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Originally Posted by The Clk Man
I have a 1974 240 it was a beautiful car, it reminded me of the early 60's benzes. 
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Cool. Yes, I liked mine, but I never got to drive it, but I did ride alot in it in the early-mid 1980s when I was a kid. I remember vividly the last time I rode in the car... it was summer of 1985. My uncle had bought it brand new for my aunt for Christmas of 1973. He sold it in 1987. Years later, in 1999 I seen a 74' 240D in the newspaper for sale and thought I would take a look. I went and looked and it turned out the be the same car. The body (the visible parts of it) were still perfect, but the engine had a bad knock and the interior was ragged. It had once been white in color.
One problem was that the mans daughter had added oil, but forgot to place the oil cap back on and blew all of the oil out. Also @ the time I did not realize that these cars were prone to undercarriage rust and this one had literally been setting in a swamp for about 5 years and two of the floors were pretty rusty. SO..... I sold it for $100 a couple of months later, which is what I gave for it, but I did keep the original white color-keyed hubcaps!