Thanks Larry - have looked at W123s through Yahoo Classifieds and agree that it is a good source, but so many high high high mileage, junk, rusted, worn, dicey models to sort through. I'm looking for a really well-maintained, clean coupe (turbodiesel would be preferable but 280 is great as well) and was hoping someone might have an idea as to a large lesser-known but MB-specific auction house or community devoted to moving older models.

The one listed in here in Mercedesshop sounded IDEAL (owned by mech, etc), but I'm having trouble with paying seventeen large for the car, esp when I can get a mint SL (retail, no less) for that kind of money...