Brown is ground on these cars, as stated above.

A non-mechanically inclined friend once said, "Brown is ground because ground is brown!" which makes sense if you take a shovel to your yard, in most locales...

Easy to remember!

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1985 300TD
1984 380SL
1983 280SE (full Euro, trunk triangle and all!)

Formerly owned:
1986 420SEL
1984 300D
1983 300D
1981 300SD
1976 300D