Well, mine has rust that isn't going to get any better, and the drivers' side doors are both rumpled up pretty good with cracking bondo showing. My carpet has all been removed because it rotted from the water that leaks in around the back window. My front seats don't match because I could only find one good one in the junkyard so far. The Maaco paint job is peeling around the edges, and the color didn't match the original very well. But it runs like a Swiss watch, the sunroof works and doesn't leak, and so for now, that has to be good enough for me. I traded some sawmilling work for it, so the several hundred dollars that I've spent on the brakes, plus a few junkyard parts is the only cash I have into it.

Someday, I want to have a clean wagon with a stick and a manual sunroof, but until that comes along at the same time I have money, I'm pretty happy with my beater 240D. I do try to take care of the mechanical end of things, but the body on this one is pretty hopeless in the long run. I've looked long and hard for doors, every time I think of it, but all the doors I've seen are either already dented up, or rusty, or both.

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1976 Mercedes 240D, unknown mileage
1992 Dodge/Cummins 4WD, 284k