Okay, this has always been a thing with me.

When I owned my 1986 300E it had, I think, 3 previous owners but I had the records and address of the first owner. He lived in San Juan Capistrano, California which is a pretty nice area. Looked him up and turned out he still lived there. I always wanted to drive over there knock on the door and be like "Hey, do you remember driving a 300E" or something along the lines of that, then he go out to the front and see it.

Personally, if someone did that with me 30 years from now with my 240D I'd think that would be so cool. I know everyone thinks differently but I'd like to know what happened to the car I drove 20 years ago.

Since I have all records of this 220D I always wanted to do that, problem is I know the original owner died already, I have the craigslist ad and the mans son writes: "This is a 1970 220-D that belonged to my dad" I wanted to go by the house but it is and has been a PO Box the entire time they owned the car. The son listed his phone number and i've always been so temped to call and let them know the car is in good hands and that it's running again. But never have. I google mapped the PO Box to at least go to the post office it's at so the 220 could see it's past home one last time. I know the man that owned it took care of it due to the condition it was in. He even wrote the PO Box and his name on the hubcap in case it fell off someone could mail it back lol Names on it were "Gunter A R or Pauline"

I wish he was still alive so he could see his car running again and looking it's best. What keeps me from calling his son, his name is "Roger" is I don't want to spark like sad feelings or angry feelings or anything. I don't know where the car stood for them but he seems really cool about it in the ad. He posted it for his sister from Northern California. So I don't know what to do. What do you all think?

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