Dr. Bert-you're talking about a 617 with less than 200,000 miles on it. Properly maintained, they should go about twice that far before overhaul. I'm assuming it spent most of its time in an area that doesn't really get cold. Try that in northern Nevada and the results would be different.

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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
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