus, there is a nice W123 sitting there.

The late great John Frankenheimer put a 6.9 in Ronin because it was his favorite car. I think this was mentioned in an interview on the DVD.

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I saw that too!! That was awesome!! I almost yelled out....go 123's!!! But I restrained myself.

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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 don't doubt it...it gave that w116 a lot of movie magic praise..
Nothing says "I like this car" like having it do a 270 degree spin in reverse

GOod to know our sunroofs are useful for 'other' activites

In the movie S.W.A.T., there is a scene where a bus is carrying some dangerous prisoners to another prison, and in one frame, there is a white 124 driving in front of the bus. Not sure if it was diesel or gasser, but the body and color was my car exactly. It was by far the most exciting part of the movie for me.

In this movie called "Brown Sugar", there's two W123s in it, a good looking 300TD in a flashback to the year 1983 since I'm sure they never sold 240TD or gasser wagons here, and a 300CDT, parked on the street behind a guy being interviewed.
-Joe

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

There's a birth control commercial out, I'm not sure which brand, in which an analogy is made between finding the 'right' pill and finding the 'right' boy. The protagonist is shown on dates with various wrong men, and then we see her happily laughing with the 'right' boy (which I guess means she'll soon need those littlepills)... and the boy of choice appears to be driving a w116 or w123 -- i.e. the right car

The right boys always drive W123s... if only so many of the young ladies here could figure that out. They think it's all about the W140s and W220s now.
-Joe

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

Didn't Stephanie Powers drive a 300 diesel wagon in the series Hart to Hart?

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I remember that! Along with that yellow W107 they had.
-Joe

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

Naomi Watts drives a Black W123 300TD Wagon with limo-tint in the indie film We Dont Live Here Anymore, which was released this past summer. There are considerable amounts of footage that include the car. The Film also stars Mark Ruffalo. Check out the official We Dont Live Here Anymore websiter for the trailer, in which the 300TD is being driven in, walked away from, etc.

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Nate

1995 E420
1992 BMW 525i
1984 300D Turbo sold
1993 Volvo 244 sold
1995 Volvo 944T R.I.P!


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'Blow' a movie from 2000 or 2001, Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz, the scene where Johnny Depp gets shot in the shoulder. The bad-guy Colombians drive up to the motel (where our hero is waiting to do a drug deal) in a diesel Benz, you can clearly hear the 'clatta-clatta' on the soundtrack. It's either a W116 or a W123.

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1978 300SD 149K miles silver-blue "Maxine" (mine!)
1979 300SD 318K miles red "Helga" (SOLD)
1980 300SD 321K miles yellow "Linda" (younger daughter's)
1980 300SD 148K miles blue (SOLD)
1980 300SD 153K miles green(parts car, SOLD)
Yes, I have a W116 fetish :-)