Converted veggie Mercedes 300D--runs great! - $6500 (Silverlake)

Date: 2009-09-29, 9:17PM PDT
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1983 Mercedes 300D, originally manufactured in Germany, automatic transmission.

Converted to run on diesel, bio-diesel, SVO, WVO, everything except MAGIC (but I never tried...) 28 MPG, and diesel fuel is cheaper than gas right now. She chugs mightily up hills, on the freeway, a great car. 160,000 miles, low for these cars. Diesels usually go up to 400-500K, no joke.

A/C, newly installed, under warranty, runs COLD.
Manual windows and sunroof work great (electronic ones break down all the time...this avoids those repairs)
Gauges, meters all WORK
RADIO works, but isn't hooked up.

She's a beautiful green (literally) machine, green cloth interior, immaculate floor mats, trunk, original everything, except:

NEW Lovecraft conversion to run on vegetable oil, or biodiesel or diesel
NEW A/C
NEW Starter, Battery
NEW paint job! (original green color)

No smog necessary...Please send her to a good home...$6500 OBO


Location: Silverlake
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here in silverlake, we rejoiced when lovecraft closed last year? year before?
but the creations (?) therefrom, along with the hipster/eco/trendoid/greedhead mindset, lives on.

no shortage of ignorance in these parts!

please play along and choose the most idiotic element in this ad.

i nominate ? perhaps "originally manufactured in germany", uh, because you know we've all been burned by those mercedes manufactured originally (isn't the "originally a little redundant? ) in say, tokyo, singapore, toronto?

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Everything after the word "Converted"

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80 280SL
85 300SD
87 300TD
92 300D 2.5 Turbo
92 300TE 4Matic

No joke, she's a real beauty (literally) and can easily go 400 or 500K, everybody knows that. Runs COLD, under warranty.

RADIO works, no wait, it's not, like, hooked up and stuff.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

If it's an '83 and it has cloth seats, could it be a EURO diesel?


In '82 all the US spec 300D ones all had turbo's and automatics.


Could this be a Euro 4 speed or 5 speed, and a Non turbo? Those could be almost as quick (admittedly a relative term when discussing old Mercedes diesels!!) z US spec '83 turbo automatic diesel.



I think Silverlake is kinda weird anyway; one moment you are in Yuppie ville and then, a blink and you are in slums!!

My then gf and I went through there in July and she pointed out what she saw there: A restaurant proclaiming it offered: "Chinese Food and Donuts!!"

ackkkk!!!

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

LOL XD

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2007 BMW 328XI

Yep, the 300D and CD are the car of choice for the Silverlake hipsters. Lots of cuties here in 300D's and the occasional SD.

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

$6500 for a lovecrap converted car...LOL. They'll be sad when the junk yard only offers $300 for it when the motor is destroyed. Sigh.

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'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)

pics please.

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1985 300D - 1984 Euro 280E AMG Clone (SOLD) - 1978 280CE (SOLD) - 1983 300D (SOLD) - 1981 300D (SOLD)

right down the street from me / never uh "dined" there tho.

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

"$6500.00" (?) whats it worth? maybe $1500.00?

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