ok thanks for all the ideas guys!

so, I pulled out the panel, dropped the column, squirted about 5 gallons of lubricant, vibrated the ignition with one of those neck massage deals, pulled the instrument cluster and had someone tap on the housing as I jiggled the key, no dice so far. The key will not turn at all

On drilling the pin, I can see no way to do this without damaging the dash, even with the steering wheel dropped a bit. Its still behind the dash at an angle that will just not work for drilling, so I figure I have to pull out the dash to preserve it from getting damage. How did others do this, did they pull the dash?

I think I might try drilling the ignition first, I have a complete spare, just need to order the right tumbler. The spare is a 240, would it be a problem in the 300D? they look identical, but could the plugs be different?

As far as moving the car, it was blocking nose first an extremely narrow sloped away from the road driveway between two buildings covered in ice and snow. We moved it by jacking up the front, and putting a couple saucer sleds under the front tires, then I chained it to a jeep in the rear, and we chained it to the car in front of it, a nissan pickup 4x4, then slowly pulled the car up the driveway with the jeep, and kept it straight by keeping tension on the front chain with the pickup. This scheme probably would not have worked under normal circumstances, but there was enough snow packed on either side of the cars, that it served to keep the benz from riding up into either house, kind of like a luge. Frigging took forever, and was completely ridiculous, but it worked. Also cost me a couple cases of beer.

Now I have some time since no one is being blocked, I tell you one thing, I will NEVER park a car again with the tires cranked over, certainly not one of these cars in my own narrow driveway.

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