In my ongoing quest to find a W124, preferably diesel, I went and looked at a fairly local car today.
What I found out is that this in merely a parts car. It smashed into a brick mailbox structure and destroyed the front right of the car. It was also driven by an elderly gentleman and there isn't a straight fender or body panel on the car. Rust is also an issue. Also the interior is sun baked and ruined for the most part.
But, this car does have some interesting bullet points. Can anybody notice the interesting items......[of course you can]
**btw, pics taken with my cell phone, and car was in the garage. poor quality**
Car, with damage-hiding bra:
Then under the hood it gets a bit more interesting:
Then, if you look closely, it gets very interesting on the inside:
I'm thinking of making an offer just to pull the more "interesting features".
Car hasn't been started in a year. I brought a battery jumper but the glow plugs weren't working. The strip fuse was gone. So I went to my truck and got an alligator clip jumper and connected it where the fuse would go. Got in and glowed it and all this smoke started pouring up from under the hood. And I mean a ton of smoke!!!!!
Totally melted my alligator clip jumper, so there is some kind of tremendous short in the glow plug circuit.
Engine would spin but wouldn't start without the glow plugs. It wasn't turning near fast enough anyway.
Not sure what I will do as the wife just might shoot me in my sleep if I brought this ugly thing home.
Will sleep on it.........