Welcome to the forum and congrats on joining the MB family. Personally I would invest a little money to get the mechanical stuff working again. Have the car checked out it could be something simple to fix. If not and you don't want to invest money in it then you might want to part it out.

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1987 300D Turbo (mine) 210,000 miles (with XM radio) 1985 300D (Dads) 122,000 miles 1987 190D Turbo (Brothers)139,000 miles With Eurolights