Dave, I beg to differ. The 190E guys often times put so much 500e stuff on their cars, that the next progression is a 500E, or 500E back to 190E.

Captruff had a 500E, then got a 190E. Cannoli had a 190E, got 500E. Glen had a 190E, got an E500, the list goes on, but those are the main guys that I can think of, plus usually they know the car. It can't hurt, but I think you have to have like 20 legitimate posts before making a classified ad, but that isnt too hard.

MBCA forum doesn't have a lot of traffic, but I would think that forum would be good for people looking for a 500E without many mods, and this 500E only has euro mods because it is a euro car, but if you have some extra money, that might be fine, but it seems like he is running a tight ship going through law school so I think the other venues are better right now.

Hmm, good point about the 190 site. Could be you'll find someone there.

Regardless of traffic at the MBCA site, I wouldn't want them involved in any way, shape, or form. They can keep their little club all to themselves, in the dark ages, the way they want it.

MBCA does have their own idea of what a club should be and it really doesn't include people under 50 or so. Their idea of a car show is bone stock cars, really, who wants to go to a show and look at bone stock W124's, R129's, W126's etc. The BMW CCA on the other hand, is totally opposite. MBCA wonders why they can't boost membership, haha

On a positive note, the last MBCA show I was at, my CLK placed 3rd in the late model class, which is very suprising given what I already stated about the club. I wonder if that would of happened if I wasn't a MBCA member?

Of course, 1st place was a bone stock 300ce, go figure.

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Wow I didn't know MBCA was that bad, I did think it was instantly lame that I had to pay to post in a web forum, but I guess they have to keep revenue coming in to maintain the site perhaps, but isn't that what banner ads are for?

I know I just need the right buyer, it's that kind of car, I just hope they come around soon.

I'm going to head over to that 190Rev site to see what I get, thanks for all the advice

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as I mention in the post it's a late 1991 build (October) and most of the features resemble 1992 cars. Several things were done to federalize it and although I've had trouble getting a complete list from the company that did the conversion it wouldn't suprise me if a drivers airbag was required to register it as a 1993 car (which is what is stated on the title of the car), but if you look I do have a glovebox on the passenger side and not an airbag as US cars did. The headlights were changed, clearly, from euro ones for federalization purposes. This car was originally sent to Belgium, as I've mentioned earlier, and it is indeed very European, everything under the hood is still in german, along with the cruise control and gearshift markings, it has a US gauge cluster fitted as required and when you open the gas filler lid it's all in German too.
The car is brilliant silver metallic, original paint, original paint code, much of the pics come out washed out of color because of my complete ineptitude to take a proper picture in Hawaiian sunlight.
Tomorrow I'll take some pics of the previously mentioned foreign language markings and post them up.

Geez, tough crowd Brodie!

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'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Nothing too bad, I'm just rather appalled that he joined this forum just to say that?

So, before I get the pic tomorrow, this will suffice:
1: Go here: http://old.mbclub.ru/mb/vin/?lng=eng
2: Enter this (my VIN): WDB1240361B490817
3: Check the box for "FULL VERSION"
4: Click "Search"
5: And then read the details, it's all there

Sorry, to ruffle the party; I just stumbled across your posting, Brodie, while I was searching for something else completely unrelated. I did not know there was a hazing period for the fraternity that had to be completed before I posted.

But your point about reading the details is a fair one; late at night, I skipped through the middle postings and missed it and went ahead with my ill-informed posting anyway. If you have that kind of paper trail, I am sure you will want to share that with your buyer. It did occur to me, however, that this was an export car that could have gone to another market such as somewhere in Asia. I think there were a few in Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. From there, it could have come into California.

I toyed with the idea of importing my 500E into the US in 1995 and was quoted $15-20K for the Fed Cert on top of transporation +/-$5K. This, when added on to $100K new cost, seemed unappealling when dealers had new '94 E500s sitting on showroom floors for <$85K. So, your assertion of rareness in the case of your car should be well justified.

In any event, 500Es are fine cars. I just drove from New York to San Francisco via Canada north of the Great Lakes (4500 miles) in a Bentley Continental GT and I would have rather done it in a 500E.

It's cool, I didn't mean anything by it, it's not like I have a massive post count either, I'm much more of a forum lurker. I was just surprised that it was your only posts, maybe I should be more honored.

But yes as you can see it is indeed a Euro market car, if it went to any other country between leaving Europe and going to US I'd be surprised, the car has been registered in Hawaii since 1993 when it received the final conversion at G&K in California.

But here's the pics as promised: (and I realized I need to vacuum my car again hahahah)
Behind Gas Lid


Under Gas Cap


Cruise Control Stalk



Gear Change Gate (my personal favorite)



Oh, and since I had some questions via email, yes, the AC has been converted, its a state law here

Furthermore, I would not be surprised if the "49" in your VIN means it was for the German market as my VIN equivalent digits is "44" for Great Britain, both the international dialing codes for the respective countries.

I am sure one of the readers of this forum can confirm or refute my guess on this.

So, eating humble pie all the way, I retract my naysays of yesterday.

True USA-spec 500E's will have the VIN start with "WDBEA36".

All non-USA spec 500E's will have the VIN start with "WDB124036".

The last 7 digits of the VIN are simply sequential chassis serial numbers... they increment to B999999, then roll to C000000, C000001, and so on. The A999999-B000000 roll happened around the 1990 model year, the B-C roll happened right around the end of 1993 or beginning of 1994 model year. But there is no logic built into the serial number indicating destination country, etc. That information is kept on file by MB though. View page 10 of this PDF file for more details on the USA VIN format.

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