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Originally Posted by MBeige
There was an elderly man who had a turbo 300D in front of mine. Pulled up next to him and he honked, so I waved and as I was about to honk back I remembered I had a louder horn. So I just tapped the horn pad twice in quick succession in acknowledgement.
Last Sunday I saw 4 cars in the same or similar color as mine. One was an old Datsun (510?) another was a VW (Golf/Rabbit of 80's vintage), another was the usual BMW 2002 at the local parish and an early gen 190E 2.3 also at the local parish.
When I was driving the 300TE last year, after a good wash, this beautiful W210 E320 estate passed by mine and the driver looked, smiled and waved. I waved and smiled back.
In 2008 when I was going to San Diego with some friends, we saw this beautiful 600 or 300SEL (w109) and we were also in the 300TE. He also looked and smiled (no wave) and we all waved back.
In our neighborhood I see 3 W124's on an almost regular basis. A Euro 280E is around here somewhere and there's a poor blue 300TE with faded paint. They don't ever look at me even if I always look at them.
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There is a nice couple at my parish that I got to know a few years ago - because we both drove MBs. The parish pastor started driving a '98 E320 gasser W210 while he was pastoring and shortly before and after he retired. When he retired, he bought about a 4-door '78 or so S Class 280E. He told me he liked the older Benzes better, and the W210 just wasn't getting the vintage job done for him. Ha! Neat guy. He claimed that he couldn't find a pre-owned diesel-W210, like mine, so that's how he ended up with an E320.