That's awful. Glad to hear everyone got out of Stella alright in one piece.

Keep a single thing from her to place on your next W123, like the hood star as mentioned. She'll live on in spirit.

And I'm sure the car will be totaled, but if the buyback is cheap enough, sell off the parts. I'm betting there's a lot that's still good there.
And be sure to let the adjuster know that regardless of mileage, condition, manual transmission wagons are hard to come by and priced accordingly.

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