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pawoSD · #12 04-19-2008, 03:05 AM

I know nothing of the original owner of my car except his name (on the signature sticker in the door jam of the car).....I do know that he traded it in to a Lexus dealer for a new Lexus....the dealer then put the car to auction.....a smaller used car dealer outfit bought it and put it on ebay, I won the bid, traveled sight unseen all the way to PA from Michigan....and picked it up. Drove it all the way home no problem, and the rest is history!

So technically I am the second owner of my car.....pretty cool!

My dad is like the 4th or 5th owner of his SD....it was originally a Canada car....but came over from Windsor to Detroit in 1989....where it then had a few owners here in the USA....including a traveling salesman who apparantly owned it for like 4-5 years....but in that time put over 120k on it!

.....he also redid the climate system and the interior was kept immaculate....so its a good car.

My dad is the 3rd owner of the 300D.....it was originally purchased and owned for most of its life by an older female University of Michigan professor.....who then sold it cheap after it got slightly rear-ended (not major) to a weird forest-man in the Eastern part of Michigan (in the thumb!

)....we got it on craigslist from him....he complained it was hard to start in the cold (we got it in January...).....low and behold, once we had it....I verified it had ORIGINAL glow plugs. It now starts instantly with a new glow plug kit.