If you can get the 140 for next to nothing, already have a good 603, and can do most/all of the work yourself, you might make a few bucks when you sell. The challenge is that by creating a "hybrid" (that's the polite word ) you will scare off all but the most sophisticated buyers (meaning us forum members ).

Looking at the car as a keeper/driver, it would be a nice one, so long as you have an inexpensive source for the parts mentioned by Jeff, as and when they break. The only "reasonably inexpensive" Mercedes is one for which you have a "source" for inexpensive parts and do all your own work.

Sixto was happy with his 140, I believe, but it was involved in an accident and went to Mercedes heaven. He salvaged the #20 head, which I now own. Someday it will go on the 603 in my '87 300D Turbo.

Jeremy

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .343,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 148,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 177,300 (2026 projected)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 668,300
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970