Put the money in an escrow account or hire me on a retainer to do an ongoing/custom search for you until we find something that meets your criteria. I have already matched many people together with unpublished, unadvertised cars and certainly don't need to work for you for free.

It is "highly unreasonable and unrealistic" for you to think forum members are going to feed you high quality, unpublished leads out of the goodness of their heart.

I have YEARS of customer contacts, including heads of multiple Mercedes clubs, a large customer contact list and personal relationships with multiple shop owners in southern california. If that is not of value to you, then good luck.

Since you only want a dark color and you haven’t put up a price range I will not approach my friend. She has a 1989 that was her late husband’s, it’s white and probably has 35,000 miles on it by now.

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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.

Upod - e mail sent - we can speak and see if/what.

Kooop - would like to know the price on the 35k mile car if for sale - thanks.